Senior Finance Carbon Markets Consultant

About the role

The UNEP Latin America and the Caribbean Office is seeking a Senior Finance Carbon Markets Consultant to advise the Climate Ambition and Transparency Team on the financial implications of authorizing Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The consultant will work from home, under the direct supervision of the Programme Management Officer for Energy Efficiency of the Climate Change Unit, and deliver a common regional methodology and a functional financial assessment tool for seven participating countries.

Key responsibilities

• Gather information on Article 6 requirements, national NDCs, regulations, institutional arrangements, MRV and registry systems, and international practices on authorization charges, minimum prices, revenue sharing and strategic contributions.
• Engage with national focal points and technical officials in the seven countries to collect, verify and contextualize financial, institutional, mitigation and policy information, documenting data gaps, proxies, assumptions and confidence levels.
• Develop an auditable financial methodology distinguishing administrative fees, mitigation opportunity costs, NDC compliance exposure, MRV and reporting obligations, risk premiums, domestic benefits, strategic contributions, transaction prices and applicable taxes.
• Build, parameterize and quality-assure an Excel tool for all seven countries, with documented formulas, editable assumptions, source traceability, scenarios, sensitivity tests, dashboards and regional comparisons.
• Prepare the report, country factsheets and user manual, and deliver an instructional recording and a live Q&A session for national focal points.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, environmental sciences, climate change, economics, finance, environmental economics, business administration, energy systems, renewable energy, political science, international relations, law, public policy or related studies; master's degree desirable.
• Seven years of professional experience in environmental economics, climate finance, carbon pricing, carbon markets, financial appraisal, climate projects, climate or environmental policy, or related fields.
• Desirable: two years of experience in carbon markets and Article 6, two years advising public institutions or international cooperation organizations, and two years developing financial models, cost models or scenario analyses.
• Fluent Spanish required; fluent English desirable.

Required skills

• Intermediate MS Office is desirable.
• Ability to develop financial models, decision-support tools, cost models, marginal abatement cost analyses and scenario and sensitivity analyses.
• Independence, initiative, confidentiality, and strong organizational and interpersonal skills.