UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) – Project Coordinator for Costa Rica

The purpose of this consultancy is to perform the role of project coordinator of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness project “Aligning financial flows of the financial sector in Costa Rica with the Paris agreement climate change goals ” whose main objective is to provide the guiding structure for the financial sector to: (1) mobilize private capital flows towards a low-emission and climate-resilient economy and; (2) strengthen the resilience of the financial system to climate-related financial risks. The Project Coordination will work in close coordination with the Project Coordination Support Consultant, who is also under the Project Coordination Unit, all individual technical consultants, hired under the project, and other internal partners (technical teams of other areas of UNEP FI involved in the execution of the project). The Project Technical Coordinator will build a smooth relationship with members of the local financial actors and authorities and of the workstreams, working groups, and technical roundtables created under this with whom must work in close coordination and articulation; hence, acting as a coordination focal point for the project´s workstreams and working groups, and technical roundtables. The Project Coordinator will act under the guidance of the UNEP Programme Management Officer on Sustainable Finance for the LAC region to refer major executive project decisions to the Project Steering Committee (PSC).