Ref.
2022/SSEAPA/7597
Job offer type
Experts
Type of contract
Service contract
Deadline date
17/04/2022 23:59
Duration of the assignment
Long term
Duration
380 person/days between May 2022 and December 2024
Département Développement durable - DD > Pôle Biodiversité
Published on : 11/03/2022
Expertise France is seeking to recruit a key expert to coordinate the Project’s stakeholder engagement, visibility, advocacy and campaign across all the implementation period, from May 2022 to December 2024. The Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships Advisor will undertake the steps needed to quickly implement activities to increase awareness on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and key transformative actions, to increment stakeholder convergence and agreements on key issues and commitments, and to expand strategic coalitions to stakeholders in sectors beyond the current biodiversity community and to other levels of governance.
The Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships Advisor will be expected to lead and coordinate the revision and regular update of communications and awareness-raising strategies on the GBF and key transformative actions, the support to the visibility and communications of key partners and strategic events, a mobilization campaign for convergence, synergies and the strengthening of a coalition of high ambition stakeholders, and provide strategic guidance for the Project’s communication outputs delivery.
Across the Project’s implementation period, the objective of the assignment is to ensure lasting conditions for the outreach of the European Union (including EUDs), key partners and the Project’s initiatives to contribute to further spreading awareness on transformative biodiversity action, to improve knowledge levels within the biodiversity community and reach new stakeholders across sectoral silos.
Overview of responsibilities
The Advisor will be responsible for the strategic steering, management and implementation of two Project components:
Under the supervision of the Project Team Leader and in cooperation with the Deputy Team Leader and the Knowledge and Capacity-building Coordinator, he/she will ensure that the above activities are consistent with the Project’s objectives, lead their framing and oversee their implementation, control the quality of their outputs and liaise with the Administrative and Financial Project Officer and Communications Officer to ensure they are efficiently implemented.
The Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships Advisor will be expected to undertake the following tasks:
Project’s visibility and stakeholder engagement
Under the supervision of the Team Leader, the Advisor will supervise the technical implementation of all project activities related to his/her priority components:
Campaign steering and implementation
The Advisor will steer and implement a cross-sector campaign mobilizing key stakeholders around key messages based on the identified priority topics for the Project:
Partner coordination
The Advisor will be the focal point for external partner relations in the campaigns and visibility components:
Project team coordination
The assignment is expected to be structured in three interconnected phases:
For all of them, the Senior Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships Advisor will be expected to perform the duties described above and any other task as required.
Expertise France, the French technical cooperation agency designs and implements projects that sustainably strengthen public policies in developing and emerging countries. Governance, security, climate, biodiversity, health, education… It operates in key areas of development and contributes alongside its partners to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For a world in common. With an activity volume of 237 million euros, over 500 projects running in 100 countries and 63,000 days of expertise delivered every year, Expertise France provides partner countries with knowledge, skills and management expertise. Through its work, the agency promotes French and European development policy goals.
Expertise France will implement the 2nd Phase of Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework – EU support, an EU-funded project with a focus on fostering ambitious commitments at the 2nd Part of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 15), to be held in Kunming in April and May 2022, and the early operationalization of the ensuing Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework – EU Support Phase 2 (the Project) will be implemented over three years (2022-2024) and follow a similar intervention logic as Phase 1 with a wide variety of activities – workshops, knowledge products, campaigns, partner relations – while shifting its focus to supporting key partners in leading the way to a transformative CBD COP15 and an effective implementation of its related decisions. The Project aims to (1) inspire actors from various levels of governments as well as stakeholder and non-State partners to take bold commitments on biodiversity action, (2) contribute to unveiling the opportunities related to ambitious biodiversity action and (3) trigger the implementation of concrete solutions on key transformative issues and potential gaps in the Global Biodiversity Framework to be adopted by CBD COP 15.
Qualifications and skills
General and specific professional experience
This mission will require regular on-site meetings at Expertise France headquarters in Paris, and missions abroad.
Required documents
Together with their experessions of interest, experts must provide full contact details of the company which is to be contracted by Expertise France.
Fees for the services will be negotiated with the designated candidate.
The selection process for candidates will be based on the following criteria :
Deadline for application : 17/04/2022 23:59
File(s) attached : DAJ_F043ENG_v04 - Expression of interest form.docx
Expertise France is the public agency of French international technical cooperation. The agency operates around four priorities:
In these areas, Expertise France carries out engineering and implementation missions for capacity building projects, mobilizes technical expertise and acts as an aggregator of projects involving public expertise and private know-how.
With an activity volume of 233 million euros, more than 400 projects in portfolio in 80 countries, and 63,000 days of expertise, Expertise France focuses its action towards France’s solidarity policy, influence and economic diplomacy.