Consultor/a Especialista en Finanzas Climáticas y Urbanas

Develops financing and insurance strategies for climate-resilient infrastructure in Costa Rica, assessing legal, institutional, gender and vulnerability considerations and producing recommendations for transparent financial monitoring.

Department: Office for Mesoamerica

• Prepare the consultancy work plan and conduct interviews with climate-finance experts
• Assess obstacles, gender impacts and vulnerable-group considerations in resilient-infrastructure finance
• Analyse public and private financing mechanisms, viable business models, green bonds and public-private partnerships
• Review insurance coverage gaps for climate risks and recommend products and regulatory approaches
• Recommend transparency and financial-monitoring measures to prevent illicit financial activity
• Review Costa Rica's legal framework and previous climate-adaptation analysis as the basis for recommendations
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops and validation sessions with public and private institutions
• Produce progress documents, presentations and final technical reports to the required quality and schedule

• University degree and postgraduate degree in finance, economics or a related field
• Membership of the relevant professional association, or eligibility to obtain temporary membership
• Five years of experience developing or analysing climate-finance and infrastructure strategies or programmes in Costa Rica
• Knowledge of Costa Rican public-finance, land-management and climate-finance instruments
• Knowledge of national and international legal frameworks for climate change, construction and infrastructure development
• Experience integrating climate-adaptation policy in road, housing or water infrastructure
• Fluency in spoken and written Spanish and English

• Consultancy duration: six months
• Deliverables include a work plan, interview report, barriers and vulnerability assessment, financing-strategy report and financial-monitoring recommendations
• The consultant must complete BSAFE and the specified UN gender course during the first month
• Materials produced under the consultancy are for UN-Habitat's exclusive use