Duties and Responsibilities: 

The consultant’s responsibilities will include: 

• Consulting national partners (government, civil society, research and private sector) on their demands and ongoing work related to nature driving economic transformation.
• Carrying out a stakeholder assessment and a policy assessment that will help create a baseline for the HII project proposal.
• Determining the risks and mitigation measures.

Requirements

Qualifications/special skills

• An advanced university degree in Environmental Science, Social Science, Agricultural science or Public Administration, Economics or Environmental Economics, or a related field is required. A first university degree with a combination of two (2) years professional and academic qualifications may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
• A minimum of Ten (10) years of professional working experience in programme and project implementation in the field of food systems is required.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement at federal, state and/or municipal level is desirable.
• An understanding of the biophysical and economic modelling of ecosystem services in the context of food systems is desirable.
• An understanding of the Brazilian environmental, bioeconomy and agricultural political context, as well as the Brazilian agricultural institutional and fiscal framework is desirable.

Languages : English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this position fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of Portuguese is highly desirable