National Consultant: The terminal Evaluation of the “Making the Link: The Connection and Sustainable Management of Kon Ka Kinh and Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserves” project.

The UN in Viet Nam seeks 01 national consultant for the terminal evaluation of the “Making the Link: The Connection and Sustainable Management of Kon Ka Kinh and Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserves” project.

The medium-sized GEF project ‘Making the Link: The Connection and Sustainable Management of Kon Ka Kinh National Park and Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserves’ aims to establish a foundation of support and management to maintain the biodiversity integrity and connectivity of the Kon Ka Kinh National Park and Kon Chu Rang Nature Reserve, thus catalyzing sustainability of protected areas, providing a possible route for long term financing of protected areas and mainstreaming biodiversity in production landscapes.  The overall conservation goal of this project is the long-term conservation of the unique biological attributes of the Central Annamites Priority Landscape.

• The national consultant will assist and collaborate with the Team Leader in all the tasks mentioned above including fieldwork, desk based translation, report writing as agreed with Team Leader, and assist with translation in the field.
• The national consultant will be mobilized several days before the Team Leader in an effort to collect and collate data related to the project beforehand. 

National consultant (Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation)

• Professional background in natural resources management, conservation and community development, and related fields with a minimum of eight years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation and working experiences in evaluating conservation and development projects.
• Demonstrated understanding of both conservation and development decision-making processes, at national and provincial level is essential.
• Knowledge of participatory and community participation in natural resources management.
• Proficient English writing and communication skills, with an ability to act as translator for international counterpart and to translate written documents from/ to Vietnamese are essential.
• Experience with the United Nations or other international development agency is an advantage.

National consultant with extensive knowledge in Protected Areas and biodiversity conservation; natural resource conservation projects and associated livelihood development strategies in Vietnam, experience with Government planning processes, and experience in developing performance indicators, project appraisal and evaluation of development projects.

Specific requirements:

• Evaluators must be independent of both the policy-making process and the delivery and management of assistance to the project.  They should not have been engaged in the activities to be evaluated, or responsible in decision-making roles for the design, implementation or supervision of the project.  In cases where a member of an evaluation team has been involved with some aspects of the project, this member should refrain from evaluating those aspects.  
• Evaluators will be impartial and will present a comprehensive and balanced appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of the project and activities being evaluated.