Project Support Officer, Climate Change Mitigation

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Mission and objectives

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading environmental authority in the United Nations system. UNEP uses its expertise to strengthen environmental standards and practices while helping implement environmental obligations at the country, regional and global levels. UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

Context

UNEP has prioritized support to the region to adopt decarbonization, dematerialization and resilience pathways. UNEP supports policy and institutional processes and strengthens national capacity for environmental data and statistics, to enable the shift towards the low carbon, green economy, and facilitate science-based decision-making, monitoring and reporting on the SDGs. UNEP also provides technical assistance on Technology Needs Assessment projects in the Caribbean region, where countries are assisted to identify technology priorities for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to climate change. The Volunteer will give support to the above and the overall work of the Caribbean Sub-regional Office in Kingston, Jamaica, as part of the UN’s response to the implementation of the CoP26 outcomes.

Task description

Under the overall supervision of the Head and direct supervision of the Programme Management Officer, Caribbean Sub-Regional Office, UNEP, and in coordination with the Regional Programme Coordinator for the Climate Change sub-programme, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks: 1. Assist in programme/project development based on the UN Environment Programme of Work and Medium-Term Strategy and in line with member states’ needs and priorities, particularly climate change; 2. Conduct research on topics and issues particularly those related to the main UNEP thematic areas including climate change, biodiversity, and pollution and private sector partnership development; 3. Stay abreast of relevant emerging issues related to climate change in the Caribbean, to inform project/programme development; 4. Assist in organizing and facilitating technical and consultative meetings with local and regional governments and community stakeholders to assist project development and design; 5. Participate in consultations and meetings with governments, regional and sub-regional partners and other stakeholders on environment for formulating sub-regional and national projects/programmes; 6. Assist in analyzing work programme mandates and translate these into specific projects; 7. Support drafting of project documents, concept notes and any other project related documents, ensuring that gender is mainstreamed in the documents; 8. Assist in monitoring and reporting on the implementation of projects and programmes and provide recommendations for follow on activities.