Background
Sudan seeks to strengthen its capacities to access GCF resources in the short, medium and long-term to enhance climate resilient and low-carbon development in line with the country’s climate change obligations, development priorities and objectives and the Fund’s Initial Investment Framework.
The objective of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness and Preparatory Support Project is to support the Government of Sudan through its GCF National Designated Authority (NDA) in strengthening national capacities to effectively and efficiently plan for, access, manage, deploy and monitor climate financing through the GCF. The readiness activities will be planned and implemented in line with national policies and priorities. In addition, the project will target two important aspects of the GCF approach, direct access to funds and private sector engagement, both of which will require significant preparatory work before GCF financing.
UNDP is seeking a qualified National Consultant experienced in the institutional arrangements, coordination and capacity development to enable enhancing climate change resilience in the Sudan. The National Consultant will work under the direct supervision of the UNDP Country Office in Sudan and under the guidance of the UNDP-GEF Global Coordinator of the GCF Readiness Programme, the HCENR, and in close cooperation with the International Consultant in charge of the development of the GCF national programme as well as the institutional arrangements and coordination. In addition to the specific tasks highlighted below, she/he will provide overall technical support and guidance to the implementation of the project, ensuring that the project's benefit from best practices and experiences of GCF readiness projects in other similar countries.
Duties and Responsibilities
Objective: To provide technical support and guidance to the development of GCF programme while also provide support to all activities designed to strengthen the capacity of the National Designated Authority (NDA), stakeholders’ consultations, and establishment of the no objection procedure.
Scope of Work:
Some of the duties to be undertaken by the Consultant are the following (note: Some of the below mentioned workshops and meetings might be held jointly in case of thematic synergies)
The National consultant will specifically do the following:
In close cooperation with the International Consultant in charge of NDA process and GCF country programme:
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Competencies
- Corporate Competencies
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
- Ability to work with a multi-cultural and diverse team.
- Functional Competencies:
- Demonstrated experience in technical issues related to media and communications to climate change
- Demonstrated ability to analyze large amounts of complex and diversified data related to climate change adaptation in least developed countries.
- Demonstrated strong coordination and facilitation skills;
- Proved strong interpersonal skills and the ability to initiate discussions about climate change adaptation and reliance issues specifically in the water and agricultural sectors.
Required Skills and Experience
- Education:
- Master’s degree in environmental/climate change policy, climate change/environment finance; natural resource management, public administration, or other closely related field.
- Experience:
- At least 10 years of work experience in climate change policy and/or finance (Max 20 points);
- Sound understanding of global climate change negotiations and multilateral climate funds, different options for climate change mitigation and adaptation with deep knowledge of different GEF and GCF funding options (Max 20 points);
- Demonstrated project management experience in Sudan (Max 10 points);
- At least 5 years of demonstrated experience in providing policy advice in environmental/climate change matters (Maximum 10 points);
- Language Requirements:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Arabic languages (Max 10 points).