In general, the Mitigation data management expert will work in close coordination with the National ICAT leading coordinator, who will supervise technically and follow up on the compliance with the deliverables and the supporting tasks included in the workplan The technical deliverables will be reviewed and approved by the project coordinator of UNEP CCC, within a period of no more than 5 days, after their receipt by the UNEP CCC Project Coordinator. In all cases, the deliverables are considered completed after the review and approval of the Project Coordinator of UNEP-CCC.     The tasks for this role, include working with the ICAT team members for the completion of all the activities of the project. The expert will be responsible for providing technical input as requested by the Leading coordinator, in order complete the deliverables of the project, as well as elaboration and submission of deliverables and reports relevant for the project.

Remote, Cuba

Part-time / 3 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 Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) was established in 2015 at the COP that adopted the Paris Agreement to support the implementation of the Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework. ICAT provides countries with tailored support and practical tools and methodologies to build robust transparency frameworks needed for effective climate action in sync with national development priorities. The projects ICAT supports relate to: building or enhancing transparency frameworks for mitigation; building a monitoring and evaluation approach for adaptation; building or enhancing frameworks to track progress in implementing nationally determined contributions; assessing the impacts of climate policies; estimating or enhancing projections of greenhouse gases; integrating and/or aggregating climate actions at the subnational level and for non-State actors; building a tracking system for just transition processes; establishing or enhancing a climate data system; and putting in place a framework to track climate finance. ICAT is an unincorporated multi-stakeholder partnership steered by the Donor Steering Committee (DSC), conformed by its donors, Austria; Canada; Germany; Italy; the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF); and ClimateWorks Foundation (CWF), and includes the UNFCCC Secretariat as the dedicated UN body with a climate change policy mandate, and UNOPS as an ex-officio member. The Initiative is managed by UNOPS on behalf of the DSC. Within UNOPS, the ICAT Secretariat manages ICAT day-to-day activities, coordinating and guiding the work of the implementing partners. Cuba already has a certain level of institutional arrangements linked to monitoring and reporting issues from a climate transparency perspective. Cuba has already prepared three National Communications; the third one, along with the First Biennial Update Report, was submitted to the UNFCCC in 2020. In December 2024, Cuba submitted its First Biennial Transparency Report, fulfilling its commitments under the Paris Agreement. The phase 1 and 2 of the ICAT project in Cuba has provided significant support in advancing the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) for tracking the 2020-NDC (up to 2030). Within the framework of its first two phases, focussing on: Developing a baseline and mitigation scenario for the Energy and AFOLU in the context of the 2020 Updated NDC, Designing a Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) for the five mitigation contributions contained in the NDC, Strengthening the country's capacities to report its first Biennial Transparency Report (BTR), Conducting studies to enable the formulation of technical proposals to increase ambition in the NDC mitigation contributions, and Developing proposals for the establishment of a legal framework for data collection and a digital platform for managing that data. For the phase 3 of the ICAT Cuba, the project aims at strengthening national capacities to develop a technical-methodological NDC proposal of the "below BAU" (Business As Unusual) type, as well as to create a monitoring and reporting proposal under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) currently being built by the country. To achieve this general objective, the following five specific objectives are proposed: Objective 1: Define, based on the policies, plans, and strategies approved in the country, the mitigation measures (PAMs) that can enhance the increase of ambition in the NDC over the medium term (2040). Objective 2: Strengthen the information system to increase transparency in the management of the medium-term NDC (2040). Objective 3: Establish methodologies, define assumptions, and adapt tools for assessing the impact of PAMs on GHG emission trends and on NDC indicators for each scenario. Objective 4: Evaluate the impact of PAMs on GHG emission trends for each medium-term scenario (2040) and develop a technical proposal for a "below BAU" type NDC. Objective 5: Develop a proposal to modify the procedures and guidelines of the national ETF based on the results obtained for a "below-trend" NDC. For the ICAT implementation in Cuba, a Mitigation data management expert is required for working in close collaboration with the National ICAT leading coordinator and with other national technical consultants, in order to ensure the completion of outputs and submissions of technical deliverables indicated in the work plan of the project. the Project Coordinator in UNEP CCC, who will supervise technically and follow up on the compliance with the deliverables and the supporting tasks included. Those deliverables will be reviewed and certified within a period of no more than 5 days, after their receipt by the UNEP CCC Project Coordinator. Specifically, this consultancy contributes to (in reference to the general workplan of the project): Project Outcome 2: (Strengthening the information system to respond to transparency requirements in medium-term NDC management); Outputs 2.2 and 2.3: (2.2. Defined data and information required for the monitoring and reporting of each PAM. 2.3. Defined institutional arrangements for the collection, analysis, archiving, and reporting of the required data and information); Deliverables 4 and 5: (Deliverable 4: Proceedings of the exchanges and workshops held to define the data and information required for the monitoring and reporting of each PAM and the institutional arrangements; Deliverable 5: Report containing the data and information required for the monitoring and reporting of each PAM, including the metadata formats required by the national statistical system, as well as the institutional arrangements for the collection, analysis, archiving, and reporting of the required data and information). In order to develop the requested deliverables under this consultancy, the consultant will perform the following functional tasks and responsibilities: a) In coordination with CUBAENERGIA and UNEP-CCC, prepare a background analysis for a technical proposal to enable the tracking and reporting of NDC 3.0 and possible additional measures through 2040. b) Coordinate the working sessions of a workshop organized by CUBAENERGIA with relevant stakeholders to identify indicators, data, information, and institutional arrangements for the monitoring and reporting of PAMs. c) Develop a technical proposal on the data and information required for the monitoring and reporting of each PAM. d) Develop a technical proposal on the required metadata formats for the statistical system, as well as the institutional arrangements for the collection, analysis, archiving, and reporting of the required data and information. e) Present the technical proposals at a working meeting (Workshop) with stakeholders and competent authorities, collecting feedback and new inputs for the monitoring and reporting of PAMs. f) Present the relevant conclusions and the final proposal to CUBAENERGIA and integrate final comments, including those from relevant authorities, after their final consideration. International travel will/will not be required for this consultancy.

Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience with Bachelors degree preferably with focus on climate change or relative field; or minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience with Masters degree. o More than 5 years of practical experience in climate change topics, specifically in mitigation and MRV systems under the Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). o Knowledge in the following areas: national data and information management systems; national legal and institutional frameworks regarding climate; and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) of the Paris Agreement. o Experience in the formulation and/or tracking of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Reports to the UNFCCC. o Proven experience in consultancy work. o General knowledge of PAMs (Policies and Measures), including their formulation, methodologies, calculation systems, and reporting.

o Fluency in English (spoken and written) o Fluency in Spanish language (spoken and written)

Not available.

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