Expertise France is seeking to recruit a Technical Coordinator who would be providing support on all technical aspects of the inception and implementation of an EU-funded “Forestry, Climate Change and Biodiversity” (FCCB) Project that could be awarded to Expertise France (see below for project details).

Main tasks:

• Scope Management:
• to conduct background research and analysis activities into the conception and design of the project’s activities
• to provide general technical advice and guidance on the design and implementation of the project’s activities
• 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 “scope statement” documents for the project in general and for each of the intervention areas and for each activity (that would contain information regarding each intervention’s objectives, a description of the scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, exclusions, constraints and assumptions), for discussion with stakeholders during the Inception Phase and other key moments of the project.
• to organise and oversee scope development, verification and control activities
• to organise and oversee scope change issues
• to prepare relevant presentations and summary documents on the different interventions
• to contribute to reporting on the project’s technical 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

• Technical Support:

In each intervention area, Expertise France will require to be assisted by consultants providing specialised subject matter expertise (SME) or technical expertise for the conception & design and supervision of the Project’s activities. These consultants would be in charge of analysing stakeholder contexts and needs in their intervention area; proposing concept & design documents for the type of activities that could be put in place based on these contexts and needs in their intervention area; if the concept & design documents are approved by stakeholders, preparing all the technical documentation for the procurement or grants procedures that would be undertaken to implement the activities in their intervention area.

As such, the Technical Coordinator’s tasks would include:

• to identify the project requirements in terms of technical support (in the form of technical expertise)
• to propose priorities regarding the mobilisation of technical (subject matter) experts
• to prepare draft Terms of Reference (ToRs) documents for national and international consultants;
• to participate in the identification and selection of qualified national and international consultants
• to provide guidance, support and oversight to the national and international consultants that will have been selected
• 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

• Organisation and oversight of the delivery of trainings and technical assistance

Some of the Project’s activities could include the provision of trainings and technical support 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 training and technical assistance to be provided to targeted organisations
• to coordinate and supervise the organisation and delivery of trainings and technical assistance activities
• to collect and review trainers’ reports on the completion of training sessions
• to oversee the evaluation process for training sessions and technical assistance delivery
• to contribute to lessons learned and best practices documentation on trainings and technical assistance delivery
• to help organise and make available information and documentation regarding trainings and technical assistance delivery.

The Technical Coordinator will be recruited on a full-time basis for an initial 12-month period. Renewal of the position might be on a part-time basis afterwards. Though remote work is authorised, it is expected that the position would be mostly based out of Port Moresby. The Technical Coordinator would be reporting to the Project Team in Port Moresby.