Job Posting: 18/Mar/2025
Closure Date: 15/Apr/2025, 4:59:00 PM
Organizational Unit: OCB - Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment
Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: Consultant / PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
Grade Level: N/A
Primary Location: Italy-Rome
Duration: Up to 11 months
Post Number: N/A

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• FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture.
• Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and person with disabilities are encouraged to apply;
• Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold FAO’s values
• FAO, as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination
• All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks
• All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality

FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• University degree in climate change, economics, agrifood systems or a closely related field;
• At least 2 years (category C), 5 years (category B) or 10 years (category A) of relevant work experience in climate change and food systems in one or more following areas:
  o Climate policy and analysis
  o Climate Risk assessment
  o Private sector engagement
  o Project development
  o Climate finance
  o Economics of climate change
  o Voluntary Carbon Market mechanisms

o Gender and social inclusion

• Working knowledge of English.

The Climate Change Specialist will support FAO, national counterparts and partners in the climate change programme of work including country-level activities; concept note development: economic, market or value chain analysis; knowledge sharing and generation; capacity building and further development of activities under the climate change programme. The focus of the support will be primarily on the implementation of ongoing projects and programmes within OCB’s portfolio. Specific tasks will be related to areas of work of the team related to:

• Support countries on all climate-related topics which include Enhanced Transparency Framework, Mitigation, Adaptation, Loss and Damage, and covering different aspects such as Policy, Access to Finance, develop and apply Tools and datasets, and Technologies;
• Perform climate change adaptation/mitigation/transparency analyses of nationally determined contributions (NDCs); long term strategies (LTS) National Adaptation Plans (NAP) and projects such as GEF and GCF;
• Perform financial and market analysis and assessments that contribute to the development of ongoing projects and programmes;
• Conduct value chain analysis of specific agricultural commodities, contribute to the development of ongoing projects and programmes;
• Writie project concept notes, project proposals and other relevant documents that contribute to the development of ongoing and future projects and programmes;
• Prepare training materials and workshops, contribute to dissemination of information materials;
• Review relevant programme documents;
• Participate in country missions;
• Provide technical support for the organization of meetings and workshops;
• Any other duties related to the programme of work as required.