Specific tasks and responsibilities

• For the development of each CEO endorsement request packages: Lead the preparation of the CEO endorsement document and its attachments. • Coordinate the development and implementation of the Stakeholder Engagement Plan.
• Be responsible for the design of all substantive elements of the CEO endorsement document and its annexes, including the log-frame, budget, indicators, baseline scenario, alternative scenario, stakeholders, risks, consistency with national priorities, institutional arrangements, gender action plan, knowledge management, theory of change ToC, and monitoring and evaluation.
• Prepare an outline of the strategy and methodology to develop such elements, including a provisional timetable.
• Ensure that the substantive elements are aligned with national strategy and planning documents though the consultation of national expert.
• Ensure that the latest templates from GEF and UNEP are used in the preparation of the CEO endorsement document and associated annexes.
• Inform UNEP on the status of work and highlight, in a timely manner, risks related to the quality of the information received and the fulfillment of the project’s development schedule.
• Support the national consultant in organizing and undertaking the stakeholder consultation workshop in-person to consult with the relevant national counterparts, discuss the baseline situation, map the gaps and barriers, collect relevant country data, agree upon a project intervention logic log frame and Annex A results framework and discuss initial institutional arrangements for execution.
• Undertake a gender analysis, ensure project deliverables are gender sensitive and prepare a gender action plan.
• Prepare a presentation for internal discussion to UNEP management describing national circumstances and context, baseline, barriers, proposed intervention, and indicators.
• Support the national consultant in organizing and undertaking the stakeholder validation workshop in-person to validate the CEO Endorsement document with national stakeholders.
• Prepare a final overall stakeholder consultation report. The GEF requires that a report is prepared and submitted on stakeholder consultations undertaken during the PPG.
• Prepare a final and complete version of the CEO Endorsement Document and annexes for UNEP internal review and submission to GEF Sec.
• Prepare the submission package of the CEO endorsement document and associated annexes to the UNEP Project Review Committee PRC and draft the responses to the Committee’s reviews.
• Prepare the submission package of the CEO endorsement document and associated annexes to the GEF secretariat and draft responses to Secretariat reviews.
• Performance indicators: Submission of the four 4 deliverables in accordance with deadlines noted in section
•  Reports are considered high-quality, as determined by UNEP based on comparison with other terminal review reports and CEO endorsement packages approved by the GEF.

Qualifications/special skills

• Academic: An advanced university degree in economics, environmental sciences, management, or a related discipline is required;
• A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree;
• A minimum of two years of experience in drafting project proposals in the field of climate change, environment or development is required;
• Experience working with GEF or UNEP projects is desirable;
• Experience in working for multilateral or bilateral funding entities in the field of climate change, environment or development is desirable;
• Experience working on projects in Africa is desirable.