Climate Change Economist-28687, World Bank, United States - Tenders Global

Climate Change Economist-28687, World Bank, United States

UNDP - United Nations Development Programme

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Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189

member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. Please visit www.worldbank.org.

 
1. The C3A Program
 
The Coalition for Capacity on Climate Action (C3A) was launched at the Ministerial meeting of the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action at the 2023 IMF-World Bank Spring meetings in Washington.
 

Supported by the World Bank, the C3A program addresses the full range of climate-related economic and financial policies (fiscal risks, financial regulation, impact modelling, just transition institutions,

etc.) according to a “whole-of-government approach”, involving finance ministries and their ecosystems (including diverse sectoral ministries, public administrations, and public agencies but also universities and think-tanks) to provide integrated, common solutions for climate-aligned development strategies.

 

The C3A program stands out by being a demand-driven initiative, all the while relying on an external Knowledge Network. Through a collaborative partnership with the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action (CFCMA), C3A will harness specialized resources from an independent Knowledge Network for Climate Action. This network consists of a high level and diverse group of academics, practitioners, and experts from both regional and international

backgrounds.

 
To ensure the program’s effectiveness, a distinguished Scientific Advisory Committee comprising esteemed scientists and economists will provide guidance. Additionally, a dedicated C3A Countries and Partners Committee, led by the co-chairs of the CFCMA, will represent the participating countries and drive the program’s initiatives.
 

The Program is also designed to have strong interactions with other advisory and financial support provided by the World Bank such as CCDRs, experts-led technical assistance and financial support for climate reforms (DPO, DPLs, etc.). An essential component will be the convergence of the climate smart analytical toolbox program (CSAT) as a support to the analytical part

of the C3A program.

 
2. The FSMAT tool
 
The World Bank is setting up a Financial Sector Mitigation and Adaptation Tool (FSMT) as a publicly accessible global knowledge product. This will include analytical and modelling work on the macro, financial and fiscal impacts of Green Financial Sector Interventions (GFSIs) and inform optimized use of Results-Based Climate Finance (RBCF).
 

Since capital reallocation from ‘high-carbon’ to ‘green’ investments will lower emissions, greening the financial sector can be a major lever for countries to achieve their mitigation targets. Currently, policy makers, financial regulators, and financial market actors are designing and, to varying degrees, implementing a range

of actions which reflect climate risk in financial and monetary policy, provide public co-financing in target sectors to mobilize private investment, and de-risk investments intended to have climate benefits. Green Financial Sector Interventions (GFSIs) aim to steer private and public financial capital toward low-carbon investment projects by providing incentives for capital reallocation.

 

The financial sector mitigation tool (FSMT) should allow for a solid estimate of the mitigation impact of key GFSIs depending on country specific and time dependent macro-financial conditions. It could be used to understand better the GFSIs’ contribution to national climate mitigation targets. It could also be used

to optimize GFSIs for mitigation impacts through simulating design variations. In the end, an effective framework for results-based climate finance needs a robust assessment of the macro-financial stability conditions of different forms of green finance instruments.

 

The policy space for using GFSIs will strongly depend on the macro-financial conditions of each country. For some countries, as is often the case in developing open economies, the indiscriminate use of such financial sector interventions may weaken their external financing position, leading to exchange rate depreciation, and probably lower than expected investment and emission reduction. For others, it might on the contrary lead to

a positive feedback and further emission reductions. This macro-financial constraint is expected to have a first-order impact on the outcome in terms of emission reductions.

 
This new project aims at introducing country-specific macro-financial dynamics in the use of green financial sector interventions and build a more robust and dynamic FSMT. The final deliverable will be an empirically estimated macro-financial model that will allow for a robust, country-level, estimate of GFSIs impacts in terms of emission reductions and macro-financial stability.
 
3. The assignment
 

The C3A Program, together with the CSAT program, will hire an Extended Term Consultant Climate Economist to work in support of

the Programs.

 
The assignment consists in coordinating, with the Task Team Leaders, the implementation of the modelling work both within C3A country engagement and World Bank country reports.
 
Existing experience in managing modelling projects and teams is essential. Excellent knowledge of climate policy issues as well as climate finance in a developing country context is an asset.
 
Among other tasks, the consultant will participate in the following activities:
 
1/ Support the delivery of C3A capacity-building activities related to analytical tools and finance:
 

• Define and regularly update the capacity creation offer regarding the analytical toolbox hub: coordinate the Demand Assessment phase, collect feedback from member

countries, manage the relationship with the Knowledge Network, mobilize CSAT tools to support analysis in response to emerging needs, etc.

• Contribute to the production of content: publications, technical and strategic notes, policy dialogue, etc.
• Facilitate high quality contributions from the Knowledge Network to the capacity creation process: structuring partnerships with key stakeholders, etc.
 
2/ Support the development of FSMAT modelling activities
 
• Widening the FSMAT tool beyond the initial 4-5 country cases and ensuring its use in both C3A country engagement (i.e. C3A regional hubs) as well as World Bank country analysis and reports.

• Strengthening the fiscal/debt and adaptation finance dimensions of

the tool as well as exploring potential collaborations within WB and with IMF.

• Supporting different coupling exercises with other tools drawn from the toolbox, the WB and outside partners whenever relevant.
• Supporting the production of training materials based on the analytical toolbox in coordination with the overall training strategy of C3A.  
 
3/ Support the coordination of human resources to ensure wide dissemination and autonomous use of analytical tools by C3A partners over the long term.
 

• Directly support a team of modellers to provide countries and WB economists with appropriate analytical tools: training, technical support on demand, participation in the hiring process,

monitoring of the day-to-day modellers team’s activity, etc.

• Coordinate with World Bank modelling teams, country and regional economists, and other relevant teams, to ensure that C3A and CSAT modelling programs are properly anchored within the World Bank.
 
4. Technical and financial terms
 
The mission will consist of day-to-day work with the C3A and CSAT Teams. Regular coordination meetings will be the occasion to specify and adjust the activities to be carried out by the consultant. A monitoring format will be agreed upon between the Program Task Team Leaders and the consultant.
 
The assignment may include missions to join official events or field missions. 
 

The

mission is calibrated as a full-time role for a 1-year period.

 

Selection Criteria

• A PhD (Economics, Environmental economics or other related field) plus a minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience.

• Significant experience managing climate finance/macro-modelling programs with both research and governmental institutions.

• Track record of effectively working across organizational boundaries, both within an organization and with key external partners.

• Experience leading teams “from behind” in order to produce high-quality products in a timely manner.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate in writing and orally in a professional and timely manner with senior-level internal and external partners.

• Excellent planning and organizational skills,

including in managing a high volume of tasks.

• Excellent English language skills. Spanish language proficiency a strong advantage; other languages also advantageous.

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically and rapidly analyze diverse information from varied sources.

• Demonstrated ability and the necessary personal organization skills to take initiative, personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines, manage multiple tasks at high quality under pressure, and achieve agreed-upon results.

• Demonstrated ability for teamwork in a multicultural environment.

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