SPECIFIC DUTIES:

1. Maintain an excellent relationship with the Government of Sri Lanka; and ensure that the Host Country Agreement is valid at any given time;

2. Provide membership support and services including coordination, facilitation and support to the IUCN Sri Lankan National Committee;

3. Actively work towards enhancing IUCN membership in Sri Lanka;

4. Ensure effective relationships are developed, maintained and strengthened between IUCN, governmental, non-governmental, civil society, donors, private sector and other stakeholders, as well as with the international organisations based in Sri Lanka;

5. Promote IUCN as the institution that assists Sri Lankan members and other partners in building bridges with the Government, IUCN members and other institutions elsewhere in the world;

6. Facilitate IUCN membership and Commissions network meetings that link the IUCN constituency in Sri Lanka to the secretariat programmes and regional and global governance;

7. Ensure that the IUCN programme in the country is in alignment with IUCN’s global and regional priorities as well as to the national priorities;

8. Provide leadership in programme development aligned with the ‘One Programme’ approach and take responsibility for ensuring that funding for the programme is secured, and ensure that associated programme and project documentation is produced for fund-raising purposes. This will include supervision of country specific project development activities and contribution to the development of integrated inter-country, regional and transboundary projects where and when appropriate;

9. Ensure that the IUCN Sri Lanka Programme achieves scientific and technical integration with the Regional Programme Support Unit and the Ecosystems and Livelihood unit and with other country programmes (particularly those in the South Asia Country Group), as appropriate, in support of national and regional programme objectives;

10. Provide overall direction to and ensure efficient and cost effective implementation, coordination, and monitoring of IUCN’s programme in Sri Lanka and the delivery of the expected results which contribute to the achievement of the Asia Regional component of the IUCN Intersessional Programme; including the establishment of programme, financial, and administrative reporting schedules as required by relevant agreements and partners, and ensuring that these reporting schedules are adhered to;

11. Ensure that information and learning at the local level is utilized to impact on national policy and is fed into IUCN’s Knowledge Management systems to enable impacts on regional and global policies; and make regional and global knowledge available to support and inform national and local debate and decision making;

12. Maintain regular contacts with Members and other partners, with a view to exploring new areas of interest for the IUCN Programme and ensure effective coordination of all IUCN Secretariat contacts with all partners;

13. Effectively deploy the administrative, financial and technical resources available to the IUCN Secretariat Programme in Sri Lanka, and ensure that these are used in conformity with relevant IUCN norms and standards, contributing to and benefiting from the integrated finance and technical resource model of the region, and provide or make available such support in this respect to IUCN units as may be necessary;

14. Ensure that regular support and inputs are provided to IUCN staff in Sri Lanka through regular on-going performance management with a view to building up a diverse and integrated team of IUCN personnel in the country which is viewed and views itself as a component of a wider South Asia Group and regional team;

15. Establish regular management ,administrative and programme reporting linkages through the South Asia Group to IUCN Asia Regional Office in Bangkok, and with other IUCN programmes and administrative units or offices as required;

16. Lead in change management in the Country Office as and when new regional structures and systems adjustments are put in place to group or re-group Country Offices; and

17. Perform any other duties as may be required by the Regional Director from time to time.