Energy and Climate Change Assistant

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a multilateral financial mechanism established in 1991. It provides grants to developing countries for projects and programs that protect the global environment. GEF grants support projects related to 6 focal areas: biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants.

Since its inception as a pilot facility in 1991, GEF has committed $9 billion in grants to over 2,100 projects in more than 160 developing countries and transitional economies. Resources for the GEF Trust Fund, which finances the GEF's programs and projects, are replenished every 4 years. Available funding for GEF activities in the period 2010 to 2014 is $4.25 billion (fifth replenishment period).

The GEF is open to universal membership, and currently 181 countries are members. It is governed by a Council comprising 32 Members appointed by constituencies of GEF member countries. An Assembly of all member countries meets every 4 years at the ministerial level.

The GEF is the designated financial mechanism for 3 international environmental conventions: the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. GEF is also a designated financial mechanism of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.

10 agencies are principally accountable for the execution of GEF projects: the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP), U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Bank (IBRD/IFC), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the U.N. Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

The GEF Secretariat, construed for administrative purposes as a VPU within the World Bank, has a staff complement of professional and ACS staff of approximately 75. The GEF Secretariat is structured into 4 teams: Climate and Chemicals, Natural Resources, External Affairs, and Operations and Business Strategy. Each team is led by a team leader, who is accountable to the CEO.

Responsibilities:

1. Reviews Agencies' project completion reports and GEF evaluation office's project terminal evaluation reports, with a priority on energy efficiency projects of the GEF. The purpose of reviewing these documents is to correct data for the GEF's project management information system (PMIS);
2. Verify data accuracy and check quality of the collected data from other data sources;
3. Energy data into the PMIS;
4. Develop and manage a high quality database for the climate change mitigation cluster;
5. Help write a report on GEF's investment in energy efficiency projects.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor or masters degrees in engineering, statistics, science, economics, environmental studies, or other field related to energy systems, with 1 or 2 years of relevant experience.
2. Sound knowledge and expertise in energy efficiency and climate change. Experience in renewable energy, transportation systems, LULUCF, technology transfer and other dimensions of climate change mitigation is a bonus.
3. Ability to think analytically, strategically, and programmatically is required.
4. Demonstrated small group or team work skills are highly desirable.
5. A demonstrated track record in data collection, data manipulation and English writing is essential.
6. International experience in the field of energy efficiency and climate change in developing countries is an advantage.

Closing Date: 15-April-2011

Appointment Type: 3 month short term junior consulting appointment: May 1, 2011-July 31 2011

To Apply: 

Interested candidate can please submit their CV and letter of interest to Mr. Ming Yang.