Regional Engagement Coordinator

Vor 4 Tagen

Geneve, Schweiz United Nations Vollzeit

Result of Service
The GIP is strengthened to provide SMEs and other key value chain actors with clear and direct access to key resource efficiency knowledge products and support services that will support their green transition processes.

Work Location
Geneva

Expected duration
6 Months

**Responsibilities**:
1. General Background

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system’s designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. 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.
- identifying major knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice and addressing these gaps by promoting collaboration and coordinated research; and
- using world-class knowledge management and communication tools to provide practitioners, policymakers, and other experts with opportunities to access, share, and utilize green growth policy analysis, guidance, information, and data.

The GGKP provides its best practice knowledge management services through its three core platforms, the Green Policy Platform, the Green Industry Platform, and the Green Finance Platform. In addition, the GGKP is the executing agency for the Global Child Project of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) programme, “Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM). The Green Industry Platform (GIP) has the objective to support uptake of resource efficiency measures, including sustainable chemicals, energy and waste management, water saving and materials efficiency, within industry and in particular by small and medium sized enterprises (SME). GIP has developed the I-GO Initiative to enable it provide customized resource efficiency knowledge support to industry stakeholders.

2. Purpose and Scope of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to support the Green Industry Platform (GIP) with its implementation of the I-GO Initiative for industry stakeholders, in particular SMEs, as well as its overall coordination of value chain engagement for the GEF FARM programme, and includes the following tasks:

- Research and develop a structured approach to establish a value chain working group to provide GIP with the ability to effectively engage with key value chain actors and support exchange and collaboration between them;
- Liaise with the existing network of organisations to ensure the successful deployment of the I-GO Initiative in target countries and carry out research for opportunities to expand the network within new GEF FARM target countries;
- Carry out backend and frontend testing of new developments to the I-GO Initiative tools with a focus on supporting their adaptation for new countries, including as required for FARM target countries;
- Provide technical review of white label I-GO initiative tools’ requirements by GIP partner organisations;
- Coordinate the regular sourcing of new resource efficiency knowledge products and support services, with a particular focus on those related to agrochemicals reduction and management, to ensure GIP knowledge libraries are up to date and relevant for industry stakeholders;
- Regularly review and upload resource efficiency knowledge products and support services to GIP knowledge libraries and identify knowledge gaps, in particular those related to agrochemicals reduction and management;
- Research initiatives supporting SMEs to ensure their inclusion in GGKP’s overall work on mapping and engaging with circular economy initiatives;
- Provide other related research and/or technical review input as might be necessary.

Qualifications/special skills
- Advanced (Master’s) degree or equivalent in Sustainable Development, Business Administration, International Affairs, Engineering, or closely related area. A Bachelor’s degree may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree in combination with two years of additional work experience.
- A minimum of five years related work experience that includes sustainable development related experience in working closely with business associations, SMEs, and development organisations is required.
- Experience of working in an intergovernmental organisation, and familiarity with online industry support tools is preferable.

Languages
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language, especially French and/or Arabic, is an advantage.

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.

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