Programme Officer (Gcf)

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Job Posting: 27/May/2025 Closure Date: 17/Jun/2025, 4:59:00 PM Organizational Unit: OCB Job Type: Staff position Type of Requisition: Professional Project Grade Level: P-3 Primary Location: Italy-Rome Duration: Fixed-term: one year with possibility of extension Post Number: 2009263 CCOG Code: 1A02 IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please note that Closure Date and Time displayed above are based on date and time settings of your personal device
- **FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture**: - **Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply**: - **Everyone who works for FAO is required to adhere to the highest standards of integrity and professional conduct, and to uphold FAO's values**: - **FAO, as a Specialized Agency of the United Nations, has a zero-tolerance policy for conduct that is incompatible with its status, objectives and mandate, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination**: - FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations._ The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for _better production_, _better nutrition_, _a _better environment,_ and _a better life_, leaving no one behind. **Organizational Setting** The Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) works to ensure that countries and stakeholders respond to the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.



OCB provides a cross organizational coordination role on issues related to climate change, biodiversity and the environment, and is the focal point to major multilateral environmental agreements including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Office also assists FAO Members in their responses towards the interlinked challenges of food security, climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation, including through facilitating access to climate and environmental financing (such as the Global Environment Fund (GEF) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF)). In addition, OCB hosts the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, the Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, as well as FAO's work on environmental safeguards. FAO has established a GCF Team within OCB (OCB-GCF Team) to coordinate the development and management of the GCF related portfolio. The OCB-GCF Team works in close collaboration with FAO Decentralized Offices and technical staff to identify, develop and deliver high-quality climate investment and readiness projects that respond to countries' priorities as defined in their national climate and sectoral policies and that deliver the transformational change sought by the GCF.



The position of Programme Officer (GCF) is located in OCB-GCF Team of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. **Reporting Lines** The Programme Officer (GCF) reports to the Senior Natural Resources Officer in the OCB-GCF Team. **Technical Focus** The Programme Officer (GCF) will monitor FAO-GCF portfolio results and impacts and will coordinate corporate planning, reporting tasks and the implementation support to GCF projects, ensuring compliance with FAO and GCF policies requirements throughout the Project Cycle. In performing these tasks, the Programme Officer (GCF) will liaise with FAO and GCF relevant teams and divisions, working closely with Climate Finance Officers in the OCB-GCF Team, the FAO Project Task Force members of each project and Operations Officers in Regional and Subregional Offices. **Key Results** Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate assigned programme/projects. **Key Functions**
- Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of assigned programmes/projects, etc.; monitors and analyses programme/project development and implementation.
- Reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; identifies and tracks follow-up actions.
- Assists in policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of impact evaluation or equivalent studies, etc.
- Prepares various written outputs, e.g. drafts background papers, analyses, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
- Undertakes outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, etc.; makes presentations on assigned topics/

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