Overview

Provide high-level fiscal and macroeconomic expertise to the Government of Montenegro to strengthen the integration of climate change into fiscal policy, macroeconomic planning, and public financial management.

Tasks Summary

• Provide expert advice on aligning fiscal policy, public financial management, and macroeconomic planning with Montenegro’s NDC 3.0 commitments and EU Green Agenda requirements.
• Conduct a diagnostic phase to map existing macro and fiscal methodologies, institutional processes, data availability, and tools.
• Deliver a diagnostic report identifying gaps, institutional needs, and priority areas for integrating climate-related risks into macroeconomic and fiscal analysis.
• Design a phased approach for the development of decision-support tools, models, or frameworks.
• Develop a macroeconomic or fiscal assessment tool, with supporting documentation.
• Strengthen institutional capacity within the Ministry of Finance through targeted training and workshops.
• Support policy development through analytical papers, policy briefs, and guidance notes.
• Facilitate coordination between the Ministry of Finance and other institutions.
• Participate in technical working groups and inter-ministerial platforms.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas: macroeconomic analysis, fiscal policy design, climate-related economic modelling, or public financial management.
• Proven capacity to develop, apply, or guide the use of tools or models for decision-making.
• Demonstrated experience supporting government ministries in policy design, implementation, or capacity development related to climate-fiscal reforms or climate investment planning.

Qualification Requirements

• Master’s degree in economics, applied economics, development economics, public finance, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, public administration or closely related field with a strong quantitative or economic policy focus.
• Bachelor’s degree in economics, mathematics, physics, statistics, engineering, or other quantitative fields relevant to macroeconomic or fiscal analysis with an additional 2 years of relevant work experience may be accepted instead of an advanced university degree.

Other Details

Languages Required: • English Fluent

Languages Preferred: • Montenegrin Fluent • French Intermediate • Spanish Intermediate • Russian Intermediate • Arabic Intermediate • Chinese, Mandarin Intermediate

Contract Duration: 12 months, maximum of 220 working days, with the possibility of an extension

Work Modality: Homebased

Remuneration: