Technical Advisor

Under the overall supervision of the Minister-in-charge, through concerned Secretary/Additional Secretary, Technical Advisor will support the Ministry of Climate Change & Environmental Coordination and its organizations/departments as follows: a. provide technical input and expert opinion for review of existing policies and frameworks, and formulation and effective implementation of new climate change related policies and frameworks; b. write technical reports and evidence based policy papers aiming at knowledge based decision making in the field of climate change at national level; c. prepare technical guidelines that will include recommendations for integrating climate change adaptation initiatives with development sector; d. advise on climate risk management, including, vulnerability and adaptation impact analysis, climate risk assessment, and suggest long term and medium term responses to climate risks; e. prepare and facilitate in implementation of a comprehensive communication/data reporting plan/knowledge management system on climate change mitigation & adaptation; climate finance and loss & damage; f. facilitate in coordination of project under environmental legislation; trans-boundary (inter-provincial, regional and international) issues, scaling up sustainable management of natural resources, and matters related to but not limited to sustainable development in fields of water & sanitation, sustainable urbanization, ecology forestry, wildlife, biodiversity and desertification; g. provide technical advice for coordination with various international donors agencies for arrangements of funds, implementation strategies and signing of MoUs or agreements and for alignment of bilateral/ multilateral environmental agreement decisions/guidelines with national public financial management system, suggest new legislations/rules and regulations where required, and coordinate these agreements for effective implementation/ compliance; h. provide technical advice on all the Public Sector Development (PSDP) projects of the Ministry including; i. development of programmes/projects on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption for mobilizing finances from national and international sources. ii. establishment of indicators, benchmarks and work plans for the development projects; iii. Supervision, implementation, monitoring, evaluation troubleshooting and adaptive management of approved projects; i. Suggests way forward for development and implementation of human and institutional capacity building plan for Ministry of Climate Change and its Organizations; and j. any other task linked to TORs which may arise during contract period or assigned by the Authority. Domicile Quota: Merit based. Location of Job: Islamabad. Other Details: Interview will be held at Ministry of Climate Change & Environmental Coordination, Islamabad. Experience: At least seven (07) years professional experience for candidates with Ph.D and nine (09) years’ experience for candidates with Master’s Degree in the relevant field [including three (03) years of senior management level positions], particularly in the areas of policy formulation, strategic planning, conceiving / implementing development initiatives with specific focus on climate change. Experience at world-class organizations such as climate related global organizations (United Nations, climate finance organizations or other climate-related organizations), capital markets (investment banking, technical finance, carbon finance), climate law firms, climate related start-ups, will be preferred. The appointment of Technical Advisor (MP-I) shall be on contract basis initially for a period of three years extendable for a further period which shall be extendable for further maximum of two years, on annual basis, subject to satisfactory performance of the incumbent in accordance with MP Scale Policy- 2020, as amended from time to time