As part of the implementation by Expertise France of the national component of the European Union-funded Forestry-Climate Change-Biodiversity (EU-FCCB) Programme for Papua New Guinea, Expertise France is seeking to recruit a Technical Coordinator whose role will be to provide strategic advice and technical oversight for the project to ensure that the project’s interventions are of high quality and are consistent with the agreed-upon results framework.

Main tasks:
(1)    Scope Management: 
-    to provide general advice and guidance on the planning, roll-out and implementation of the project’s interventions
-    to maintain “scope statement” documentation for each project intervention (describing the expected, targeted, results, as well as the timeframe for implementation, expected deliverables, acceptance criteria, exclusions, constraints and assumptions)
-    to engage in periodic technical meetings with representatives of relevant organisations and stakeholder groups involved in the project, in particular with regards to activity requests emanating from government organisations
-    to prepare relevant presentations and summary documents on the different interventions
-    to oversee scope change issues
-    to assist with reporting on the project’s implementation as well as to lessons learned and best practice documentation
-    to help organise and make available information and documentation regarding scope to the project team or to project stakeholders as needed

(2)    Technical Support (hiring, coordination & oversight of the project’s consultants): 
The Technical Coordinator will be particularly in charge of the hiring, coordination & oversight of the project’s national and international consultants (and consulting firms) providing providing specialised subject matter expertise (SME) or technical expertise in various intervention areas. As such, the Technical Coordinator’s tasks would include:
-    to identify and prioritise the project requirements in terms of expertise
-    to prepare draft Terms of Reference (ToRs) documents for national and international consultants (or consulting firms)
-    to participate in the identification and selection of qualified national and international consultant (or consulting firms)
-    to provide guidance, support and oversight to the selected national and international consultants (or consulting firms)
-    to approve the deliverables of the selected national and international consultants (or consulting firms
-    to contribute to lessons learned and best practices documentation on the recourse to and supervision of national and international subject matter (technical) consultants
-    to help organise and make available information and documentation regarding the mobilisation and supervision of these consultants

(3)    Organisation and oversight of all technical assistance activities
A significant part of the project takes the form of technical assistance activities provided to the Government of Papua New Guinea or to other stakeholders.  As such, the Technical Coordinator’s tasks would include:
-    to identify the requirements in terms of technical assistance to be provided to targeted organisations
-    to coordinate and supervise the organisation and delivery of technical assistance activities
-    to oversee the evaluation process for the technical assistance delivery
-    to contribute to lessons learned and best practices documentation on technical assistance delivery
-    to help organise and make available information and documentation regarding technical assistance delivery.
The Technical Coordinator will be recruited on a full-time basis for an initial 12-month period, with possibilities for extensions until the end of the project. 
He/she will be supervising a technical coordinator officer and a stakeholder engagement coordinator who looks after a team of embedded officers located within PNG government organisations.
He/she will report to the EU-FCCB Programme National Component Project Manager. 
He/she will be based in Port Moresby, where Expertise France has a country office located within the premises of PNG’s Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA).