Hydrogen Consultant

**Job Opening**

**Job Opening ID**: 229582

**Job Network**:
- **Job Family**:
- **Category and Level** : Consultants, CON

**Duty Station** : PANAMA CITY

**Department/Office** : United Nations Environment Programme

**Date Posted** : Mar 4, 2024

**Deadline** : Mar 13, 2024

**Result of Service**
- This consultancy aims to support the implementation of the GCF Readiness project "Advancing a Regional Approach to the Green Hydrogen Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean for Jamaica". The consultant will design and facilitate the work of the national green hydrogen working group, support the successful delivery of the GCF-related capacity-building sessions by engaging with public counterparts, other public agencies and the private sector when needed, develop national baseline assessment reports, including baseline situations of sectors that may benefit from green hydrogen while identifying barriers and opportunities for Jamaica and develop the national hydrogen strategy. Output 1. Relevant country stakeholders have established adequate capacity, systems and networks to support the planning, programming and implementation of GCF-funded activities (outcome 1.3). The consultant will liaise with the relevant national actors (which may include executing entities, civil society organisations and the private sector), to create /strengthen the national interinstitutional working group for Green Hydrogen. The consultant is expected to prepare the documentation needed for the successful delivery of the meetings and be in constant communication with the leading entities of the government. The consultant is expected to support the national inter-institutional working group to engage regionally with the other members of the Readiness project. Activity 1.1 (1.3.A1) Establish or strengthen national inter-institutional working groups on the Hydrogen Economy in El Salvador. All activities will be delivered in agreement with the national counterpart. 1.1.1 Analyse the national green hydrogen stakeholders assessing their impact using the influence vs interest methodology. The consultant is expected to contact all stakeholders to interview them and then evaluate their impact. Output 2. Develop or enhance strategic frameworks to address policy gaps, improve sectoral expertise, and enhance enabling environments (Outcome 2.2). The consultant, supported by the Hydrogen Economy planning expert, will analyse the country's opportunities towards green hydrogen and develop the national hydrogen strategy in coordination with the national decarbonisation goals. The consultant is expected to analyse, at least, the economic, energy and environmental sectors to guide the planning process. The consultant is expected to liaise with the leading entities in El Salvador and the interinstitutional working group. Activity 2.1 (2.2.A1) Conduct the national baseline study to assess hydrogen production, use, transformation, transport and commercialisation situation and possibilities. 2.1.1 Assess the potential in hydrogen production, use, transformation, transport, import, and commercialisation, including the green hydrogen projects in the country, with the cost-effectiveness of the possible usage of green hydrogen. - For production (geography, energy generation potential, and water availability) - For transformation (production of e-fuels and green ammonia) - For transportation (pipeline, trucks and regional and international hydrogen transportation route and bunkering possibilities. - For end use (industry decarbonisation possibilities, for those sector not analysed by the IRENA project mentioned before) 2.1.2 Analyse the regulations, policies, and standards relevant to hydrogen production and use using the regulatory impact assessment (RIA) that supports decision-making with evidence on the advantages and disadvantages of alternative options in terms of their likely impacts on stakeholders and outcomes. 2.1.3 Identification of barriers to hydrogen production, use, transformation, transport, import, and commercialisation grouped by legal, financial, technological, market, innovation and social, including vulnerable people approach. Activity 2.2 (2.2.A2) Design and conduct at least one national workshop in close collaboration with the government, private sector entities (including the financial sector), academia, and civil society organisations to present the baseline information and convey it to public and private actors. Activity 2.3 (2.2.A2) Design, agree and write the national hydrogen economy strategy, including i) short-, mid-and long-term strategic goals and recommendations, ii) linkages to the NDC and the Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Development Strategy process undergoing currently, iii) vulnerable people approach and iv) an action plan to implement the proposed Strategy. 2.3.1 Write the draft national hydrogen economy strategy based on the results of activity 2.1, the workshop delivered in activity 2.2, and the meetings held in out