Organization: UNV – United Nations Volunteers
Location: Kenya
Grade: Administrative support – Administrative Services and Support – Generally no need for Higher Education
Occupational Groups:
Administrative support
Project and Programme Management
Closing Date: 2024-06-24
Details
Mission and objectives
Since its inception in 1972, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been the global authority that sets the environmental agenda, 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. UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, UNEP works through its divisions as well as regional, liaison and out-posted offices and a growing network of collaborating centres of excellence.
Context
This post is in the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Ozone Secretariat) at the Nairobi duty station. UNV will contribute to the partnership projects of the Secretariat in the area of energy efficiency and policies, sustainable cold chains under the Rome Declaration of the Montreal Protocol and cooling and climate action. The project results will contribute to enhancing the capacity of the Ozone Secretariat in dealing with climate, energy efficiency, cooling and policy issues, help enhance collaboration with partners and support parties’ efforts in implementing the Montreal Protocol. The outputs of the projects are a set of online tools that support policy making and project implementation by parties and other relevant stakeholders in the area of energy efficiency, sustainable cold chain and other climate action, as well as awareness materials on these subject matters.
Task description
· Coordinate the development of a web-based policy options toolkit for promotion of energy efficiency in the refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump (or also referred to as cooling) sector, which will be part of an implementation toolkit for sustainable cooling to be developed in coordination with a number of partners. The specific tasks will include the development of the layout of the toolkit and corresponding narrative, collection of existing resources and tools, coordination with partners for the inclusion of their resources and tools into the toolkit, collection and development of case studies, among others. · Coordinate the expansion of the existing online exhibition on sustainable cold chains into an atlas of sustainable cold chain solutions with inclusion of new entries in consultation with partners (UNFAO and UNEP Cooling Coalition), validation of entries with the partners or proponents of sustainable cold chain solutions, coordination of the expanded layout with the Ozone Secretariat’s web designer among other tasks. · Monitor the development of the discussions under the UNFCCC regime and identify issues of importance for the Montreal Protocol and Secretariat, prepare issue papers for the attention of the Secretariat staff. · Develop technical news for the website on a variety of subject matters (energy efficiency, climate, cold chains, use of substances controlled by the Montreal Protocol, and other topics related to the implementation of the Montreal protocol and its Kigali Amendment. · Perform other duties as required.