Climate Finance Advisor

The UNOPS retainer advises Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance on climate-finance systems and mobilisation. The role maps funding, develops a mobilisation roadmap, advances automated climate-budget tagging in IFMIS, builds capacity, coordinates partners and quality-assures finance instruments aligned with climate plans.

• Assess climate-finance sources, gaps and constraints
• Develop a climate-finance mobilisation roadmap
• Define climate-budget-tagging requirements for IFMIS
• Establish governance procedures and quality assurance
• Train and mentor government institutions
• Coordinate development-partner support
• Integrate climate priorities into national budgeting
• Prepare advisory notes on climate-finance instruments

• Master degree with five years of experience, or bachelor degree with seven years
• Climate-finance or public-financial-management advisory experience
• Knowledge of climate-budget tagging and IFMIS
• Understanding of public, private and international climate-finance sources
• Fluency in English
• Sierra Leone nationality or valid residence and work permit
• Own laptop and software

• UNFCCC, COP or NDC process experience
• Experience in other national climate-finance contexts
• Network-building across government, private sector and civil society

• Climate finance
• Public financial management
• Climate budget tagging
• Resource mobilisation
• Institutional capacity building
• Partner coordination
• Policy analysis

• IFMIS
• Climate budget tagging
• Own laptop and software