Job Summary: The incumbent will be reporting to the Director and will provide general and specific support in relation to assigned tasks. Duties include providing assistance in tracking project progress, monitoring workplan execution, and in writing monthly, quarterly and annual project related reports, other documentation and progress reports as required.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides general assistance in the implementation of the various components of the projects to be executed by the BCRC-Caribbean.
- Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual reports.
- Prepares briefing reports, project reports, and presentations related to projects being executed by the BCRC-Caribbean.
- Conducts research and formulates positions on issues related to wastes and chemicals management in the Caribbean region.
- Assists in preparing training materials and training manuals from project deliverables.
- Assists the team in the preparation of project proposals for international donor funding.
- Assists the team in the preparation of tender documents and the evaluation of tenders.
- Performs any other related functions and responsibilities consistent with this role.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- A working knowledge of project management principles, practices, techniques and procedures.
- A good working knowledge of data collection procedures.
- Good ability to present study findings to a formal audience and to the general public.
- Adept at using project management and Microsoft Office Suite software tools on a routine basis.
- Good ability to prepare cleanly written reports on project assessment and analysis.
- Good ability to use the internet for research purposes.
- Good ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
- Good ability to analyse and evaluate projects.
- Excellent ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with project stakeholders and associates.
Minimum Experience and Qualifications:
- One or more year’s postgraduate experience in a similar position in a project-oriented environment.
- Experience working alongside consultants and contractors and possession of experience in data collection would be an asset.
- Experience working in a multilateral environmental agreement setting and with large multidisciplinary projects would be an asset.
- A Bachelor’s Degree in one of the following: environmental engineering, environmental management, environmental sciences, environmental policy formulation and management, waste management, environmental education, or industrial/analytical chemistry.
- Postgraduate qualifications will be considered an asset.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Please submit via email, a cover letter and curriculum vitae (CV), referring in the email title to the position being applied for: Research Officer Application, [Name of Applicant], and addressed to:
Ms. Jewel Batchasingh
Director
Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and
Technology Transfer for the Caribbean
#8 Alexandra Street, St. Clair,
Port-of-Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago.
Email: mariska@crsrecruitment.co.tt
The deadline for the submission of applications is Sunday March 03, 2024, 11:59pm (Trinidad and Tobago, GMT -4).
NB: ONLY SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED.