Programme Director (Forest & Climate Leaders’ Partnership)

Dutystation: Home based

Functional responsibilities

Leadership

• Represent the FCLP and FCLP Secretariat in meetings and to external partners, including internationally and at senior levels, as determined with the Steering Committee and Co-Chairs.
• Provide vision and inspiring leadership to Secretariat team
• Lead and manage the FCLP Secretariat, ensuring that the approved work plan is delivered to a high quality and within budget.
• Lead and manage a diverse FCLP team including staff, consultants and secondees, ensuring effective division of labor and managing the team to deliver high impact results.
• Report to the Steering Committee members regularly, and as required, on progress and strategy, thereby ensuring transparency and accountability of the FCLP Secretariat to its members.
• Create an environment that promotes diversity and inclusion and a culture of respect towards colleagues at all levels.

Strategy and Political Ambition

• Facilitate delivery of the two-year (2024 and 2025) FCLP Strategy leading up to COP30 in Belém, approved by the Steering Committee, including policy working groups.
• Facilitate the delivery of specific initiatives, supporting co-chairs of the respective workstreams to maximize impact.
• Ensure that the Secretariat focuses its work on the priorities in the approved work plan and strategy.
• Design and deliver political ambition events for ministers and leaders at UN Climate Change Conferences and other events as needed (e.g. CBD COPs, UNGA, etc.).
• Ensure that an effective communications strategy is in place so that the work and the added value of the FCLP is understood, recognised and valued internationally.
• Provide advice on strategic direction to the Steering Committee

Partnership Management and Governance

• Ensure quality and integrity of Secretariat services
• Ensure that the FCLP governance and procedures (e.g. on transparency and decision-making) are fit for purpose, facilitating updates as needed by the Steering Committee, and ensure that these procedures are followed.
• Oversee and direct the Secretariat to support the FCLP Steering Committee and co-chairs, ensuring that they are convened regularly with a clear agenda and high-quality papers, to enable effective decision-making.
• Organize meetings of the Steering Committee, the Secretariat Board and member countries at the sherpa and ministerial level.
• Ensure that the FCLP member countries remain engaged in and informed about the work of the partnership and are actively involved in delivery and decision-making. Ensure that voices from FCLP members both from the Global North and the Global South are included in the FCLP agenda and priorities.
• Establish effective consultation arrangements with partners and non-state actors about the work of the FCLP, including indigenous peoples and local community representation organizations, the scientific community and other stakeholders.

Secretariat Operations Management

• Developing the Secretariat Workplan and Budget, including resources managed by financial delivery partners, for approval by the Steering Committee, and ensure quarterly reporting.
• Develop and implement an internal operations manual and internal control framework, including rules and procedures for staff, decision-making, financial management.
• Oversee the budget and ensure transparency and alignment with FCLP objectives and compliance with UNOPS requirements, following agreed procedures for financial decision-making and reporting, including to donors.
• Oversee the work of FCLP Secretariat hosts.
• Work with the Steering Committee on resource mobilization to ensure the Secretariat has the financial resources needed to deliver its work plan, based on an approved resource mobilization plan, mobilizing resources from governmental and philanthropic donors and other sources of funds as appropriate.

Education/Experience/Language requirements

*FEMALE CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY