Overview
The CCAC Technical Specialist for the Super Pollutants Accelerator in Mexico will provide technical input and science-based information to integrate SLCP mitigation into Mexico’s national climate commitments and sectoral policies, ensuring technical assistance projects are evidence-based and aligned with global best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- - Provide technical input and science-based information to key stakeholders.
- - Ensure SLCP mitigation is integrated into Mexico’s national climate commitments (NDC3.0 implementation plans), National Climate Change Strategy (ENACC/PECC), and sectoral policies.
- - Ensure technical assistance projects activities are evidence-based, effective, and aligned with global best practices.
- - Deliver rigorous, science based inputs to government counterparts and stakeholders.
- - Help translate national priorities into actionable, high quality measures.
- - Engage with and strategically leverage the CCAC Scientific Advisory Panel.
- - Prepare technical briefs and policy notes synthesizing science-based recommendations.
- - Conduct science-based assessment of policy gaps and prioritized recommendations.
- - Prepare draft science-based inputs for new or enhanced SLCP policies/regulations.
- - Provide technical and scientific and methodological review of CCAC Technical Assistance Projects deliverables.
- - Document technical recommendations including science evidence-based briefs, presentations, background notes.
- - Conduct sector specific technical review of project proposals, methodologies, pilot designs, and MRV frameworks.
- - Contribute to training curricula, toolkits, and guidance materials for government officials.
- - Contribute to the delivery of capacity building workshops.
- - Contribute to country led case studies, technical notes, or presentations for regional/global platforms.
- - Provide technical contributions to bilateral or multilateral exchanges.
- - Provide technical inputs to analyses needed for funding proposals.
Required Experience
- - Minimum 4–7 years of experience in SLCP science, mitigation technologies, or climate mitigation, preferably with direct work on methane, black carbon, HFCs, or related pollutants is required.
- - Deep understanding of methane, black carbon, HFCs, and related pollutants, including emissions sources, mitigation technologies, and interactions with climate and air‑quality systems is required.
- - A good understanding of short-lived climate pollutants, climate change and air pollution issues in Mexico is required.
- - Ability to work with advanced formulas in Excel spreadsheets is required.
- - Proven experience working on climate initiatives within government institutions or international development partners, including familiarity with climate policy processes in Mexico or Latin America is highly desired.
- - Hands-on experience with GHG inventory systems, NDC processes, and international climate agreements (e.g., UNFCCC, Montreal Protocol/Kigali Amendment) is an asset.
- - Experience preparing technical reports or capacity‑building materials on climate, air pollution, or SLCPs is an asset.
- - Knowledge of the national policies in climate change mitigation and air pollution is desired.
- - Proven ability to translate scientific evidence into actionable policy recommendations and to align SLCP mitigation with national frameworks such as the NDC and ENACC/PECC is desired.
- - Skilled in working across government agencies, academic institutions, and sectoral actors to ensure coherent, evidence‑based decision‑making is desired.
- - Capacity to evaluate, design, and guide technical assistance activities to ensure they follow global best practices, are feasible for implementation, and lead to measurable mitigation impacts is desired.
Qualifications
- - Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in environmental sciences, climate policy, atmospheric science, chemical or environmental engineering or a similar discipline.
- - A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
