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Location: Remote (Remote), KR

Company: Green Climate Fund

I. Background

Established in 2010 by the 194 countries that are Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) serves as the world’s largest dedicated climate fund. Over the past decade GCF has financed transformative climate projects across developing countries, empowering them to respond to and combat climate change while promoting sustainable development within their communities. Today, our portfolio spans over USD 19 billion across more than 330 projects in over 130 countries—evidence of the profound impact that strategic climate finance can achieve.

As we scale toward our vision of becoming a USD 50 billion fund by 2030, strengthening national capacities remains central to our mission. GCF mobilizes public and private sector investments through a diverse financing instruments, and equips developing countries with the resources, skills, and capacities to effectively secure and manage climate financing through our Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme.

The Readiness Programme strategy introduces an innovative placement scheme: GCF Liaison Officers embedded within National Designated Authorities (NDAs) or other relevant agencies designated by countries. These local experts will ensure continuous, effective engagement with GCF, imparting knowledge of GCF policies, systems and processes, facilitating programming development and enabling enhanced direct access to climate finance for national climate objectives.

As a GCF Liaison Officer, you will be at the frontlines of accelerating climate action in your country,



bridging GCF and national institutions to unlock transformative climate investments.

II. Role:

The GCF Liaison Officer will act as the primary liaison between the GCF Secretariat and the country, providing essential support to the NDA in all matters concerning GCF climate action, and overall operate under the guidance of the NDA. This role entails close coordination with stakeholders relevant to the GCF activities in the country to ensure their seamless execution, including country programming, accreditation, readiness support conceptualisation and oversight, project preparation, no objection procedures, and implementation and other related activities.

III. Objectives:

The placement scheme aims to achieve the following objectives through the role of the GCF Liaison Officer:

To enhance the capacity of the NDA and relevant agencies to plan, develop and implement climate change adaptation and mitigation concept notes and funding proposals;

To support the NDA and/or relevant agencies in developing and implementing GCF country programmes, including facilitating the set up or improvement of coordination with relevant stakeholders including those from the private sector;

To assist in accessing and implementing integrated programmes of readiness activities in the country;

To raise awareness and facilitate understanding in the country of the GCF funding windows, policies and processes,



including specific considerations for public and private sector projects;

To support the NDA, accredited entities, and/or relevant agencies in originating and developing a strong pipeline of projects that are in line with the country’s national climate change strategies and priorities; and

To facilitate knowledge transfer and skill development among local stakeholders and communities.

IV. Responsibilities

The GCF Liaison officer will carry out the following responsibilities:

4.1 Country Programme

- Support the periodic reviews and updates of the Colombia country programme with GCF, following the GCF guidance for country programmes;
- Assist the NDA in coordinating consultative processes within the country (public stakeholders, private sector, civil society, etc.) to identify key areas for results related to the implementation of NDCs/NAPs/LTSs and developing project/programme ideas for the country programme;
- Support the NDA and relevant ministries with the update of the NDC for the new NDC cycle as relevant;
- Support the NDA in aligning and harmonizing all datasets for GCF programming with the national Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system, ensuring that they can be integrated into national UNFCCC reporting. This may include adopting a harmonized approach for applying methodologies in greenhouse gas accounting, climate change information datasets, tracking climate finance, and other relevant datasets. Ensure that these harmonized datasets are used in all projects and programmes with the GCF, and guide the development of country programmes, concept notes, and funding proposals;
- Assist in the

📌 Liaison Officer for Colombia (Bogotá)
🏢 Green Climate
📍 Bogotá