Result of Service

Completed development of CEO endorsement request package for two GEF mitigation projects:

Cuba CBIT II
Paraguay CBIT II

Work Location

Home-based

Expected duration

10 months part-time

Duties and Responsibilities

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. This consultancy is in UNEP’s Climate Change Division, Mitigation Branch, Global Funds Mitigation and Transparency, [MN1.1][SB1.2]Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) team and will be home-based. UNEP’s Climate Change Division works with a portfolio of Global Environment Facility (GEF) medium-size and full-size climate change mitigation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The projects, which are in different stages of development (design, implementation, closure), are executed by different partners (Ministries, NGOs, etc.) throughout the region. The Climate Change Division, in its role as implementing agency, provides oversight and ensures adherence to GEF guidelines. Under the supervision of the Task Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean for GEF mitigation projects, and in coordination with LAC mitigation team, the consultant will be responsible for developing the full CEO endorsement request package for the projects CBIT II Cuba and Paraguay. In coordination with the Task manager and the LAC mitigation team, the consultant will deliver timely the outputs as described in the overall Terms of Reference. The consultant will be responsible for developing and compiling all substantive elements of the project and preparing the GEF CEO endorsement document package and working closely with the national consultant, national government and other key stakeholders. Specific tasks and responsibilities: - Lead the preparation of the CEO endorsement document and its attachments. - Coordinate the development and implementation of the Stakeholder Engagement Plan. - Be responsible for the design of all substantive elements of the CEO endorsement document and its annexes, including the log-frame, budget, indicators, baseline scenario, alternative scenario, stakeholders, risks, consistency with national priorities, institutional arrangements, gender action plan, knowledge management, theory of change (ToC), and monitoring and evaluation. - Prepare an outline of the strategy and methodology to develop the CEO Endorsement Document package, including a provisional timetable. - Ensure that the latest templates from GEF and UNEP are used in the preparation of the CEO endorsement document and associated annexes. - Ensure that the substantive elements are aligned with national strategy and planning documents through the consultation of national experts. - Support the national consultant in organizing and undertaking the stakeholder consultation workshop (and participate in-person, unless the context does not allow and online participation is agreed with UNEP) to consult with the relevant national counterparts, discuss the baseline situation, map the gaps and barriers, collect relevant country data, agree upon a project intervention logic (log frame and Annex A results framework) and discuss initial institutional arrangements for execution. - Prepare a mission report and stakeholder consultation workshop report summarizing the findings, recommendations and decisions taken and the participants' list (applicable for in-person workshops). - Undertake a gender analysis, ensure project deliverables are gender sensitive and prepare a gender action plan. - Prepare a presentation for internal discussion to UNEP management with project skeleton (logframe with deliverables), outcome indicators, problem tree and theory of change, institutional arrangements (macro and micro). - Prepare a first draft of the CEO Endorsement Package, including relevant annexes (annexes to be included in the first draft will be discussed and agreed upon with the Task Managers) - Support the national consultant in undertaking bilateral meetings with key stakeholders (online). - Support the national consultant in organizing and undertaking the stakeholder validation workshop (online) to validate the CEO Endorsement document with national stakeholders. - Prepare a final and complete version of the CEO Endorsement Document and annexes for UNEP internal review and submission to GEF Secretariat. - Prepare the submission package of the CEO endorsement document and associated annexes to the UNEP Project Review Committee (PRC) and draft the responses to the Committee's reviews. - Prepare the submission package of the CEO endorsement document and associated annexes to the GEF secretariat and draft responses to Secretariat reviews. - Inform UNEP on the status of work and highlight, in a timely manner, risks related to the quality of the information received and the fulfilment of the project's development schedule.

Qualifications/special skills

Advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: environmental sciences, climate change, economics, development, engineering, finance and administration, international cooperation or a related discipline is required.

A first level degree with additional two (2) years of qualifying experience in climate change, environment or development, may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing, assessing, evaluating or managing projects in the field of climate change, renewable energy, environment or development, is required.
Within the 5 years, a minimum of three (3) years of experience working in the field of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean is required.
Experience in drafting project proposals and assessing project documents, including concepts, progress reports, work plans, and financial documents (budgets and expenditure reports) is required.
Experience in working for multilateral or bilateral funding entities in the field of climate change, renewable energy environment or development is desirable.
Experience working with GEF or UNEP projects is desirable.
Good communication skills to manage/interact with government representatives and people inside and outside of the project team is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy, fluency in oral and written Spanish and English is required.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.

PPG Consultant for the development of CEO endorsement request package for Cuba and Paraguay CBIT II projects