Call For Applications Climate Finance Roster of Experts

Winrock International is seeking experts for its Climate Finance Roster of Experts. This remote position involves providing expertise in climate finance policy and planning, focusing on areas such as climate risk assessments, mitigation plans, and carbon accounting. Candidates should have multilingual capabilities and experience in climate finance projects, particularly in regions like Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Applications are open, with varying contract durations.
Location: Remote
Application Deadline: Open
Type of Contract International Consultant
Languages Required: Fluency in English (spoken and written)Knowledge of additional languages is highly desirable
Contract Duration: Assignments vary from a few days to several months depending on project needsBackground

Winrock catalyzes investment for lowemission climateresilient development to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. We combine scientific and technical expertise to support our clients in addressing the complex challenges of climate change. Through partnership development sustainable financing and evidencebased decisionmaking Winrock is helping realize the vision of a carbonconscious world as a winwin for public and private stakeholders. Our innovative climate finance work incentivizes privatesector investment in national development plans mobilizing national and international capital to finance climate resilient economic growth.

Winrock is building a global roster of experts in climate finance policy and planning with global and local expertise to meet the evolving needs of our clients. We strongly encourage applications from experts with multilingual capabilities experience implementing climate finance projects and countryspecific and/or regional knowledge in Africa Asia and the Pacific Eastern Europe Central Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.

How to apply: Please upload your CV below in your CV please demonstrate expertise in one or more of the Climate Finance Areas of Expertise and one or more of the Specialized Areas of Technical Expertise listed below. Please share as much information as you can in the application below and we will follow up with you shortly on next steps.
Climate Finance Areas of Expertise

Winrock is seeking financial expertise across mitigation adaptation sustainable development financial instruments and investment planning for climate action.

The applicants must demonstrate expertise in one or more of the following areas:
• Climate Risk Assessments. Expertise in managing financial operational and climaterelated project risks. Experience conducting highlevel assessment of location specific physical risks and transition risks providing insights for decisionmakers into the potential for increasing expanding and emerging risk.
• Climate Risk Mitigation Plans. Experience integrating climate change risks and considerations into contextspecific development strategies and plans.
• Fragility Analysis. Proven experience analyzing the contextspecific drivers of fragility in targeted countries or regions with a focus on the interaction between climate change and existing developmental challenges in fragile settings.
• Climate and Environmental Data. Experience in enhancing the capabilities of country stakeholders to access gather and analyze relevant climate data including data processing generation modeling and comprehensive analysis and interpretation of results.
• Carbon Accounting and Impact Assessments.Experience with exante midterm or final evaluations of climate mitigation projects including carbon accounting for forestry agriculture and energy projects.
• Climate Finance Training. Conducting training sessions and workshops in climate finance mechanisms to build the capacity of local stakeholders including government officials financial institutions and private companies.
• Climate Finance Ecosystems. Experience building comprehensive systems that support climate finance including the development of local financial institutions and markets that can handle forestry and agriculturerelated climate investment.
• Refining Climate Regulations. Experience assessing existing national regulations to remove barriers and create incentives for private sector engagement in climate finance.
• Climate Finance Instruments. Experience structuring implementing or evaluating projects using grants loans equity and guarantees. Experience with financial products and services development to support sustainability goals such as green loans/bonds and sustainabilitylinked bonds.
• Climate Finance Insurance. Experience developing insurance products and risk transfer mechanisms that protect private sector investments in climate projects from unforeseen risks and enhance financial security.
• Policy Analysis. Experience in the design and assessment of jurisdictionlevel policies for delivering climate finance to vulnerable communities.
• Results Management:Development of monitoring and evaluation frameworks for climate finance projects. Strong capability in designing impactdriven frameworks that align with mitigation and adaptation priorities.
Specialized Areas of Technical Expertise
• Early Warning & Climate Information Services Climate risk reduction disaster resilience and climate information systems for financial decisionmaking.
• Health & Climate Resilience Climatesensitive public health systems access to clean water and sanitation and nutrition security.
• Agriculture & Food Security Climatesmart agriculture agroforestry resilient food systems regenerative agriculture and waterefficient farming techniques.
• Supplychain DecarbonizationDecarbonization transitioning planning strategy and roadmaps voluntary climate standard knowledge (e.g. ScienceBased Targets initiative and Greenhouse Gas Protocol) supplier engagement for climate mitigation.
• Water Security Sustainable water resource management flood and drought resilience and urban water supply projects.
• Infrastructure & Built Environment Climateresilient infrastructure urban resilience planning green buildings and integrated infrastructure systems.
• Ecosystem & NatureBased Solutions Conservation finance forest management and blue carbon initiatives.
• Renewable Energy Scaling lowcarbon energy access productive enduses power sector transformation integrated resilient resource planning and regulatory frameworks for renewable energy deployment.
• Urban Systems & Cities Sustainable urban planning green resilient infrastructure energy efficiency and waste management.
• Energy Efficiency Industrial and domestic energy efficiency building energy efficiency efficient cooling systems and policy frameworks for energy savings.
• LowEmission Transport EV and fuelcell infrastructure sustainable mobility strategies and national/municipal transport planning.
• Forests & Land Use Sustainable forestry REDD jurisdictional REDD FREL development land restoration and financial instruments for conservation.
Competencies

General Competencies
• Demonstrated ability to work with international climate funds and donors.
• Strong writing ability particularly writing reports and/or proposals for international donors such as the Green Climate Fund Adaptation Fund or similar organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to develop or implement country or regional specific climate plans and policies such as National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) National Determined Contributions (NDCs) and LongTerm Strategies (LTS).
• Ability to build and enhance institutional capacity including effective coordination around climate investment planning with relevant stakeholders.
• Demonstrate recognizedfinancial and technical expertise with at least5 years of relevant professional experience in an international setting.
• Ability to adapt and work both independently and as part of a team to meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with diverse stakeholders in multicultural environments.
• Previous experience working as a consultant working remotely in sometimes changing circumstances.

Winrock is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people. Winrock recruits employs trains promotes and compensates regardless of race color religion sex gender sexual orientation national origin ancestry citizenship age physical or mental disability or any other basis protected by law.
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