Duties and Responsibilities
The consultant (Climate and Anticipatory Action) reports to either a Programme Officer or Window Lead in the CERF Programme Unit. Within delegated authority, the consultant will be responsible for the following duties: • As lead for CERF’s new climate action account, coordinate all work around the promotion and implementation of the CERF climate action account and support the transition to more regular and predictable work-flows around the account’s management. • Liaise with relevant colleagues to follow up on and implement action points from senior-level meetings on the climate account. • Engage with senior managers in other parts of OCHA headquarters, including HFSA, the Climate Team, DRS and SCB, to coordinate cross-entity work in support of the climate action account. • Develop documents, such as summaries or FAQs, and develop presentations and talking points for briefings to donors and potential donors interested in the CERF climate action account. • Based on the consultant’s expertise, identify indicators that are relevant to climate resilience, and/or introduce new relevant indicators, to be added to the list of pooled fund standard indicators and integrated into the pooled fund grant management system.
• Conduct in-depth research on the climate action work by other organizations, donors and national governments across the humanitarian, climate and development environments, to identify best practices and CERF’s niche in the climate action landscape. • Integrate questions relevant to climate action and resilience into CERF and joined pooled fund templates and guidance, then gather, consolidate and analyze information collected via the templates. • Improve the way the CERF climate action account is represented on the CERF website by drafting text and other elements for the website. • Develop a concept note, guidance and templates for a $10 million thematic envelope on climate action for CERF’s second allocation round to underfunded emergencies in 2024, facilitate linked partner consultations and webinars on the envelope implementation, and report on the implementation of this envelope in 2025. • Link the CERF climate action account to OCHA’s work on anticipatory action, ensuring that OCHA’s anticipatory action portfolio benefits from the climate action account. Work implies frequent collaboration with the following: • Personnel at all levels within OCHA in New York, Geneva, country and regional offices • Counterparts in other UN agencies, NGOs and research institutions
Qualifications/special skills
Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in international relations, development or a related field is required. A first-level degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.