Readiness Technical Advisor - Asia Pacific (South East Asia, Maldives and Pacific Region)

Background

The Green Climate Fund (“GCF”) is a multilateral fund created to make a significant and ambitious contribution to the global efforts towards attaining the goals set by the international community to combat climate change. 

GCF will contribute to the achievement of the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In the context of sustainable development, GCF will promote the paradigm shift towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways by providing support to developing countries to limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the impacts of climate change, taking into account the needs of those developing countries particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. 

GCF is governed by a Board, composed of an equal representation of developed and developing countries. The Fund is operated by an independent Secretariat headed by an Executive Director. 

The Fund seeks to recruit a Readiness Technical Advisor – Asia Pacific (South East Asia, Maldives and Pacific Region) to carry out the tasks, duties and responsibilities, deliver the set deliverables and provide support to the hiring unit as detailed below. The consultant will join GCF team on remote basis. The assignment is for an initial 180 days over a 12 months-month period. 
 

Role

The Readiness Technical Advisor – Asia Pacific (South East Asia, Maldives and Pacific Region) will work with the GCF Asia Pacific Regional team (with a focus on South East Asia, Maldives and the Pacific) to support developing countries to identify their institutional readiness needs (in terms of accessing GCF finances), identify action plans to address these needs through GCF readiness funds and supporting GCF National Designated Authorities (NDAs), Direct Access Entities (DAEs) and national Delivery Partners to develop good quality GCF Readiness proposals for all five Readiness Objectives.

The scope of work of the Readiness Technical Advisor – Asia Pacific (South East Asia, Maldives and Pacific Region) will be to work with the GCF Asia Pacific Team (South East Asia, Maldives and Pacific) to support National Designated Authorities (NDA) and Direct Access Entities (DAEs) to identify their institutional readiness needs and develop good quality proposals to access GCF Readiness resources for all five Readiness Objectives.

Until travel restrictions are removed, this will be done remotely through virtual support to countries in South East Asia, Maldives and the Pacific region.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Consultant will be responsible for but not limited to:

•    National level capacity assessments of developing country government institutions (ie NDA, Finance institutions, GCF Direct Access Entities) to identify readiness needs to engage with the GCF/access climate change finance.
•    Statement of Work agreed between NDA (of target country) and GCF, and in the case that travel becomes possible, mission reports at the conclusion of GCF missions.
•    First draft readiness proposal (or reviews and records of inputs made into a draft readiness proposal), and where applicable an action plan.
•    Review of Funding Proposals Concept Notes that are submitted to the Regional Desk as Deliverables of Readiness Proposals and advise the relevant entities on how to advance them in the pipeline. 
 •    Other relevant deliverables that will be mutually agreed between the Regional Manager and the Consultant

Overall Performance would also be assessed annually and be linked directly to:

•    Client satisfaction ratings (NDAs and Direct Access Entities)
•    Number of supported readiness proposals submitted to GCF Secretariat and approved within a contract period (1 year)
•    Quality of deliverables (i.e. Readiness assessments, Readiness proposals and reviews, Readiness action plans as determined by clients) and the South East Asia, Maldives & Pacific Regional Manager.

Required Experience and Qualifications

•    Post-graduate degree, with a preference for the fields of developmental studies, climate change or climate finance.
•    At least 13 years of experience in institutional strengthening and proposal development in developing countries, in the field of climate change.
•    Institutional strengthening at the government level
•    Proposal development – particularly in the field of climate change capacity building, mitigation, adaptation 
•    Project management/implementation on climate change projects in developing countries
•    Monitoring and evaluation experience
•    Experience in working in climate change development/inter-governmental organization 
•    Experience in Pacific and South East Asian Countries, including SIDS and LDCs
•    Government diplomacy

Necessary skills:
•    Excellent levels of oral and written communication (English)
•    Computer literacy
•    Ability to work independently
•    Experience in working across cultures and in multi-cultural international environments, preferably in the Pacific or South East Asian context. 
•    Consultants based in the Pacific or  South East Asia region will be preferred for this specific posting.
 

Applications from women and nationals of developing countries are strongly encouraged.

Please indicate your earliest availability to take up the assignment.

Closing date for applications is 16 November 2022, 11:59 PM (KST). Applications submitted after the closing date may not be considered.