Project Manager - Tashkent

Project Title/Department: UNDP/AF “Developing climate resilience of farming communities in the drought prone parts of Uzbekistan”/Environment and Energy Unit

Duration of the service: 6 months with possible extension (subject to satisfactory performance

Work status (full time / part time): Full-time

Reports To: Head of Environment and Energy Unit

The adaptation needs arise when the anticipated risks or experienced impacts of climate change require action to ensure the safety of populations and the security of assets. Adaptation measures are increasing and becoming more integrated within wider policy frameworks. Integration, while it remains a challenge, streamlines the adaptation planning and decision making process and embeds climate sensitive thinking in existing and new institutions and organizations. This can help avoid mismatches with the objectives of development planning, facilitates the blending of multiple funding streams and reduces the possibility of maladaptive actions.

The frequent occurrence of drought, an overall trend of aridification and projected drying of Uzbekistan’s poorest region, Karakalpakstan, place serious strains on water availability, is causing a decline in land productivity and in turn of the ability of rural poor to withstand the current and future impacts of climate change.

The objective of the new large-scaled UNDP/Adaptation Fund (AF)/Government of Uzbekistan project is to develop climate resilience of farming and pastoral communities in the drought prone parts of Uzbekistan, specifically Karakalpakstan. The project will help the central, regional and local governments and vulnerable farmers and pastoralists to withstand the current and future impacts of climate change: aridification and projected drying of this region that places serious strains on water availability resulting in a decline in land productivity.

Under direct supervision of the Head of Environment and Energy Unit, the Project Manager is fully responsible for operational and programmatic management of the project according to the project document, UNDP corporate rules and procedures. The main task of the Project Manager (PM) will be to lead a team of national and international staff towards the successful implementation of the project. The PM will have the overall responsibility for ensuring the Project and its staff functions effectively. The PM will work to ensure the technical direction of the project is maintained and key outputs are achieved in a cost effective and timely manner. Specifically his/her functions will include but are not limited to the following:

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