National Consultant: Support the design of a Blended Finance Mechanism through analytical assessments of climate-related human mobility in Georgia

The National Consultant will provide analytical and coordination support to assess the financial, institutional, and market landscape in Georgia to develop a blended finance mechanism supporting climate-resilient livelihoods in the context of human mobility. The role involves data collection, stakeholder engagement, and contributing to analytical outputs under the guidance of the International Consultant.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a desk review of relevant legislation, policies, strategies, action plans, regulatory frameworks, institutional arrangements, studies, assessments, datasets, market analyses, climate finance instruments, blended finance initiatives, and financing mechanisms relevant to climate-resilient livelihoods, migration, human mobility, sustainable development, and green finance in Georgia.
• Coordinate closely with the International Consultant throughout the assignment, including participation in regular progress meetings and provide country-specific analytical inputs, consultation summaries, stakeholder feedback, datasets, and supporting documentation in agreed formats and timelines.
• Support the analysis of the national financial ecosystem through data collection, stakeholder consultations, mapping of key actors, and provision of country-specific analytical inputs including commercial banks, microfinance organizations, development finance institutions, investment funds, business support organizations, relevant government institutions, and other market actors.
• Provide country-specific inputs to the assessment of policy, regulatory, and institutional readiness for innovative and blended finance mechanisms in Georgia, identifying opportunities, constraints, and areas requiring policy or institutional support.
• Review existing financial products and services offered by banks, microfinance organizations, and other financial institutions and assess their relevance for climate-resilient livelihoods and migration-prone populations.
• Support collection and validation of information related to livelihood opportunities, financing needs, barriers to finance, and investment interests of migration-prone populations ensuring informed consent, confidentiality, and compliance with IOM data protection and ethical standards.
• Assess barriers and opportunities affecting access to finance and investment for migration-prone and climate-vulnerable populations and provide recommendations for inclusive financing approaches.
• Identify opportunities to leverage remittances, diaspora capital, sustainable finance instruments, private sector investment, and development finance resources to support climate-resilient and inclusive livelihood opportunities.
• Contribute to the identification and assessment of potential sectors, business models, and investment opportunities by providing country-specific market intelligence, stakeholder feedback, and evidence from consultations.
• Support the identification and analysis of financial, operational, market, institutional, and regulatory risks affecting climate-resilient investments and contribute to identifying potential risk mitigation measures and blended finance instruments.
• Identify, map, and engage key stakeholders relevant to the assessment including financial institutions, private sector actors, development partners, government institutions, migrant and diaspora organizations, civil society organizations, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate communication and coordination between the International Consultant and national stakeholders and support stakeholder engagement, scheduling, follow-up, and information exchange.
• Support the organization and implementation of stakeholder consultations, key informant interviews, workshops, validation meetings, and other consultation processes.
• Participate in stakeholder consultations and prepare stakeholder mapping outputs, consultation summaries, interview records, analytical notes, and other supporting documentation.
• Map relevant national and regional good practices, innovative financing approaches, sustainable finance initiatives, and blended finance mechanisms that may inform the development of a context-specific financing model for Georgia.
• Map relevant donor-funded programmes, development finance initiatives, guarantee facilities, technical assistance programmes, and investment support mechanisms that could complement or support the future blended finance mechanism.
• Contribute analytical inputs, stakeholder engagement findings, consultation outcomes, regulatory review findings, market assessments, risk analysis, and recommendations to the preparation of the Background Analytical Report and other outputs.
• Support the validation of preliminary findings and recommendations through stakeholder consultations and contribute to incorporation of stakeholder feedback into final outputs.
• Provide country-specific inputs and evidence to support the development and validation of recommendations and potential design options for the blended finance mechanism.
• Participate in Project meetings and provide country-specific updates, analytical inputs, and stakeholder feedback relevant to the assignment.
• Compile and submit a final consultancy report outlining activities undertaken, stakeholder engagement conducted, analytical contributions provided, key findings, lessons learned, and recommendations developed during the assignment.

Requirements

• A postgraduate degree (e.g., PhD, MPhil, MA, etc.) in finance, economics, environmental policy, sustainable development, or another subject relevant to this assignment.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in innovative finance, blended finance, climate finance, or development finance.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Georgia's financial sector, sustainable finance landscape, and relevant regulatory frameworks, including familiarity with the role of the National Bank of Georgia and other key institutions.
• Demonstrated experience in reviewing regulatory mechanisms related to development finance with a special focus on climate finance.
• Demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement, qualitative research, data collection, consultations, and analytical assessments involving government institutions, financial sector actors, development partners, private sector stakeholders, and civil society organizations in Georgia.
• Established professional networks and ability to engage relevant national stakeholders across the financial, private, public, and development sectors in Georgia is an asset.
• Experience working with migration-prone and climate-vulnerable populations in Georgia, including migrants, returnees, diaspora members, IDPs, eco-migrants, women, youth, and other vulnerable groups, is highly desirable.
• Excellent command of written and spoken Georgian and English.
• Proficiency of language(s) required will be specifically evaluated during the selection process, which may include written and/or oral assessments.
• Travel within Georgia may be required to support stakeholder consultations, interviews, workshops, validation meetings, and other assignment-related activities, subject to prior agreement with IOM.

Skills

• Innovative Financing
• Blended Finance Structuring
• Climate Finance
• Development Finance
• Regulatory Framework Analysis
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Qualitative Research
• Data Collection
• Analytical Assessment
• Banking Sector Knowledge
• Sustainable Finance
• Consultation
• Climate-Related Human Mobility
• Migration Vulnerability Analysis
• Network Building
• Workshop Facilitation
• Report Writing
• Georgian Language Proficiency
• English Language Proficiency

Languages

Georgian, English