Technical Expert: Resilience to Climate Change

Expertise France is the public agency of French international technical cooperation.The agency operates around four priorities: - democratic, economic and financial governance; - security and stability of countries in crisis/post-crisis situations; - sustainable development; - strengthening health systems, social protection and employment. In these areas, Expertise France carries out engineering and implementation missions for capacity building projects, mobilizes technical expertise and acts as an aggregator of projects involving public expertise and private know-how. With an activity volume of 233 million euros, more than 400 projects in portfolio in 80 countries, and 63,000 days of expertise, **Expertise France** focuses its action towards Frances solidarity policy, influence and economic diplomacy. Reporting to the Programme Director based at EF headquarters in Paris, the **Resilience Technical Expert** will join the ranks of a small group of other long term consultants working with and for the GO Programme. She / he will join an already contracted climate change resilience expert in identifying and ensuring the implementation of technical activities related to the Resilience component of the GO programme across the 25 OCTs. To achieve this, the Technical Expert will work in conjunction with the programme team, which includes: - A "headquarters" based coordination unit located in Paris (Programme Director, Administration and Finance Manager, Project Manager, Project Assistant, Communications and Media Manager, extensive other non Programme specific support also based at the Expertise France HQ.) - Three Regional "field" coordinators based in 1) the Caribbean, 2) the Pacific, and in 3) Paris. - Other thematic experts focusing on the programme's priority themes and issues (Resilience, Energy Transition, Monitoring & Evaluation, Communications & Visibility, and Gender), based in Paris, or abroad. The **Resilience Technical Expert** will be responsible for the successful implementation of activities to strengthen Climate Change Resilience across the OCTs, including the following tasks: **Provision of technical expertise** - Act upon request as an in-house Technical Advisor to the Programme Director in the field of Resilience; - Produce ad-hoc technical deliverables in the field of climate change resilience upon request (for example: summary of field visits and consultations, needs and gaps assessment, action plans, mappings of relevant stakeholders at local, regional and international levels, strategic sectoral and geographical assessments etc.); - Support the capitalization and dissemination efforts of the programme outcomes and lessons learned on climate change resilience related topics. **Capacity-building and facilitation** - Participate in capacity building activities for project beneficiaries on Resilience to Climate change related topics; - Support OCTs in developing proposed actions and subsequent terms of reference on climate change resilience related topics as part of the GO Facility, including for potential pilot projects; - Organize and participate in bilateral and multilateral workshops on Resilience related topics with the OCT partners / beneficiaries of the Programme; - Facilitate the sharing of best-practices and the dissemination of information among the programme beneficiaries **Programme management support** - Promote, facilitate, and guide Resilience to climate change related topics, both strategic and operational, within the team and with the Programme's external partners and beneficiaries; - Review upon request the technical deliverables produced by contractors or other experts contracted by the Programme as part of the GO Facility and GO Communities and provide the appropriate quality control; - Ensure the coherence of the Resilience actions with the other components of the Programme and the inter-OCT dialogue on this theme; - Support the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning efforts of the Programme in the climate change resilience area; - Identify and supervise the relevant short-term expertise (technical experts) required for the Programme on the theme; - Ensure the technical reporting of the Programme on the topics related to Resilience; This job description is not exhaustive. In general, the **Resilience Technical Expert** will be highly instrumental in ensuring the achievement of the contractual objectives of the programme related to Resilience to climate change theme and will have to carry out any and all activities necessary for the proper execution and ultimate success of the programme. In accordance with the commitments of the European Union with regard to its Overseas Countries and Territories, and those of the United Kingdom, and in particular the Overseas Association Decision (OAD) and the 2015-2020 strategy of the Overseas Countries and Territories Association (OCTA), the Thematic Programme, AKA the Green Overseas GO Programme, was conceived and launched to suppor