Project Associate

**Job Identification**
- 17611

**Locations**
- Brasilia, Brazil**Posting Date**
- 04/16/2024, 07:53 AM
- 04/30/2024, 10:59 PM

**Job Schedule**
- Full time

**Agency**
- UNDP

**Grade**
- NPSA-6

**Vacancy Type**
- National Personnel Service Agreement

**Practice Area**
- Management

**Bureau**
- Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean

**Contract Duration**
- 6 months

**Education & Work Experience**
- Bachelor's Degree - 3 year(s) experience OR High School certificate
- 6 year(s) experience

**Required Languages**
- English and Portuguese

**Vacancy Timeline**
- 2 Weeks

**Background**

**Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and **inspiring stories.**

Brazil has received funds from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for the project “REDD+ results-based payments for results achieved by Brazil in the Amazon biome in 2014 and 2015”. The results-based payments received by Brazil from the GCF will contribute to the implementation of the forest sector actions of Brazil’s NDC and Brazil’s REDD+ National Strategy overall objective. This project has two main outputs:

- Development of a pilot of an Environmental Services Program for Conservation and Restoration of Native Vegetation (Floresta+); and
- Strengthen the implementation of Brazil’s ENREDD+, through improvements in its governance structure and systems.

The Floresta+ is a new and innovative pilot program that aims to provide incentives for environmental services in the Legal Amazon region, in accordance with Brazil’s Forest Code, the ENREDD+ and Brazil’s NDC. This pilot program will have the following specific objectives: 1. provide monetary compensation to incentivize native vegetation conservation and restoration/recovery and improvement of ecosystems that generate environmental services (including but not limited to carbon); 2. prevent the occurrence of deforestation, forest degradation and forest fires through financial incentives; 3. incentivize the restoration/recovery of native vegetation of rural properties, conservation areas, indigenous lands, land settlements, and local community lands; 4. value the actions of land owners, land users, settlers, Indigenous Peoples and local communities in conservation and restoration/recovery of native vegetation; 5. Promote compliance with the environmental legislation, especially that related to the protection and restoration/recovery of native vegetation (Forest Code); 6. offer a financial mechanism to foster the development and implementation of public policies aimed at conservation and restoration/recovery of native vegetation.

This project also aims to contribute with the ENREDD+ implementation facing the complexity of a forest monitoring system for the whole Brazilian territory, the low capacity and resources of subnational governments and ILPCs to engage in ENREDD+ implementation, the limited amount of public resources to implement the ENREDD+, the safeguard information scattered among different governmental systems and/institutions and the complexity to evaluate the impacts of REDD+[1] policies.

[1] Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation of forest carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

The purpose of this Term of Reference is to hire a Project Associate for the Project Management Unit - PMU. This project assistant will be a full member of the PMU and will work under the overall leadership of the Project Coordinator. As a result, it is expected that this post will support the overall** **implementation of the GCF Project’s activities and contribute to the successful implementation of the planned activities, as such:
**Support the project team to ensure effective project planning and implementation.**
- Compile and summarize information and data for the project work plans, draft annual/quarterly budgets, proposals on implementation arrangements, and on other specific project related topics or issues.
- Provide comprehensive support in all aspects of project implementation in accordance with the project documents, annual work plans (AWP), budget and agreements between UNDP and responsible partners. Ensure quality of delivery by consultants, beneficiaries, and contracted companies; and communicate findings to the supervisor and colleagues.
- Follow-up on UNDP's administrative, financial and op