IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, founded in 1948 – bring States, government agencies, NGOs and affiliates together in one mission: to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
IUCN’s Climate Change and Energy Transition Team (CCETT) is part of the IUCN Secretariat. The Climate Change and Energy Transition Team leads IUCN’s global thematic work on climate change, providing strategic direction focused on harnessing nature’s potential to achieve adaptation, mitigation and just transition objectives while nurturing resilience, safeguarding livelihoods, and empowering communities.
One of the key initiatives implemented by the CCETT, is the Global Ecosystem-based Adaptation Fund (Global EbA Fund), implemented by IUCN and UNEP with funding from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUKN). This is a funding mechanism for supporting innovative approaches to strengthen the enabling environment for the implementation of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). By supporting catalytic initiatives, the Fund seeks to overcome barriers to scaling EbA, address knowledge gaps, pilot innovative EbA approaches, engage in strategic EbA policy mainstreaming, and incentivize innovative finance mechanisms and private sector EbA investment.
Working in close collaboration with the Global EbA Fund Secretariat and project partners, the incumbent will directly support the grants management cycle, including calls for proposals, selection, awarding, implementation follow-up, reporting, and closure. The team member will also provide technical support to grantees through capacity building, as well as knowledge generation and evidence extraction from the Fund’s portfolio, while supporting the coordination of networks with which IUCN’s climate change team is engaged.
JOB DESCRIPTION
– Support grants management activities for the Global EbA Fund, including planning of calls for proposals, selection, awarding, implementation follow-up, reporting, and closure.
– Contribute to the dissemination of the Global EbA Fund calls for proposals by developing informational webinars for applicants.
– Contribute to grant due diligence processes, including assessment of project proposals, compliance checks, and documentation review.
– Monitor the Global EbA Fund’s projects during their implementation through continuous communication with grantees, to ensure compliance with technical and financial guidelines.
– Support the collection, quality assurance, and consolidation of grantee reports, and contribute to the Fund’s technical donor reports and internal IUCN programme reporting.
– Support the development of capacity building workshops and webinars, including logistics planning and coordination with relevant grantees and stakeholders.
– Provide technical backstopping for diverse processes within the Global EbA Fund and broader IUCN Climate Change work.
– Collaborate with global colleagues, across IUCN and partner organisations, to evolve and grow IUCN’s climate change portfolio and expand its global presence through networks.
– Support the development and maintenance of the web and social media presence for the Global EbA Fund and broader IUCN Climate Change portfolio.
– Support knowledge management by extracting best practices and lessons learned from the Global EbA Fund’s portfolio.
– Coordinate production of bi-annual newsletters featuring projects’ highlights from grantees.
– Undertake any other tasks as relevant to the work of the Fund