Our team is looking for an International Individual Consultant to provide the BES-Net team with technical and professional support in managing, expanding and strengthening the project’s global/online, regional and national network in close line with the evolving project component scopes and priorities at respective levels. 

The consultant is expected to improve the BES-Net project’s partnership building and stakeholder engagement efforts by performing the following tasks:

• Lead the stakeholder analysis, mapping and consultation vis-à-vis the geographic and thematic foci of the upcoming Regional Trialogues, particularly for Central Asia (October 2019) and Francophone Africa (2020), and provide advisory and technical backstopping support on their engagements in different stages of Trialogue process. Due consideration must be given to various key criteria such as policy-science-practice balance, gender mainstreaming, sub-regional representation, meaningful participation of indigenous people and local communities, etc.;  
• Provide technical advisory service in nurturing, expanding and strengthening the BES-Net’s global network of registered users and expert, institutional partners and NEA teams, and support in rolling out the innovative partnership building/stakeholder engagement approaches;
• Provide regular technical support and quality assurance in the engagement of stakeholders with various BES-Net online activities, including the web portal online discussions, social media posting and communications, contributions to e-newsletters;
• Provide advisory service on the project visibility/publicity enhancement by providing technical backstopping on knowledge management and communication efforts and supporting the development of visibility/publicity resources, news articles, technical reports, etc., on different BES-related thematic areas in online and printable formats, in coordination with relevant partners and contractors as required;
• Provide technical inputs to the periodic project activity review and target monitoring process from partnership and stakeholder engagement perspective; and
• Review the BES-Net Communication and Stakeholder Engagement Strategy and Gender Strategy and recommend the area of improvement in strategies as well as the project implementation process.