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In this regard, the Green Business Development Specialist will;

Lead the identification, origination, and development of bankable nature-based projects in Uganda, in close coordination with the DFCD Regional Lead for East Africa and Africa;

• Consolidate ongoing efforts, deepen engagements with local communities, stakeholders, and utilize established networks to identify new projects.

• Evaluate economic feasibility and provide advice to proponents of new bankable projects.

• Ensure project alignment with DFCD’s landscape approach, integrating climate, biodiversity, and community priorities within targeted regions.

• Structure the project, support the due diligence activities, and ensure smooth contracting of new projects.

• Ensure that the contracted project implementer successfully implements the agreed workplan, flag any potential issue, share success stories and where possible support graduation of the project to investors.

• Capacity-building of private sector and civil society partners to build long-term pipeline and proposal stream for DFCD.

• Maintain an up-to-date pipeline of project opportunities on Monday.com, ensuring consistent data for coordination, reporting, and investor engagement.

• Ensure DFCD and WWF-Uganda team alignment and engagement across the project lifecycle, by keeping colleagues informed, coordinating internal support, and facilitating smooth collaboration to deliver on commitments made to each project.

Capacity Building and Stakeholder Engagement;

• Collaborate closely with WWF Uganda colleagues working on landscape management, green finance, and climate adaptation to ensure alignment of DFCD-supported activities.

• Integrate DFCD learnings and findings into the WWF Uganda landscape/area-based vision and planning processes to strengthen long-term impact

• Support inclusive community engagement within target landscapes, working alongside the WWF Uganda team, and regional DFCD team, to ensuring that project developers implement meaningful, participatory engagement processes in line with DFCD and ESSF standards.

National Risk and Opportunity Review, and mainstreaming adaptation finance;

• Conduct national-level scoping of climate adaptation initiatives by mapping existing and potential projects relevant to DFCD’s mandate.

• Conducting and/or review existing risk and vulnerability assessments and help Lead or support the review of existing risk and vulnerability assessments and build WWF Uganda’s internal capacity to mainstream climate adaptation and financial mechanisms into organizational and landscape-level strategies.

• Identify high-priority sectors, entry points, and emerging opportunities for DFCD funding.

• Engage local subject matter experts in the fields of Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), Biodiversity and Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) to grasp the status of each of these topics in Uganda and the relevant landscape and identify key environmental and social risks.

• Facilitate co-development of climate change adaptation projects with partners, ensuring they reflect local needs and financial viability.

Monitoring, reporting and policy influence;

• Monitor the implementation of DFCD-supported projects, documenting key progress, challenges, and adaptations in coordination with partners.

• Document key lessons for influencing planning and decision making by government, and other parties, particularly around climate finance, bankable nature solutions, and inclusive conservation.

• Prepare progress report for submission to donors, the DFCD consortium and WWF internal stakeholders, in line with agreed reporting formats and cycles. submitted to donors and WWF