Grant Implementation Expert

• Office/Unit/Project: Türkiye / Climate Change and Environment Portfolio / EU Partnership for Local Climate Action in Türkiye Project
• Title:
  
  Grant Implementation Expert
• Level: NPSA 9
• Duty station (City and Country):
  Ankara
  - Türkiye
• Type (Regular or Short term):
  Short-Term
  - Retainer
• Office- or Home-based:
  Home-based
• Expected starting date: 01/11/2026
• Expected Duration:
  Up to 130 days in 12 months

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network. It is an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience, and resources to help people build better lives.

The Climate Change and Environment Portfolio’s strategy is focusing on promoting change at scale through investing in national capacity to respond in addition to piloting and prototyping development solutions that have the potential to lead to transformational change. Also, a key element of the strategy is to apply the integrated ecosystem approach, to help establish mechanisms to value ecosystem services with a view to address the market failures to fully reflect the true value of ecosystem services.

The portfolio strategy requires the establishment of programmatic partnerships, as a cross-cutting area, ‘with different ministries, international organizations (inter alia UNEP, EU, UNIDO, WB, EBRD and FAO), universities and CSOs, collaboratively adding value to the ongoing work of these stakeholders. The Climate Change and Environment (CCE) Portfolio focuses on three programmatic areas that complement each other: 1-Natural Resource Management contributing to sustainable environment management and conservation of natural resources in production landscapes, within the general framework of the ecosystems approach;

2
- Climate Change and Disaster Resilience (including chemicals and waste) strengthening institutional capacities for analysis and risk management for resilience with a specific emphasis on climate change, and 3
- Cooperation with relevant stakeholders to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy.

The overall objective of the EU Partnership for Local Climate Change Action in Türkiye (LCA) Project is to support Türkiye in its efforts to combat climate change through increased implementation capacity at the local level, which will ultimately contribute to sustainable, low-carbon, and climate-resilient development.

The overall outcome of the Project is the improvement of Türkiye’s local climate change mitigation and adaptation capacity, achieved through activities spanning five distinct components (Components A to

E).

Component E focuses on providing Technical Assistance to the EU–Türkiye Climate Change Grant Programme (EU-TR CCGP). The Grant Programme is implemented directly by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change (MoEUCC), while UNDP provides technical assistance in support of its implementation.

Projects under the the Climate Change Grant Programme address at least one of these priority areas:

• In line with the priorities of the existing national adaptation and mitigation action plans between ,
• Promoting resilient and low-carbon cities and sectors,
• Implementing adaptation and/or mitigation actions in line with existing local or national climate strategies.

As an additional element, all projects include a component (set of activities) on strengthening the communication between stakeholders and “raising awareness within the society”.

The approximate total amount allocated to the grant programme under Grant Component is EUR 15,.

Minimum Grant Support (EUR) 250,000

Maximum Grant Support…