Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Overview
The primary purpose of this position is to serve as a central anchor for coordination and communication between the CIFOR-ICRAF Vietnam Country Office, the Climate Change Theme project lead, senior associates, and project partners. The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the smooth coordination and timely implementation of project activities, fostering effective collaboration and coordination internally among CIFOR-ICRAF’s global and national scientists, and other units (Communication Outreach, Capacity Development, Project Management Unit) when required, and externally with established partners such as CARE, WWF, IUCN, and others as needed, in close coordination with the appointed Senior Associate. The role also includes coordinating activities with both local and national government stakeholders.
In addition to coordination responsibilities, the post holder will contribute to the generation of scientific outputs as outlined in the project documents, support the delivery of outputs required by donors, and collaborate with research and implementation partners. The position will also involve organizing and facilitating project-related events, supporting fieldwork, and, when necessary, representing the project and organization in external engagements.
Duties and responsibilities
Research
- Lead and co-lead in designing methodology and conducting research activities (data collection and analysis) on the topics of climate change and landscape resilience, and other relevant domains.
- Lead and contribute to developing tools, manuals, and guidelines.
- Contribute to managing databases on policy and regulations, and other data and information gained from primary and secondary sources.
- Lead and co-lead in writing technical and policy briefs, peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, working papers, and other technical publications.
- Lead and co-lead in designing research activities for students and interns.
- Lead and co-lead scientific presentations and technical meetings with national and sub-national governments, partners, and donors.
Capacity development
- Coordinate and contribute to strengthening the capacity of partners at national and sub-national levels, including facilitating and organizing training, workshops, and other events in collaboration with partners and country teams.
- Facilitate the fieldwork of students and interns, or project teams, as needed.
Project Coordination
- Lead the project reporting and annual workplan and budget of relevant project(s) in collaboration with other team members and project partners.
- Coordinate the project team to ensure accountability processes to donor(s) by contributing to timely submissions of activities and reports on the ground.
- Facilitate the project component leaders to ensure quality and manage high-quality outputs and timely submissions of consultant and partner research outputs.
- Supervise the preparation of reports and minutes of meetings for various meetings, seminars, and workshops with national and local governments and other partners.
- Supervise the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Assessment process within CIFOR-ICRAF, and contribute to the process at the project level, in collaboration with donors and partners.
Resource Mobilization
- Lead and co-lead in conducting resource mobilization activities in Vietnam, including proposal writing and donor meetings, if needed.
