Environmental Specialist for Sustainable Development
hace 2 semanas
United Nations Development Programme - Background
We value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate. We foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions.
Taking a 'leave no one behind' approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
We are the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System. Our policy work carried out at HQ, Regional, and Country Office levels forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy.
In this context, we invest in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains in support of signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in our Strategic Plan.
The Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of our Strategic Plan. BPPS's staff provides technical advice to Country Offices, advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents us at multi-stakeholder fora, including public-private dialogues, government, and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas.
BPPS works closely with our Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into our development programmes. BPPS assists us and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results-based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working.
BPPS supports us and partners to be more innovative, knowledge-driven, and data-driven, including in programme support efforts.
Our Hubs on Nature, Climate, Energy, and Chemicals and Waste work with governments, civil society, and private sector partners to integrate nature, climate, energy, and waste-related concerns into national and sector planning and inclusive growth policies, support country obligations under Multilateral Environmental Agreements, and oversee the implementation of the UN's largest portfolio of in-country programming for nature, climate change, energy, and waste.
This multi-billion-dollar portfolio encompasses biodiversity and ecosystem services, sustainable land management and desertification, water and ocean governance, climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable energy, extractive industries, chemicals and waste management, environmental governance, and green/circular economy and SCP approaches.
This work advances cross-cutting themes on innovative finance, digital transformation, capacity development, human rights, gender equality, health, technology, and South-South learning.
We have bilateral partnerships in Nature, Climate, Energy, and Chemicals & Waste and are an accredited multilateral implementing agency of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Multilateral Fund (MLF), the Adaptation Fund (AF), and the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
As part of our partnership with these vertical funds, our Vertical Fund Programme Support Oversight and Compliance Unit supports our Nature, Climate, Energy, and Waste related Hubs and provides countries specialized integrated technical services for eligibility assessment, programme formulation, capacity development, policy advice, technical assistance, training, and technology transfer, mobilization of co-financing, implementation oversight, results management, evaluation, performance-based payments, and knowledge management services.
Sound chemical and waste management could eliminate hazardous chemicals and waste from key value chains and facilitate the transition to sustainable production and consumption patterns towards circularity.
Our Chemicals and Waste Hub has specialized technical and policy advisory teams in New York, Istanbul, Bangkok, Addis, Amman, and Panama to support client countries through our Regional Hubs and Country Offices to put in place the right mix of regulatory and financial incentives, remove institutional and policy barriers, and create enabling environments that attract and drive public and private sector investment into sustainable development.
This position is to support portfolio development and oversight in the chemical and waste focal area for the LAC region by working closely with Senior Technical Advisor in Panama and our Chemical and Waste Hub.
**Job Purpose**
The Regional Policy and Technical Specialist provides high-quality technical policy, programming, implementation support, and oversight, and knowledge and capacity development services to our country offices in the region.
Secondary clients might include other UN agencies, governments, inter-governmental organizations, NGOs, donors, and the like.
**Key Responsibilities**
The incumbent performs the following duties:
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