Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, March 24, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
UNCDF has supported the Government of Uganda (GoU) design the LoCAL-Uganda Mechanism with aims of increasing the resilience of communities and local economies across the country, through regular, predictable, systemic and verifiable climate finance in support of local climate responses, through increased District access to climate finance to implement climate change adaptation investments in Uganda (outcome 1) and institutionalising a standard and internationally recognized country-based mechanism of performance-based climate resilience grants in the country, further attracting climate finance, domestic and international (outcome 2).

Duties and Responsibilities
• The Climate Change Technical Specialist responsibilities are as follows:
• Execute, oversee and monitor the day-to-day implementation of selected activities related to climate change and environmental sustainability;
• Provide policy, regulatory and technical advice on climate change issues and environmental sustainability to government counterparts at national and sub-national levels;
• Provide technical advice and capacity building support including:
• Lead the technical dialogue and provision of policy and technical advisory services to national and local government counterparts in relation to climate change information and assessments, climate mainstreaming, and contribute to the technical dialogue on climate finance and (direct) access to international climate finance;
• Ensuring the adequate integration of environment and climate considerations (e.g. specifications) in the investments delivered in the context of the programme, in line with the programme design document;
• Support “Learning by doing” for the piloting and establishment of a national local information system for adaptation (LISA), addressing hazards, vulnerabilities and exposure of target districts and their communities in relation to climate change; and for the integration of environment and climate change issues in the local government development and investment plans and budgets that foster gender equality and climate resilient local economies, aligned with the LoCAL’s investment menu.
• Contribute to Project Management including:
• The management of the risk log of the project;
• Contribute to the preparation and timely submission of comprehensive technical and financial reports in line with contractual agreements including semi-annual reporting;
• Organize consultative meetings, seminars and workshops to drive analytical and policy work of the Programme;
• Contribute to Communication and Knowledge management including:
• The implementation of the Communication and Visibility Plan of the Programme, in collaboration with Project team, partners and technical consultants;
• Identify key knowledge constraints and organize learning, knowledge exchange, training, workshops, etc. to build the awareness and capacities on relevant themes (i.e. climate change, local climate risk assessments, environmental sustainability, mainstreaming, etc.);
• Identify, collect and disseminate best practices and lesson learned from the Programme in areas of specialty;
• Maintain close working relationships with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Local Government, Ministry of Water and Environment, NDA, UNFCCC focal points and other key stakeholders at various levels in order to support the quality of the execution of the PBCRGS and its key results areas, to expand the mechanism in Uganda, in close coordination with senior management and other team members.
• Support the participation of UNCDF in working groups and steering committees on the issue of environment and climate change and related sectors and provide inputs for conducive policy and regulatory environment.
• Institutional Arrangement
• The Climate Change Technical Specialist, will contribute to the effective delivery of the Programme’s activities in Uganda, and will report to the Programme Management Specialist, based in Kampala, Uganda, and work under the overall supervision of the Global LRP Programme Manager based in Kampala, Uganda and in close collaboration with other LDFPA colleagues in the country and across the region.

Competencies
• Achieve Results: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact.
• Think Innovatively: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems.
• Learn Continuously: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences.
• Adapt with Agility: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands.
• Act with Determination: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results.
• Engage and Partner: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration.
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity.
• Advocacy strategy: Ability to create and implement advocacy strategies which lead to impactful change.
• Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding: Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms.
• Strategic engagement: Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their buy-in of high-level vision and objective.
• Nature, Climate and Energy: Climate Change Policies: Climate Finance.
• Nature, Climate and Energy: Climate Change Policies: Governance / integrated planning for climate change investments in the context of urbanization.
• Nature, Climate and Energy: Climate Change Adaptation: strategies.

Required Skills and Experience
• Master’s degree in environmental science and management, climate science, geographic studies, international development or a related field.
• Experience
• A minimum of five (5) years’ experience in the field of climate change (preferably on adaptation), environmental management and/or climate science applied to development;
• A minimum of three (3) years’ experience related to environmental assessments, climate risk and vulnerability assessments, climate modelling, geographical information system (GIS) and/or risk mapping, in particular at the local level is required;
• Work experience with local governments, local stakeholders, local communities, and with addressing gender equality as project objective and/or cross-cutting issue;
• Work experience with central government and Ministry of Water and Environment and knowledge of government systems;
• Required skills:
• Knowledge of climate change issues and its potential impacts on local economic development particularly for the most vulnerable;
• Strong networking capabilities and ability to associate him/herself with a range of actors (inter alia central and local governments; policy makers; national statistics office and donors, local communities, women and youth) with a view to building relations and facilitating links.
• Desired skills:
• A minimum of three (3) years’ experience working on policy, regulatory and technical advisory services with national and local counterparts will be considered as an asset;
• Experience with a UN organization/agency is desirable;
• Experience with ATLAS and UNDP Procurement Processes is desired, but not a requirement.
• Language: Fluency in English and Swahili required.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
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