National Project Coordinator

United Nations Development Programme (Bahrain)

Duties and Responsibilities

The National Project Coordinator will be responsible for the overall management of activities under three GEF-funded biodiversity projects: GBF-EAS, NBSAP/7th National Report, and GBFP (BIOFIN). Under the overall guidance of UNDP Programme Analyst (Sustainable Growth, Energy, Environment and Gender), the Coordinator will ensure timely and quality implementation of all three projects, including the preparation of workplans, organization of technical workshops, and effective coordination with national stakeholders and consultants. The National Project Coordinator will work closely work with the technical team to ensure implementation mechanisms and technical working groups are established and meet regularly, that all planned workshops, technical studies and other activities are organised in a timely manner, and that they meet expected quality standards. Time allocation across the three projects will be equal for the three projects. . In the case of extension, the percentages will be adjusted according to the remaining activities and the life of the projects.

Project coordination and implementation

• Oversee the identification, selection and supervision of national consultants and experts, in close collaboration with the UNDP Bahrain and the Global Project Management and Technical Support Unit (GPMTSU).
• Supervise the work of national experts and institutions to ensure outputs are delivered on time, within the set budget, and to high quality standards; facilitate, guide and monitor the work of the national team;
• Develop projects plans in consultation with the national team and GPMTSU
• Coordinate implementation of the project components.
• Liaise with national partners upon request, including one-on-one calls and technical support
• Define, gather, organize, and analyze key project data
• Oversee the work of the Project Support Associate to ensure administrative requirements and budgets are managed and executed in a timely and appropriate manner and within UNDP and donor rules and regulations.
• Support communication with key project partners
• Gather and analyze national data and use it to support the development of project progress reports, donor reports, trainings, and presentations
• Track national progress to achieve project components
• Discuss with the Ministries of Finance, Environment and other key stakeholders the establishment of a national technical steering committee and follow up on the formal establishment and regular convening of the committee and develop meeting reports to be shared with the committee, the UNDP CO and GPMTSU.
• Maintain regular communication with Ministries of Environment and Finance for the development and completion of all reports and products.
• Ensure timely identification of risks in implementation at the national level and communication to the GPMTSU.
• Organise regular meetings of the national team and monthly calls with the Technical Advisor from the GPMTSU.
• Ensure participation of national team members in regional technical calls.
• Participate in regional and global meeting organized by the GPMTSU
• Support the implementation of additional ongoing or emerging projects as assigned
• Plan and coordinate the delivery of national workshops and facilitate national consultations and meetings
• Prepare progress reports regularly for the UNDP and project partners.
• Signal any delays in national deliverables compared to the workplan to the UNDP Country Office and the GPMTSU.
• Lead project monitoring, reporting and evaluation at national level, draft monthly and quarterly reports for review by the lead expert and submission to the global BIOFIN team.
• Coordinate the development of workshop reports for the launch workshop and all technical workshops.
• Organise regular meetings of the national project team.
• Coordinate with the UNDP CO Operations team to ensure projects requirements and budgets are managed and executed in a timely and appropriate manner.

Provision of technical services

• Develop terms of reference for national and international experts to provide specific technical support.
• Develop technical guidance documents, tools, and trainings biodiversity and policy, including but not limited to NBSAP target alignment, policy review, biodiversity finance, gender mainstreaming and women s empowerment, stakeholder engagement,
• Develop reports and policy recommendations related to the targets in the emerging post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
• Ensure alignment of national work with global methodologies such as the BIOFIN workbook and others.
• Guide and support the implementation of additional ongoing or emerging projects as assigned
• Guide and support literature reviews, knowledge management, compilation of information, and gathering of data on topics pertinent to the project, such as, but not limited to biodiversity and ecosystem in national, local and international contexts, sustainable development, Indigenous people and local communities; social entrepreneurship; engagement in global policy processes.

Facilitate capacity building and kowledge shairng

• Develop capacity building material, identifying relevant topics, dates and speakers for workshops and webinars
• Support an active and smooth utilization of the NBSAP Forum ( http://nbsapforum.net ) by GEF-eligible Parties, including sharing best practices and resources, the broad circulation of job offers and learning opportunities and dynamic discussions.
• Support the preparation of capacity building engagements at UNDP-participating events, such as CBD Conferences of Parties, Open-Ended Working Groups, SBSTTAs; virtual events such as the UN Nature for Life Hub, and global conferences, among other opportunities.
• Identify, synthesize and document best practices and lessons learned that are generated from the project and impementing partners.