Technical Specialist in the water sector- PAF Bolivia

United Nations - Paris, TX

- Mid Level

Hybrid - Paris, TX

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

About the position

Bolivia, through the Plurinational Authority of Mother Earth (APMT), is prioritizing efforts to achieve the 32 NDC targets in four sectors: energy, water, forests, and agriculture. This NDC implementation plan is the strategic and operational instrument allowing government institutions to integrate climate commitments and goals with prioritized actions in each sector and facilitate their fulfillment. Additionally, the Plan will allow the identification and analysis of financial, technical, and regulatory gaps in actions established in the NDC, and should take into consideration any relevant updates throughout the NDC 3.0 process. It will establish a detailed critical path for implementing climate actions and measure and monitor progress in achieving the NDC target.

Responsibilities

• Elaborate a work plan detailing the expected chronogram to deliver all products.
• Create a database of all documents reviewed and record all meetings and interviews conducted.
• Comply with all products in a timely and coordinated manner.
• Ensure all project deliverables consider the progress of the NDC Update (NDC 3.0).
• Provide technical inputs to the AMPT during the elaboration of the products and integrate all feedback received before submitting a final version.
• Support the Senior Project Manager in developing a methodology to elaborate and validate the NDC implementation plan from the water sector perspective.
• Organize and facilitate an initial technical validation workshop for the methodology developed.
• Support the integration of findings and methodologies from the NDC 3.0 update process into the water sector NDC implementation plan.
• Collaborate with the NDC 3.0 update team to identify opportunities for disaggregating water sector indicators at the subnational level.
• Support the reactivation of the Water Sector Working Group by coordinating and facilitating meetings with relevant institutions and stakeholders.
• Conduct a workshop to train key stakeholders on current regulations for the APMT and operationalization of Article 57 of Law 300.
• Conduct and facilitate a validation workshop for 100 participants on the NDC implementation plan elaborated.
• Identify synergies between the water sector NDC implementation plan and new NDC 3.0 targets.
• Integrate the final version of the NDC implementation plan in the Partnership's Online Plan tool to monitor and track NDC progress.
• Attend inception workshops and all other virtual and in-person meetings related to project execution.
• Attend coordination meetings with the APTM and UNEP to provide insights related to the execution of the project from the water sector perspective.
• Support the Senior Manager in elaborating narrative progress reports for the NDC Partnership and UNEP.
• Ensure coordination with different stakeholders relevant to the project.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Management, Agronomy, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Economics, Political Science, biology, or a closely related field (Required).
• Minimum three years of relevant work experience in climate change mitigation and/or adaptation in the water sector (Required).
• Proven knowledge of climate policy, climate finances, institutional arrangements, and/or legal and public policy related to the water sector in Bolivia (Desirable).
• Experience working with public institutions in Bolivia related to climate change planning and water (Desirable).
• Experience integrating gender considerations into formulating, planning, and implementing projects or public policies (Desirable).
• Experience in preparing policy and strategy reports for national governments and in the technical review of national reports and relevant international documents (Desirable).
• Fluency in Spanish (required).
• Confident in English (desirable).

Nice-to-haves

• Postgrad courses in Environmental Management, Integrated water resources management, integrated watershed management, climate change, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Political Science, or a closely related field (desirable).