Project Analyst on Wildlife and Ecosystems (Duty Station: Astana)

UNDP helps Kazakhstan honor its international ecology commitments by supporting of the development of the national strategic targets on biodiversity sustainable use, conservation and financing. It partners with other United Nations agencies to provide technical expertise to translate strategies into action. By catalyzing SDG (public and private), UNDP delivers client-focused solutions that respond to immediate, mid and long-term recovery and socio-economic development priorities, and; by leveraging on-the-ground presence and networks, we unlock bottom-up solutions towards lasting impacts at the country level, benefitting most disadvantaged and leaving no one behind.

Project “Creating conditions for the reintroduction of the Turanian tiger and rendering assistance in the preservation of natural and historical-cultural sites of the Ulytau mountain massif”

The project is aimed at creating a sustainable base for the reintroduction of tigers in historical habitats, including the Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve, preserving the natural and historical and cultural heritage of the Ulytau mountain range and adjacent territories, and promoting tourist sites in this unique region. The project's main results will be a comprehensive improvement in the state of the river delta ecosystems. Ile and the Southern Balkhash region, strengthening the Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve and the Ulytau State National Natural Park being created, developing a network of protected areas and tourism in the Ulytau region, raising the level of environmental awareness of the population and informing all stakeholders, creating a basis for joint management of ecosystems on the territory project activities with benefits for biodiversity conservation and local communities.

Technical inputs:

• Planning and implementation of the project activities on forest ecosystem and wildlife  in accordance with the portfolio projects frameworks.
• Supporting partnerships with government and non-government sector stakeholders. Identifing of the key partners from the public and private sectors, and make proposals to expand the range of partnerships. Development and maintain a database of contacts and partners across national agencies, local governments, and other organizations.
• Conducting the relevant the external and internal workshops, meetings in line with a portfolio projects work plans and preaparing well the documented workshop's/meeting's reports, National Steering Committee meeting's reports, and providing the inputs to the technical reports in collaboration with the local experts.
• Providing of development of the mandatory project progress reports, monitoring and making of the reasonable proposals for project risks mitigation.
• Supporting of the coordination with stakeholders including government agencies, CSOs, etc.

Outreach, Communication and Gender:

• Ensuring of effective dissemination of and access to information on project activities and results. Widely dissemination the portfolio projects achievements and support mechanisms for the exchange of information, experience, and lessons learned at the local and national levels. Promotion of the portfolio projects results through the media, including interviews, articles, and other scientific publications.
• Collaborate with UNDP CO Comms specialists on the content of publications, articles, and other informational materials to promote portfolio projects results.
• Development of the briefings, speeches, knowledge products, and other relevant documents. Preparation of the publications
• Maintain close coordination and exchange under the portfolio. Participation in regional and global platforms (offline and online) to share, learn, and apply best practices.
• Promotion of gender equality by reaching, involving and benefiting both women and men in its activities.
• Provide technical support to the gender component in organizing work on the implementation of the portfolio projects.

Project Implementation:

• Contribution to the planning of the assigned portfolio projects activities according to the project’s frameworks.
• Ensuring of timely and rational planning, implementation of activities, and delivery of the portfolio budget.
• Preparing of progress reports on the implementation for UNDP Country Office, members of the Steering Committee, and partners in a timely manner.
• Ensuring timely submission of progress reports by responsible partners and service providers and ensure harmonized reporting by recipients on key performance indicators.
• Development of Terms of References for national and international consultants and companies to be engaged by the project under the respective component.
• Monitoring of the work of national and international experts and companies.
• Compilation of data and information and liaise with relevant Ministries and partners as required.
• Perform other tasks requested by the Biodiversity Portfolio Coordinator aimed at achieving project goals and objectives, as well as requests from the UNDP CO.

Institutional Arrangement

The Project Analyst on Wildlife and Ecosystems will work under the direct supervision of the UNDP Biodiversity Portfolio Coordinator and will closely cooperate and coordinate with the implementing partner and other partners and projects.

• Business Direction & Strategy - Strategic Thinking            
  • Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with UNDP’s objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions;
  • Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways forward look like for UNDP.
• Business Direction & Strategy - System Thinking               
  • Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system
• Business Development - Knowledge Facilitation 
  • Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally
• Business Management - Project Management
  • Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and control resources, procedures, and protocols to achieve specific goals
• Business Management - Communication
  • Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience 
  • Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media, and other appropriate channels
• Partnership management - Relationship Management
  • Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding