Specific tasks and responsibilities

• The consultants will be expected to deliver as follows:
• Develop and implement measures for managing and reducing risk of the portfolio;
• Undertake research to identify ways to enhance the risk management of the Unit’s portfolio of GEF mitigation projects;
• Develop a proposal for a risk management log/system in Microsoft Teams, for construction by the Unit’s data team.
• Develop and implement measures to visualize and graphically represent portfolio risk for facilitating decision-making;
• Develop flowcharts for the risk management of high, medium and low-risk GEF projects.
• Develop a traffic light system for rating the risk of each of the portfolio’s medium- and full-size GEF mitigation projects
• Identify opportunities for using the Integrated Planning, Management and Reporting (IPMR) solution system to manage risk and inform senior management of portfolio risk;
• Prepare quarterly reports for senior management on the portfolio’s risk level, level of risk of individual projects and actions taken to reduce risk;
• Provide technical inputs to Task Managers on high risk projects to prepare and implement individual project risk management plans;
• Prepare and give presentations to the Unit on case studies in managing risk of GEF projects;
• Provide summaries on UNEP and GEF policies on risk management.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: engineering, law, business administration, environmental management, policy, economics, development, climate or development finance, architecture, urbanism, or a related discipline;
• A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
• Minimum five years of experience in managing projects related to climate change, environment, or development is required;
• Experience working with GEF projects is required;
• Experience in working with national governments of developing countries is desirable;