Job Announcement

Closing date: 18th March 2019, 17:00

Department of Biodiversity

Project: The Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN)

Preliminary top-down estimates of the global financial gap for biodiversity range from US$ 100 to 400 billion annually and detailed bottom-up assessments in participating BIOFIN countries validate this significant financial need and have helped identify finance solutions required to achieve the Aichi Targets and biodiversity related SDGs. In recent decades, biodiversity finance tools and solutions have demonstrated their importance for achieving biodiversity and sustainable development goals. But since countries have not approached the issue of biodiversity finance in a comprehensive manner, the choice and adoption of finance solutions has remained experimental and opportunistic. Improved choice, design and implementation of effective well-tailored finance solutions will strengthen a countries’ chances of achieving national and global biodiversity targets.

The Biodiversity Finance Initiative – BIOFIN – is a global programme that developed, piloted, and is continuously improving a methodology to measure existing biodiversity expenditure levels, assess future financial needs, and design comprehensive plans to use finance tools and solutions that increase financing, effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity management in 30 countries. BIOFIN’s first phase (2012-2018) enabled full assessments and initial implementation of finance plan elements in target countries. Significant enhancement and scaling up of finance solutions is required in all countries to address the biodiversity finance challenge. BIOFIN’s second phase enables the 30 countries to complete the design and implementation of priority finance solutions and will allow a further 15 countries to undertake the assessments as well as create and implement their biodiversity finance plan. At the central level, knowledge management platforms will be expanded and additional guidance produced for most valuable finance solutions.

The Project is seeking for:

• One Finance and Administrative assistant
• One National Project Coordinator

Interested individual should submit a cover letter, CV with support references to Department of Biodiversity, General Secretariat of National Council for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Environment: Morodok Teacho Building (Lot 503), Tonle Basac, Chamkarmorn, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and/or email to keosamnang.tiep@gmail.com. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview. Closing date: 18th March 2019