Liberia - Gender and Social Safeguards Expert, Paris, France

## Liberia - Gender and Social Safeguards Expert, Paris, France - Organization:UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme The expert will develop the gender-responsive measures, criteria and indicators for the Revised NDC Implementation Plan and the Updated NDC Investment Plan, supported by a project gender plan, an inception gender analysis, sex-disaggregated participation across consultations and validation workshops, a gender-responsive financing lens applied to the Investment Plan, and a final gender mainstreaming report documenting outcomes against the project gender targets. From 25 September 2026 to 30 March 2027 (45 working days over 6 months) Duties and Responsibilities The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the international environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. The NDC Act & Invest Initiative is a global project led by UNEP and currently funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and the NDC Partnership’s Partnership Action Fund (PAF) multi-donor trust fund. It is designed to help countries raise their climate ambition and translate their new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted in 2025 into actionable, investable plans. Structured around three interconnected workstreams: fostering G20+ ambition and action, piloting policy and planning alignment, and providing deep-dive support to enhance NDC 3.0 investability, the project aims to bridge the gap between climate commitments and tangible implementation. By aligning national strategies, strengthening enabling environments, and working collaboratively with key partners, including the NDC Partnership, GIZ, UNDP’s Climate Promise, UNFCCC, multilateral development banks (MDBs), development finance institutions (DFIs), and private sector actors, NDC Act & Invest seeks to make the next generation of NDCs 3.0 both more ambitious and more achievable, accelerating progress toward the 1.5°C goal and enhancing global resilience. The NDC Act & Invest team, based within the Mitigation Branch in Paris, is responsible for the global management and overall coordination of the project across partner countries, in line with UNEP’s delivery model. The team also acts as the main liaison between UNEP and the NDC Partnership, coordinating UNEP’s responses to country support requests shared through the Partnership, identifying and applying for additional funding where appropriate, and consolidating implementation and progress reporting. In addition, the team maintains close coordination with related projects under the IKI Programme to ensure coherence and synergies across initiatives. Liberia has submitted its Third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0) to the UNFCCC, retaining its 64% emission reduction target against an updated business-as-usual baseline, with an unconditional reduction target of 5,551 GgCO2e (10%) and a conditional reduction of 29,974 GgCO2e (54 per cent) by 2035. To operationalise the NDC 3.0 ambition, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia has requested technical support through the NDC Partnership to deliver two outputs: (i) a Revised NDC Implementation Plan, aligned with the updated NDC 3.0 targets, national policies and strategies, and relevant county climate action plans, and accompanied by sector-specific tracking tools; and (ii) an Updated NDC Investment Plan identifying priority interventions, financing needs, and viable resource-mobilisation pathways (national and international) to support NDC implementation. The project will be delivered by UNEP in close collaboration with the EPA, the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), line ministries, and the NDC Partnership, using a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach, with gender equality and social inclusion mainstreamed across all activities. Beyond this support under PAF, UNEP maintains an established presence and broader portfolio of support in Liberia, including long-standing engagement with the Government of Liberia through the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) on short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), as well as support to Liberia's electricity-sector investment planning delivered through the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The selected expert will be connected to this wider UNEP support in-country and will coordinate closely with UNEP's existing experts and teams in Liberia to maximise synergies across the organisation's engagement. - Key Competencies o Excellent gender analysis skills, including the ability to identify gender-differentiated impacts of climate policies and investments and to translate findings into concrete planning measures. o Strong methodological outreach skills with women-led organisations, youth groups, indigenous and marginalised communities, and the private sector. o Clear and concise written communication in English; o Ability to produce gender assessments, gender strategies and gender sections of policy and investment plans of publishable quality. o Capacity to design gender Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including sex-disaggregated participation indicators and gender-responsive financing indicators. o Proficiency in MS Office. Result 1: A project gender plan and gender analysis grounding the technical work. - Activity 1.1: Conduct a detailed gender analysis at inception, considering all existing gender policies’ efforts in Liberia; - Activity 1.2: Develop the project gender strategy aligned with Liberia’s national gender policies and the international climate finance gender policies. - Activity 1.3: Provide gender-mainstreaming inputs to the review of the NDC 3.0 and to the prioritisation of NDC measures and activities under the Result-Based Framework. Expected deliverables: - 1.a Inception gender analysis documenting gender-differentiated impacts and entry points across NDC 3.0 sectors. - 1.b Project gender strategy with gender-responsive actions, KPIs and monitoring plan. Result 2: Gender-responsive Revised NDC Implementation Plan integrating inputs from women, youth and marginalised communities, with a sex-disaggregated M&E framework. - Activity 2.1: Provide gender-mainstreaming inputs to the sectoral analysis and prioritisation under the whole-of-society approach - Activity 2.2: Review and complement the stakeholder lists to include women's organisations, youth groups and marginalised communities - Activity 2.3: Contribute to the design of the consultation methodology to capture gender-differentiated impacts and priorities. - Activity 2.4: Design the sex-disaggregated participation tracking approach and synthesise gender insights emerging from the consultations. - Activity 2.5: Provide gender content for the national validation workshop on the Implementation Plan. - Activity 2.6: Draft the gender-responsive action section and sex-disaggregated indicators for integration into the draft Implementation Plan. - Activity 2.7: Train the project team and key EPA and line-ministry staff on gender mainstreaming for NDC 3.0 implementation. Expected deliverables: - 2.a Gender section of the Revised NDC Implementation Plan with gender-responsive activities, sex-disaggregated indicators (target: 100% of Implementation Plan indicators disaggregated by sex), and a gender M&E framework. - 2.b Technical note synthesising and analysing inputs gathered from women, youth and marginalised communities, together with gender mainstreaming guidance and training material, documenting at least 40% cumulative female participation across consultations and engagement with at least five women’s groups or gender-focused organisations throughout the project. Result 3: A gender-responsive Updated NDC Investment Plan, with gender-specific financing opportunities and engagement of women-led enterprises. - Activity 3.1