Chief Technical Specialist

Provides international technical leadership for UNDP Papua New Guinea’s sustainable blue-economy project, guiding marine conservation, natural-capital accounting, monitoring, capacity building and investment partnerships across three coastal seascapes and national implementing partners.

• Provide technical leadership and quality assurance across blue-economy project outcomes
• Review technical documents, assessments, consultant deliverables and knowledge products
• Guide marine ecosystem assessment, protected-area governance and spatial-planning methods
• Oversee monitoring, risk management, adaptive planning and GEF reporting
• Build capacity of project staff, government counterparts and implementing partners
• Develop partnerships, investment cases and resource-mobilisation opportunities

• Master's degree in a marine, environmental or natural-resource field, or bachelor's degree with additional experience
• At least seven years of progressively responsible marine-conservation, spatial-planning or sustainable-fisheries experience with a master's degree or nine years with a bachelor's degree
• At least five years in an advisory or chief technical specialist role with a major international organisation
• Fluency in English

• GEF or Green Climate Fund project experience
• Natural capital accounting using UN SEEA Ecosystem Accounts
• Nature-based Solutions or blue-economy business-model experience
• Experience in Papua New Guinea or the Melanesian Pacific
• Tok Pisin or another official PNG language

• Marine Conservation
• Natural Capital Accounting
• Marine Spatial Planning
• Project Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Capacity Building
• Resource Mobilisation
• Stakeholder Engagement

• Microsoft Word
• Excel
• Web-based Management Systems
• UN SEEA Ecosystem Accounts

• Office-based in Port Moresby with travel to project seascapes
• Requires flexible availability across time zones