The Climate Change and Energy Transition Team (CCETT) is a thematic programme of the IUCN Secretariat, within the IUCN Centre for Conservation Action that works under a mandate provided by IUCN membership with a focus on delivering key transformations in the conservation, restoration and management of ecosystems. CCETT works as a delocalized team across several IUCN duty stations with the majority of the staff divided between its Gland-based Headquarters, Bonn, and Washington D.C. office.

The Programme Associate will support the Climate Change and Energy Transition Team implementing multiple global projects. Responsibilities include assisting with programme development, conducting research and analysis, reviewing and preparing technical documents and content, and preparing donor deliverables. The Programme Associate will also support the coordination of activities and reports between IUCN and partner offices.

1.Support Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for Adaptation/Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) initiatives. This involves collaborating with colleagues across Thematic Teams, Regions, Commissions, IUCN Members, and partners; supporting technical backstopping for project delivery, compiling reports, synthesizing information, tracking deliverables, and facilitating high-level meetings and workshops.

2.Support efforts to strengthen evidence for policy and practice influence through research and analysis. This includes engaging with policy streams of UNFCCC, UNCBD, UNCCD, and other fora; interacting with stakeholders on selected policy discourses; planning and organizing workshops, events, and communications; and drafting and publishing issue briefs and technical papers.

3.Assist in IUCN’s engagement with global network partnerships and support teams in representing IUCN, working groups, and organizing and presenting at events and webinars.

4.Contribute to developing knowledge products on climate change adaptation and other sectoral areas, such as gender. This includes analysing large amounts of data following quantitative or qualitative methods to support the development of technical papers and outreach products, drawing on experiences and lessons from implementation processes.

5.Support programme development and proposal responses by analysing donor priorities, identifying key internal and external stakeholders, and proposing potential interventions, while liaising with IUCN regional and country offices and Thematic Teams.

6.Carry out any other relevant task as assigned by, and agreed with, the line manager.

The above job description contains the main duties and responsibilities for this position. However, in an organization such as IUCN, staff members are expected to show flexibility in their approach to work and be willing to undertake other tasks that are reasonably allocated to them, but which are not part of their regular job description. Where any task becomes a regular part of an employee's responsibilities, the job description will be changed in consultation with the employee and the Human Resources Management Group. Being an international organization the institution reserves the right to re-assign duty stations for any internationally recruited position, after consultation with staff members and taking into account their personal circumstances.