Grant Implementation Expert

Grant Implementation Expert

Grant Implementation Expert

1. Position Information

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

2. Office/Unit/Project Description

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 2024-2030,
• 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 15,114,913.23.

Minimum Grant Support* (EUR) Maximum Grant Support* (EUR)

250,000 750,000

Any grant requested under this call for proposals fall between the following minimum and maximum percentages of total eligible costs of the action: Minimum percentage: 50 % of the total eligible costs of the action Maximum percentage: 90 % of the total eligible costs of the action A total of 25 grant projects has been contracted within the framework of the EU – Türkiye Climate Change Grant Programme. The projects are implemented across 15 cities in Türkiye, including Mersin, Çankırı, İzmir, Sinop, Konya, Ankara, Bursa, Çanakkale, Bolu, Malatya, İstanbul, Muğla, Isparta, Kahramanmaraş, and Diyarbakır, as well as in Warka (Poland).

Technical assistance under Component E supports the effective implementation and monitoring of the Grant Programme, including the operation of the Grant Management Information System (MIS), monitoring and evaluation arrangements, monitoring activities, reporting processes, capacity-building and consultative activities, follow-up of grant implementation processes, institutional learning, and the documentation and dissemination of programme results.

In this context, UNDP intends to engage a Grant Implementation Expert on a retainer basis to provide technical, analytical and operational support to the Grant Manager, Grant Expert and Project Team in relation to the implementation, monitoring, reporting and other related processes of the EU-TR CCGP, based on needs arising throughout the implementation period.

Beyond the LCA project, the Expert may also be requested to provide contributions to other projects as deemed relevant to his/her expertise.

3. Objective and Scope of Work

UNDP will engage a Grant Implementation - Expert to provide professional, technical, analytical and operational support to the implementation, monitoring, reporting and overall technical assistance provided to the EU–Türkiye Climate Change Grant Programme under Component E of the EU Partnership for Local Climate Action in Türkiye Project.

The Expert will work in support of the Grant Manager, Grant Expert and Project Team and will contribute to grant-related processes through review, analysis, preparation and consolidation of documentation and information, monitoring and reporting support, operational follow-up and other related activities. The Expert's functions will not include managerial, supervisory and/or representative functions.

The assignment will be implemented on a retainer basis. The Expert will be engaged on an as-needed basis through individual Service Requests issued by UNDP during the contract period. Each Service Request will define, as applicable, the specific assignment, scope of services, expected output(s), estimated level of effort, timeframe, reporting requirements, place of performance and any travel requirements.

The generic functions described below establish the overall areas within which services may be requested. They are indicative and not exhaustive and do not constitute a predetermined set of assignments or deliverables. Depending on the implementation needs of the Grant Programme, an individual Service Request may cover one or more of these functions.

Within the scope of the assignment, the Grant Implementation Expert may be requested to perform the following generic functions:

• Provide technical, analytical and operational support to the implementation, monitoring, reporting and follow-up of grant projects under the EU-TR CCGP.
• Support the Grant Manager, Grant Expert and Project Team in the preparation, review, consolidation and follow-up of grant-related documentation, information and implementation processes.
• Support the review and assessment of narrative, financial, progress, interim and final reports submitted by Grant Beneficiaries, together with relevant supporting documentation, through the MIS and/or other applicable reporting arrangements.
• Prepare and/or contribute to monitoring reports, programme progress reports, review notes, assessment notes, checklists, management summaries, briefing notes, presentations, trackers, analytical documents and other grant-related reporting and management outputs.
• Support the operation and use of the Grant MIS, including the review,