Specific duties include the following:

• Under the direct supervision of the Programme Management Officer, the consultant will perform the following specific duties:
• Design and implement a comprehensive communications strategy to enhance strategic outreach, raise global peatland awareness, and foster engagement with all 61 GPI members, including supporting networking and member reactivation efforts, addressing their needs, and updating their profiles to boost visibility and impact.
• Develop and produce scientifically accurate materials for raising awareness, including maintaining and updating the GPI and UNEP peatland-related websites, while coordinating content creation for news articles, newsletters, videos, infographics, documenting missions, and social media to ensure effective dissemination to partners and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with GPI members and UNEP teams to create content, coordinate outreach efforts, and align internal peatland strategies with communication plans, including preparing and clearing press releases through UNEP’s communications division and the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration for GPI products and events.
• Enhance communication and outreach efficiency through the GPI website, Dgroups community, and Slack channels. Organize and customize content, effectively administer activities, articles, photos, and events, and engage relevant networks by regularly publicizing GPI members’ events and achievements.
• Manage the GPI membership database , conduct targeted outreach to prospective and existing members, and promote connections between members to enhance networking and collaboration within the initiative.
• Contribute to various GPI outputs by translating technical peatland science into clear, accessible communication materials, including drafting and reviewing background papers, policy notes, presentations, speaking notes, and publications, and coordinate translations into French and/or Spanish as required.
• Support South-South cooperation outreach materials through the International Tropical Peatland Centre partnership, engage with peatland-related youth groups to develop a youth engagement strategy for peatland conservation, and collaborate with partners and stakeholders’ on-going efforts to establish a European Peatlands Initiative.
• Collect, research, and organize GPI knowledge products, updating and sharing content for platforms like the Virtual Peatlands Pavilion and other assigned knowledge-sharing sites.
• Conduct strategic consultations with key GPI stakeholders from partner countries and produce a assessment to evaluate the needs and current state of peatlands in each country, and the stakeholders. Additionally, support the development and coordination of the GPI Extension UNEP Project Document by engaging with internal and external stakeholders and contributing to proposal preparation.
• Support the coordination of international events and the development of communication materials for GPI’s participation, including the GPI 4th Partners’ Meeting and MEA COPs, as well as other key advocacy efforts and events, ensuring active involvement in global conferences and discussions.

Qualifications/special skills

• First University degree preferably with a specialization in environmental sciences, conservation biology, communications, international studies or related areas is required.
• The years of experience is reduced by 2 for candidates who possess a Master’s Degree
• A minimum of four (4) years of progressive experience in the field of environmental conservation, scientific research or science to policy work is required.
• Experience working on peatlands and/or ecosystems as a topic is desirable. Experience with the UN system especially with UNEP and on this issue is highly desirable.