Senior Natural Resources Officer

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FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind.

Organizational Setting

The Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) works to ensure that countries and stakeholders respond to the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. OCB provides a cross organizational coordination role on issues related to climate change, biodiversity and the environment, and is the focal point to major multilateral environmental agreements including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Office also assists FAO Members in their responses towards the interlinked challenges of food security, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, including through facilitating access to climate and environmental financing, such as the Global Environment Fund (GEF), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD). In addition, OCB hosts the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, as well as FAO's work on environmental safeguards and leads the Programme Priority Areas on Climate Change (PPA BE1) and Bioeconomy for Sustainable Food and Agriculture (PPA BE2).

FAO has established a GCF Team within OCB (OCB-GCF Team) to coordinate the development and management of the GCF related portfolio. The OCB-GCF Team works in close collaboration with FAO Decentralized Offices and technical staff to identify, develop and deliver high-quality climate investment and readiness projects that respond to countries' priorities as defined in their national climate and sectoral policies and that deliver the transformational change sought by the GCF.

The position is located in the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

Reporting Lines

The Senior Natural Resources Officer (Coordinator FAO-GCF Partnership) reports to the Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment.

Technical Focus

To manage and enhance the partnerships with the Green Climate Fund (GFC) and the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), including the development and management of the related portfolios in alignment with FAO's mandate and the Climate Change Strategy.

Key Results

Leadership and technical policy expertise for the planning, development and implementation of divisional programmes of work, projects, products and services in accordance with the FAO Strategic Framework.

Key Functions

• Plans, manages or leads highly specialized or multidisciplinary teams; leads, coordinates and/or participates in Organization-wide committees, project teams and working groups, and/or provides technical leadership/secretariat services to technical networks and/or international technical policy and standard setting bodies.

• Analyses global and country-specific requirements and relevant technical issues to provide critical input into the FAO Strategic Framework, Programme of Work, work plans and the supporting budgets and/or resourcing strategies.

• Implements and monitors programmes of work involving the development of approaches, evidence-based strategies and related tools, methodologies, supporting system/database, as well as monitoring and reporting frameworks.

• Conducts, designs and oversees research and analytical activities to support the development of technical standards, international instruments, innovation, technical reports, publications and/or on-going programme development as well as the provision of technical and/or policy advisory services.

• Provides technical and policy advice to Members and technical support to Decentralized Offices in the development and implementation of their programmes.

• Leads and/or collaborates in, provides technical backstopping to, and ensures the quality/effectiveness of capacity development and knowledge-sharing activities within Members, such as policy support, organizational development and individual learning events including preparation of related information, learning materials and online tools.

• Represents the Organization at international meetings and conferences, identifies and implements strategic partnerships, advocates best practices and increased policy dialogue and develops and negotiates effective working relationships/consensus and agreements with international and national stakeholders.

• Leads and/or participates in resource mobilization activities in accordance with the FAO Strategic Framework.

Specific Functions

• Manages FAO’s corporate partnership with the Green Climate Fund and the Fund to Responding to Loss and Damage and related resource mobilization, including participation in boards, strategic meetings as well as periodic reviews of pipeline and project implementation.

• Oversees the pipeline management, coordination, implementation and reporting of FAO GCF's work, in close collaboration with relevant technical units and decentralised offices of the Organization.

• Oversees the development and provides final quality assurance clearance for all documents to be submitted to GCF (including readiness, funding Proposals, and reports) and to FRLD and ensures their full alignment with FAO corporate priorities and FAO strategy on climate change.

• Coordinates relationships with decentralized offices regarding regional GCF and FRLD pipeline/project implementation.

• Leads the implementation support of GCF projects (funding proposals and readiness) and of F