Specific tasks and responsibilities
The consultants will be expected to deliver as follows:
Develop and implement measures for managing and reducing risk of the portfolio;
Undertake research to identify ways to enhance the risk management of the Unit’s portfolio of GEF mitigation projects;
Develop a proposal for a risk management log/system in Microsoft Teams, for construction by the Unit’s data team.
Develop and implement measures to visualize and graphically represent portfolio risk for facilitating decision-making;
Develop flowcharts for the risk management of high, medium and low-risk GEF projects.
Develop a traffic light system for rating the risk of each of the portfolio’s medium- and full-size GEF mitigation projects
Identify opportunities for using the Integrated Planning, Management and Reporting (IPMR) solution system to manage risk and inform senior management of portfolio risk;
Prepare quarterly reports for senior management on the portfolio’s risk level, level of risk of individual projects and actions taken to reduce risk;
Provide technical inputs to Task Managers on high risk projects to prepare and implement individual project risk management plans;
Prepare and give presentations to the Unit on case studies in managing risk of GEF projects;
Provide summaries on UNEP and GEF policies on risk management.
Qualifications/special skills
Advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: engineering, law, business administration, environmental management, policy, economics, development, climate or development finance, architecture, urbanism, or a related discipline;
A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
Minimum five years of experience in managing projects related to climate change, environment, or development is required;
Experience working with GEF projects is required;
Experience in working with national governments of developing countries is desirable;
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