Data Specialist at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Duties and Responsibilities
Organizational Setting:

• The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment. UNEP's mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review.
• The consultancy position is in the Africa Office (ROA) - Office of the Director and Regional Representative. The Regional Director’s office provides strategic guidance on UNEP’s intervention and engagement with Member States in Africa including service delivery and policy support for environmental sustainability.

Under the direct supervision of the Regional Director, Africa Office the consultant will perform the following:

• Become familiar with UNEP’s delivery model and the Regional Office’s engagement strategy with member states in the African continent.
• Undertake an analysis of projectized UNEP interventions in the member states/countries, including implementation time frame, funding, and thematic focus.
• Undertake an analysis of non-projectized UNEP support to member states/countries, including capacity building, policy analysis and review, operational tools, and methodologies.
• Develop a compendium of the above information disaggregated by member states/countries.
• Populate the information into the regional platform as entries under each member state/country, for ease of access.
• Collect data on UNEP’s interventions and support in each of the 54 African Member States in terms of programme, project ad hoc non-project activities. For each country, organize agency interventions under the three pillars of climate action, pollution and waste, biodiversity, and nature, as well as other environment management activities and quantify the level of investment (funds allocated to each country) for each project in each of the beneficiary countries.
• Using a sample of 10 member states, assess how the projects are aligned to their United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (UNSDCFs) and how they are supporting their implementation.
• Assess the level of integration of UNEP’s projects (activities, results, etc.) in UNINFO (the UN country teams’ online planning, monitoring, and reporting platform) for each of the beneficiary member states and recommend how this reporting can be improved across UNEP.
• Collect information and data on UNEP’s projects, activities, and interventions in the member states/countries within the African continent, as captured in Programme Information and Management System (PIMS), Integrated Planning, Management & Reporting (IPMR-Umoja), Umoja Business Intelligence Portals (BI), or any other UNEP Corporate portal for consolidation into the database.
• Collect information on UNEP pipeline projects in the Region and make recommendations on their information capture into the database.
• Design a structure and system for continuously updating data related to obsolete project information and ensuring that the old project database is maintained for at least two years.
• Working in collaboration with Assessment Unit (Africa office and Early Warning and Assessment Division), integrate the discerned information into the member states’ database of the Regional Portal on the World Environment Situation Room (WESR) platform as a component of the National Environment Summaries. The database should have three fields of “Active, “Expired (Recently closed)” and “Pipeline).

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Natural Sciences and/or Environmental Science or a related field is required.
• Professional qualification in Information Communication Technology (ICT)
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in project or program management in developing countries, or related area is required.
• Experience at the international level is required.
• Experience in database management, and project monitoring and evaluation in Africa is desirable.

Languages

• Fluency in oral and written English is required; ability to write and speak French is an added advantage