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Assistant Consultant, Climate, Resilience and Sustainability Practice, Islamabad

Deadline to Apply: 15 February 2023

Number of years of experience required: 1 – 5 years

OPM Pakistan is seeking to recruit an Assistant Consultant based in the Islamabad office to work in its Climate, Resilience and Sustainability Practice. Successful applicants should expect to provide wide-ranging support to both project acquisition and implementation across the subject areas.  OPM’s Climate, Resilience and Sustainability practice consists of five teams covering: climate policy and finance; disaster risk reduction; nature and environment; urban policy; and energy resources and growth.  This role will sit in the Climate Policy and Finance team, but working with colleagues across the Practice, as well as with other Practices working in Pakistan.

Applicants must have:

• A Master’s degree in Climate Change, Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Economics, Public Policy, Social Science, Development Studies, or a related field.
• 3 to 5 years relevant work experience in climate policy or climate finance or renewable energy projects or climate smart agriculture, WASH or any international development area with climate action, mitigation, and resiliency mainstreaming.
• An awareness of climate policies and knowledge of climate governance landscape in Pakistan, familiarity of local climate challenges and enthusiasm in exploring and assisting the technical team at OPM in offering bespoke climate action and mitigation policy solutions and enthusiasm to lead research in the areas of financing instruments for climate action, Disaster Risk response, energy efficiency projects, climate smart agriculture, WASH, carbon markets and other associated sub thematic areas mentioned here Climate and natural resources | Oxford Policy Management (opml.co.uk)
• Strong and demonstrated written and verbal communication skills, especially technical writing.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Project management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• The ability to multi-task well and manage multiple deadlines.
• Fluency in Urdu and English.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday, 15^th February 2023.

Job Description:                                                                                                                                                  

Assistant Consultant, Climate Change and Climate and Natural Resources Portfolio Islamabad