Sustainable Solutions Officer

The Sustainable Solutions Officer provides technical support in developing ADB's climate change, environment, and disaster risk management agenda. The role involves upstream analysis, country partnership strategy development, annual programming, project design and implementation support, and monitoring progress of climate-related thematic and sector work.

Responsibilities

• Help integrate climate change, environment, and disaster risk management into the development of country partnership strategies and annual country programming missions, including the development and conduct of country diagnostics.
• Support engagement with implementing agencies and ministries on climate change; maintain an overview of climate operations in the country, including lending, non-lending, public–private partnerships, and nonsovereign operations.
• Provide support in tracking important global issues on climate change and undertake research, data collection, and analyses to support project development, policy, and sector work.
• Provide technical inputs and help develop, processing, implement, and monitor ADB climate change investment projects, technical assistance, strategies, and frameworks.
• Support the processing and implementation of technical assistance programs in climate change.
• Provide technical inputs and support in the preparation of knowledge products, speeches, briefing notes, and presentation materials for senior staff and management, workshops, conferences, meetings, and seminars.
• Provide technical inputs and help develop and implement climate change communication and knowledge management plans, websites and related databases, and the development and conduct of learning and training activities.
• Coordinate with relevant colleagues to provide inputs for the preparation and update of the climate-related work and accomplishment reports, including assessment of resource requirements; and participate in internal working groups as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in climate, environmental sciences, economics, engineering, or related fields, with advanced training.
• At least 8 years of work experience in climate change mitigation and adaptation is required.
• Experience should include climate change policy, climate finance, and project development work.
• Broad understanding of the climate change agenda, policy and strategy is necessary.
• In-depth experience in at least one sector, including experience in Pacific DMCs, is preferred.
• Knowledge of development organization's products, processes, and systems is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience conducting research and producing analytical and technical reports in English for diverse audiences.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills, with experience working across internal and external teams.
• Two years of relevant experience outside ADB within the past five years is required.
• Years as an ADB-engaged consultant or contractor are considered experience outside of ADB.

Skills

• Climate Change Mitigation
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Climate Change Policy
• Climate Finance
• Project Development
• Climate Change Strategies
• Sectoral Climate Expertise
• Research and Analysis
• Technical Report Preparation
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Cross-Team Collaboration
• Development Organization Processes
• Country Partnership Strategy
• Project Design
• Project Implementation Support
• Monitoring and Evaluation

Languages

English