Overview
Provide capacity development and strategic advice on climate finance opportunities, supporting countries in advancing requirements under different modalities, including carbon finance and benefit-sharing arrangements.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as forest finance specialist, advise and provide technical support to national counterparts.
- Address aspects related to programme design and requirements of various jurisdictional standards.
- Assist countries in the development of funding proposals and registration documents.
- Support the development and implementation of national forest financing strategies and roadmaps.
- Support the development and implementation of benefit-sharing arrangements and use of proceeds.
- Deliver training courses/sessions in the framework of REDD+ for carbon finance.
- Support the Halting deforestation, degradation and emissions decentralized team with technical review and revisions of technical material.
- Participate in internal and external expert discussion groups.
- Closely monitor evolving of carbon finance opportunities.
- Support cross-country exchanges and knowledge sharing on forest climate and carbon finance.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in climate finance, forest finance, REDD+, carbon markets, or land-use-related climate mitigation, including technical advisory support to countries.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, with specific reference on field experience on the technical topics in Asia and the Pacific would be an asset.
- Extent and relevance of experience in capacity development, including the design and delivery of training or technical workshops for government counterparts and stakeholders.
- Familiarity with programme and proposal development, including contribution to funding proposals, registration documents, monitoring reports, or similar technical documentation for climate or forest finance mechanisms.
- Extent and relevance of experience in carbon finance modalities (compliance and/or voluntary), benefit-sharing arrangements, and institutional and governance frameworks relevant to accessing climate finance at national or jurisdictional level.
- Demonstrated experience in supporting national institutions to meet requirements under UNFCCC-related frameworks and/or jurisdictional forest and climate standards, including design, reporting, monitoring, verification, or results-based finance processes.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree from an institution recognized by the International Association of Universities (IAU)/UNESCO in Forestry/ Environmental Economics, Climate Change, Natural Resource Management, or a closely related field.
- Consultants with a bachelor's degree need two additional years of relevant professional experience.
