International Consultant for Climate Finance Specialist

Consultant

Overview

Support the development of a Climate Budget Tagging framework in Timor-Leste

You have:

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Public Administration, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Economics, Public Finance Management or related fields
• Master’s degree in finance, environmental economics, environmental sciences, environmental engineering, social sciences or other related fields
• Fluency in English with excellent written communication skills, and strong experience writing reports
• Knowledge of Tetum or Portuguese is an asset
• Experience in providing PFM trainings to government stakeholders
• Substantive experience in government budget and planning processes, green finance, national climate change policies, fiscal decentralization or related field
• Practical experience and knowledge of the SGD budgeting, climate change budgeting, including budget formulation and classifications/tagging systems, chart of accounts, etc.
• Experience with the UNDP and/or UN agencies desirable

Contract

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Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations' global development network that advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life for themselves. Since its onset, UNDP has operated in more than 170 countries and working with local governments to meet development challenges, develop local capacity and help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Joint Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Fund in Timor-Leste aims to assist the government of Timor-Leste to develop and establish a holistic and Integrated, National Financing Framework (INFF). The INFF will help to improve the governance and coordination, articulate a financing strategy and strengthen the monitoring and oversight framework. The value of this work has taken on even greater significance since the COVID-19 pandemic – in part because of the greater demands on public financing but also because Timor-Leste’s reserves through its Petroleum Fund have also been affected by the global economic downturn. Development financing is currently heavily reliant on financing from Timor-Leste’s petroleum fund. To reduce the reliance on petroleum funding, the Joint SDG Fund will help diversify financing sources and grow the fiscal space. Three financing areas have been identified for catalyzing strategic investments in People, Prosperity and Planet that emphasize financing - health, diaspora and climate financing, respectively.

The purpose of the Climate Finance component of the Joint Program is to explore viabilities of modern climate financial instruments in the context of Timor-Leste and to propose a Menu of Options for blended climate finance framework to generate and leverage a pipeline of bankable green projects. The outcome will contribute to a positive shift in the Timor-Leste economy’s transition to sustainability through the financing and public policies that support climate-resilient initiatives. The current task implies internalization of negative climate externalities to encourage investments that provide environmental benefits.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Familiarize with the existing national documents relevant to this assignment and good practices from other countries of the region;
• Prepare an assessment of the current capacities of institutions for undertaking and implementing climate change budgeting, and provide recommendations for strengthening the capacities of the key national institutions;
• Identify the scope, criteria and methodological approaches for implementing the CBT in Timor-Leste, based on the best international practices.
• Make specific recommendations for improving data collection and analysis related to the budget allocations for climate change-related programmes / projects / activities;
• Engage the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the relevant national stakeholders to develop the model for classification of climate change-related expenditures, the calculation of Climate Change Budget Integration and work out the approach for weighing the climate change relevance of certain programs under public expenditure.
• Present and validate the proposed CBT model during a training with participation of key stakeholders such as the MoF, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation UnitUPMA) and other relevant institutions.
• Prepare a Roadmap for adopting Climate Budget Tagging in state and local governments budgets;
• Prepare a Policy Brief on the main findings and recommendations for the policymakers;
• Present the Roadmap to relevant stakeholders (on-line, using zoom or other relevant tools);
• Incorporate comments and feedbacks received from the key stakeholders.

Competencies

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Public Administration, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Economics, Public Finance Management or related fields;
• Experience in providing PFM trainings to government stakeholders;
• Substantive experience in government budget and planning processes, green finance, national climate change policies, fiscal decentralization or related field
• Practical experience and knowledge of the SGD budgeting, climate change budgeting, including budget formulation and classifications/tagging systems, chart of accounts, etc.
• Experience with the UNDP and/or UN agencies desirable;

Required Skills and Experience

• Master’s degree in finance, environmental economics, environmental sciences, environmental engineering, social sciences or other related fields.
• Fluency in English with excellent written communication skills, and strong experience writing reports is required; knowledge of Tetum or Portuguese is an asset

Interested applicants are mandatory to apply online through: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=95652. Supporting documents/filled templates to be submit along with the applications are following, and those templates can be download from: https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=73369

1. UN P11 Form
2. Individual Contract Offerors Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability
3. Individual Contract Reference Check (at least from two referee)
4. CV

Any request for clarification must be sent in writing to procurement.staff.tp@undp.org with subject line: JOBID:95652- Climate Finance Specialist

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