Senior Climate Change Specialist

As a (Senior) Climate Change Specialist (Climate Change Adaptation), you will play a leading role in the development and deployment of ADB’s institutional approach on climate adaptation in the context of infrastructure sectors; provision of support to ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs) in strengthening the enabling environment for climate resilient infrastructure; and strengthening knowledge and capacity for implementing climate resilient infrastructure systems. You will form a core part of CCRE’s work to help strengthen ADB’s role as the region’s climate bank and achieve bank-wide and departmental climate change strategies, targets, and plans.

Strategy and Planning:

• Lead ADB’s initiative on climate-resilient infrastructure systems to support DMCs improve their enabling environment for pursuing resilient infrastructure through infrastructure planning, strengthened standards and codes, institutional set-up, enforcement mechanism, incentives mechanisms and capacity.
• Support linking the initiative on climate resilient infrastructure systems with wider infrastructure related initiatives being pursued by ADB and regional and global organizations/professional bodies.
• Support in supporting DMCs undertaking adaptation investment planning for infrastructure sectors as part of their National Adaptation Plans and ADB’s wider initiative on Climate Adaptation Investment Planning Program.
• Support ADB’s country programming and pipeline development from climate resilient infrastructure perspective.
• Support the mobilization of financial resources for the initiative on climate-resilient infrastructure systems.

Operational Support:

• Provide upstream support to infrastructure-related sector groups of ADB to help identify infrastructure resilience related issues in DMCs, make a case for pursuing climate resilient infrastructure, and use the analysis to undertake wider sector assessments and country partnership strategies of ADB.
• Provide downstream support to ADB’s sector groups to conceptualize and design infrastructure investment projects (energy, transport, water resources) based on understanding of climate risk and to promote innovative solutions for reducing risk (such as through nature-based solutions) and to manage residual risk (such as through early warning system and disaster risk financing).
• Participate in project and technical assistance (TAs) reviews throughout the project cycle to help assure improved quality at entry, oversee, and monitor project performance, and extract lessons learned for the design of new investment and TA projects, and other activities.

Knowledge Sharing:

• Develop and maintain suitable ADB internal and external networks to keep abreast of the latest development on climate resilient infrastructure issues with special attention to regional issues including the ability to contribute to wider joint-Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) initiatives on infrastructure resilience.
• Lead the development and dissemination or organization of knowledge on climate-resilient infrastructure systems through webinars, workshops, and conferences, publications, and blogs and internal and external trainings on climate adaptation, with a focus on climate-resilient infrastructure systems.

Staff Supervision:

• Take the role of mentor to develop capabilities/potential of reporting staff.
• Supervise the performance of reporting staff, providing clear direction and regular monitoring and feedback on performance; and ensure the on-going learning and development of reporting staff

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree, or equivalent, in structural engineering, civil engineering, or related fields; or University degree and at least 5 years specialized experience relevant to the position can be considered
• At least 8 years of relevant professional experience in climate resilient infrastructure including international work experience
• Understanding of DMCs climate change risks and policy and planning processes for adaptation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English is required.
• Practical international experience working in climate adaptation-related topics, preferably in the Asia and Pacific region.
• Please refer to the link for ADB Competency Framework for IS4 / IS5.

Source:   https://www.adb.org/careers/240213