Payment for Forest Environmental Services Specialist (Pfes Specialist)

Office: ECODIT, 5th Green Plaza, Da Nang, Vietnam

ECODIT is implementing the USAID-funded Green Annamites activity (GA Project) in Quang Nam (QN) and Thua Thien Hue (TTH) provinces in central Vietnam. The purpose of the Green Annamites activity is to assist Vietnam’s transition to climate-smart, low emission, and resilient development that protects people, landscapes, and biodiversity in Vietnam’s priority forested provinces. The project’s overall period of performance is September 26, 2016 to December 16, 2020, subject to the availability of funding, and includes three main tasks:

i. Increased application of low emission land use: conserve the existing carbon sink; stop emission from small scale deforestation and degradation, and unsustainable agricultural practices; and increase carbon sequestration from restoration of degraded landscapes. A key component of Green Annamites’ intervention strategy is the focus on livelihood improvement and value chains, aiming at generating sustainable revenue streams for communities living in forested areas and in or around protected areas.
ii. Strengthen biodiversity conservation: mitigate threats to the globally significant biodiversity in central Vietnam, including poaching and activities that destroy habitats for wildlife and cause habitat fragmentation (e.g., deforestation, forest degradation, and conversion of natural forest into plantation)
iii. Increase resilience for vulnerable communities: ensure that results of activities supported under the two other components are not affected by climate change impacts. In addition, under this task the Program conducts standalone activities to build resilience for vulnerable communities. Much of these activities reflect findings and recommendations from the climate vulnerability assessment findings.

Key program results include improving the livelihoods of 20,000 forest dependent people; improving biodiversity of over 400,000 hectares of natural forest, mobilizing at least $20 million in public and private resources for sustainable livelihoods and forest conservation; and avoiding and/or removing the equivalent of at least 7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Decree No. 99/2010/ND-CP, defines forest environment service (FES) as “the provision of use values of the forest environment to meet the needs of the society and people's life” and also defines Payment for forest environment services (PFES) as the “provision and payment relationship in which users of forest environment services pay to providers of these services”.

The GA Project is supporting the Government of Vietnam on PFES, with special focus on “Forest carbon sequestration and retention, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by measures of preventing forest degeneration and forest area decrease and developing forests in a sustainable manner (C-PFES)” and PFES Monitoring and Evaluation (PFES M&E).

The GA Project is also providing support to the Quang Nam province on the preparation and implementation of the Provincial REDD+ Action Plan (PRAP).

• Background education on forestry or agriculture, preferably with Master’s level degree in forestry, natural resources economics, environmental economics or other related fields.
• At least eight years of professional experience in the forestry and/or land use sector, working on carbon finance, REDD+, PFES, private sector cooperation and /or agricultural value chains.
• Good knowledge and experience in monitoring and evaluation with a minimum of four years of experience in M&E for development projects.
• Sound project management experience and experience working with smallholders, governmental institutions, NGOs, private sector and communities.
• Skilled in database management and data process.
• Skilled in IT (MS office with advanced use of MS Excel and SPSS).
• Experience in qualitative and quantitative research, surveys, data analysis, and reporting.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills in English and Vietnamese.
• Previous work experience on forestry plantations in Quang Nam and/or Thua Thien Hue provinces is desirable.

HOW TO APPLY
Interested candidates should submit:
• A cover letter
• An updated CV, and
• Three references.
By July 5th, 2019 via VietnamWorks
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted; no phone calls please.

- Salary and bonus in accordance with the company
- Insurance policy in accordance with the company
- Paid leave policy in accordance with the company

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