National Technical Lead

The National Technical Lead will be the Technical Team Leader for the project team. He/she will be responsible for ensuring that the project is executed with high technical standards, including providing high level policy advice, in coordination with the international and national consultants/experts and will work in close cooperation with DWRM and FAO.

Specifically, he/she will be responsible for:

• Coordinating with relevant initiatives to realize synergies in the scale and sustainability of the project impacts;

• Track the project’s progress and ensure timely delivery of inputs and outputs;

• Prepare terms of references for subcontracts in support of all activities of concern to the project implementation including ecological health assessments, hydrological modelling, water accounting, decision support systems, ecosystem restoration, river basin management, nature-based solutions for protection and conservation, community resilience and resilient livelihoods;

• Facilitate the convening of regular meetings and briefing sessions with DWRM and with government counterparts and other parties concerned;

• Support and facilitate coordination between key project stakeholders, particularly the environment and agriculture sector leads of MAE, and between central, provincial and district-level Governments.

• Provide technical oversight and monitoring of subcontracted projects and activities, ensuring high quality technical delivery and integration of national and international good practice;

• Lead in the oversight of implementation, M&E and scaling up of innovative pilots on nature-based solutions and ecosystem restoration, promoting community and private sector involvement and investments;

• Identify capacity building and knowledge management needs in areas such as IWRM, integrated river basin management, protection and conservation, and support the organization of capacity building and knowledge dissemination events for Government and non-Government partners;

• Document lessons learnt and best practices related to ecosystem restoration and river basin management; and

• Support the DWRM, FAO and project team in providing input supports for technical reports, presentations, tables, maps and project knowledge products.

• Master’s degree related to water management, water resource modelling, river basin planning and management, ecology, environmental protection or related fields

• At least 15 years of professional experience in water resources engineering, natural resources and water management, conservation planning and management, ecosystem restoration, and sustainable land and forest management

• Ability to work with various stakeholders, including government agencies, private sector, NGOs, and community groups;

• Demonstrable experience in the implementation of multilateral donor funded or government funded international development projects;

• Demonstrable experience in project organization and ability to serve as an effective communicator and negotiator with excellent oral presentation skills;

• Experience in project management and results-based management;

• Strong report-writing skills in English;

• Extensive experience working with national and local government agencies in complex projects in Vietnam.

• Knowledge of FAO’s project management systems is preferred