Climate Impact Specialist - Asia and the Pacific Region

The Climate Impact Specialist supports the Green Climate Fund’s mandate by ensuring that GCF-funded activities deliver measurable, credible, and high-quality climate mitigation and adaptation results. The role provides technical and scientific expertise to assess, validate, and strengthen climate impact rationales, theories of change, and results frameworks across the full project cycle, supporting regional and global teams and working closely with Accredited Entities and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent technical review and guidance on climate rationale, theories of change, mitigation and adaptation indicators, and impact methodologies for concept notes, funding proposals, and Readiness proposals.
• Review and validate greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction estimates, adaptation results, and associated assumptions, methodologies, and data sources.
• Ensure alignment of proposals with GCF investment criteria, results management frameworks, and relevant policies and guidance.
• Support continuous improvement of climate impact assessment tools and methodologies.
• Support technical structuring and processing of projects and programmes across the full GCF project cycle.
• Provide climate impact expertise during implementation, including monitoring, reporting, and adaptive management.
• Contribute to portfolio-level analysis to support prioritization, optimization, and learning.
• Support the review of Funded Activity Agreements to ensure appropriate integration of climate impact and results requirements.
• Provide technical guidance to Accredited Entities, country counterparts, and project teams to strengthen climate impact articulation and results measurement.
• Collaborate with internal Secretariat divisions to facilitate efficient proposal review and post-approval processes.
• Contribute to the development and dissemination of guidance, tools, and good practices related to climate impact assessment.
• Support capacity-building efforts to enhance the quality and consistency of GCF pipelines.
• Contribute to institutional initiatives related to results management, portfolio monitoring, and impact optimization.
• Capture lessons learned and good practices from project implementation to inform future project design and policy refinement.
• Support improvements to information systems and data management related to pipeline and portfolio monitoring.
• Participate in cross-divisional taskforces and corporate initiatives, as assigned.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in climate science, environmental science, engineering, or another relevant field; or a bachelor’s degree with additional relevant experience.
• Demonstrated at least 8 years of experience in climate impact assessment, results frameworks, and GHG accounting methodologies.
• Experience supporting project design, implementation, and monitoring in an international or developing country context.
• Strong analytical, data management, and technical writing skills.
• Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to diverse audiences.
• Fluency in English required; additional language skills relevant to GCF regions are an Advantage.

Skills

• Climate Impact Assessment
• GHG Accounting
• Results Frameworks
• Project Design
• Project Implementation
• Project Monitoring
• Data Management
• Technical Writing
• Climate Science
• Environmental Sciences
• Engineering
• Communication of Technical Issues
• Climate Mitigation
• Climate Change Adaptation

Languages

English