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Current Vacancies

• Short-Term Consultant – Developing Innovation Strategy Directions for the Adaptation Fund: The Adaptation Fund is seeking to contract a qualified expert to develop Innovation Directions document on a Short-term Consultant contract. The Innovation Directions will outline a proposed vision and mission for the Fund for approaching innovation in line with the Fund’s overall vision and mission outlined in Medium-term Strategy II, and provide options on the Fund’s potential role in the innovation space in the medium term, with the purpose of potentially integrating it into the overarching Medium-term Strategy III (2027-2031), ensuring alignment with the Fund’s objectives and global adaptation priorities.

Previous Vacancies

• Request For Proposals – Adaptation Fund Readiness Strategy Finalization:
  The Adaptation Fund is seeking a qualified company to finalize its Enhanced Readiness Strategy, which will strengthen developing countries’ capacity to access and manage climate adaptation finance. The selected vendor will refine the current draft strategy to ensure it incorporates recommendations from recent independent evaluation findings. This work will guide the future direction of the Readiness Programme, ensuring it delivers maximum impact and value for stakeholders.
• Short-Term Consultant – Communications and Website Reorganization Specialist: The Adaptation Fund is seeking a short-term consultant (STC) with solid experience in communications or marketing, content management, and managing website improvements or comparable large communications projects. Website development, user x or visual design experience is a plus
• Short-Term Consultant – (SEAH- Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment): The Adaptation Fund is recruiting a senior Short-Term Consultant to undertake the work of developing a draft policy on safeguarding against sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH) for the Adaptation Fund, considering the Adaptation Fund’s operational framework and structure, governance, funding modalities, and other relevant aspects.
• Short-Term Consultant – Resource Mobilization from Carbon Markets for Climate Adaptation: The Adaptation Fund is recruiting a Short-Term Consultant (STC) to support the Secretariat’s Country and Partnerships Unit in the area of resource mobilization from high-integrity carbon markets, including the Paris Agreement’s Crediting Mechanism under Article 6 and voluntary carbon markets.
• Short-Term Consultant – Study on Alignment of Adaptation Fund Portfolio with National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs): The Adaptation Fund is recruiting a Short-Term Consultant (STC) to support the Secretariat in producing a study offering an overview and analysis on the lessons learned from aligning the AF portfolio of projects/programmes under implementation with countries’ NAPs and NDCs.
• Short Term Consultant – Member of the Technical Evaluation Reference Group of the Adaptation Fund
• Short-Term Consultant – Readiness Strategy
• Short-Term Consultant – Knowledge Product Development on learnings from the work of the Adaptation Fund and their relevance to the M&E systems development for loss and damage
• Short-Term Consultant – Communications and website reorganization specialist
• Short-Term Consultant – Development of a Scoping Study on the use of AI in Evaluations for AF-TERG, CIFs E&L Initiative and GEF IEO, GCF IEU
• Short-Term Consultant – Gender and Data Analyst
• Short-Term Consultant – Member of the Adaptation Fund Technical Evaluation Reference Group