Jen Stephens Email & Phone Number

United States

New York, New York, Us

New York, New York, Us

--OiC Climate, Energy, Environment, and DRR Team Lead (6 months)--Led UNICEF's work on disaster risk reduction convergent with climate change and environment; --managed staff and a globally dispersed and diverse team / network; overseeing multiple project teams;--led on climate finance and disaster risk finance, including Green Climate Fund (GCF) pipeline, innovative finance solutions--successfully mobilized resources; --set strategy for the organization and in UNICEF's sectors (nutrition, social protection, education, health, WASH, child protection)

New York, New York, Us

• Led UNICEF's work on climate change, disaster risk, and environment in Myanmar, including the mainstreaming of approaches in UNICEF’s key sectors (nutrition, education, WASH, health, social protection, and child protection); managed staff and consultants

Rome, Lazio, It

• Served as Global Coordinator for GCF Readiness and Regional Technical Advisor for the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)’s climate finance/GCF pipeline in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (concept Note / full proposal development and quality controls)• Built from zero and coordinated FAO’s GCF Readiness portfolio (10 projects approved in 11 months)and a $50 million GCF project approved in Kyrgyzstan, including private-public partnership meeting the local needs of pastoralists in a sustainable way

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed a global team and coordinated the Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme (ICRMP) spanning 6 countries (Kenya, Uganda, Honduras, Armenia, Nepal, and Indonesia)• Helped build the humanitarian-development nexus through contributions to: the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS); led the development of UNDP’s first corporate strategy for El Niño / La Niña, including recovery, preparedness, and resilience-building; new interagency Standard Operating Procedures and Blueprint for Action for El Niño; the development of the Global Preparedness Partnership (GPP) supporting the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF); the Inter-agency Standing Committee (IASC) Reference Group on Risk, Early Warning and Preparedness;

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed a central team and external consultants to carry out programme and project oversight responsibilities for the Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP), a $92 million programme implemented in 20 countries funded by the Government of Japan • Project coordination for the “Strategic Initiative to Address Climate Change in LDCs,” referred to as “Boots on the Ground,” in 26 countries• Project coordination for the project “Integrating CC Risks into Development Planning and Programming,” • Project coordination for the “Climate Vulnerable Forum Support Project,” • Served as global focal point for: 1) Early Warning / Early Action; 2) the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) and other Government of Japan relations; and, 5) gender, migration, and climate change

• Worked as an independent consultant in the field of climate change, ecosystem services, and disaster risk reduction. Skills offered: methodology development for integrating climate change adaptation/ mitigation and ecosystems into vulnerability reduction and development planning, technical inputs for reporting/publications, presentations and training workshops on disaster risk reduction and climate change, ecosystem services valuation and livelihood linkages, improved recovery and reconstruction post-disaster/post-crisis integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change

Nairobi, Ke

• Developed pilot SIDS initiative “Integrating ecosystems and climate change factors into disaster risk assessments and associated planning processes” • Published a technical survey report showing global progress in environmental management for disaster risk reduction in contribution to the ISDR Global Assessment Report 2009• Published the main background paper for the International Recovery Platform Forum in Kobe, Japan January 2009 focused on building back ‘better and greener’• Prepared environment and disaster risk reduction training materials for two major global events: International Disaster Reduction Conference in Davos August 2008, IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona October 2008• Represented UNEP for interagency meetings: Management Oversight Board Meeting of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee; presented UNEP’s work on disasters and climate change for the Economic Community of Central African States, emergency response and recovery clusters training workshops, and inter-agency meetings addressing potential areas of collaboration.

Palisades, New York, Us

* Assisted Dr. John Mutter’s research on conflict and disasters: comparing the drivers of conflict and natural disasters and the subsequent repercussions and recovery issues, as well as the relationships between conflict and natural disasters. * Contributed to the paper “Pre-conditions of Disaster (premonitions of tragedy)”, submitted to Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences

M.A., Climate And Society

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