Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare a mission report and validation workshop report summarizing the findings, recommendations and decisions taken during the workshop, and the participants’ list.
• Lead the discussion of co-finance contributions, validate the amount and nature of contributions, identify to which project Component(s) the contribution is allocated, complete the co-finance budget template and provide any inputs required to obtain signed co-finance commitment letters.
• Prepare a final stakeholder consultation report. The GEF requires that a report is prepared and submitted on stakeholder holder consultations undertaken during the PPG.
• Prepare a final and complete version of the CEO Endorsement Document and annexes for UNEP internal review and submission to GEF Secretariat.
• Prepare the submission package of the CEO endorsement document and associated annexes to the UNEP Project Review Committee (PRC) and draft the responses to the Committee’s reviews.
• Prepare the submission package of the CEO endorsement document and associated annexes to the GEF secretariat and draft responses to Secretariat reviews, until final approval.
• Inform UNEP on the status of work and highlight, in a timely manner, risks related to the quality of the information received and the fulfilment of the project’s development schedule. Performance indicators: – Submission of the four (4) deliverables in accordance with deadlines noted in section 2.3. – Reports are considered high-quality, as determined by UNEP based on comparison with other CEO endorsement packages approved by the GEF.

Qualifications/special skills

Academic:

• Advanced university degree in economics, environmental sciences, business, management, or a related discipline is required;
• A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree;
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in developing, assessing, evaluating or managing projects in the field of climate change mitigation, climate finance, sustainable/green finance, environment or development is required;
• Experience in drafting project documents is required;
• Experience working with GEF, or UNEP projects is desirable;
• Experience in working for multilateral or bilateral funding entities in the field of environment, climate finance, climate change, sustainable mobility, or development is desirable.