Technical Specialist - Climate Change

Reviews and maps ICAT’s climate-action Toolbox to make its tools and guides more accessible and useful to developing countries implementing the Paris Agreement. The home-based retainer specialist assesses country needs and related resources, identifies gaps and linkages, produces evidence-based recommendations and helps present the Toolbox for practical use in policy, NDC and transparency work.

• Review, map and document ICAT Toolbox tools, guides, purposes, functions and outputs
• Assess Toolbox relevance against developing-country needs and the broader climate-tools landscape
• Conduct country and stakeholder discussions to identify needs, challenges and perspectives
• Identify methodological gaps, complementarities and opportunities for Toolbox development
• Prepare a comprehensive report with findings, analysis and recommendations
• Develop an approach, short document and slide deck for presenting the Toolbox
• Support other activities that improve Toolbox usability, accessibility and application

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental management or sciences, international relations, business economics, education, development studies or a related field with seven years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with five years
• Relevant climate-change experience in the context of developing countries
• Fluent English
• Legal right to work in the country from which the assignment is performed

• Methodological work developing or applying climate-action or climate-transparency tools and guides is desirable
• Experience drafting climate-action or climate-transparency reports and publications is desirable

• Climate
• Climate Change
• Research
• Technical Writing