CCEU National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Intern

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Background

With its extensive coastline and deltaic plains, Viet Nam is considered to be among the most vulnerable countries to climate change globally. Extreme weather events such as typhoons and tropical storms have increased in intensity, magnifying socio-economic and health impacts on rural, urban, coastal, and mountain communities, and endangering critical transportation and drainage infrastructure. The Mekong Delta is one of the most susceptible deltas in the world to sea level rise.

To address climate change, the Government of Viet Nam developed a series of national climate change, green growth, and sustainable development policies, strategies, and action plans. One key planning instrument is the GoV’s National Strategy on Climate Change 2012-2020. To date, the government has been able to put in place several key climate change related decisions, including the landmark Plan for Implementation of the Paris Agreement in 2016 and approved its domestic National Adaptation Plan (NAP) in the year 2020. In addition, Viet Nam is among the first countries to have submitted its Updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the UNFCCC in July 2020.

The main readiness challenge in Viet Nam is the lack of capacity in government structures to effectively integrate climate change adaptation into plans and budgets at different levels and to design, operationalize, finance, and monitor adaptation actions. Barriers include lack of technical capacity to integrate data and information, and undertake assessments for adaptation planning, lack of capacity for appraising adaptation options in sector and provincial departments, ineffective inter-ministerial coordination, lack of active participation from private sector and local communities, lack of financing strategies, limited government and external resources, and lack of participatory and results-based monitoring and evaluation frameworks.

To address these barriers, the Viet Nam National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Development and Operationalization Support Project (NAP-SUP) is designed along the following outcomes:

  • Outcome 1: Capacity for data integration enhanced and National Adaptation Plan (NAP) prepared and aligned with NDC review.
  • Outcome 2: National adaptation plan and CCA integrated into national, subnational, and sectoral development plans and budget of priority sectors with private sector participation.
  • Outcome 3: Participatory results-based monitoring and evaluation mechanism developed and operationalized.

These three outcomes and their associated activities will contribute to the overall objective of the project, which is to “establish an effective system to integrate climate change adaptation into government administration processes in the priority sectors.” The priority sectors to be addressed under this proposal are: Agriculture and Rural Development, Transport, Health, Natural Resources and Environment, and Planning and Investment.

To support the project implementation, UNDP is seeking an Intern who will provide operational and procurement support to the project activities run by UNDP and five other line ministries. The Intern is initially contracted for 06 months with a possible extension upon satisfactory performance.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Intern is expected to support the implementation of the Viet Nam National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Development and Operationalization Support Project (NAP-Sup) through (i) Provision of intepretation and translation support to the project, especially project events; (ii) Provide administrative support to the project operation;

1. P****rovision of intepretation and translation support to the project, especially project events (60%)

  • Provide support for whisper interpretation/consecutive translation to UNDP experts on demand basis, particularly during meetings/ workshops organized under the project;
  • Translate some selected project documents and products (for example, Terms of reference, concept notes, minutes of meetings, etc.);
  • Provide interpretation service for such project events as meetings/ workshops;
  • Provide administrative support to project team in language editing of intermediate project reports in English-Vietnamese and vice versa using google translation toolkits,
  • Contribute to the preparation of written materials and workplans/ reports to UNDP and the Government of Viet Nam;
  • Ensure the dissemination of project information for project stakeholders (e.g project products, meeting information, etc.);
  • Draft news/ events and other simple communication products as result of activities from different projects;
  • Support dissemination of the project information and results on various means of media including facebook, twitter, website, newspapers, etc. upon request

2. Provide administrative support to the project (40%)

  • Support the organization of related events and activities organized by the project which includes contributions to service requests, services provided and timely report to the Project Manager of related risks and issues.
  • Support the project event-facilitating activities including, but not limited to, design of invitations, outreach to participants, confirmation of participants, travel arrangement, note-taking and other tasks on request.
  • Support the livestream or virtual organization of events, including facilitating for participants who will access the meeting online/offline and ensure online/livestream equipment, space and ensuring these are of high quality.
  • Assist the project manager to have consistency, appropriateness and visibilities of UNDP and donors on the communication materials, activities, processes and messages shared with partners.
  • Ensure the dissemination of input information provided by UNDP for project stakeholders (e.g project products, meeting information, etc.);
  • Support project communication officers/NAP team to draft news/ events and other simple communication products as result of activities from different projects for dissemination on UNDP Facebook, twitter, and other social media under the Climate Change portfolio;
  • Support project officers/NAP team of UNDP and ministries to share the project information and results on online folders and various means of media including, facebook, twitter, website, newspapers, etc. if required
  • Implement other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

With guidance from UNDP experts in CCE team, the intern is encouraged to provide the following results during the internship.

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Deliverables

Timeframe

1

A set of translated products for the project

Draft project minutes/key discussion notes for UNDP Project Manager review

Regular and On demand basis

2

Direct whisper interpretation services either online/offline

Regular – with the project training/workshop calendar (5-6 events/month)

3

At least 2-3 draft communication messages/summary of results from key project workshops/training for sharing via UNDP social media a month

Monthly

4

Write/draft at least 2 project stories using the information from project experts and guidance from project team

May and July 2022

5

Design other needed communication materials for project with relevant set of photos, graphics (1 product per month)

Monthly as assigned

Competencies

  • Bachelor’s degree in language (English), environment, natural resources, business, journalist, communication or any other related fields;
  • Experience in areas of translation, interpretation, communication, marketing, website management, content creation, social media is preferred.
  • Fluent English and Vietnamese and experience
  • Familiar with sustainable development, environment, climate change adaptation action in Viet Nam is an asset
  • Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc) and advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web based management systems.

Required Skills and Experience

Applicants must meet one of the below requirements:

  • Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher);
  • Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent)
  • Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation;
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