Latin America & Carribean Project Specialist at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant will undertake the following duties:  

Project management

• Prepare reports to the Task Manager on the progress and risk situation of projects in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) portfolio, and submit to the Task Manager strategy documents to effectively mitigate identified project risks;
• Prepare and send half-yearly report templates to Executing Agencies for projects in the LAC portfolio, hold meetings with these agencies and send guidance emails to ensure correct and timely completion of the reports, and review such reports to ensure their timely completion;
• Prepare and send project implementation review report templates to Executing Agencies for projects in the LAC portfolio, hold meetings with these agencies and send guidance emails to ensure correct and timely completion of the reports, and review such reports to ensure their timely completion;
• Prepare mid-term review (MTR) terms of reference and review mid-term review reports for projects, sending a summary of the MTR to the Task Manager when the review is completed. Prepare an MTR implementation plan to facilitate Executing Agency implementation of MTR recommendations;
• Provide inputs for facilitating the technical and financial closure of projects;
• Travel to undertake the previous tasks in country, as required and decided by the Task Manager.

Project documentation

• Develop draft legal agreements for new projects and project extensions;
• Prepare documents for UNEP project internalization and revision processes, and provide inputs to ensure completed UNEP clearance and approval processes;
• Prepare project supervision plans and risk logs for projects and periodically update them.
• Request the Executing Agencies to update their procurement plans and review such plans, providing inputs to finalize them;
• Prepare project revision documents for technical and financial revisions for projects, ensuring that project revision documentation is complete for UNEP approval;
• Prepare budget revision templates when requested by Executing Agencies, send guidance emails to Executing Agencies on the budget revision template, review budget revisions received and provide feedback to Executing Agencies as necessary in order for them to complete the document correctly;
• Undertake research to identify ways to enhance the effectiveness of portfolio management and operations;
• Develop flowcharts for the development, review and approval of technical and financial documents.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: management, engineering, law, business administration, environmental management, policy, economics, development, climate or development finance, architecture, urbanism, psychology or a related discipline is required;
• A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience maybe accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
• Minimum two years of experience in managing projects related to climate change, environment, sustainable cities or development is required;
• Experience in working with national governments of Latin America and the Caribbean
• Experience in reviewing project documents, progress reports, workplans, and financial documents (budgets and expenditure reports) is required;
• Experience working with GEF, GCF, CDM or UNEP projects is desirable

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy, fluency in oral and written English and Spanish is required.

No Fee

• THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.

Deadline : Jul 2, 2024