Resolution Animal Welfare Consultant at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Responsibilities

• Under the direct supervision of the Focal Point for the UNEA 5/1 resolution, the contractor will undertake the following duties.
• Facilitate and guide the process of collaboratively working on the implementation of the resolution jointly with the partnersand CPRs
• Organize and facilitate regular the resolution’s partners meetings, workshops, including the preparation of backgrounddocuments, meeting reports and translations.
• Collect and analysis of information as well as preparation of data presentations and reports for information sharing,responding to queries, knowledge management, planning and decision making.
• Update information on Animal Welfare through communication with Partners and shareholders via reports.
• Develop the initial scoping and planning of the process with specific goals, deliverables/list of activities, budgets and timelineof the report.
• Develop a mapping of stakeholders and a report on the key stakeholder’s engagement analysis.
• Develop the methodological approach for the nexus assessment.
• Plan and organize a workshop with member states to gather initial inputs on process and design.
• Develop the scoping assessment report
• Plan the development and implementation of partner, resource mobilization and private sector engagement strategies.

Qualifications/special skills

• An advanced university degree (MSc level or higher) in the social, behavioural or management sciences is required. A first level degree with additional two years of qualifying experience maybe accepted in lieu of advanced degree.
• A minimum of 7 years of postgraduate work experience in knowledge management and organizational learning to facilitate partnership building in diverse multi-stakeholder environments is required
• Experience facilitating high level working groups of diverse stakeholders is required
• Experience in partnership building processes and change/process management is required
• Experience in sustainable development work is required
• Ability to facilitate multi-stakeholder discussions on complex and controversial issues with impartiality and neutrality is required.