Recruitment Announcement -Sudan’s Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency Project

The Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources (HCENR) has received a grant from GEF through UNDP to implement a Project titled:  Sudan’s Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency Project. The overall goal of the project is to assist Sudan in mainstreaming climate change considerations into national and sub-national (i.e. state-level) development policies by strengthening and sustaining efforts to monitor, report, and verify mitigation and adaptation activities that address climate change. The immediate objective of the project is to meet enhanced transparency requirements as defined in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement and its modalities, procedures, and guidelines (MPGs) by enhancing Sudanese institutional and technical capacity for measuring and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) gas emissions, GHG reductions from mitigation activities, as well as the resilience-building effects of adaptation The main components of the project are: 1) Strengthening of national institutions for transparency related activities; 2) Provision of tools, training, and assistance for meeting the transparency provisions established in the Paris Agreement; 3) Improvement of transparency over time, and 4) Knowledge management and monitoring & evaluation. Key outputs include new MRV-related legal and procedural arrangements to enhance transparency; strengthened inter-institutional coordinating arrangements for transparency; strengthened institutional capacity for MRV, GHG inventory development, GHG mitigation analysis and adaptation assessment; and synthesis of lessons learned, and best practices shared via the newly developed online transparency platform. Taken together, these outputs will lead to an end-of-project situation that will reflect more accurate information and analysis of the policies, measures, and instruments that Sudan selects to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

 The project will be implemented following UNDP’s National Implementation Modality (NIM), according to the Standard Basis Assistance Agreement between UNDP and the Government of Sudan. The national Executing Entity for this project is the Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources (HCENR). Day-to-day project oversight will be conducted in accordance with established HCENR and UNDP procedures. The project will be implemented is close collaboration relevant institutions.

Project Manager (SPM)

 

Project Managers (SPM) (full-time national consultant)	Post
Sudan’s Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency Project	Project
7th March 2026 at 2.00 pm	Application Deadline
Two-Year	Duration of the project
15 March 2026	Expected starting date
For the duration of the project, renewable every year based on satisfactory performance	Duration of contract
Khartoum  with travel to the states	Duty Station

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scope of work and Responsibilities

The Project Manager (PM) will be a nationally recruited expert selected based on an open competitive process managed by the Project Board. He/She will be responsible for the overall management of the project, including the mobilization of all project inputs, supervision over project staff, consultants, and sub-contractors. The PM will report to the Chair of the Project Board (HCENR appointee) in close consultation with the Director General of HCENR and the UNDP RR (or duly designated UNDP officer) for all project’s substantive and administrative issues. From the strategic point of view of the project, the PM will report on a periodic basis to the Project Board. Generally, the PM will be responsible for meeting government obligations under the project, under the project implementation modality. He/She will perform a liaison role with the Government, UNDP and other UN Agencies, NGOs, and project partners, and maintain close collaboration with all stakeholders. The Project Manager will also play a technical function in addition to the project management functions.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage the overall conduct of the project and PMU
• Plan the activities of the project and monitor progress against the approved workplan1
• Execute activities by managing personnel, goods and services, training, including drafting terms of reference and work specifications, and overseeing all contractors’ work.
• Monitor events as determined in the project monitoring plan, and update the plan as required.
• Provide support for completion of assessments required by UNDP, spot checks and audits.
• Manage requests for the provision of UNDP financial resources through funding advances, direct payments or reimbursement using the FACE form.
• Monitor financial resources and accounting to ensure the accuracy and reliability of financial reports.
• Monitor progress, watch for plan deviations, and make course corrections when needed within project board-agreed tolerances to achieve results.
• Ensure that changes are controlled, and problems addressed.
• Perform regular progress reporting to the project board as agreed with the board, including measures to address challenges and opportunities.
• Prepare and submit financial reports to UNDP on a quarterly basis.
• Manage and monitor the project risks – including social and environmental risks – initially identified and submit new risks to the Project Board for consideration and decision on possible actions if required; update the status of these risks by maintaining the project risks log.
• Capture lessons learned during project implementation.
• Prepare revisions to the multi-year workplan, as needed, as well as annual and quarterly plans, as required by the PB, EWCA and UNDP
• Prepare the inception report no later than one month after the inception workshop.
• Ensure that the indicators included in the project results framework are monitored annually in advance of the GEF PIR submission deadline so that progress can be reported in the GEF PIR.
• Prepare the GEF PIR.
• Assess major and minor amendments to the project within the parameters set by UNDP-GEF.
• Monitor implementation plans including the gender action plan, stakeholder engagement plan, and any environmental and social management plans.
• Monitor and track progress against the GEF Core indicators.
• Support the Mid-term review and Terminal Evaluation process.
• Supervise and coordinate the production of project outputs, as per the project document, including ensuring technical quality and compatibility of the outputs with the objectives of the project;
• Mobilize all project inputs in accordance with UNDP procedures for nationally executed projects;
• Supervise and coordinate the work, including technical aspects, of all implementing partners, project staff, consultants and sub-contractors;
• Coordinate the recruitment and selection of project personnel and contractors as needed, especially with a view to the large infrastructure investments made by this project;
• Ensure that gender is mainstreamed into operational plans, as well as markers are reported on as part of regular reporting;
• Facilitate administrative backstopping and provide technical backstopping to subcontractors and activities supported by the Project;
• Oversee and ensure timely submission – and ensure adequate quality – of the Inception Report, Combined Project Implementation Review/Annual Project Report (PIR/APR), Technical reports, quarterly financial reports, and other reports as may be required by UNDP and GEF;
• Disseminate project reports and respond to queries from concerned stakeholders;
• Report progress of project to the Project Board and ensure the fulfilment of PB directives.
• Oversee the exchange and sharing of experiences and lessons learned with relevant actors nationally and internationally;
• Address key communication need and support the development and implementation of a project communication plan;
• Ensures the timely and effective implementation of all components of the project;
• Carry regular, announced and unannounced inspections of all sites and the activities of the project site management units.

1. Qualifications

• A university degree (MSc/MPhil or PhD) in related fields of expertise
• Minimum 10 years of demonstrable experience in the technical area of climate change and in preparing high quality project documents, particularly for UNDP and GEF projects
• At least 5 years of project/program management experience;
• Working experiences with relevant ministries and national institutions is a plus, but not a requirement;
• Ability to effectively coordinate a large, multi-stakeholder project;
• Ability to administer budgets, train and work effectively with counterpart staff at all levels and with all groups involved in the project;
• Strong drafting, presentation, and reporting skills;
• Strong computer skills, in particular mastery of all applications of the MS Office package and internet search;
• Strong knowledge about Sudan’s political and socio-economic context, in particular with relation to wildlife conservation and related work;
• Excellent writing communication skills in English and Arabic

 :  by email to

hoyamahmed66@gmail.com

   

hcenr2005@yahoo.com

.Only short-listed candidates will be contacted