Duties and Responsibilities
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority. It 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 at UNEP’s Climate Change Division, Mitigation Branch, GEF Climate Change Mitigation Unit, Global 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 on the global level, as well as regional level. The global projects are executed by international organizations and partners as well as internally within different technical teams in UNEP, whereas the Climate Change Division, Mitigation Branch, in its role as implementing agency, provides oversight and ensures adherence to GEF guidelines. The consultant will undertake the planning and executing the project preparation grant process and develop the full CEO Endorsement Request package for the GEF-8 Global Food Waste project, under the supervision of the Task Manager for Global portfolio of GEF mitigation projects in the Climate Change Mitigation Unit; Specific tasks and responsibilities • Lead the preparation of the CEO Endorsement Document and its attachments. • Be responsible for the design of all substantive elements of the CEO Endorsement Document and its annexes, including sections such as the log-frame, budget, indicators, baseline scenario, alternative scenario, stakeholders, risks, governance framework, gender action plan, knowledge management, theory of change (ToC), and monitoring and evaluation, among other, in consultation with UNEP and project co-executors (national and global partners). A complete CEO Endorsement package template and its annexes will be provided by UNEP. • Prepare an outline of the strategy and methodology to develop such elements, including a provisional timetable. • Organize an inception meeting, either virtually or in-person, with UNEP and project co-executors to discuss the project structure and proposed interventions, problem tree, theory of change and co-financing. Prepare a report summarizing the meeting. • In consultation with UNEP and the project co-executors, establish project specific indicators in Annex A. • Prepare a package of inputs of relevant information for the development of the gender analysis, stakeholder engagement plan and environmental and social safeguard screenings in coordination with UNEP. • Inform UNEP on the status of work and highlight, in a timely manner, risks related to the quality of the information received and the fulfillment of the project's development schedule. • 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 Food Waste global task manager and technical lead). • Support and participate in the stakeholder validation workshop with project co-executors and partners to validate the developed CEO Endorsement Document (log frames, results framework, budget, workplan, gender action plan, stakeholder engagement plan, etc.). • Support the discussion of co-finance contributions, validate the nature of contributions, identify to which project Component(s) the contribution is allocated, complete the co-finance budget template (Annex I-2 of the CEO Endorsement Document) and provide any inputs required to obtain signed co-finance commitment letters. • Support preparation of the stakeholder consultation report. The GEF requires that a report is prepared and submitted on stakeholder holder consultations undertaken during the PPG. • Prepare a presentation for internal discussion to UNEP management describing proposed interventions and indicators, knowledge products and key deliverables to be developed, support to country child projects and overall coordination. • Prepare a final and complete version of the CEO Endorsement Document and annexes for UNEP internal review, address necessary comments, if any. • Prepare the CEO Endorsement Document package and associated annexes for the UNEP Project Review Committee (PRC) and draft the responses to the Committee's reviews and finalize for GEF submission. Specific tasks on the coordination for national-level pilots: • Participate in consultations with the relevant national-level pilot executing partners and focal points (in Colombia and Mauritius) to discuss and collect relevant data needed to be reflected in the global project. • Align substantive elements of the global project with country priorities in accordance with the submitted PIF in order to ensure coordination and cooperation between the global project and the countries. • Prepare a methodology for GHG emissions calculations at the national-level . Performance indicators: - Submission of the 2 deliverables in accordance with the deadlines noted in section 2.3. - Deliverables are considered high-quality (as determined by UNEP based on comparison with other CEO Endorsement packages approved by the GEF).
Qualifications/special skills
Academic: • Advanced university degree in development, environment, management, business administration, economics, or a related discipline is required; • A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience 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. • 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 with developing countries is required; • Experience in working on global projects 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;
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.
