This position is part of the EU-FCCB national component project team and will be stationed within the PNG Forest Authority (PNGFA).  Expertise France is recruiting a Forestry Expert to ensure that the project’s interventions intended to support PNGFA-related activities and/or that need to be coordinated with PNGFA Policy and Planning Directorate are designed, planned, rolled-out, implemented and monitored in a way that is relevant, coherent, effective, efficient, impactful, durable and gender-responsive, as well as responsive and adapted to the context and needs of PNGFA. 

The Forestry Expert’s position will be supported by the project's Reporting and Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator with overall supervision of the Deputy Project Manager & Technical Coordinator – National Component of the EU-FCCB Programme as well as overall guidance of PNGFA. He/she will be working closely with other project team members and stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1.    Liaison, reporting and communication

• Act as the liaison officer between PNGFA and the project
• Help facilitate meetings and workshops organised by PNGFA at which external participants are invited
• Provide regular reports on PNGFA sustainable forestry-related activities progress and upcoming work to PNGFA management and other stakeholders
• Be able to provide briefings on the project progress and upcoming work to PNGFA management upon request
• Communicate with other development partners through the project and also providing support to PNGFA and be able to provide them with relevant, up-to-date information about the project’s interventions
• Ensure that the project team is kept up to date on the issues and challenges being faced by PNGFA in terms of the implementation of the project’s interventions.
• Ensure that the project’s intervention logic and strategy take into the account the perspectives of PNGFA’s strategic priority areas of Corporate plan 2021-2030.
• Attend Technical Working Group (TWG) meetings and divisional meetings to update on project status as well as taking notes.
• Facilitate publications of any knowledge products that is generated during the project period.

2.    Coordination of the project’s interventions that involve and PNGFA’s Policy and Planning Directorate

• Organise the annual action planning & review sessions with Policy and Planning Directorate and other directorates of PNGFA
• Plan and supervise the roll-out of the different activities with directorates or branches responsible in the annual action plans
• Take part in the different interventions managed by Expertise France and involving PNGFA strategic priority areas
• Provide guidance to any external national and international consultants mobilised by Expertise France as part of these interventions
• Assist in organising workshops and training sessions or travels involving PNGFA staff
• Liaise and coordinate with development partners supporting PNGFA such as Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), European Forest Institute and others.
• Ensure there is synergy and alignment with PNGFA’s Annual Workplan.

3.    Monitoring and analysis of the interventions under the PNGFA Annual Action Plans

• Monitor the progress of the different interventions involving PNGFA’s Annual Action Plan and the results obtained
• Conduct in house meeting with PNGFA on the roll-out of the different interventions and capture the experience acquired from the interventions in lessons learned documents
• Contribute to the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) framework of the project 

5.    Calibration of the project’s Grants Scheme with PNGFA priorities & perspectives

• Take part in the assessment of grant applications from third parties in terms of sustainable forest management in line with the PNGFA’s Strategic Development Plan (Afforestation and Reforestation Strategy, Down-streaming processing strategy, etc.)
• Ensure that PNGFA team provide advice on the grants scheme managed by Expertise France
• Apply and integrate lessons learned from other grant schemes such as International Timber Trade Organisation (ITTO).