Evidence-based and credible scientific GEO-7 report with assessment of the state of the environment and emerging environmental problems of international significance as well as solutions pathways for policymakers.
Work LocationNairobi
Expected duration12 months
Duties and Responsibilities
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system's designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action.
UNEP's Early Warning and Assessment Division is responsible for analyzing the state of the global environment, providing early warning information and assessing global and regional environmental trends to catalyze and promote international cooperation and action on the environment.
The Scientific Assessment Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Early Warning and Assessment Division (thereafter, the Branch) regularly produces a broad range of integrated and thematic assessment reports as part of Science Policy core mandate. The Branch is expected to deliver a number of major reports, including the Seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7). This product aims to provide evidence-based and credible scientific assessments of the state of the environment and emerging environmental problems of international significance as a basis for informed decision- and policy-making on all global environmental matters.
GEO-7 will focus on assessing solutions pathways for policymakers, providing them with sufficient guidance on the practical steps for policy development and adoption, implementation, timing, potential challenges, ways to assess and manage synergies, trade-offs, unintended consequences and harness the potential socio-economic benefits of these transformations. GEO-7 will also continue to assess the state and trends on the global environment as well as providing an outlook that provides useful guidance on the possible environmental and socio-economic implications of the needed transformational changes. Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and land degradation will be crosscutting issues across the state of the environment section of GEO-7 report.
The Branch is recruiting a national consultant to support the GEO Secretariat with the monitoring and reporting of GEO-7 project and the coordination of chapters and ILK issues in the report.
This consultancy will report to the Senior Programme Officer, Global Assessment Unit, EWAD.
Specific tasks and responsibilities
• Successfully coordinate chapters of the GEO-7 assessment.
• Effectively support the development and implementation of Supporting Services for GEO-7.
• Effective reporting of the unit’s project progress and impact on IPMR and UNEA Monitoring tool where Member States are informed on the progress of projects.
• Coordinate selected collaborating centers to sustain long term outreach and engagement.
• Successfully support the processes of the GEO-7 assessment.
• Provide secretariat support to the team of Indigenous and Local Knowledge experts for crosscutting chapters in the GEO-7 assessment.
• Effective outreach of the GEO-7 messages and key outcomes to countries and stakeholders.
• Maintenance and updating the GEO workspace with relevant news and information for authors
• Sufficiently support GEO technical meetings, workshops, and stakeholders’ consultations
• Support outreach and engagement activities for the GEO-7 assessment.
• Liaise with groups of experts in the development process of the GEO-7.
A master's degree in an environment-related field, environmental planning and management, environmental science, natural science or a similar related field is required. a first level degree with two years of qualifying experience maybe accepted in lieu of master's degree.
At least 4 years of progressively responsible experience at international level in project or programme management and implementation, monitoring and reporting and administration or related areas is required.
Experience in supporting the coordination of global environmental assessments including the coordination of external expert authors and preparing various written outputs such as outcomes documents and background papers is required.
Experience in inter-agency coordination and organization of high-level events, as well as in interacting with and presenting to high-level officials, are desirable.
Experience in planning and implementation activities/processes, reporting on project progress using reporting platforms such as UMOJA Integrated Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (IPMR), Microsoft Power BI.
Demonstrated familiarity with the UN system, its rules and regulation is required.
Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs, which include the willingness to try and understand and be tolerant of differing opinion and views.
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this position, fluency in English (both oral and written) is required.
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