About United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

TheUnited Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)is the leading global environmental authority that sets the world’s environmental agenda, promotes coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. Established in 1972, UNEP works with governments, civil society, businesses and other UN entities to address critical environmental challenges including climate change, ecosystem degradation, chemicals and waste management, and environmental governance. UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

Job Summary

This consultancy provides an opportunity to contribute specialized expertise to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)’s mission in environmental protection, climate action, and sustainable development. Working in France, you will apply your professional skills to address complex challenges in environmental protection, climate action, and sustainable development and support the organization’s programmatic objectives. This role offers the flexibility of consultancy work while contributing to meaningful international development outcomes with global impact.

Key Details

• Job Title:Local Consultant Fiji
• Grade:CON
• Location:Paris, France
• Department:United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Contract Type:Consultancy
• Salary Range:$50,000.0 – $120,000.0 USD annually

Qualifications

• Academic Qualifications: A Masters Degree or equivalent, in environmental engineering, finance, economics, development studies, business, management, administration or another relevant field is required.
• Academic Qualifications: A minimum of Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience with bachelors degree, or a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience required with masters degree in development project implementation, working with national public institutions, private sector (including financial sector), academia or similar.
• Academic Qualifications: Demonstrated experience advising Fiji public organisations on climate change mitigation and adaptation and in-depth understanding of mitigation and adaptation priorities in Fiji
• Academic Qualifications: Expert understanding of how climate change affects Fiji and its economy gained either through publications on the subject, consultancies, or consultancies.
• Academic Qualifications: Significant experience in climate finance, overview of climate finance landscape and its actors in Fiji Desirable:
• Academic Qualifications: Experience in organizing workshops and/or similar events is an asset.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required
• To this end, the support of a local consultant is required.

Skills

• The Climate Change Division is the lead Division charged with carrying out the functions of UNEP in the field of environmental Climate Change.
• To fulfill its mandate, the work of the Climate Change Division focuses on: working with Members States and Partners to accelerate and support a just transition by addressing mitigation and adaptation gaps through enhancing implementation capacity, access to finance and technology, and building resilience.
• The Climate Change Division promotes sustainable development and effective policies for climate stability; support action so that countries progress on decarbonization, dematerialization, and resilience pathways in line with their climate commitments, aspirations, and needs; and foster transparency in reporting.
• UNEP-CCC is a leading international advisory institution on energy, climate and sustainable development.
• Its work focuses on helping developing countries and emerging economies transition to low-carbon development pathways and supporting the integration of climate resilience into national development.
• UNEP-CCC is actively involved in the implementation of the UN Environment Climate Change Strategy and Energy Programme.
• The UNEP team will support the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in Fiji in the development of Fiji’s second Climate Finance Snapshot.
• The objective is to produce a climate finance snapshot that reflects the public and private climate investments and expenditures in the previous years.
• Under the direct supervision of the UNEP Project Manager, the Local Consultant will facilitate and coordinate the implementation of project activities in Fiji during the course of project implementation (9 months), such as coordination of project activities on the ground, stakeholder consultation data and information gathering and workshop planning and implementation.
• Under the direct supervision of the UNEP Project Manager, the Local consultant will facilitate and coordinate the implementation of project activities in Fiji during the course of project implementation (9 months), such as coordination of project activities on the ground, stakeholder consultations, data and information gathering and workshop planning and implementation.
• The Local consultant will support the following work programme led by a UNEP team: Output 1: Inception Report 1.1 Desktop analysis to understand the process, final result and usage of the Climate Finance Snapshot 2016-2019, including lessons learnt and process/template improvement.
• Output 2: Stakeholder Engagement Plan Report 2.0 Stakeholder mapping exercise and stakeholder engagement plan produced. 2.1 Develop a workplan. 2.2 Finalise Snapshot Template. 2.3 Presentation to Climate Change Department (CCD) and Ministry Finance for validation of 1.1-2.2.

Benefits

• 0 Stakeholder mapping exercise and stakeholder engagement plan produced.
• 1 Develop a workplan.
• 2 Finalise Snapshot Template.
• 3 Presentation to Climate Change Department (CCD) and Ministry Finance for validation of
• Output 3: Climate Finance Snapshot
• 1 Delivery of a multistakeholder kick off meeting to ensure responsibilities, input requirements and timelines are clear.
• Gather multi-stakeholder data.
• Draft Climate Finance Snapshot 2020-2024 (2020-2025, if data is available).
• 4 Conduct a validation workshop and refine the Climate Finance Snapshot accordingly.
• Finalise the content of the Climate Finance Snapshot and present to CCD and Min Finance.
• Produce a graphicly designed publishable version of the Climate Finance Snapshot.
• Present the final product to stakeholders. Output 4: Learnings and Recommendations Report
• Hold a lessons learnt exercise with CCD and Min Finance.
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