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Opportunity
Environmental Incentives (EI) seeks to contract a senior biodiversity and climate change consultant to provide technical assistance to the USAID/Vietnam Environment Team through the Improving Design, Evidence, and Learning (IDEAL) activity. This consultancy is a great opportunity for someone who has demonstrated expertise in environment and climate issues in Vietnam, strategic planning for international development programs, and helping teams to learn, collaborate, and adapt throughout the USAID Program Cycle. The consultant will provide subject matter expertise on biodiversity conservation, climate change, and combating wildlife trafficking programming; technical assistance and facilitation of strategic planning processes, such as activity design and Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan development; and capacity strengthening support for USAID staff in Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA). The consultant will be part of a larger team of IDEAL staff and consultants providing technical assistance to the USAID/Vietnam Mission.
Consultancy Description
This is a remote assignment for a Vietnam-based candidate in or near Hanoi. Candidates in other parts of Southeast Asia will be considered on a case-by-case basis. The expected level of effort is anticipated to be about 20 hrs a week for up to six months starting as soon as April 2024, but can fluctuate depending on the needs of the USAID/Vietnam environment team. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.
The Vietnam Environment and Climate consultant will provide technical support and advisory services to USAID. They will work across activity design, strategy development, monitoring, evaluation, and learning to help USAID/Vietnam advance cohesive, evidence-based programs and practice adaptive management. Specific tasks are subject to change, but it is anticipated that the consultant may:
Possible additional tasks may include:
Qualifications, and knowledge, skills, and abilities of a successful environment and climate consultant include the following.
This position will be fully remote, with the expectation that the Consultant will be able to provide frequent in-person support to USAID/Vietnam (based in Hanoi) and implementing partners.
About IDEAL
In programming more than $750 million each year in biodiversity and climate change funds, USAID's decisions shape outcomes for irreplaceable ecosystems and the communities that depend on them worldwide. The Improving Design, Evidence, and Learning (IDEAL) contract provides support for all stages of the Program Cycle for USAID biodiversity and climate change programming at USAID and improves the Agency's ability to design, and monitor, evaluate, and learn from programs with sustainable and impactful results.
During this five-year activity, IDEAL supports USAID's programs to apply adaptive management decisions, generate and apply evidence, and apply learning to support better programming decisions. With expertise combining technical environment skills and organizational development and learning, IDEAL facilitates high-quality decision-making, increases evidence generation and use, and nurtures a culture of applied learning across the Agency.
About Environmental Incentives
At Environmental Incentives, our purpose is to create the conditions for human and natural communities to thrive. We do this by helping our partners improve the performance of conservation and development programs. Our clients trust us to design and support implementation of programs that (1) use evidence to develop effective strategies within complex systems, (2) center local stakeholder experiences and facilitate collective action, and (3) produce results that support learning about what works. Environmental Incentives is a certified B Corporation with offices located in Washington, DC, South Lake Tahoe, San Diego, Nairobi, and Lima (pending registration). Our remote staff and consultants are based in multiple states within the United States, and across five continents.
ENVIRONMENTAL INCENTIVES IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYERFull Time
Business Services
$71k-91k (estimate)
03/12/2024
05/11/2024
enviroincentives.com
WASHINGTON, DC
25 - 50
2004
SHALI BHATLA
$5M - $10M
Business Services
Environmental Incentives is a small business and Certified B Corp that works to enhance the environment that sustains healthy communities. Across the globe, we partner with program managers and funders to improve their effectiveness in biodiversity and habitat conservation; stormwater management; water, sanitation, and hygiene services; climate change and energy adaptation; and sustainable infrastructure development. We have six offices across the U.S., South America, and Africa, as well as field staff working with partners in 26 countries.