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The British Embassies in Abu Dhabi / Dubai have a vacancy for a COP28 Liaison Officer. This is for a full-time contract until 31st December 2024.


Duties and responsibilities:


Strategy and coordination

  • Develop the embassy's COP28 and net zero work plan, working closely and collaboratively with colleagues in UK government departments including the FCDO and BEIS and across the embassy teams which include science and innovation, trade and investment, political, development, communications, programmes and corporate delivery teams to ensure the plan reflects the breadth of UK work on climate change whilst focusing on a set of clearly defined priorities. You will need to make sure the work plan supports efforts towards longterm decarbonisation (net zero by 2050), resilience and adaptation objectives and mobilisation of finance, with the UK working in partnership with the UAE to implement and build on the achievements of COP26 in Glasgow.
  • Contribute to UK policy development for COP28 through research, analysing and explaining UAE climate and energy trends and policy developments, identifying potential issues and providing expert advice on campaigns, programmes and submissions for ministers.
  • Take a leading role in the embassy's COP28 and Net Zero Taskforce and internal embassy coordination to ensure cohesive and complementary 1HMG efforts across the post.

Policy engagement

  • Lead on UK policy engagement on climate change with the UAE system, including engagement with the incoming Presidency team on joint priorities and campaigns for COP28 that build on COP26 and COP27, and maintain highlevel engagement after COP28 to follow up on delivery of outcomes.
  • Develop and maintain strong relations with key stakeholders including in the UAE government, business, media and civil society, UN and other diplomatic missions, and represent the UK in external meetings and networks.
  • Develop a stakeholder engagement plan for COP28, considering how to leverage engagement with ministers, the embassy's senior leadership team and other policy and commercial leads and how to work with likeminded partners to influence most effectively.
  • Develop and maintain strong relations with key contacts in the UK government, acting as a focal point for climate policy requests from UK government departments.
  • Provide expert advice on how best to engage the UAE system on issues of importance to the UK including advising on UAE priorities and local sensitivities.


  • Support UK

  • UAE dialogues and working groups.

Visits and projects

  • Facilitate visits by UK Ministers and senior officials to the UAE in support of UK climate objectives, working with others to design and shape programmes that make best use of time to support policy, commercial and communications priorities, contributing to briefing packs and oral briefings, and providing timely reporting and analysis after the visits.
  • Facilitate participation of UK delegations in highprofile events in UAE in the buildup to COP28 and during the UAE's Presidency year.
  • Working with the UAE Climate Change Policy Manager, Science and Innovation Officer and other colleagues, design and develop projects in support of UK climate change objectives, drawing on the FCDO's Gulf Strategy Fund and Climate Diplomacy Fund.

Communications

  • Work with communications teams to raise the profile of climate issues, UK climate action and partnerships with the UAE in the run up to COP28.

Regional engagement

  • Work with the UK's MENA Regional Climate Attachés to encourage countries to approach COP28 with high ambition.

COP28 capacity building, logistics and delivery

  • Share UK experience to support the UAE with developing its Presidency expertise.
  • Work closely with the embassy's visits and corporate teams to provide logístical support to the UK delegation for COP2
  • Provide advice and support to teams leading on planning, logistics and delivery of the UK Pavilion at COP28 to ensure that the pavilion and its programmes are aligned with the UAE vision for COP28 and effectively support UK objectives.

Line Management responsibilities

  • Line Management arrangements are to be defined but it is possible that the COP28 Liaison Officer will also take on line management of the UAE Climate Change Policy Manager and through that have oversight of bilateral engagement on climate change and the environment beyond the UNFCCC context including delivery of the UK-UAE memorandum of understanding on climate and environment collaboration.
  • The above list is not exhaustive, and the job holder will be required to be flexible and take on other ad hoc tasks as required, including participating in the Embassy emergency planning and any response to a crisis._

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