Climate Finance Senior Advisor - Retainer
Category | Grade:Professional | ICS-12 / IICA-4Deadline:20 Aug 2026Job ID:4090Posted on:6 Aug 2026
Overview
Advance UNOPS climate-finance positioning and project pipeline through portfolio analysis, donor mapping and strategic advice. The home-based advisor identifies financing opportunities, builds partnerships, develops and quality-assures proposals, and strengthens institutional readiness and staff capacity.
Languages
Required: English
Desired: French
Minimum Experience
10 years
Estimated Salary
Not available
Responsibilities
- Identify climate-finance entry points across sectors and geographies
- Review portfolios, donor priorities and emerging financing mechanisms
- Map stakeholders and advise engagement with governments and finance providers
- Assess institutional readiness and capacity gaps
- Develop screening tools, templates and training materials
- Identify and prioritise a pipeline of climate-finance opportunities
- Support concept notes, proposals, investment cases and co-financing structures
- Quality-assure climate submissions and mentor UNOPS teams
Requirements
- Master degree in climate change, environmental economics, finance, international development, public policy or related field plus ten years of experience, or bachelor degree plus twelve years
- At least ten years of climate-finance or development-finance experience
- Experience with international climate-finance mechanisms and multilateral funds
- Fluent English
Skills
Climate and development financeClimate-fund and donor landscape analysisProject pipeline and proposal developmentStakeholder and government engagementInvestment-case quality assuranceInstitutional capacity assessmentTraining and technical mentoring
Additional info
- Home-based retainer contract
- Mandatory unpaid onboarding courses required before service