Openings at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Responsibilities

• The consultant will assist in the development of marketing materials, provide insights to workshop schedule, propose additional content to predefined materials that can provide additional guidance for beneficiaries.
• The consultant will attend workshop training preparations ahead of workshop delivery to participants and take minutes of training preparation meetings.
• The consultant will support the scouting for relevant participants.
• The consultant will provide assistant to the logistical coordination on workshop days in order to ensure the agenda is followed in a timely manner.
• The consultant will participate in weekly calls with the UNEP CFU team ahead of the workshop training and take minutes of such meetings.
• The consultant will assist in the communication with participants about workshop logistics, and engage the participants to facilitate a sense of community between the participants.
• The consultant will be responsible for note taking during the training workshop to ensure all feedback from participants is noted and feeds into the learnings of this activity.
• The consultant will distribute and ensure the completion of the pre and post-tests to demonstrate increase in knowledge in the form of one-page questionnaires administered before and after the trainings.

Qualifications/special Skills

• A first-level degree in business administration, management, economics or related fields is required.
• Three (3) years of relevant and verifiable experience with managing, coordinating or supporting communities of practice is required.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills, good writing, interpersonal and communication skills is required.
• Ability to demonstrate great attention to detail and an affinity with analyzing data and making quick decisions based on that data to improve outcomes is required.
• Comfortable with technology tools such as online platforms, Trello, Slack, Google Drive, or willing to learn them quickly is required.
• Knowledge of the UN system, or other international and multi-cultural working environments, is desirable. Experience advising entrepreneurs is preferred.

Languages

• Fluency in oral and written English is required, knowledge of other official UN languages is optional.

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Responsibilities

• The consultant will develop the training workshop’s marketing materials, finalize and validate the workshop schedule, propose additional content to predefined materials that can provide additional guidance for beneficiaries.
• The consultant will attend workshop training preparations ahead of workshop delivery to participants.
• The consultant will advise the UNEP CFU team in the scouting for relevant participants.
• The consultant will identify participants from their networks, share invitations, and follow-up with participants with incomplet responses, inform participants if and when needed about changes to the workshop.
• The consultant provide assistance in the identification of the space in which workshops will be organized.
• The consultant will provide logistical coordination on workshop days in order to ensure the agenda is followed in a timely manner.
• The consultant will participate in weekly calls with the UNEP CFU team ahead of the workshop training.
• The consultant will communicate and remind participants of workshop logistics, engage the participants and facilitate a sense of community between the participants under their purview, regularly check in on the participants throughout the workshop day to assess their progress and possible issues, review the outputs of the program and provide feedback and resources to support the beneficiaries, prepare survey follow-up when issues are identified.
• The consultant will create pre and post-tests to demonstrate increase in knowledge in the form of one-page questionnaires administered before and after the trainings.

Qualifications/special Skills

• A first level University degree in business administration, management, economics or related fields is required.
• Four (4) years of relevant and verifiable experience with managing, coordinating or supporting communities of practice is required.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills, good writing, interpersonal and communication skills are required.
• Ability to demonstrate great attention to detail and an affinity with analyzing data and making quick decisions based on that data to improve outcomes is required.
• Comfortable with technology tools such as online platforms, Trello, Slack, Google Drive, or willing to learn them quickly is required.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency in English (both oral and written) is required. Knowledge of another UN official language is desirable.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• UN Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that 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. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action. UNEP's Ecosystem Division works with international and national partners, providing technical assistance and capacity development for the implementation of environmental policy, and strengthening the environmental management capacity of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
• The loss of forest, and the accompanying loss of ecosystems and the services they provide, threatens the security and livelihoods of local communities, reduces access to clean water, decreases soil productivity and accounts for 12 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. In recent years, it has become apparent that the most significant threat to the world’s remaining forests is conversion for commercial agriculture – whether from large-scale operations or smallholder farmers – as well as other non-forest use. Many of the environmental benefits of intact forest are unpriced ‘externalities’, resulting in the market mispricing natural forest assets. By converting forest to land and then producing tradeable commodities that the market can price, land users are able to take advantage of this perceived arbitrage opportunity. Anticipated global economic growth and changing diets will strengthen the demand for agricultural commodities and place additional pressure on forests in the foreseeable future, meaning that the pressure will get even bigger than it is today without a changing paradigm how land is managed and agricultural commodities are produced. The challenge is to advance sustainable land use by developing business models that can manage sustainable commodity production while also maintaining forests and forest ecosystem services.
• Against that background, UNEP initiated a new Climate Finance Unit in the Ecosystem Division to proactively help unlock and (re)direct public and private capital towards sustainable land use, including deforestation-free soft commodity production, stimulate land restoration and sustainable forest management. As part of its mandate, the Climate Finance Unit contributes to the UN Decade on Ecosystems Restoration by providing technical and strategic expertise to help unlock public and private finance to scale restoration interventions
• Against that backdrop, the Unit is now focusing on growing a global pipeline of promising ecosystem restoration enterprises through a menu of tailored business-focused training programs providing expertise and guidance on business planning, business models and financial viability.
• This novel area of work falls within the Climate for Nature Branch of the UNEP’s Ecosystem Division.
• Under the technical supervision of the CFU’s Business Analytics team Lead and the overall guidance of the Head of the Climate Finance Unit, the consultant will provide community management capacity to support the pilot deployment of the Restoration Explorer training program in Kenya.
• The consultant will work directly with various team members in the Climate Finance Unit team, and report to the Head of the Climate Finance Unit.

Responsibilities

The consultant will work directly with various team members in the Climate Finance Unit team, and report to the Head of the Climate Finance Unit.

• The consultant will develop the training workshop’s marketing materials, finalize and validate the workshop schedule,propose additional content to predefined materials that can provide additional guidance for beneficiaries.
• The consultant will attend workshop training preparations ahead of workshop delivery to participants.
• The consultant will advise the UNEP CFU team in the scouting for relevant participants.
• The consultant will identify participants from their networks, share invitations, and follow-up with participants with incomplete responses, inform participants if and when needed about changes to the workshop.
• The consultant provide assistance in the identification of the space in which workshops will be organized.
• The consultant will provide logistical coordination on workshop days in order to ensure the agenda is followed in a timely manner.
• The consultant will participate in weekly calls with the UNEP CFU team ahead of the workshop training.
• The consultant will communicate and remind participants of workshop logistics, engage the participants and facilitate a sense of community between the participants under their purview, regularly check in on the participants throughout the workshop day to assess their progress and possible issues, review the outputs of the program and provide feedback and resources to support the beneficiaries, prepare survey follow-up when issues are identified.
• The consultant will create pre and post-tests to demonstrate increase in knowledge in the form of one-page questionnaires administered before and after the trainings.

Qualifications/special Skills

• A first-level university degree in business administration, management, economics or related fields is required.
• Four (4) years of relevant and verifiable experience with managing, coordinating or supporting communities of practice is required.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills, good writing, interpersonal and communication skills is required.
• Ability to demonstrate great attention to detail and an affinity with analyzing data and making quick decisions based on that data to improve outcomes is required.
• Ability to be comfortable with technology tools such as online platforms, Trello, Slack, Google Drive, or willing to learn them quickly is required.
• Knowledge of the UN system, or other international and multi-cultural working environments, is desirable. Experience advising entrepreneurs is preferred.

Languages

• Fluency in oral and written English is required, knowledge of other official UN languages is optional.

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Specific Responsibilities For Team Leader

The Team Leader will be responsible, in close consultation with the Evaluation Manager, for overall management of the evaluation and timely delivery of its outputs, described above in Section E. Evaluation Deliverables. Roles will include:

• Inception phase of the evaluation, including:
• preliminary desk review and introductory interviews with project staff;
• draft the reconstructed Theory of Change of the SP-CA;
• prepare the evaluation framework;
• develop the desk review and interview protocols;
• draft the survey protocols (if relevant);
• develop and present criteria for selection of Climate Action initiatives for in-depth study;
• plan the evaluation schedule;
• prepare the Inception Report, incorporating comments until approved by the Evaluation Manager
• Data collection and analysis phase of the evaluation, including:
• conduct further desk review and in-depth interviews with project implementing and executing agencies, project partners and project stakeholders;
• regularly report back to the Evaluation Manager on progress and inform of any possible problems or issues encountered and;
• keep the Evaluation Manager informed of the evaluation progress and engage the Sub-Programme Coordinator of Climate Action in discussions on emerging findings throughout the evaluation process.
• Reporting phase, including:
• draft the Main Evaluation Report, ensuring that the evaluation report is complete, coherent and consistent with the Evaluation Manager guidelines both in substance and style;
• liaise with the Evaluation Manager on comments received and finalize the Main Evaluation Report, ensuring that comments are taken into account until approved by the Evaluation Manager;
• prepare a Response to Comments annex for the main report, listing those comments not accepted by the Evaluation Consultant(s) and indicating the reason for the rejection.
• Managing relations, including:
• maintain a positive relationship with evaluation stakeholders, ensuring that the evaluation process is as participatory as possible but at the same time maintains its independence;
• communicate in a timely manner with the Evaluation Manager on any issues requiring its attention and intervention.
• The evaluation consultant shall have had no prior involvement in the formulation or implementation of the Sub-Programme during the period being reviewed from 2014 to 2023 and will be independent from the participating institutions. The consultant will sign the Evaluation Consultant Code of Conduct Agreement Form.
• The evaluation consultant will be selected and recruited by the UNEP Evaluation Office through an individual Special Service Agreement (SSA) consultancy contract.
• Comprehensive terms of reference will be shared with consultant separately.

Qualifications/special Skills

• A first level university degree in environmental sciences, international development or other relevant political or social sciences area is required.
• An advanced degree in the same areas is desirable.
• A minimum of 10 years of technical / evaluation experience is required, preferably including evaluating large, regional or global programmes and using a Theory of Change approach
• Experience from international development cooperation, including developing countries. Working knowledge of development oriented organizations, Intergovernmental processes and United Nations coordination bodies are an added advantage;
• Broad understanding of science related to climate change and advanced knowledge on: climate change mitigation and adaptation and technology support; Multilateral
• Climate Agreements, regional and national policy processes, desirable.

Languages

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy,