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The Climate Change Analyst will work under direct supervision of Livelihoods and NRM Specialist while the Gender and Community Cohesion Analyst will be secondary supervisor. S/he will also closely work with bio-diversity, ecosystem restoration and livelihoods improvement teams. The peron will also be a core member of the team for mobilizing resources.

Duties and Responsibilities of Climate Change Analyst

Considering the above mentioned scope the incumbent will be responsible for the below functions:

• Lead Climate Change Assessments, Planning, Budgeting, Implementation of Planned activities and Coordination.
• Climate Change Analyses, Evaluation and managing relevant studies.
• Develop relevant training materials, different guidelines, conduct training and capacity building activities.
• Budget management and monitoring

Lead Climate Change Assessments, Planning, Budgeting, Implementation of Planned Activities and Coordination.

• Lead in preparing annual work plans related to climate change activities and closely work with other team members.
• Develop necessary field implementation guidelines and achieve results with respect to climate change issues.
• Design and develop climate change vulnerability assessments and plans, activity implementation with necessary guidelines and budgets.
• Coordinate with Hill District Councils (HDCs), partners, local and national level stakeholders, donors to ensure proper supports in implementing the project activities.

Climate Change Analyses, Evaluation and managing relevant studies.

• Conducting assessment on the climate changes in the CHT region and regularly collect secondary reports on the subject matters.
• Provide strategic briefs to the supervisor and management on a regular basis.

Develop relevant training materials, different guidelines, conduct training and capacity building activities.

• Develop training materials on CCVA (Community Climate Vulnerability Assessment), LRP (Local Resilience Plans), NbS (Nature-based Solutions), climate-adaptive livelihood options (CALO), guidelines for beneficiary selection and formation of women-led climate change committees etc.
• Develop livelihoods grant management guidelines and provide trainings to the field teams.
• Organise and manage trainings for the partners, project teams and stakeholders as required for the implementation of the project activities.
• Organise workshops, seminars as required.

Budget management and monitoring

• Preparing quarterly and annual budget for the relevant activities.
• Maintain budget tracking tools and provide feedback on the budget management to the supervisor for strategic decisions.
• Organise budget review meeting with partners and field teams to understand the budget delivery progress on regular basis.

Monitor field activities, results, produce periodical qualitative and quantitative reports

• Monitor the increased practice of climate-smart resilience-building practices, and development of livelihoods by vulnerable households – especially women in the project areas.
• Monitor increased women’s role in decision-making, developing, promoting, and implementing inclusive local resilience plans with local government institutions and civil society organizations.
• Monitor increased support from national government institutions and civil society organisations to upscale locally-led adaptation.
• Monitor proper utilization of livelihood and climate change adaptation grants.

Managing partners’ agreements and contracts, monitor the progress and processing the payments following the corporate guidelines.

• Preparing relevant documents to be signed with the partners and contractors/consultants/NGOs etc.
• Manage the agreements and contracts and process timely payment to the partners and contractors.
• Provide necessary capacity building supports to the partners on managing the budgets.

Preparing procurement plans and implement them in collaboration with the procurement unit.

• Following the annual work plans, prepare procurement plan in collaboration with procurement team and initiate procurement process.
• Monitoring the progress of the procurement process and update management on a regular basis.

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