Job Title: Climate Finance Officer
Organisation: Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
The Government of the Republic of Uganda has received funding from United Kingdom – Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) through the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), to set up the Climate Finance Unit (CFU) under the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
The CFU seeks to enhance mobilisation of climate financing at the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in line with it’s mandate of mobilising resources to finance the Government Development Priorities.
Job Summary: The Climate Finance Officer will support mobilisation of climate financing at the MoFPED of the Government of Uganda (GoU) under the CFU in line with the Ministry’s mandate of mobilising resources to finance the Government Development Priorities. The Climate Finance Officer will contribute to the Technical requirements of the Unit.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: In light of the above objectives, the Climate Finance Officer will undertake the following assignments:
- Support the Mobilization of Climate Finance, Green Finance and Disaster Risk financing to Government of Uganda in collaboration with other relevant Stakeholder
- Support the effective Monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes under the Climate Financing.
- Support climate and green finance related Project Preparation and Programming to enhance Uganda’s capacity to attract these financing.
- Support stakeholder Capacity needs assessment, develop strategies and execute the capacity enhancement.
- Support the identification of key capacity needs in relation to the partner government’s implementation of the pioneer country trial, as well as the preferred method(s) for in-country coordination by facilitating the Task Force Secretariat.
- Support operations of the NDA and GEF OFP Secretariat roles in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
- Support the Development of analytical knowledge products such as policy briefs, position and policy papers on climate finance to support the MoFPED in undertaking evidence based climate finance approaches.
- Support advocacy of Climate Financing in Uganda in collaboration with all the relevant stakeholders.
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned
- Support the Head of the Unit in Coordination of the Taskforce on Access to Climate Finance
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned
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Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics; Economic Policy and Planning; Sustainable Development Finance, Statistics, Law, Business Administration, Public Administration, Accounting, Social Sciences and related areas.
- At least five years of experience working closely with business teams and developing concept notes, strategies, guidelines, tools to manage partnerships and proposals for various funding opportunities in line with private sector facing financial institutions
- Information, communication Technology
- Public Relations and Interpersonal Skills
- Team Work
How to Apply:
Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, certificates and testimonials, and be addressed as below and submitted online to [email protected]
Address the email submitting your application as follows: POSITION – SURNAME-FIRST NAME – OTHER NAMES
Under Secretary/Accounting Officer,
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development,
Plot 2/12 Apollo Kaggwa Road,
P O Box 8147,
Kampala,
Uganda
Tel: 256-41-4707900
Please Note:
- The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development is an equal opportunity employer. Any form of lobbying shall lead to disqualification.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Deadline: 12th October 2022 by 5:00pm
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