Senior Climate Change Specialist

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The Adaptation Fund is an revolutionary financing mechanism arrange by the Convention of Events (COP) to the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC), with the aim of financing concrete local weather change adaptation tasks and programmes in creating nation Events. On the request of the COP, the GEF is offering secretariat providers to the Adaptation Fund Board (the Board) on an interim foundation, by way of a devoted group. Since changing into totally operational in 2010, the Board has authorized 160 tasks/programmes in over 100 susceptible international locations, for a complete funding of greater than US$ 1 billion.

Launched below the Kyoto Protocol of the UNFCCC, the Adaptation Fund has been formally serving Paris Settlement since 2019. 

The Adaptation Fund is implementing its second medium time period technique for years 2023-2027 that rests on the three pillars of adaptation motion, innovation and studying/data administration. 

The Secretariat is recruiting a Senior Local weather Change Specialist to coordinate the Fund’s work on portfolio administration and outcomes together with on all venture varieties. Reporting on to the Head of the Adaptation Fund (Supervisor of the Secretariat), s/he’ll lead the Secretariat’s Outcomes Primarily based Administration Group, and guarantee well timed and high quality administration of the Fund’s portfolio of tasks and programmes consistent with the Fund’s operational insurance policies and tips, and coordinate the work of employees and consultants concerned in that work. S/he can have a key function within the strategic administration of the work of the Secretariat and be instrumental in operationalizing the medium-term technique and additional creating strategic planning, together with by way of making certain the coherence of the Fund’s outcomes monitoring and data administration actions, and the common evaluate and replace of the Fund’s strategic outcomes framework. S/he can have an vital function in speaking the Fund’s outcomes to potential donors and supporting useful resource mobilization efforts. S/he can even coordinate the Fund’s interplay with different local weather funds on efforts to streamline and, to the extent possible, harmonize outcomes frameworks and reporting, and contribute to the efforts to scale up Fund investments with exterior funding. S/he’ll additional have a key function in coordinating the Secretariat’s interplay with the Fund’s impartial Technical Analysis Reference Group, together with the preparation of the Secretariat’s inputs and administration responses to evaluations.  

The Sr Local weather Change Specialist will collaborate carefully with colleagues within the Secretariat, whereas interacting with Board members,

accredited Implementing Entities, recipient nation focal factors, and different stakeholders. S/he will likely be below the supervision of the Head of the Adaptation Fund (Supervisor of the Secretariat).

Duties and Accountabilities:

The profitable candidate will likely be anticipated to hold out the next duties and tasks: 

• Lead the Fund-level supervision of the Fund’s energetic portfolio of tasks and programmes, together with the areas of Outcomes Primarily based Administration and Data Administration and their coherence.
• Supervise the preparation and administration of, and reporting on, annual administrative budgets within the space of energetic portfolio supervision, together with functioning as the duty group chief to supervise advisor and agency contracts.
• Work carefully with the Head of the Fund and the Secretariat’s Administration Group to additional develop the strategic course of the Fund within the areas of concrete motion, innovation and studying/data administration.
• Take part in portfolio improvement, and play a key function within the implementation of the medium-term technique of the Fund. This consists of offering steerage on the outcomes orientation of the Fund in its supply and reporting on each the strategic pillars and themes and the enabling methods, together with by way of annual work planning throughout the totally different groups of the Secretariat, making certain their coherence and synergies.
• Lead the preparation of the Fund’s annual efficiency studies and conducting portfolio monitoring missions.
• Lead the coordination of the evaluate strategy of venture/programme efficiency studies and varied project-related studies and requests submitted by the implementing entities throughout venture/programme implementation.
• Lead the supply of recommendation and technical help to the Fund’s implementing entities to strengthen results-based venture planning, implementation and monitoring, by way of coaching and advert hoc help.
• Stay up-to-date on developments within the area of adaptation and resilience indicators, and supply strategic course, recommendation and technical help for additional improvement of the Fund’s instruments and on-line database to enhance assortment and evaluation of knowledge that’s used for the monitoring venture/programme implementation and outcomes.
• Present steerage and high quality assurance help to the Data Administration group of the Secretariat.
• Assist as wanted the implementation of useful resource mobilization actions for the Fund.
• Together with different members of the Administration Group, carry out managerial duties as an officer-in-charge on behalf of the Head of the Fund during times of absence, as wanted.
• Take accountable roles in representing the Fund and enhancing public consciousness in varied fora, together with however not restricted to, conferences convened below the UNFCCC and its subsidiary our bodies, conferences of different local weather funds, regional and sub-regional workshops, technical conferences and workshops, and bilateral conferences with governments, implementing businesses and different stakeholders.
• Set up and keep a productive dialogue and optimistic relationships with key stakeholders, together with creating nation governments, local weather change negotiators, nationwide, regional and multilateral businesses concerned in local weather finance, suppose tanks and civil society.
• Lead and contribute to the preparation of Board and Committee paperwork, technique and coverage paperwork, speaking factors, and different supplies to help the efficient supply of the Fund portfolio, in addition to, by way of shared duty, to the preparations and making certain easy operating of the Mission and Programme Evaluate Committee conferences, as wanted.
• Coordinate the Fund’s interplay with different local weather funds on efforts to streamline and, to the extent possible, to harmonize outcomes frameworks and reporting.
• Contribute, from the attitude of administration of the energetic portfolio, to efforts of working with different local weather funds, implementing entities, contributor governments and different stakeholders, to scale up tasks supported by the Fund.
• Perform as a focus in direction of the Fund’s impartial Technical Analysis Reference Group (AF-TERG) together with, inter alia, on the implementation on the Fund’s analysis coverage, and coordinate the preparation of the Secretariat’s inputs and administration responses to evaluations performed on the Fund’s work.
• Present supervision and technical backstopping to junior employees.
• Preserve the Head of the Fund (Supervisor of the Secretariat) apprised of the work performed within the areas of duty, and carry out another process as required.

Choice Standards:

• Grasp’s diploma or greater in pure sources administration, social coverage, economics, setting or different area related to adaptation to local weather change, and no less than 8 years of related expertise.
• Substantial expertise with local weather change adaptation and constructing resilience in a global context, and with working with portfolios of tasks and/or programmes, together with operational and budgetary oversight.
• Superior and confirmed technical experience in present ideas and greatest practices in using results-based administration method to venture administration, implementation, monitoring, and analysis within the context of worldwide improvement and, ideally in local weather adaptation tasks,.
• Strong understanding of the UNFCCC course of and worldwide local weather finance structure, significantly as they relate to monitoring, analysis, studying and different results-based themes.
• Intensive expertise in managing efficient relations with a variety of stakeholders (Governments, worldwide organizations, multilateral and bilateral improvement businesses, creating nation companions, NGOs, indigenous teams, scientific communities).
• Capacity to deal with a variety of points associated to local weather change adaptation and resilience-building and their relationship to nationwide sustainable improvement.
• Capacity to suppose strategically and to quickly analyze numerous info from diversified sources.
• Capacity and the required organizational expertise to take initiative, private possession, and accountability to satisfy deadlines, work below stress, stability competing calls for and obtain agreed-upon outcomes.
• Capacity and expertise of efficiently main, supervising and motivating direct studies and of constructing environment friendly groups.
• Demonstrated expertise of working efficiently with work plans and budgets, together with their preparation, administration and reporting.
• Demonstrates political consciousness and skill to diplomatically deal with delicate conditions with goal audiences and to in any other case domesticate efficient, productive consumer relationships/partnerships.
• Glorious oral and written communications and modifying expertise; sturdy command of English; data of different languages can be fascinating, particularly French and Spanish.
• Capacity to deal sensitively in multi-cultural environments and construct efficient working relations with purchasers and colleagues.
• Capacity and willingness to journey internationally, together with to go to tasks within the area in creating international locations, and to attend worldwide conferences, with indicative anticipated journey of between 6 and 12 weeks per 12 months.