Job Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to existing and new environment projects including GCF and GEF projects;
• Monitor the progress of projects (including financial management) on a regular basis and make recommendations on measures to improve project performance and progress;
• Review all project related reports and provide comments as required;
• Liaise closely with the Team Leader (IGG) and Project Teams under the Energy and Environment portfolio and counterparts on project related matters;
• Advise and support to CO Environmental Sustainability and CO Programme Design, through effective implementation ensuring cross-programme synergy.
• In consultation with the Team Leader, IGG and the DRR/P and external partners, prepare project concepts, project proposals and project documents;
• Review concept papers, project briefs and project documents prepared by consultants and provide comments when necessary;
• Participate in the appraisal and review of all core and non-core projects that are managed through the UNDP Liberia;
• Strategic Programming and efficient programme/project management through an enhanced and sound management, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting of all E and E projects.
• Advise and support the development and management of environment/climate change and DRR projects and to create an enabling environment for resource mobilization;
• Provide technical support in sensitization on climate finance mechanism, particularly the LDCF, GEF and GCF;
• In consultation with the DRR/P and IGG colleagues, facilitate funding from different modalities in particular the GEF, but also UNDP (core funds, trust funds), bilateral and other multilateral donors;
• Establish a directory of potential funding sources for environmental projects including information on project requirements;
• Advise and support to CO partnerships and resource mobilization strategy and action plan: implementation of the CO strategic partnerships, resource mobilization and communication strategy.
• Ensure provision of top-quality advisory services and facilitation of knowledge building and management:
• Guide the CO in the development of environmental policy papers;
• Build synergies and linkages with relevant UNDP funded Programmes in particular other key environmental programmes and promote the practice areas of UNDP;
• Facilitate the cooperation between UNDP CO and other organizations (national/regional/global) working on climate change issues in particular the GEF, the GCF liaising closely with the UNDP Regional Service Center for Africa; 
• Facilitate and coordinate the sharing of lessons learnt and best practices and share lessons from other country offices;
• Establish and maintain a good working relationship with Government counterparts, donors, CSOs, the private sector, academic institutions and other agencies working on NRM, DRR, energy and climate change issues;
• Participate in and contribute to learning events organized by the CO and attend training workshops relevant to overall duties required of the post;
• Other duties that may be required from time to time;
• Ensure appropriate mechanisms of cooperation are in place- related to approaches to capacity building, collecting, documenting, and sharing experience.