• The incumbent will carry out the following functions:
• Review, analyse, and evaluate progress and identifies trends, using various research methodologies and sources of information, including the Regional Office reporting against the corporate biennial programme of work and budget, and the New Delivery Model Policy.
• Support regional contextualization of policy development by identifying gaps and issues to be addressed and proposing and tracking corrective actions; prepares, or oversees preparation, of various written outputs, such as background analyses, reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
• Support UNCTs and other country partners to suitably integrate environmental dimensions of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in national development planning, prioritization, and programming processes.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of environmental data and statistics platforms and repositories for enriching environmental facets of Common Country Analyses (CCA) and UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) processes.
• Conduct outreach activities; conduct of training workshops and seminars; make presentations on assigned topics/activities, especially relating to CCA and UNSDCF.
• Research and analyses science-policy related issues, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of assessments or other research activities and studies, that may be requested by UNCTs from time to time.
• Support the preparation and services consultative and other meetings, workshops, conferences, etc.: develops agendas, identifies and liaises with participants, prepares relevant documents and presentations at regional level, prepare meeting reports and readouts.
• Support the production of briefing notes, speeches, regional political briefs that highlight key environmental developments in the region.
• Targeted information products supported with graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
• Prepare strategic policy and political briefs for strategic engagement with members states by the Regional Director and the Executive Office.
• Provide pertinent input to administrative processes in particular budgetary and funding matters (programme preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements, etc.) and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget, etc.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in environmental management/governance/policy related fields, sustainable development related fields is required.
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience in environmental policy development and associated natural resource and ecosystem management is required.
• Experience in the UN system’s reform process, including the UN Resident Coordinator System (UNRC) and Regional Collaborative Platforms (RCPs) is required.
• Experience and good grasp of UN 2.0 and UNEPs ‘New Delivery Model Policy’ is desirable.
• Within the five years required, a minimum of two (2) years or more of experience in UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks is desirable.