Accredited Entities Officer

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The Accredited Entities Officer is responsible for assessing the programming strategies and related capacity needs of accredited entities, and collaborating with colleagues and external partners to identify country-driven project/programme ideas/concepts, and promote GCF’s goals and strategies. S/he will also support the cycle for institutional-level legal arrangements and related obligations to enable strategic programming with accredited entities.

Identify and guide, based on an analysis of strategies and capabilities of accredited entities, the development of country-driven transformational project/programme ideas/concepts and promote GCF programming strategies, to assist GCF divisions/offices design capacity development support for direct access entities 

Support concluding institutional-level legal arrangements with accredited entities and related obligations, and analyze GCF policies and their implications for accredited entities to inform institution-level legal arrangements and related obligations

Engagement:

• Interact with accredited entities to help them build a pipeline and deliver a portfolio of ambitious country-owned projects/programmes, and to help direct access entities in identifying and addressing their needs that enable them to programme with GCF
• Collaborate with colleagues across divisions/offices to ensure effective outreach to and strategic engagement with accredited entities and that necessary services and support are delivered to them in a timely manner

Delivery:

• Coordinate analytical work on accredited entities so that it is systematically organized, informs the work of colleagues through relevant knowledge management systems and guides decision-making on programming and initiatives and actions plans to support capacity needs of direct access entities
• Coordinate the cycle of finalizing institutional-level legal arrangements and related obligations coordinating with entities and across divisions/offices in GCF

Requirements Education, experience, technical competencies required:

• Master’s degree and at least five (5) years of relevant work experience in sustainable development, climate/environment policy, political science, law or related fields;
• Experience in developing countries and/or in a multilateral programming environment, and broad knowledge of climate change and climate finance are an advantage including experience in research analysis and in articulating findings/ recommendations;
• Experience in climate finance or development finance and familiarity with multilateral climate funds, project financing, and UNFCCC Framework desirable;
• Strong competence and autonomy in the use of standard software programmes: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access.
• Fluency in English is essential; knowledge of another United Nations language is an advantage.

Source:  https://jobs.greenclimate.fund/job/Incheon,-South-Korea-(ICN)-Accredited-Entities-Officer/1053027501/

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