Pact Country Officer: Project Management and Climate Mitigation Specialist

2 weeks ago

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Arup Full time
Job Title: Pact Country Officer

Arup is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Pact Country Officer to join our team in India. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the management of UK PACT activities in India, working closely with the PACT Country Fund Manager and the Arup team.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Support the PACT Country Fund Manager in the coordination of grant funding windows and market engagement to ensure the right local stakeholders are aware of and well-placed to apply for PACT funding opportunities.
  • Contribute to the project screening and selection process, assessing deliverability and impact potential on the ground.
  • Support the PACT Country Fund Manager to oversee timely implementation of projects and ensure feedback of results, impacts, and learning through quarterly reports to FCDO.
  • Support the PACT Country Fund Manager and core team to adhere to local due diligence requirements and support initial briefing to potential Implementation Partners.
  • Support defence against fraud, corruption, and safeguarding risks, conducting spot checks and other processes to ensure FCDO grant funding is spent as intended and that Implementing Partners meet FCDO compliance requirements.
  • Support the PACT Country Fund Manager in advising on the potential to extend, scale up, or replicate successful projects, and work with successful Implementing Partners to do this with FCDO approval.
  • Support Implementing Partners on project reporting, ensuring reporting meets FCDO requirements with identification of country and project-specific risk management, working with FCDO in post and in the UK, the Team Leader, and core team.
  • Support continuous context analysis and assessment of local market capacity to identify the most appropriate avenues for interventions and pathways to climate change impact within each key strategic sector.
  • Support further demand scoping for PACT-funded projects in-country, including through stakeholder mapping and engagement, identification of complementary existing programmes to avoid programme duplication, and horizon scanning.
  • Support the PACT Country Fund Manager in promoting PACT funding opportunities to potential implementing partners, project and programme outputs to intended beneficiaries, and broader UK engagement on low-carbon development where relevant.
  • Working closely with the PACT Country Manager, contribute to and where appropriate lead in, managing day-to-day interactions with local stakeholders, specifically supporting on relationships with project applicants and grant recipients/implementing partners.
  • Maintain an excellent working relationship with the local FCDO team within the British High Commission to collaboratively design and generate buy-in for the programme activities.
Requirements:
  • Master's degree in the field of environment and climate, international development, or a related field.
  • 6-8 years of relevant work experience in project management, including technical and financial grant management.
  • Good and up-to-date knowledge and understanding of the local political, economic, and operating context in India, with a focus on the low-carbon/climate mitigation sector.
  • Excellent organisational, inter-personal, administration, and communication skills.
  • Professional fluency in English (written and verbal) with a high degree of personal resilience, flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
  • Highly collaborative and committed to close working and open communication with FCDO in post and in the UK, and other PACT partners, as well as ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders at different levels of seniority.
About Arup:

Arup is a UK-headquartered independent firm of Designers, Planners, Engineers, Consultants, and Technical Specialists offering a broad range of professional services. With 90 offices in 35 countries, our 19,000+ staff offer a broad range of professional services and through our work, we make a positive difference in the world.

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