Senior Associate, Adaptation - Tlahuac, México - Global Green Growth Institute

Global Green Growth Institute

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Tlahuac, México

hace 2 semanas

Publicado por:

Rodrigo Fernández

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Descripción

The Adaptation & Climate Change Senior Associate will be part of the GGGI Mexico team based in Mexico City. S/he will work in close collaboration with other staff in CAID, IPSD, and other GGGI divisions, particularly Mexico's country team and under the guidance of the Mexico's Country Representative.

The Senior Associate is expected to be a professional who is passionate about contributing to GGGI's mission to drive innovation in accelerating green growth worldwide and addressing the global climate emergency. The Senior Associate will play an important role within the Mexico team to support country program in addressing climate change adaptation actions, conducting vulnerability and risks assessments, contributing to the integration of climate change adaptation into national and subnational policies, strategies, programs and projects, supporting the development of adaptation capacities' assessments and identifying adaptation technologies and best practices, calculating co-benefits of adaptation actions, providing inputs for adaptation actions design, implementation, and monitoring.
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INTRODUCTION TO GGGI:The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies. To learn more please visit about GGGI web page.

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this position is to support implementation of GGGI Mexico's program in integrated planning for climate resilient green growth to support development and support in the development of climate transparency systems, contribute to the preparation of Mexico's NDCs implementation roadmap and related activities to the country's NDCs.
The person in this position will play a key role in the following topics:
Technical focus on climate change adaptation to support the development of adaptation guidelines, frameworks and strategies, as well as assessments on vulnerability and risks, climate transparency and NDC systems, tools, strategies, and relevant policy documents in support of country objectives
Policies, strategy, and frameworks to review and contribute to mainstreaming climate change and green growth into projects and/or initiatives.
Support GGGI Mexico country office in supervising programs, projects, and project's components to address climate change.
Support the mobilization of resources for the implementation of climate change interventions by developing partnerships with existing sources of finance, international conventions, and donors. As well as through the development of new project proposals.
Delivery of capacity building programs, workshops, seminars, and other activities to improve the knowledge of stakeholders in selected countries.

ENGAGEMENT:

The Senior Associate shall proactively engage in collaboration, knowledgesharing, communications, and advocacy for advancing country efforts to meet Paris Agreement commitments by:
Building and leveraging collaboration with and resources from international organizations (including the UNFCCC), partnerships, and platforms as well as research institutions, academic institutions, and other organizations, where relevant, to support project implementation.
Engaging and collaborating with key GGGI staff, including other country teams, throughout the project design and implementation process and supporting incountry technical advisory services.
Engaging and collaborating with the donors focus on climate change efforts.
Supporting stakeholder engagement, visioning exercises, consultations, and other activities necessary to formulate systems, strategies, and relevant policy documents.
Engaging, where necessary, with government and nongovernment counterparts to support relevant project and policy implementation.

DELIVERY:

The Senior Associate is responsible for supporting and, in some cases, leading technical assistance activities as part of GGGI's efforts to promote integrated planning for climate resilient green growth

Relevant tasks will include:

Ensuring quality of project outputs, activities, and deliverables and project reporting are completed and submitted on a timely basis.
Overseeing individual consultants and/or small consultancy projects.
Reviewing project outputs for quality control and addressing delivery issues with internal and external project collaborators.
Preparing relevant technical studies, guidelines, reports, and publications where applicable; and
Preparing relevant, highquality communications materials (fact sheets, project brochures, media releases, website content, etc.).

REQUIREMENTS

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's or (or higher) in fields relevant to the described position (such as environmental policy/economy, engineering, environmental science, geophysics, environmental resources management, atmospheric sciences, geograph