Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

This post is in the UNEP's Economy Division, Director’s Office at the Nairobi duty station. Under the direct supervision of the Division Director, the incumbent will perform the following duties:

Responsibilities
Provide strategic, substantive support to new areas of work key to the Division and to UNEP, planned under the current UNEP Medium-Term Strategy by:
• Supporting the process to enable special projects assigned to the Division to be managed.
• Providing support to run the process underpinning a designated special project.
• Liaising with relevant parties and ensuring follow-up actions.
• Producing and coordinating activities related to relevant meeting preparation, agenda setting, budgeting, and funding.
• Producing monitoring and progress reports, financial statements, funding proposals.

Provide substantive backstopping to inter-Governmental processes and consultative meetings by:
• Coordinating the preparation and running of high-level meetings and conferences.
• Planning and coordinating task-team preparatory meetings.
• Building meeting agendas by coordinating topics, identifying presenters, participants, and preparing communications, background documents and presentations.
• Ensuring that political and protocol processes underpinning high-level meetings is being managed adequately.
• Collecting and analyzing data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.

Coordinates policy development by:
• Conducting reviews and analysis of issues and trends.
• Preparing research activities and studies.
• Initiating and coordinating outreach activities with other Divisions and partners in development.
• Performing other duties required to support Division Office.

Competencies
• PROFESSIONALISM: The ability to analyze and interpret data in support of decision-making and convey resulting information to management. Shows pride in work and in achievements; Demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter; Is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results; Is motivated by professional rather than personal concerns; Shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; Remains calm in stressful situations. Takes responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work.
• TEAMWORK: Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals; Solicits input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise; is willing to learn from others; Places team agenda before personal agenda; Supports and acts in accordance with final group decision, even when such decisions may not entirely reflect own position; Shares credit for team accomplishments and accepts joint responsibility for team shortcomings.
• PLANNING & ORGANIZING: Develops clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies; identifies priority activities and assignments; adjusts priorities as required; allocates appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work; foresees risks and allows for contingencies when planning; monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary; uses time efficiently
• CLIENT ORIENTATION: Considers all those to whom services are provided to be "clients " and seeks to see things from clients' point of view; Establishes and maintains productive partnerships with clients by gaining their trust and respect; Identifies clients' needs and matches them to appropriate solutions; Monitors ongoing developments inside and outside the clients' environment to keep informed and anticipate problems; Keeps clients informed of progress or setbacks in projects; Meets timeline for delivery of products or services to client.

Education
• An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in environmental related science, engineering, economics, or related climate change mitigation field is required.
• A first university degree in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.

Work Experience
• At least seven (7) years of professional working experience, preferably at the international level, with progressively rising levels of responsibility in the fields of environmental science/engineering, environmental policy or related field is required.
• Experience with inter-governmental processes is desirable.
• Experience in the UN system or a similar international organization is desirable.
• Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested and qualified? Go to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on careers.un.org to apply


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