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Consultant: International Environmental Economy and Management Expert

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Location Turkey - Europe
Type Temporary / Contract / Seasonal
Status Full Time
Level Senior Level
Deadline 05/07/2010
Company Name United Nations Development Program
Contact Name Human Resources
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Turkey assists the Government of Turkey (GoT) to implement a Global Environment Facility (GEF) – funded Full-Sized Project, which aims to strengthen Marine and Costal Protected Area System.
Within the marine areas bordering Turkey’s lengthy coastline is found an abundant, highly diverse and globally significant biodiversity endowment. Overall, some 3,000 plant and animal species have been identified in Turkey’s territorial sea. Among these are about 12 species of marine mammals, including: two endangered species of sea turtle, the loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and the green (Chelonia mydas), and; the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus), one of Europe’s most endangered species, of which fewer than 100 individuals still survive along Turkish coasts. Some 480 species of marine fish have been identified in Turkish waters, of which 50% are believed to be in danger of local extirpation. Economically important fish species include anchovy, horse mackerel, bonito, sardine, bluefish, mullet and turbot. Avian fauna dependent on Turkey’s marine environment include Audouin’s gull (Larus audouinii), as well as the migratory summer visitor Eleonora’s falcon (Falco eleonorae). The major threats facing Turkey’s marine areas are habitat degradation associated with changes in coastal human populations and distributions and associated sea/coast use pressures. Protected areas have a potentially significant, yet largely unrealized, role to play in eliminating these threats to marine area biodiversity in Turkey. Currently, about 2.8% of Turkey’s territorial waters is protected. The proposed long-term solution for marine biodiversity conservation in Turkey’s territorial sea is a reconfigured Marine and Coastal Protected Area (MCPA) network designed to protect biodiversity while optimizing its ecological service functions – under effective and sustainable adaptive management. This long-term solution is seen to rest on three main pillars. First, the solution depends on adequate capacities on the part of key management agencies to identify, and focus suitable management efforts on, highly sensitive and/or biologically significant areas within the existing MCPA structure, while also being able to target gaps in representation that can be filled through MCPA expansion.
 
Second, it requires a system of sustainable financing involving the integration of sustainable financing mechanisms and the application of economics into the planning and management of MCPAs. Third, the solution needs to be based on effective mechanisms for inter-sectoral co-operation that bring to bear the relevant strengths of various management agencies and branches of Government and civil society to solve marine biodiversity conservation challenges. The key barriers to the long-term solution act by preventing the emergence and operation of the above three pillars.
 
These barriers are:
  • Limited capacities and skills for gaps analysis and ‘sensitive areas’ identification and management;
  • Deficiencies related to long term sustainable finance are hampering management capacity and the expansion of MCPAs, and;
  • Competing and/or overlapping jurisdictions and responsibilities for conservation and use of the SEPAs are combined with inadequate mechanisms for inter-sectoral co-ordination and bureaucratic conflict.
Working together with its partners, the project will achieve the following three outcomes to remove the barriers and make progress towards the long-term solution:
  • Outcome 1: Responsible institutions have the capacities and internal structure needed for prioritizing the establishment of new MCPAs and for more effectively managing existing MCPAs
  • Outcome 2: MCPA financial planning and management systems are facilitating effective business planning, adequate levels of revenue generation and cost-effective management
  • Outcome 3: Inter-agency coordination mechanisms in place to regulate and manage economic activities within multiple use areas of the MCPAs

 

Duties and Responsibilities

International MCPA Environmental Economy and Management Expert(MARINE-IEEME)under the coordination of MARINE-FE expertwill mainly work on integration of the sustainable economic principles into EPASA implementation plans for cost effective management. In addition, she/he will contribute in implementation of system financing plan and revised site-level business plans, identification and implementation of appropriate revenue generating mechanisms, determination of cost offsetting mechanisms, and integration of MCPA sustainable financing strategies into a national 10-year plan MCPA strategy and action plan. The expert besides working under coordination of Local Finance Expert (Marine –FE), she/he depending on the matter will work together with the International Marine and Coastal Protected Area Finance Expert (MARINE-IFE), Local Environmental Economy and Management Expert (MARINE-EEME) and Local Market Research Expert (MARINE-MRE).

 

Competencies

  • Skills in administering multicultural contexts with sensitivity to differences
  • Ability to work under pressure and multitasking
  • Initiative and independence
  • Adaptability
  • Team-building capacity including strong personal communication skills, with particular attention to supporting the building of national staff capacities
  • Ability to cope with difficult environment where formal institutions of government
  • Full computer literacy
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
  • Treats all people without favoritism.

 

Required Skills and Experience

General Qualifications:
  • Master's or higher degree in environmental economics/business administration/natural resources management.
  • Excellent command in written and spoken English.
Professional Expereince:
  • Minimum 5 years relevant experience in environmental and/or protected area especially of MCPAs economics.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience in feasibility of natural goods and ecosystem services.
  • Proven ability and practical experience in business planning in the context of natural resources, protected areas and the environment.
  • Proven ability and practical experience in integration of environmental economics and related principles into MCPA plans
Specific Experience:
  • Experience in cost offsetting mechanisms in MCPAs
  • Excellent analytical and report writing skills.
  • Excellent computer literacy.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, strong cultural sensitivity and ability to work in multi-cultural environments.
  • Ability to work in a team, under pressure and ability to meet deadlines.
  • Working experience in Mediterranean, Black Sea or similar closed basins elsewhere is an asset.
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