Overview
Provides targeted economic expertise to support climate policy and planning, with a particular focus on developing investment-ready AFOLU projects to support climate-finance mobilization and integration of climate priorities into national development planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Review national investment policies, strategies, and frameworks for alignment with NDC commitments, with particular attention to AFOLU sector priorities.
- Identify policy, investment and instrumental gaps that may constrain achievement of AFOLU-related and broader NDC targets.
- Conduct detailed economic analyses and support AFOLU-focused pre-feasibility assessments to guide climate-finance mobilization and investment planning.
- Engage stakeholders across government, private sector, development partners, and civil society using a whole-of-society approach, ensuring meaningful participation of AFOLU actors.
- Maintain a stakeholder database, with strong emphasis on AFOLU-related private-sector and community-based entities.
- Produce analytical reports mapping financial sources and investment opportunities across international, regional, and domestic levels, highlighting AFOLU investment pathways.
- Identify financing gaps and propose viable sources of support for the implementation of AFOLU-related and cross-sectoral NDC actions.
- Support processes such as Climate Budget Tagging and expenditure reviews, especially for agriculture, forestry, and land-use interventions.
- Recommend international best practices for financing mitigation and adaptation, including AFOLU-relevant mechanisms.
- Support the establishment and effective functioning of a Donors and Investors Working Group, helping coordinate financing for AFOLU and broader NDC implementation.
- Facilitate linkages between identified AFOLU priorities and available technical and financial resources.
- Conduct pre-feasibility studies for four (4) priority NDC-aligned project ideas, ensuring at least one or more are AFOLU-focused.
- Identify and prioritize high-impact, investment-ready AFOLU opportunities, drawing on sectoral consultations, NDC 3.0 priorities, and ongoing technical analyses.
- Facilitate the development of at least four (4) bankable concept notes to advance priority mitigation and adaptation actions, with particular emphasis on agriculture, forestry, and land-use investment pathways.
- Work with government and partners to link identified project ideas with appropriate financing instruments.
- Strengthen government capacity to maintain and update a national NDC-aligned project pipeline, ensuring AFOLU projects are integrated into broader investment planning and donor coordination processes.
- Organize and support NDC-related meetings as needed.
- Facilitate national country specific multi-stakeholder NDC dialogues.
- Support the government in preparing for NDC-related events such as COPs, regional climate weeks, national events, and other convenings relevant to showcase NDC progress and generate support for implementation of the NDC.
- Organize coordination meetings between the Support Unit and the government as needed.
Required Experience
- At least 5 years’ of progressive experience in climate policy, climate programmes, or sustainable development including substantial experience within the AFOLU sector in Namibia.
- Experience in multilateral, national and grassroot governance and processes related to climate change, policy and/or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
- Strong knowledge of Namibia’s policy frameworks, national development plans, and strategies related to climate change and sustainable development.
- Proven experience working with government, public institutions, or development partners on climate policy analysis, project management, stakeholder coordination, and donor engagement.
- Familiarity with UNFCCC processes including Subsidiary Body and Conference of Parties (CoP), NDC and past experience on government climate change process.
- Experience of other national contexts that indirectly contribute to climate change.
- Ability to foster formal and informal networks to strengthen cooperation between agencies, including Government, private sector participants, NGOs and other stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Master's degree or equivalent in public policy, development, climate change, natural resource management, environmental management, or any other relevant field of study with 5 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s degree with additional 2 years in (total 7 years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of a university degree.
