• Prepare a Work Plan of the activities to undertake under the assignment.
• The Work Plan should include timeline of main activities, methodology, milestones, validation meetings, final deliverables description and the scheduling of capacity building workshops.
• Review of policy and regulatory provisions for BCE’s statistics.
• Organize, participate in, and facilitate meetings with relevant stakeholders. The consultant is responsible for writing meeting reports for all meetings in which the consultant participates.
• Organize meetings as required to obtain relevant information.
• Conduct a thorough review of existing statistics about green and climate financial flows.
• Collecting, categorizing, storing, organizing, and utilizing data effectively and efficiently.
• Conduct data analysis on Ecuador’s progress towards its climate finance and climate-related risks.
• Support BCE’s capacity building plan on green and climate statistics.
• Prepare recommendations for the BCE to comply with international best practices on green and climate data management and statistics.
• Using data visualization tools for reporting.
• Developing new processes and reporting requirements for integrating green and climate data in BCE activities and reports.
• The consultant will be asked to produce executive summary reports and PowerPoint presentations based on their activities.
• Conduct training workshops and provide technical assistance as required.
• Systematize all collected information, annexes, meeting minutes, etc.
• Develop a final report with all relevant technical papers, reports, and other documents prepared from the start to the end of the assignment shall be attached.

COORDINATION AND COMPLIANCE

• All relevant technical papers, reports, and other documents prepared from the start to the end of the assignment shall be included in a digital repository for GGGI and BCE.
• The consultant will make the best use of both primary and secondary sources of information to develop activities defined under the contract objective.
• The consultant will work closely with GGGI staff and BCE focal point to ensure the goals of this consultancy, and he/she will also be responsible for reporting their progress to the GGGI supervisor.
• The Consultant will be responsible for covering her/his own travel expenses.
• The consultancy budget covers the costs of transportation and accommodation, and necessary resources for field studies. The selection of these places must be coordinated with GGGI.
• Total fee amount for this service is a lump sum.

EXPERTISE REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in economics, business, finance, statistics, or related areas.
• At least 8 years of experience in data management.
• Verifiable experience in statistics, data visualization, data science tools (Excel, R, Python, etc.) or business intelligence.
• Intermediate English is required.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS