Programme Specialist – Climate Action

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The RCC provides direct technical assistance by engaging a variety of Party and non-Party stakeholders with tailor-made capacity building activities to improve their knowledge of climate change mitigation issues. It also develops a series of activities with the view to engage a broad network of negotiators, private sector actors, NGOs and IGOs to ensure participation to the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

The RCC combines the in-depth expertise on climate change issues with knowledge of the local context. RCCs goal is to catalyze and support regional engagement in the UNFCCC process to promote action towards the achievement of the objectives and goals of the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement through effective collaboration with UNFCCC Divisions in Bonn, the UN Country Teams, the host institution, and other partners in the region.

Current RCC support include Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the development and adoption of climate policies and economic instruments (e.g., carbon market, carbon pricing, subsidy schemes), Adaptation, including Loss and Damage, MRV and transparency frameworks, facilitation of climate finance, Gender and Youth engagements in Climate Action, engagement on instruments foreseen by Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and action by non-party stakeholders.

Under the overall guidance of the RCC Global Lead and direct supervision of the UNFCCC Regional Lead for Eastern and Southern Africa, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Support Stakeholders in the Climate Change Process
• Provides technical and operational support to meetings, stakeholder workshops.
• Drafts concept notes in preparation of meetings, and consultations with stake-holder to brief on the status of negotiations relating to the implementation of the Paris Agreement.
• Assist in research activities and data management.

Operational assistance to the activities of the RCC

• Assists with the design and implementation of a capacity building plan, including the preparation and implementation of annual working plans.
• Documents on the RCC work to UNFCCC and local stakeholders and contributes to the on-going learning and improvement through documentation of activities and lessons learnt.
• Develops a communication plan to outreach regional key stakeholders to establish partnership’ including development of terms of collaboration and sharing information and best practices.
• Upon delegated authority by the Regional Lead, represents the RCC in committees, meetings and other consultative activities involving partners, government(s), stakeholders, civil society, and other UN agencies.

Support to the implementation of climate action activities in the context of the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

• Contributes to the implementation of the secretariat’s Initiative for National Readiness for Implementation of the Paris Agreement by conducting research, analysis, and presentation of potential interventions to support the implementation of climate action on the ground.
• Supports the implementation of the Article 6 Capacity Building Programme as guided by the secretariat through the Regional Lead.
• Conducts an in-depth assessment of existing training and capacity building interventions available in the region including the identification of the needs in terms of capacity development of stakeholders.
• Assist in monitoring contribution from youth representatives in the development of the Kampala Declaration Action Plan, which aims to progress the work on the topic of human mobility in the context of climate change.