Adaptation Fund Project Development Consultant

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🔥 18 hours ago

🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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UNIDO

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1966

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

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UNIDO is the United Nations agency that promotes inclusive and sustainable industrial development worldwide. It provides policy advice, technical cooperation, technology transfer, capacity-building and partnerships to advance clean energy and climate action, sustainable supply chains, agribusiness and industrial modernization, and to help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. UNIDO works with governments, businesses, civil society and international partners to create jobs, reduce industrial pollution, improve food security and support resilient, resource-efficient industrial growth.

📋 Description

• Review the existing draft Adaptation Fund Concept Note against concept-stage review criteria • Prepare an annotated and prioritised gap analysis of incomplete sections • Prepare a stakeholder-engagement plan, Ghana mission schedule and assignment workplan • Conduct an in-country stakeholder-engagement mission in Ghana • Consult national institutions and selected districts, including communities, women and vulnerable groups • Validate the stakeholder map and document how consultation findings shape the project design • Draft consultation-dependent sections covering the consultative process, economic, social and environmental benefits, gender, and sustainability • Complete sections on cost-effectiveness, national technical standards, learning and knowledge management, full-cost-of-adaptation justification, ESP/Gender risk screening, and results-framework alignment with sex-disaggregated indicators • Consolidate a submission-ready Adaptation Fund Concept Note for UNIDO clearance and submission • Address UNIDO review comments on the consolidated draft • Work under the supervision of UNIDO Project Managers and in coordination with OMSCCS/MESTI and the Ghana Climate and Sustainability Hub

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in climate change, environmental science, development studies, economics, natural resource management, or another relevant discipline • At least five (5) years of professional experience in climate change adaptation, preferably in sub-Saharan Africa, with exposure at the international level • Demonstrated experience developing Adaptation Fund proposals or concept notes, or comparable international climate-finance proposals • Familiarity with Adaptation Fund concept-stage requirements and review criteria • Residence in Ghana or a neighbouring country, with the ability to undertake in-country missions to Ghana, including field-based stakeholder engagement • Experience in stakeholder engagement and consultation involving national institutions, communities and vulnerable groups, with attention to gender • Fluency in written and spoken English • Familiarity with environmental and social safeguards (ESP) and gender screening in climate-finance projects is desirable • Knowledge of Ghana’s climate policy and institutional context is desirable • Working knowledge of French is desirable • Commitment to UNIDO’s values of excellence, integrity, inclusion, humility and humanity

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements supporting work-life balance • Reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities • Female candidates and candidates from underrepresented genders, less-represented regions or nationalities, and candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply