Vacancies at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Under the guidance of the Head of the Frontiers in Environmental Law Unit and in consultation with the Industry and Economy Division, the consultant is expected to handle a range of pollution-related legal issues including those connected with UNEP’s Plastics and Textiles Initiatives and UNEP’s work on minerals governance. Specifically, the consultant is expected to:
• conduct extensive legal research and analysis on regulatory measures to assist countries to transition towards a circular economy for plastics and textiles.
• undertake basic or extensive review of legal documents, instruments, and other materials on environmental law matters, with a focus on pollution-related legal issues.
• draft legal opinions/advice, as well as background papers, studies, briefs, reports, legislative texts, and correspondence on a range of environmental law matters, with a focus on pollution-related legal issues.
• provide legal technical guidance/advice to programme to support countries to transition towards a circular and sustainable economy, with a particular focus on plastics, textiles and minerals; including partnership arrangement with the governments, non-governmental organization, other public and private entities.
• provide expert support to the international environmental law seminars, conferences, or other fora, including the preparation of background materials, summaries of issues and views of delegations, meeting outcome reports, etc.
• collect and analyze 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; and provide substantive guidance to the delivery/implementation of the pollution action work.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in environmental law, international law, human rights or a related field.
• A first-level university degree in law in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in law, including legal analysis, research and writing is required.
• Prior experience working on international and/or national environmental law relating to pollution issues is required.
• Prior experience working with the UN or similar international organizations is required
• A minimum of two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Deadline : Nov 6, 2024

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Responsibilities

• Takes the lead to develop, implement and evaluate assigned programmes/; directs subordinates in programme/project development, implementation, monitoring and assessment; directs review of relevant documents and reports; identifies priorities, problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; identifies and initiates follow-up actions.
• Establishes and manages partnerships and collaborative efforts to further the implementation of programmes/projects at national and regional levels.
• Ensures implementation of gender mainstreaming guidelines by assessing the implications for men and women of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels.
• Directs research and programme evaluation and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
• Coordinates policy development; reviews the assessments of issues and trends, at national and regional levels preparation evaluations or research activities and studies.
• Guides design of data, analyzes and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
• Supervises preparation of various written outputs, for example background papers, analysis, substantial sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications.
• Directs substantive support to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparing documents and presentations.
• Manages outreach activities; designs and conducts training workshops, seminars, makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
• Leads field missions, including provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries.
• Coordinates activities related to budget and funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements and ensures preparation of related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget.
• Ensures effective utilization, supervision and development of staff; guides, evaluates and mentors’ staff.
• Develops, implements and manages work assessment at the national and regional level in coordination with the environment, land, planning and finance ministries.
• Takes the lead in developing, implementing and evaluating programmes and projects with regard to national and regional commissions and scientific assessments.
• Takes the lead to develop and maintain partnerships with financial institutions to work with UNEP on national and regional assessments of science-based solutions to environmental challenges.
• Leads team members efforts to collect and analyze data and provides insight to identify trends or patterns for data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. Ensures that everyone can discover, access, integrate and share the data they need.
• Performs other duties as required

Education

• Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in international relations, political science, social science, environmental sciences, business administration, or a related field is required.
• A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.

Work Experience

• A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management and implementation in complex socio-economic settings is required.
• A minimum of three years of work experience in an international organization is required.
• A minimum of two years of work experience in diverse projects covering various aspects of the environment at the national and regional levels is desirable.
• A minimum of two years of experience in resource mobilization for projects/programmes is desirable.
• Experience in planning, coordinating and conducting environmental scientific assessments is desirable.
• Experience in data analytics or related areas is desirable.