Climate Change Analyst Job at UNDP Rangamati, Bangladesh

If you're seeking a stable and rewarding career with ample growth opportunities in the development sector, consider applying for the recently advertised UN Jobs in Bangladesh by International Jobs in Bangladesh. UNDP Bangladesh is seeking dynamic and promising individuals for the immediate appointment to the position of Climate Change Analyst on a contractual basis. Applications are invited from Bangladeshi nationals.

Climate Change Analyst Job Outlook

Closing date: Saturday, 17 August 2024

Job Identification: 19820

Locations: Rangamati, Bangladesh

Posting Date : 08/02/2024, 04:39 AM

Apply Before : 08/17/2024, 03:59 AM

Job Schedule: Full-time

Agency: UNDP

Grade: NPSA-8

Vacancy Type: National Personnel Service Agreement

Practice Area: Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions

Bureau: Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific

Contract Duration  1 Year

Education & Work Experience: Master's Degree - 2 years experience

Other Criteria: Bachelor's Degree - 2 years years experience

Required Languages: English and Bangla

Desire Languages: CHT languages or Chittagonian dialect

Vacancy Timeline: 2 Weeks

Mobility required/no mobility: no mobility required

Climate Change Analyst Job Description

This project will engage women in leadership roles. It will promote locally-led inclusive adaptation to climate change through 180 women-led climate resilience committees (WCRC) covering 540 communities in the three Hill Districts of CHT. The WCRCs will be capacitated on nature-based solutions (NbS) to climate change adaptation, climate resilient agriculture and livelihoods practices, climate change vulnerability assessments (CCVAs), local resilience plans (LRPs) and the development and implementation of prioritized actions stemming from the LRPs. The LRPs will be supported through community grants whereas the 13,500 vulnerable households (women only) will be given livelihood grants to implement climate-adaptive livelihood options (CALO).

Local Union Parishads and local leaders will be capacitated on climate change, CCVAs, LRPs, NbS and monitoring so they can play key roles in monitoring, planning, and implementation. The project will strengthen collaboration and partnerships between national government institutions and civil society organizations, leading to the implementation of locally led approaches in a wider range of regions and communities.

The incumbent will work under the direct supervision of a Livelihoods and NRM Specialist while the Gender and Community Cohesion Analyst will be the secondary supervisor. S/he will also closely work with the biodiversity, ecosystem restoration, and livelihoods improvement teams. The person will also be a core member of the team for mobilizing resources.

Functions: Considering the above mentioned scope the incumbent will be responsible for the below functions:

•  Lead Climate Change Assessments, Planning, Budgeting, Implementation of Planned activities and Coordination.

•  Climate Change Analyses, Evaluation, and managing relevant studies.

•  Develop relevant training materials, different guidelines, conduct training and capacity building activities.
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 Budget management and monitoring

•  Monitor field activities, results, writing periodical qualitative and quantitative reports for the management and donor.

•  Managing partners' agreements and contracts, monitor the progress and processing the payments following the corporate guidelines.

•  Preparing procurement plans and implement them in collaboration with the procurement unit.

Lead Climate Change Assessments, Planning, Budgeting, Implementation of Planned Activities and Coordination.

•  Lead in preparing annual work plans related to climate change activities and closely work with other team members.

•  Develop necessary field implementation guidelines and achieve results concerning climate change issues.

•  Design and develop climate change vulnerability assessments and plans, and activity implementation with necessary guidelines and budgets.

•  Coordinate with Hill District Councils (HDCs), partners, local and national level stakeholders, donors to ensure proper supports in implementing the project activities.

•  Develop and implement effective assessments and planning tools / formats relevant to climate change issues and indicators.

•  Monitor the progress of planned activities and budget.

•  Conduct field visits for understanding progress, impacts and results of the project.

•  Provide technical guidance to the partners and field teams.

Climate Change Analyses, Evaluation, and managing relevant studies.

•  Conducting assessments on the climate changes in the CHT region and regularly collect secondary reports on the subject matters.

•  Provide strategic briefs to the supervisor and management regularly.

Develop relevant training materials, different guidelines, and conduct training and capacity-building activities.

•  Develop training materials on CCVA (Community Climate Vulnerability Assessment), LRP (Local Resilience Plans), NbS (Nature-based Solutions), climate-adaptive livelihood options (CALO), guidelines for beneficiary selection and formation of women-led climate change committees etc.
•  Develop livelihoods grant management guidelines and provide trainings to the field teams.
•  Organise and manage trainings for the partners, project teams and stakeholders as required for the implementation of the project activities.
•  Organise workshops, seminars as required.

Budget management and monitoring

•  Preparing quarterly and annual budget for the relevant activities.

•  Maintain budget tracking tools and provide feedback on the budget management to the supervisor for strategic decisions.

•  Organise budget review meeting with partners and field teams to understand the budget delivery progress on regular basis.

Monitor field activities, results, produce periodical qualitative and quantitative reports.

•  Monitor the increased practice of climate-smart resilience-building practices, and development of livelihoods by vulnerable households - especially women in the project areas.

•  Monitor increased women's role in decision-making, developing, promoting, and implementing inclusive local resilience plans with local government institutions and civil society organizations.

•  Monitor increased support from national government institutions and civil society organisations to upscale locally-led adaptation.

•  Monitor proper utilization of livelihood and climate change adaptation grants.

•  Monitoring progress of the planned activities, collect monthly and quarterly monitoring reports from partners and field teams, analyse them and prepare progress reports.

• Organize periodical result/impact assessments and producing reports for the management and donor to understand the achievements of the results and targets.

• Prepare high quality narrative reports, quarterly and annual, for external use.

Managing partners' agreements and contracts, monitor the progress and processing the payments following the corporate guidelines.

•  Preparing relevant documents to be signed with the partners and contractors/consultants/NGOs etc.

•  Manage the agreements and contracts and process timely payment to the partners and contractors.

•  Provide necessary capacity building supports to the partners on managing the budgets.

• Preparing procurement plans and implement them in collaboration with the procurement unit.

•  Following the annual work plans, prepare procurement plan in collaboration with procurement team and initiate procurement process.

•  Monitoring the progress of the procurement process and update management regularly.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

 Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline

 Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements

 Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback

 Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible

 Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident

 Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships

 Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies: Business Direction & Strategy

 Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with UNDP's objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities, linking the vision to reality on the ground and creating tangible solutions; Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends, to demonstrate foresight in order to made what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP.

Business Direction & Strategy

Effective and Decision Making: Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one's authority, area of expertise and resources.

Business Development

 Knowledge Generation: Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need.

 Human Centered Design: Ability to develop solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process.

Business Management

Project Management: Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.

UNDP Climate Change 2030 Agenda :

 People Gender: Climate Change and Risk Management of Disaster with Gender Perspective.

 Planet Nature, Climate and Energy: Climate Change Adaptation, agriculture/food security.

Climate change Analyst education requirements:

• Advanced university degree (Master´s degree or equivalent) in Climate Change, Environmental Management/Studies/Science, Agriculture, Development Studies, Disaster/Natural Resource Management or any other relevant field is required, or

• A first-level university degree (Bachelor´s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional 2 years of qualifying experience, will be given due consideration instead of a Master´s degree.

Climate change Analyst Skills and Experience Requirements:

•  Up to 2 years (with a Master´s degree) or minimum 2 years (with a Bachelor's degree) of relevant experience in handling/managing climate change-related project.

•  Sound knowledge, experience, and understanding on climate change, agriculture and livelihoods.

•  Proven knowledge on gender and women empowerment issues.

•  Hands on experiences on managing project and budget.

•  Relevant experiences in quality report writing and analytical skills.

•  Experience of Working with multi-disciplinary teams.

•  Experience of Working in multi-cultural environment.

•  Good understanding/experience on result based monitoring.

•  Proven Knowledge on “Do No Harm” principles.

•  Proven Understanding on cultural sensitivities and respecting different opinions.
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Climate Change Analyst Required Languages:

•  Fluency in speaking, writing, and reading both in English and Bangla is required.

•  Working knowledge in any of the CHT languages or Chittagonian dialect will give advantages

UNDP Jobs Bangladesh 2024

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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.

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), a multi-ethnic hilly area is one of the remotest regions of Bangladesh with rich bio-diversity and is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Reduced forest coverage, excessive soil erosion, erratic rainfall, flash floods, landslides, and water scarcity in the dry season perpetuate poverty in rural areas and exhaust the traditional coping mechanisms of vulnerable communities. Freshwater scarcity is acute because natural springs are drying up. The poverty rate in CHT is much higher than the national average.

More than two decades of conflict, ending with the Peace Accord signed in 1997 has opened the regular development activities in the region. Apart from the politically unstable situation, the degradation of natural resources such as forests, soils, and water bodies is further exacerbating the vulnerable situation of women who are dependent on natural resources. Climate change and declining land fertility are taking their toll on women who engage in agricultural activities including managing water for the households and homestead vegetable cultivation.

In addition, the acceleration of the privatization of communal land-based resources, including forests and waters, is resulting in the exclusion of the Indigenous population with particularly adverse effects on livelihoods.

According to a World Bank study in 2018, by 2050, climate change will cause a decline in living standards by 18.4% in Bandarban, 15.8% in Rangamati, and 12.6% in Khagrachari. These rates of decline are significantly higher compared to the national decline of 6.7% by 2050.

The impacts of climate change are largely gendered, with women facing higher risks and greater burdens from the effects of climate change in situations of poverty. A recent study identified climatic events, both sudden and slow-onset, as drivers for increased conflict over resources, which will fuel long-standing social and political crises.

Considering the above-mentioned situation, UNDP Bangladesh has signed a funding agreement with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) to address the challenges in CHT related to climate change. The project will be implemented by partnering with the Hill District Councils and other local stakeholders.

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