Responsibilities

• Takes the lead in GEF and GCF Climate Change Mitigation corporate strategy development and programme coordination by:
• Analyzing UNEP and GEF approaches, strategies and priorities;
• Consulting with relevant internal and external partners;
• Drafting GEF and GCF mitigation focal area strategy and conducting consultations on it;
• Obtaining final approval of the strategy and business plan and coordinating their implementation;
• Periodically assessing the strategies relevance and effectiveness and revising it as necessary;
• Providing input to the Climate Change Division business plan development and budgeting;
• Managing the focal area pipeline including coordinating the soft pipeline;
• Representing the Climate Change Division in the GEF Focal Area Task Force meetings;
• Providing inputs to and liaising with STAP; j. Leading the Climate Change Division joint GEF programming with other UNEP Divisions.
• Contributes to Climate Change Division corporate knowledge management, data management, communications and outreach by:
• Identifying and codifying lessons emerging from portfolio and project implementation (over and above individual project knowledge management);
• Overseeing portfolio data entry into the project information system and monitoring team compliance with data entry and quality of entry;
• Contributing to project data reconciliation exercises within the Climate Change Division and with the GEF Secretariat;
•  Identifying media and other outreach opportunities and contributing portfolio and project information and written materials to be used in communications and outreach efforts.
• Performs other corporate tasks in the following areas:
• Reviewing GEF Council and GCF documents and preparing comments and briefings for management;
• Representing the Climate Change Division in UNEP, GEF and GCF meetings;
• Participating in the UNEP Project Review Committee (PRC);
• Providing input regarding UNEP, GEF and GCF policy and information documents;
• Providing input to GEF and GCF corporate evaluations, including country portfolio evaluations, thematic evaluations and impact evaluations and contributing to the preparation of the Management Action Record.
• Supervises portfolio development and implementation by: Providing technical guidance to focal area Task Managers concerning project design and implementation;

Education

• Advanced degree, preferably a masters in Climatology, Engineering, International Environmental Law, Environmental Economics, International Relations or related Climate Change Mitigation fields is required.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.

Work Experience

• At least 10 years experience of which six should be at the international level is required.
• Experience with GEF and/or GCF and it’s implementing agencies including UNEP is required.
• Experience with climate change mitigation (non-land use) project design is required.
• Experience of global issues in the focal area of Climate Change Mitigation is required.
• Experience in policy formulation and implementation is desirable. Experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.