Overview
The Natural Resources Officer (Climate Change Mitigation) role focuses on climate change mitigation in agrifood systems, with an emphasis on impact assessment and greenhouse gas emissions accounting to support project design, implementation, and resource mobilization.
Key Responsibilities
- Researches and analyses technical, social, economic, environmental, institutional and technology related information, data and statistics and/or related policy issues.
- Produces a variety of technical information, data, statistics and reports as well as input for technical documents and web pages.
- Provides technical support/analysis to various assessments, studies and initiatives and provides technical backstopping to field projects.
- Collaborates in the development of improved/updated tools, systems, processes and databases.
- Participates in multidisciplinary teams, and/or leads working groups/teams collaborates with other Divisions/Offices/Centres on work groups and committees and promotes best practices.
- Collaborates in, provides technical backstopping to and ensures the quality/effectiveness of capacity development activities within Member Nations.
- Promotes knowledge sharing and best practices at international meetings and conferences and influences partners in stakeholder consultations.
- Supports resource mobilization activities.
- Supports robust portfolio wide results-based reporting on climate mitigation related to FAO's GEF portfolio.
- Leads GHG appraisal of FAO projects.
- Provides technical support to project design and implementation support teams.
- Collaborates in the development and continuous improvement of FAO analytical tools and platforms.
- Contributes to the implementation and reporting on OCB's climate change mitigation activities.
- Assists in advancing FAO's engagement in international climate change processes related to mitigation.
- Supports knowledge exchanges, networking, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Contributes to capacity building of FAO staff and external stakeholders.
- Monitors quality control and assurance of carbon accounting exercises.
- Monitors policy, legal and technical developments at national, regional and international levels.
- Performs other tasks as required.
Required Experience
- Five years of relevant experience in climate change mitigation, GHG accounting, and/or mitigation-related project design and implementation.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions.
- Extent and relevance of experience and knowledge of climate mitigation under the Paris Agreement, the UNFCCC processes, in particular on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), mitigation planning and implementation, and UNFCCC reporting and implementation processes.
- Extent and relevance of experience in design and implementation of climate change mitigation projects financed through international climate finance mechanisms including the GEF and/or GCF.
- Extent and relevance of experience in the use or development of GHG accounting and mitigation assessment tools and methodologies, such as FAO's NEXT.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and/or managing digital tools or platforms supporting climate change mitigation planning, NDC mitigation targets' implementation, and/or transparency and reporting of GHG inventories under the Paris Agreement.
- Demonstrated skills and experiences in working in multidisciplinary teams and networks related to practices.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in natural resources, environmental sciences, climate change, agriculture or a related field.
