Project Team Leader for Gandaki Basin Climate Resilient Project (GBCRP) - (Full time individual consultant)

BACKGROUND:

IUCN is an Accredited Entity of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and works closely with the GCF secretariat, governments, civil society, the private sector, and partner organizations to identify, design and implement projects that meet the GCF’s ambitious standards. After four years of detailed design and development, the GCF board formally approved “FP131-Improving Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Communities and Ecosystems in the Gandaki River Basin, Nepal” project or in-short 'Gandaki Basin Climate Resilient Project (GBCRP)'.

 The objective of the project is to improve the climate resilience of the vulnerable communities and ecosystems in the Gandaki River Basin, Nepal. This will be measured by vulnerable indices, in the Gandaki River Basin (GRB) targeting Provinces Gandaki, Bagmati, and Lumbini. The project is designed to shift planning and implementation of climate change adaptation measures from using political boundaries such as districts and municipalities as a basis of river basin management to one where the entire landscape along the basin becomes one unit of planning and implementation of climate change adaptation measures linking all the impacted communities in the upstream and the downstream at the landscape level. The proposed interventions aim to improve the resilience of agricultural and other natural ecosystems in the GRB region mainly by adapting agroforestry practices and improving the forest, wetland, and grassland conditions. The project plans to intervene in terms of agricultural improvements to retain the workforce in the basin as a major portion of out-migration in the GRBs at present is resulting from low-income earning opportunities from agricultural activities due to low productivity. The project also supports the incorporation of ecosystem-based adaptation approaches in the local level plans and the development of integrated sub-riverine watershed and water resource management plans through creating new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) at the basin level. The success of this project will be translated into the plan and can be replicated throughout the country. Primary measurable benefits will include: i) a total of approximately 1.88 million people, of which approximately 833,647 people are direct beneficiaries and 1,052,500 people are indirect beneficiaries;ii) 847,250 tCo2eq reduction in the project lifetime; and iii) 101,000 hectares of climate resilient forest, 8000 ha of climate resilient grasslands, and 83 climate resilient wetland ecosystems protected and strengthened. The project is designed with three components i) Community Resilience ii) Ecosystem Resilience and iii) Climate Governance. Each of the project components has an outcome which will contributed to by two to three project outputs.

 IUCN, as the Accredited Entity, is the implementing entity of the project. The Department of Forests and Soil Conservation (DoFSC) under the Ministry of Forests and Environment, Government of Nepal, and the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) are the executing entities of the project. IUCN Nepal country office is the TA provider for the project. The total budget of the project is USD 32.7 million, including grant from Green Climate Fund (GCF) of 27.4 million and the co-financing amount of USD 5.3 million from the executing entities. The Project Management Unit (PMU) is housed at the DoFSC and the Project Execution Support Unit (PESU) is housed in IUCN Nepal to support the PMU for the execution of project activities. 

Position: Project Team Leader, GBCRP

Category: National (Individual)

Type: Full time consultant

Contract Duration: One year (with possible extension based on performance)

The Project Team Leder (PTL) is responsible for the overall management of the project. On behalf of IUCN Nepal Office as a technical advisor, the PTL will lead to implement the activities within the strategic Guidance of Project Management Committee (PMU) and Project Steering Committee (PSC) and, under the guidance of the Portfolio Manager Asia and Oceania – Multilateral Finance (GEF, GCF). The PTL will provide technical leadership to the implementation of the project activities, and in doing so will work to ensure coherence with the GBCRP project implementation arrangement, developed at the national level - project management unit (PMU) and field levels (coordination/implementation) hubs with relevant parties. The PTL will oversee the overall monitoring of the use of funds and the implementation plan. S/he will be a member of the Project Management Unit (PMU) and will be supported by field coordinators, and project Consultants. In addition, s/he will guide the strategic direction of the project to other project execution support unit staffs and technical experts recruited to deliver project activities. S/he will ensure proper monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of all project activities.

Please follow the link for detailed ToR index.cfm (iucn.org)

Submission of Application

·         Submission Deadline: 20 May 2024, 17:00 PM

·         Your application must be submitted by email to info-np@iucn.org 

·         The subject heading of the email shall be [RfP Reference – Applicant’s name].

·         Your application must be submitted in PDF format. You may submit multiple emails suitably annotated, e.g. Email 1 of 3, if attached files are too large to suit a single email transmission. You may not submit your application by uploading it to a file-sharing tool.