Climate Adaptation Specialist

hace 1 semana

Panama United Nations A tiempo completo

Result of Service

The consultant will be part of the Climate Change Unit of the UNEP Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. The main objective of the position is to provide technical advice and to ensure operational effectiveness during the planning and implementation of the regional adaptation portfolio of the Climate Change Unit of UNEP Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. This involves formulating for the Adaptation Fund and other multilateral climate funds and implementing the National Adaptation Plans portfolio and other SDG-related projects.

Specific tasks and responsibilities

1. Collaborate with the adaptation team to organize the implementation of approved projects, including:

- Contribute to the preparation and coordination of the launch of projects.
- Conduct the implementation of annual work plans and schedules.
- Monitor contracts and payments.
- Monitor project results, indicators of the results framework and monitoring of risks.
- Contribute to the preparation of annual performance reports and the project completion report.
- Conduct, when necessary, meetings with government officials and other interested parties for technical meetings.
- Collaborate in high-level technical and political meetings of different actors.
- Contribute to the management of deliverables for projects.
- Conduct actions to redirect projects towards the desired results.
- Develop reports, meetings and presentations on adaptation to climate change.
- Advice the communication team on the best ways of disseminating key results from the projects and ensure a regional outreach of UNEP’s lessons learnt
- Provide guidance to the NAP’s project management units for the execution of activities.

2. Collaborate with the adaptation team in the coordination and development of new project proposals, including:

- Contribute to the preparation and coordination of baselines, formulation of proposals (whether pre-concepts, concepts or complete proposals), and response to comments from climate funds.
- Structure project components, outputs and activities to ensure that they adequately address identified climate vulnerabilities and barriers, and lead to the achievement of expected results and transformational changes.
- Monitor the implementation of annual work plans and schedules for the development of proposals.
- Collaborate in technical and political meetings with governments for information gathering and decision-making.
- Monitor the work of technical work teams and social organizations for the formulation of proposals.
- Conduct, when necessary, meetings with local communities, and other stakeholders for consultation processes.
- Contribute to the management of terms of references, agreements and payments.
- Monitor the submitted proposal review process.
- Monitor the responses to both UNEP and the funds’ comments to the proposals, providing technical inputs to strengthen the projects based on these reviews.

Work Location
UNEP offices, Panama City, Panama

Expected duration
10 MONTHS

**Responsibilities**:
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.

The UNEP Latin America and the Caribbean Office (LACO Office), located in Panama City, Panama works closely with the 33 countries of the region - including 16 small island developing States - with a population of about 588 million people. The office works to serve the needs of the region and its activities are integrated into the work programs approved by the United Nations Environment Assembly of UNEP (UNEA).

UNEP seeks to support countries in Latin America to implement the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the new Paris Agreement and the priority actions defined in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of Latin American countries.

To achieve this, UNEP is seeking a Climate Adaptation Specialist to support the regional adaptation portfolio under the supervision and guidance of the UNEP Programme Management Officer for Adaptation of the Climate Change Unit for Latin American and Caribbean Office. This consultant will work 40 hours per week at the UNEP LACO at Panama City, Panama

UNEP LACO’s Climate Change Unit is currently supporting countries in the region to prepare and execute proposals and access climate change funds and thus promote resilience for both men and women, in particular to those most vulnerable to climate change. Given the gap in climate adaptation finance, UNEP LACO is emphasizing its support to LAC governments in the formulation and implementation of adaptation projects and programmes.

As a result, the services of a consultant are required to develop outputs related to four initiatives led by UNE

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