Pact Country Officer

**UK PACT Country Officer**

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**The Opportunity**

Arup has an exciting opportunity for an individual with demonstrated project management skills and experience in climate mitigation and low-carbon development to serve as Country Officer for the UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) programme.

The UK PACT programme is funded by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and is delivered by ARUP in India. It aims to improve the effectiveness of key institutions (public, private and civil society) in partner countries so that they can deliver accelerated emission reductions and raise the ambition of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) targets. Specifically, the programme will deliver the following results:
An increase in the capacity and capability of partner institutions (national, sub-national and civil society) to deliver enhanced and accelerated climate actions; and an increase in in-country buy-in to urgently facilitate low-carbon development

The PACT Country Officer is responsible for supporting the PACT Country Fund Manager in the management, monitoring, and coordination of UK PACT activities in India. They will be a part of the Arup team contracted to deliver on positioning, representation and promotion of the UK PACT programme in India.

The position will be based in Delhi, India, with some national travel.

The appointment will be for 2 years (24 months) with the possibility of extension contingent upon performance, continued relevance of the position and available resources.

In this role you will be a key in-country member of the Arup PACT team, working closely with the PACT Country Fund Manager to support management of day-to-day activities from project implementation and reporting to pipeline development, stakeholder engagement and context analysis, to ensure overall programme success.

Specifically, you will:
**_ Project Management; Identification, Selection and Design of Interventions_**
- Support the PACT Country Fund Manager to oversee timely implementation of projects and regularly ensure the feedback of results, impacts and learning through quarterly reports to FCDO covering overall progress, progress against outputs, main activities and outputs for the next period, budget, spend and forecast, and risks and core team to adhere to any local due diligence required from Implementing Partners and to 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. and 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.

**_ Programme Reporting and_** **_Strategy Development and Engagement:_**
- Support Implementing Partners on project reporting (technical, financial, results and risk), 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 on 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 and further demand scoping for PACT-funded projects in-country, including through stakeholder mapping and engagement, identification of complementary existing programmes (funded by the UK and other donors) to avoid programme duplication, and horizon scanning.

**_ Stakeholder Relationships:_**
- 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 and maintaining an excellent working relationship with the local FCDO team within the British High Commission in order to collaboratively design and generate buy-in for the programme activities.

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- Master’s deg