Senior Natural Resources Officer at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Rome, Italy

Deadline: 21 May 2022

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Senior Natural Resources Officer in Rome, Italy. The duration of this post is 2 years.

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.

Key Job Responsibilities

The Senior Natural Resources Officer will perform the following functions-

• Plan, manage or lead highly specialized or multi-disciplinary teams; leads, coordinates and/or participates in Organization-wide committees, project teams and working groups and/or provides technical leadership/secretariat services to technical networks and/or international technical policy and standard setting bodies.
• Analyse global and country specific requirements and relevant technical issues to provide critical input into FAO Strategic Framework, Programme of Work, work plans and the supporting budgets and/or resourcing strategies.
• Implement and monitor programmes of work involving the development of the approach, evidence based strategies and related tools, methodologies and the supporting system/database as well as monitoring and reporting frameworks.
• Conduct, design and oversee research and analytical activities to support the development of technical standards, international instruments, innovation, technical reports, publications and/or on-going programme development as well as the provision of technical and/or policy advisory services.
• Provide technical and policy advice to Members and technical support to Decentralized Offices in the development and implementation of their programmes.
• Lead and/or collaborate in, provides technical backstopping to, and ensures the quality/effectiveness of, capacity development and knowledge sharing activities within Member Nations, such as policy support, organizational development and individual learning events including preparation of related information, learning and on-line tools;

Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must have:

• Advanced university degree in natural resources, environment, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy or related field.
• 10 years of relevant experience in natural resources management with international organizations, public or private sector institutions on energy and natural resources management.
• Working knowledge (proficient – level C) of English and limited knowledge (intermediate – level B) of another FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish).

How to Apply

Applicants must submit applications through online process.

For more information, visit FAO.