UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre is supporting the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in Fiji in the development of Fiji’s second Climate Finance Snapshot. To this end, the support of a local Public Climate Finance Consultant is required. Under the direct supervision of the UNEP Project Manager, the Public Climate Finance Consultant will support the UNEP team with gathering public budgets and expenditure data and probing it for climate relevance in accordance with a pre-agreed categorization methodology.
The Public Climate Finance Consultant will facilitate and coordinate the implementation of project activities in Fiji during the course of project implementation (6 months), such as coordination of project activities on the ground, stakeholder consultations, data and information gathering and workshop planning and implementation.
The Local consultant will support a majority of the following work programme led by a UNEP team:
- Output 1: Inception Report
- Output 2: Stakeholder Engagement Plan Report
- Output 3: Climate Finance Snapshot
- Output 4: Learnings and Recommendations Report
- Output 5: Capacity Building
The Public Climate Finance Consultant will be the main researcher gathering data on Fiji’s public climate finance.
This will include browsing public expenditures of the national budget of the years 2020 – 2024 (and if possible and available the year 2025) and then use a template co-prepared with UNEP to identify and designate climate-relevant expenditures and weigh expenditures for their climate relevance based on a pre-agreed methodology.
The Public Climate Finance Consultant will therefore also have to remain available to validate the results in a workshop (Output 3), provide their insights on the process as part of the learning for this project (Output 4), and – if desired by the Fiji government – present at a capacity building workshop (output 5). The local consultant will benefit from her/his extensive local network in functioning as a liaison between the public sector in Fiji and the UNEP project team. Moreover, she/he will reach out the public stakeholders to engage them productively on this project. The local data gathering process will rely largely on the network of the local consultant and their efforts to undertake interview, gather documents and databases, and the like.
Qualifications
- A Master’s Degree or equivalent, in environmental engineering, finance, economics, development studies, business, management, administration or another relevant field is required.
- A minimum of 7 years of work experience in development project implementation in Fiji, working with national public institutions or private sector (including financial sector).
- Demonstrated experience advising Fiji public organisations on climate change mitigation and adaptation and in-depth understanding of mitigation and adaptation priorities in Fiji.
- Expert understanding of what constitutes climate-change relevant public budgets and expenditure and ability to support UNEP in producing a snapshot of climate-change relevant expenditures in public spending based on a pre-agreed categorization methodology.
- Experience working with Fijian institutions on climate finance.
- Understanding of the Fiji public budget process acquired for example as part of a Fijian ministry.
Application deadline: 23/02/2026
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