The Consultant’s ultimate result of services will be to provide inputs to the Undersecretariat of Environment for developing a monitoring system to follow up on the implementation of existing climate policies and measures and roadmap the development of long-term policies.

Home-based

Part-time / 9 months

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 Climate Change Division is the lead Division charged with carrying out the functions of UNEP in the field of environmental Climate Change. To fulfill its mandate, the work of the Climate Change Division focuses on: working with Members States and Partners to accelerate and support a just transition by addressing mitigation and adaptation gaps through enhancing implementation capacity, access to finance and technology, and building resilience. The Climate Change Division promotes sustainable development and effective policies for climate stability; support action so that countries progress on decarbonization, dematerialization, and resilience pathways in line with their climate commitments, aspirations, and needs; and foster transparency in reporting. In 2022, the Republic of Argentina submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the Long-Term Low Emissions Resilient Development Strategy (LTS) to 2050, approved by Resolution No. 218 of 2023. Through this strategy, goals were defined that will guide the process to be developed in the context of the National Climate Change Cabinet (GNCC, acronym in Spanish) to establish the framework for long-term climate action in the country. The LTS correlates with the National Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan (PNAyMCC, acronym in Spanish), which is a domestic planning instrument of the GNCC presented in 2022 and approved by former the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina (MAyDS, acronym in Spanish) Resolution No. 146 of 2023. The LTS includes the approaches and strategic lines of the PNAyMCC and in turn considers the goals of the Second NDC (2020) and the Second Revised NDC (2021). Based on these instruments and in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Agreement, Argentina seeks to elaborate the content of its NDC 3.0 during 2025. The process comprised the review and update medium-term scenarios order to update the mitigation target and present the Third Adaptation Communication under the National Climate Change Cabinet (GNCC, acronym in Spanish) climate governance structure. Additionally, it established consensus around priority issues such as loss and damage and to generate and unify criteria on the information produced in order to meet reporting criteria in the Biennial Transparency Report 2026. Along these lines and in continuity with the work guidelines, UNEP submitted to the NDC Partnership the PAF project proposal entitled: PAF23-Q4-1 & PAF23-Q4-2: Update the Long-term Strategy (LTS) through the development and analysis of models, scenarios, and long-term trajectories & develop a roadmap for the development of a monitoring system for the Long-term Strategy, which seeks to establish a process of analysis of available information and scenarios to generate inputs and a road map that will facilitate the preparation of a second LTS for the country, while providing inputs for the improvement of national climate reports for the Republic of Argentina. In this sense, UNEP is recruiting a Climate Policy and Project Consultant for PAF Argentina to support the work of the Climate Impact Directorate of the National Undersecretariat for Environment. This support will consist of providing inputs to the Undersecretariat of Environment for developing a monitoring system to follow up on the implementation of existing climate policies and measures and roadmap the development of long-term policies. The consultant will be supervised by UNEP’s NDC Act & Invest Global Coordinator and will work in a hybrid work model, enabling the possibility to work from home, while participating in-person activities such as meetings and stakeholder engagements as required, at the Undersecretariat of Environment) located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1. Analyse relevant documents and reports related to the monitoring systems of national and subnational climate policy instruments, particularly those in force, specified and framed in Law 27,520. 2. Based on the process of updating the latest NDC, considering goals, reference actions, means of implementation and organizations involved in the framework of the NGCC, design a proposal for a monitoring system for its follow-up, integrating the systems described in point 1.1, in particular the Mitigation Measures Monitoring System. 3. Validate the monitoring system proposal with the Undersecretary of the Environment. 4. Develop suggested procedures and formats for the implementation of the NDC monitoring system. 5. Based on the previous points and components of the PAF23-Q4-1 request, develop a roadmap proposal for the elaboration of the Second ELP, for its validation at the NGCC roundtables, identifying phases, actors and necessary instruments. 6. Generate graphic material to facilitate the understanding of the medium-term commitment path and its integration with long-term strategies. Timely delivery of outputs as outlined in the Terms of Reference. Quality of design work, materials, and reports produced, as well as the approval of products/ deliverables/ outputs by the consultant’s reporting officer, Jérôme Malavelle, Project Management Officer, UNEP.

• Bachelor's degree in economic sciences, political sciences or a closely related field (Required). • Postgraduate studies (completed or ongoing) in international economics, national governance or closely related field (Required). ● Minimum 5 years of general professional experience in public sector in Argentina (Required). ● Minimum 3 years of professional experience in projects related to climate change in Argentina. (Required). ● Demonstrates very good understanding of Argentina’s national policy related to climate change and of national and international climate reports (Required). ● Minimum 2 years of relevant experience assessing strategies, plans and reports under the local legal framework and the UNFCCC. (Desirable). ● Demonstrated experience developing international reports to the UNFCCC (Desirable). ● Demostrated experience developing mid-or long-term climate policy (Desirable). ● Experience working with, and building partnerships with public sector, both national and subnational (Desirable). ● Experience developing monitoring procedures or related processes (Desirable ). ● In-depth knowledge of data management and data reporting(Desirable). ● Previous experience working under the Argentina national administration would be an advantage. (Desirable).

● Fluency in Spanish (Required). ● Confidence in English (Required).

Not available.

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