Consultancy Service for Climate Adaptation Research Service

The Horn Economic and Social Policy Institute (HESPI) is an independent and autonomous socio-economic policy research and institutional capacity building organization working in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region. Among other regional interventions, the Institute is implementing a program named Strengthening African Leadership for Climate Adaptation (SALCA) which aims to enhance the organizational performance of African entities working on climate adaptation. The SALCA program is coordinated by the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) and aims to transform HESPI into an entity that contributes significantly to the implementation of an evidence-based climate adaptation agenda.

In the effort of realizing this transformation, the Institute hereby invites consulting firms or individual consultants to provide the following consultancy services. An individual applicant or a firm can apply for one or more of the assignments listed below. Only summaries of the scope of the role and the required qualification are highlighted here. The full TOR for each of the assignment that contain details of the scope of work, qualifications and submission requirements can be accessed from HESPI’s website www.hespi.org/Announcement/consultancy.

This is a dynamic role for 2 years based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the successful candidate will be responsible for providing her/his support to the HESPI research team in four fronts

1. Technical Capacity Building  in Adaptation research
2. Strategizing the Institute’s climate adaptation research portfolio  
3. Climate Finance Mobilization, and
4. Networking and partnership building. 

The objective of the assignment is to improve the Climate Change adaptation research skill and knowledge of HESPI’s research and program team.

Qualifications 

• The applicant for this role needs to have at least Master’s degree in a filed related to Climate Change, Meteorology, Geography, Environmental Sciences/Studies, Development Economics, Energy, Environmental Law or other closely related fields of study.
• A certified and verifiable on-the job training in climate adaptation research, climate research resources mobilization, climate adaptation research capacity building, climate research strategy developing, leading advocacy or related topics will be an advantage.
• The applicant will also require a minimum of 5 (five) years of verifiable experience in similar or related role or deliverables.

Full TOR is available @ www.hespi.org/Announcement/consultancy.

The closing date for submission of the application is in 15 days from the day of announcement. The applications must enclose updated CVs of the applicants, cover letter and all required documents as detailed in the respective TORs of the assignments. For firms, the updated CVs of all consultants involving in the assignment and the company profile of the firm/company should be enclosed. The applications must be sent to contacthespi@hespi.org with a copy to daniel.fantaye@hespi.org  and hiwot.gezahegn@hespi.org. The applications can be submitted for one or more of the above consultancy assignments.