The position is located in the Industry and Economy Division, Chemicals and Health Branch, Global Environment Facility Chemicals and Waste Unit (GEF C&W), at the Paris duty station. Under the general supervision of the Head, GEF C&W, and the direct supervision of the Programme Management Officer, the incumbent will perform the following duties:
Responsibilities:
Establishing and maintaining the legal and operational delivery structure for projects, including preparing and submitting legal agreements with project Executing Agencies, leading on due diligence, capacity and administrative assessment of new project partners, and registering projects in UNEP internal project management and reporting systems including liaison with Regional Offices and UN Country Teams, and supporting closure of projects.
Supervising Executing Agencies to ensure delivery of projects to achieve Project Result Framework and expenditure targets, within agreed tolerances and in full compliance with fiduciary and other required standards, including providing support in annual work planning and budgeting processes, ensuring timely, high quality and transparent quarterly and annual reporting, and supporting specialized colleagues in ensuring audit and procurement standards and requirements are met.
Providing quality assurance of technical outputs and deliverables of GEF projects, including review of Executing Agency and project consultant reports as needed; and leads the identification and agreement of corrective actions and adaptive management when project tolerances are exceeded or in the event of complaints or grievance reports received by project stakeholders.
Supports the operation and direction of the UNEP High Impact Sector Team and Textile Initiative.
Contributing to technical guidance and advisory to the UNEP Textiles Initiative and High Impact Sector Team.
Aligning and contributing GEF textile portfolio inputs from projects into UNEP textiles related publications, background papers, analytical notes, briefings, messaging, and communication materials.
Supporting private sector engagement by including GEF private sector cofinance partners into UNEP private sector partnership and cooperation, knowledge sharing, scale-up of innovative solutions, financing, and capacity development.
Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
Education:
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in environmental sciences, environmental management, environmental economics, chemistry, textiles value chain (dyes and coatings), engineering or a related field is required.
A first-level university degree (Bachelor's degree or equivalent) in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree with relevant combination of work.
Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.
Work Experience:
A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible work experience at the international level related to sound management of chemicals and textiles sector value chain, is required.
Work experience in developing and/or implementing international environmental programmes in developing countries and managing development projects on sustainability or to reduce textile pollution across the textiles value chain is required.
Work experience with Global Environment Facility or equivalent international projects cycle is desirable.
Experience working in, or with the private sector on implementing upstream innovation and solutions in reducing textiles overproduction, overconsumption or pollution is desirable.
Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
Languages:
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
For the position advertised, fluency in English is required.
Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.
