Exciting Opportunity: UNDP Fellowship Programme for 2024-2025. Apply Today!

UN Careers Admin October 25, 2024

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Vacancy Details

UNDP Fellowship is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply.
CAFI’s Fellowship modality is based on UNDP’s Fellowship policy. It will contribute to increasing national expertise and capacity in CAFI’s six partner countries in the areas of sustainable development and climate change mitigation.
Investing in young talents in the region will increase familiarity with donors and partners and expose them to a professional environment according to international standards and expectations.
The overall objective is to promote a new generation of professionals committed to forest protection and poverty alleviation, equipped with the necessary skillsets to tackle these challenges when possibly returning to work for their national governments.
The Fellow will obtain valuable first-hand experience of the day-to-day work of the CAFI Secretariat in matters of evaluation and follow-up of CAFI-funded programmes, as well as communication and coordination with donors and Executing Agencies to advance policy dialogues and programme development.
All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Portfolio management, results monitoring and support policy dialogue with partner countries. (35%)

Support the development and monitoring of the project pipeline, delivery chains, gender markers and other related portfolio analysis.
Support the monitoring of CAFI-funded programmes against their annual workplans and help manage this information in CAFI’s management platform.
Based on reports and information exchanges with governments and implementing agencies, help analyse and compile results at impact, outcome and output level for across the different outcomes/sectors of the CAFI theory of change.
Track progress and bottlenecks, against countries’ National Investment Frameworks and Letters of Intent/Partnership agreements.
Track and maintain a list of past and planned evaluations.
Extract lessons learned from the evaluations performed on CAFI-Funded projects.
Support the delivery chain mapping exercise.
Support the implementation of the CAFI Risk Management Strategy, including the Risk Dashboard.
Support the gender marker analysis of the CAFI portfolio.
Support the organisation of the MEL working group (invitations, attendance, note taking,)

Programme Management support. (35%)

Contribute to preparation of analytical material related to programmes (performance assessment, technical content, etc).
Support coordination of evaluation of programmes (contracting, reporting, etc).
Contribute to the liaison and engagement of programme partners, and due diligence of their requests.
Support the programme team in organizing field missions, with potential in-person participation.
Facilitate the development of knowledge management products, lessons learned and innovation initiatives to support the programme management of the Fund.

Payments for Environmental Services (PES) (20%)

Contribute to the preparation of the technical material for the PES scheme.
Support the preparation, undertaking and follow-up of the various meetings, workshops, communication events and other events related to the PES process.
Support the coordination between the monitoring processes specific to the PES and for the overall CAFI portfolio.
Support the preparation of the training and communication material for the PES scheme.

Communications (5%)

Draft regular updates about CAFI’s results for different media (web site, briefing notes).
Communicate with governments and implementing agencies to agree on content before publication.
Draft social media contents in French based on the above.

Other:

Support the CAFI Secretariat in organizing Executive Board meetings and technical exchanges (note taking, preparation, summaries)
Support other/ad hoc activities as seen relevant and needed.

Interest and motivation in working in an international organization;
Good analytical skills in gathering and consolidating data and research for practical implementation;
Outgoing and initiative-taking person with a goal-oriented mind-set.
Communicates effectively when working in teams and independently.
Meticulous in organizing and structuring various tasks and responsibilities.
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Responds positively to feedback and differing points of view;
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive Attitude

The candidates must hold the nationalities of one of the 6 CAFI partner countries: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, or the Republic of the Congo.
The candidates must submit a letter(s) of recommendation signed by a government representative of their country of nationality and/or a national or international academic/research institution based in their country of nationality.

Education:

Candidates must meet one of the following educational requirements:

Masters’ degree in environment, sustainable development, forestry, rural development, climate change or related field

Professional experience

At least one year of professional experience with their national governments, universities, research institutions etc. on topics related to CAFI’s mandate (sustainable development, forestry, agriculture, land-use planning, land tenure, energy, mining or demography).

IT skills: