Senior Loss and Damage Consultant – PAF Argentina

Result of ServiceThe Consultant’s ultimate result of services will be to support the consolidation, generation, and institutionalization of information and methodologies on climate-related loss and damage, including the review of its integration in UNFCCC instruments, the development of a national reporting framework and methodologies for prioritized sectors, and the strengthening of inter-institutional coordination and capacities, in order to enable the preparation and validation of Argentina’s first national annual loss and damage report and inputs to the Second Biennial Transparency Report. Work LocationHome-based Expected durationPart-time / 9 months Duties and ResponsibilitiesThe United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. The Climate Change Division is the lead Division charged with carrying out the functions of UNEP in the field of environmental Climate Change. To fulfill its mandate, the work of the Climate Change Division focuses on: working with Members States and Partners to accelerate and support a just transition by addressing mitigation and adaptation gaps through enhancing implementation capacity, access to finance and technology, and building resilience. The Climate Change Division promotes sustainable development and effective policies for climate stability; support action so that countries progress on decarbonization, dematerialization, and resilience pathways in line with their climate commitments, aspirations, and needs; and foster transparency in reporting. In 2022, the Republic of Argentina submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the Long-Term Low Emissions Resilient Development Strategy (LTS) to 2050, approved by Resolution No. 218 of 2023. Through this strategy, goals were defined that will guide the process to be developed in the context of the National Climate Change Cabinet (GNCC, acronym in Spanish) to establish the framework for long-term climate action in the country. The LTS correlates with the National Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan (PNAyMCC, acronym in Spanish), which is a domestic planning instrument of the GNCC presented in 2022 and approved by former the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development of Argentina (MAyDS, acronym in Spanish) Resolution No. 146 of 2023. The LTS includes the approaches and strategic lines of the PNAyMCC and in turn considers the goals of the Second NDC (2020) and the Second Revised NDC (2021). Based on these instruments and in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Agreement, Argentina elaborated the content of its NDC 3.0 during 2025. The process comprised the review and update medium-term scenarios order to update the mitigation target and present the Third Adaptation Communication under the National Climate Change Cabinet (GNCC, acronym in Spanish) climate governance structure. Additionally, it established consensus around priority issues such as loss and damage and to generate and unify criteria on the information produced in order to meet reporting criteria in the Biennial Transparency Report 2026. Along these lines and in continuity with the work guidelines, UNEP submitted to the NDC Partnership the PAF project proposal entitled: PAF23-Q4-1 & PAF23-Q4-2: Update the Long-term Strategy (LTS) through the development and analysis of models, scenarios, and long-term trajectories & develop a roadmap for the development of a monitoring system for the Long-term Strategy, which seeks to establish a process of analysis of available information and scenarios to generate inputs and a road map that will facilitate the preparation of a second LTS for the country, while providing inputs for the improvement of national climate reports for the Republic of Argentina. In this sense, UNEP is recruiting a Loss and Damage Consultant to support the work of the Climate Impact Directorate of the National Undersecretariat for Environment. The consultant will be supervised by UNEP’s NDC Act & Invest Global Coordinator and will work in a hybrid work model, enabling the possibility to work from home, while participating in-person activities such as meetings and stakeholder engagements as required, at the Undersecretariat of Environment) located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1. Review the approach to the adaptation and loss and damage component in mid- and long-term strategies and reports presented to the UNFCCC such as NDC, LTS, Adaptation Communications and BTR. 2. Based on the background of the loss and damage mechanism for the Argentine Republic, propose a work plan for the development of the first national annual report on loss and damage due to adverse events of climatic origin. 3. Update the mapping of stakeholders, information providers, relevant studies and training needs. 4. Identify and facilitate inter-institutional agreements for the exchange of loss and damage information. 5. Develop and propose loss and damage methodologies for prioritized sectors. 6. Develop consultation meetings and training workshops. 7. Develop the contents of the first national annual report and the second BTR on losses and damages due to adverse weather-related events for its validation. 8. Develop dissemination material. Timely delivery of outputs as outlined in the Terms of Reference. Quality of design work, materials, and reports produced, as well as the approval of products/ deliverables/ outputs by the consultant’s reporting officer, Jérôme Malavelle, Project Management Officer, UNEP. Qualifications/special skills• Bachelor’s degree in biological sciences, environmental sciences, political science, International Relations, Economics, Finance or a closely related field (Required). • Master’s degree in finance, Economics, Sustainability, and/or Climate Change related (Required). ● Minimum 3 years of professional experience in projects related to climate change in Argentina, or related areas. (Required). ● Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in adaptation perspective and/or loss and damage (Required). ● Demonstrated understanding of Argentina’s national policy related to climate change and of national and international climate reports (Required). ● Demonstrated experience in disaster risk (Desired). ● Demonstrated understanding of climate change policy within the Government of Argentina and stakeholders (Desired). Languages● Fluency in Spanish (Required). ● Confidence in English (Required). Additional InformationNot available. No FeeTHE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.