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• Responsible for the development of annual and
  quarterly work plans and reports for participating UN agencies;
• Provide close and regular technical
  backstopping to the Lead Technical Advisor, other members of the REDD+
  Secretariat and UN-REDD Team, and other implementing entities for the
  implementation of various components of the national REDD+ process;
• On request review of relevant policies and
  development of policy frameworks as well as the institutional arrangements
  for REDD+ development;
• On request organisation of and substantive
  contributions to a high level policy dialogue on development of a National
  REDD+ Strategy;
• Support the REDD+ Secretariat and in
  particular the Lead Technical Adviser in coordinating and supervising
  activities of national and international experts /consultants to secure
  timely production of planned outputs and the review of these outputs;
• Support the REDD+ Secretariat to coordinate
  and liaise with stakeholders – including line ministries, development
  partners, civil society, indigenous peoples and the private sector;
• Support REDD+ Secretariat in ensuring
  coordination with other REDD+ initiatives;
• Support REDD+ Secretariat in strengthening
  communication between different government agencies, national and
  international initiatives and stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to Government counterparts
  and facilitate knowledge building focusing on achievement of the following
  results:
• Provide support and technical advice to the
  development of policy options and strategy for the design and
  implementation of Uganda National REDD+ Process to the REDD+ Secretariat
  including support on the development of: Strategy development, Policy
  dialogue, Stakeholder engagement, Governance and institution framing and other
  elements of National REDD+ development as required.
• Share knowledge on REDD+ by documenting
  lessons learnt and best practices from the UN-REDD Programmatic Support
  and contributing to the development of knowledge based tools (including
  policies, strategies, guidelines, etc.);
• Provide timely quality information and technical
  advice to the REDD+ Secretariat and the UN Country Team, to ensure
  effective development and delivery of the UN-REDD Programmatic Support;
• Coordinate institutional capacity assessments
  of relevant national and subnational entities along the REDD+ supply
  chain;
• Render support in the identification of
  technical expertise and lead on the preparation of TORs, identification
  and evaluation of experts, and reviewing reports produced; and support to
  UNFCCC negotiations relating to REDD+.

• The ideal candidate for the United Nations
  REDD National Technical Specialist career opportunity should preferably
  hold a Master’s degree or higher in Management, Environmental Science,
  Natural Resource Management, Environmental Economics, Geography or Social
  Sciences, Forestry or similar.
• A minimum of five years of working experience
  on REDD+, conservation, resource management, forest economic policy and
  community development livelihoods, with experience in Uganda or East
  Africa preferable;
• Significant experience of working in
  multinational teams to implement programmes involving different funding
  and implementing agencies;
• Experience of implementing programmes across
  the UN agencies and across Government are definite advantages;
• Experience the REDD+ developments at
  international, national and local levels;
• Working knowledge on the UNFCCC negotiations,
  COP-decisions related to REDD and guidelines for national systems in the
  context of REDD+, as well as national and international best practices
  within REDD+ and other natural resource management initiatives.
• Language: Fluent in English Proficiency in
  one, two or three UN languages is an advantage.

• Promoting Ethics and Integrity / Creating
  Organizational Precedents;
• Building support and political acumen;
• Building staff competence,  Creating an environment of creativity
  and innovation;
• Building and promoting effective teams;
• Creating and promoting enabling environment
  for open communication;
• Creating an emotionally intelligent
  organization;
• Leveraging conflict & setting standards;
• Sharing knowledge across the organization and
  building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning;
• Fair and transparent decision making;
  calculated risk-taking.

• Advocacy / Advancing Policy Oriented Agenda:
  analysis and creation of messages and strategies;
• Creates effective advocacy strategies;
• Contributes to the elaboration of advocacy
  strategies by identifying and prioritizing audiences and communication
  means;
• Performs analysis of political situations and
  scenarios, and contributes to the formulation of institutional responses;
• Uses the opportunity to bring forward and
  disseminate materials for advocacy work.
• Development and Operational Effectiveness:
• Ability to lead strategic planning, change
  processes, results-based management and reporting;
• Ability to lead formulation, oversight of
  implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development projects;
• Ability to apply development theory to the
  specific project context to identify creative, practical approaches to
  overcome challenging situations;
• Ability to manage for results: translates
  strategic aims into achievable plans, with established priorities,
  monitors them, making periodic adjustments as required.

• Builds strong relationships with clients,
  focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to
  feedback;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and
  a positive, constructive attitude;
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability
  to manage complexities;
• Ability to lead effectively, mentoring as
  well as conflict resolution skills;
• Demonstrates outstanding communication skills
  oral and written communication skills;
• Negotiation skills: capacity to work with diverse
  partners including Government, donors and civil society;
• Remains calm, in control and good humoured
  even under pressure;
• Proven networking, team-building,
  organizational and communication skills.

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