GEF Latin America & Caribbean Project Specialist at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant will undertake the following duties:

• Project management of projects under development
• Provide technical input to projects under development;
• Revise project implementation plans and ensure development steps are followed;
• Revise the project development timeline and provide inputs to ensure project development occurs on time;
• Provide inputs to stakeholder consultation processes in the development of the projects;
• Develop a GEF-8 project development coordination tool and share with the Task Manager;
• Prepare the UNEP safeguards identification form;
• Prepare the checklist for UNEP’s quality evaluation committee;
• Develop flowcharts for the development, review and approval of technical and financial documents.

Qualifications/Special Skills

• Advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: project management, engineering, law, business administration, environment, economics, development, finance, communication or a related discipline is required;
• A first level degree with additional two (2) years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree;
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in managing projects related to climate change, environment or development.
• Experience in working with national governments of Latin America and the Caribbean Experience in reviewing project documents, progress reports, workplans, and financial documents (budgets and expenditure reports) is desirable;
• Experience working with GEF, GCF, CDM or UNEP projects is desirable.
• Experience in working for multilateral or bilateral funding entities in the field of climate change, environment or development is a desirable

Languages

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

Deadline : Jul 3, 2024