AFULO Technical Specialist (Climate Change Mitigation)

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. It helps governments and development agencies coordinate their activities to improve and develop agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and land and water resources. It also conducts research, provides technical assistance to projects, operates educational and training programs, and collects data on agricultural output, production, and development. This job is reserved for Cambodian Nationals.

FAO Representation in Cambodia is launching the implementation of the project “Strengthening capacity in the agricultural and land-use sectors for enhanced transparency in implementation and monitoring of Cambodia’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)” funded by the Capacity-Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) of Global Environment Facility. The objective of the project is that Cambodia is preparing reports to the UNFCCC under the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) with strengthened agriculture and land use components, including inventories of emission sources and sinks, and information to track progress against priority actions identified in Cambodia’s NDC for these sectors. To support the implementation, a Technical Specialist on Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) is recruited to work for both the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and the Ministry of Environment (MoE), particularly on the Climate Change Mitigation. The position is hereunder called AFULO Technical Specialist (Climate Change Mitigation).