Project Specialist

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Mission and objectives

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Context

The assignment involves working closing with the Government to support the implementation of the project activities. The project activities are organized around 3 outputs to address the short-term needs of the most vulnerable households while building the long-term resilience of the communities by undertaking the following interconnected actions:Output 1: Resilience to climate change of most drought affected communities and households (including headed by women and youth) is strengthened through provision of urgent food needs and long-term solutions;Output 2: Resilience and sustainability of 50 small-scale commercial farmers in Ngamiland District are enhanced through awareness raising and knowledge on climate smart agricultural practices;Output 3: Climate adaptation community water use practices strengthened to inform sustainable agricultural practices and livelihoods.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of Project Manager, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:1. Project Coordination:• Support the coordination of the project work plan development and ensure timely implementation;• Contribute to the project implementation, and monitoring, in collaboration with partners;• Record and maintain documents on relevant project activities, issues and risks;• Provide technical assistance and capacity development to project partners;• Contribute to coordinate relationships with nation-al partners to support implementation of the project, raise potential problems and suggest solutions;• Identify capacity building needs and support partners through technical assistance, mentoring, training, and capacity development initiatives, as needed;• Monitoring and reporting on the project by conducting monitoring missions, and draft report on the project results (outputs, and outcomes);• Provide substantive inputs to the preparation of donor and UNDP reports;• Contribute to the exchange of information and provide inputs to the development of knowledge products internally and externally of the project;• Coordination the organization of major advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops, and knowledge products.2. Resource Mobilization:• Assist in developing compelling grant proposals, from identifying opportunities to crafting persuasive narratives.• Concept Development: Collaborate with the programme team organizations to refine their project ideas and formulation of concept notes for resource mobilization.3. General Administration:• Assist the Project Manager to perform other related administrative duties, as required (e.g. operational travel programme, physical space planning, procurement of goods and services and the identification of office technology needs and maintenance of equipment, software, and systems);• Backs-up the Administrative Officer during absences;• Performs other related work as required;•Collects and analyses data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting;4. Events Management:• Share expertise in planning, organizing, and ideas for events in line with the project activities.