Senior Consultant - Integration and Development of Water Sector Concept Notes

Integrates Iraq water-sector concept notes into a coherent, financeable portfolio aligned with national frameworks and downstream climate and development financing requirements for UNESCO and UN Water Task Force partners.

Department: Natural Sciences Sector

• Integrate three cluster concept notes into a coherent financeable portfolio
• Ensure portfolio coherence, complementarity, strategic framing and financing logic
• Conduct interviews and consultations with government stakeholders including the Ministry of Water Resources and PMAC
• Validate portfolio alignment with national water-sector priorities and institutional frameworks
• Prepare an inception report, integration methodology, consultation plan and workplan
• Develop consolidated drafts incorporating cluster, UN agency and Water Task Force feedback
• Prepare a near-final portfolio aligned with financier requirements and theory of change
• Deliver a final integrated concept note portfolio in Arabic and English with handover note

• Advanced university degree in hydrology, hydrogeology, water resources management, environmental science or management, natural resource management or a related field, or a first-level university degree with additional qualifying experience
• Minimum of 8-10 years of progressively responsible experience in water, environment, climate and/or sustainable development sectors, including senior-level assignments
• Demonstrated experience synthesising multidisciplinary technical inputs into coherent strategic or programmatic documents, with evidence such as writing samples or authored documents
• Sound knowledge of Iraq's water sector and institutional and policy landscape
• Fluency in spoken and written Arabic and English, including professional drafting and editing in both languages

• Consultant contract for 11 months on an intermittent part-time basis of about one working week per month
• UNESCO covers DSA and travel expenses under its rules, so these should not be included in the professional fee estimate
• Applicants must submit a CV and suitability statement, technical proposal, financial proposal in USD, examples of previous work and at least three references
• Application deadline is midnight UTC+3 on 23 July 2026