Technical Programme Associate (Environment and Energy)
Qualifications of Technical Programme Associate:
- Location: Peru
- Vacancy No: 27857
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: UNDP United Nations Development Programme
- Deadline: 7/22/2025
Brief details about Technical Programme Associate:
About
Information about the organization that has offered the job:
The UNDP Environment and Energy Program in Peru seeks to contribute to building an environmentally sustainable, resilient, productive, and competitive Peru, with an inclusive approach that benefits the entire population, with special emphasis on the most vulnerable groups, and that contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In line with the priorities of the Country Program (CPD) 2022–2026, the program is aligned with Results 2 and 3:
- Outcome 2: Strengthen the resilience of populations and ecosystems, especially the most vulnerable, through institutions and communities that implement effective policies, mechanisms, and instruments for environmental management, climate change, disaster risk reduction, and humanitarian crises, integrating gender, human rights, interculturality, life cycle, and territoriality approaches.
- Outcome 3: Increase access to resilient livelihoods for people experiencing vulnerability and discrimination through a diversified, innovative, sustainable, and inclusive production matrix, with an emphasis on decent work and women’s economic empowerment.
To achieve these results, the program has defined a series of strategic lines aimed at strengthening capacities and improving environmental governance in the country:
- Strengthened capacities at the national and territorial levels for the improvement and/or alignment of public policies that incorporate environmental sustainability criteria.
- Strengthened capacities to ensure that public and private financing flows integrate environmental sustainability criteria, promoting investments consistent with the country’s climate and biodiversity commitments.
- Strengthened capacities for the efficient implementation of environmentally sustainable policies and financing flows, both at the national and regional levels.
- Improved territorial governance mechanisms, through the consolidation of multi-stakeholder, multi-level, and inclusive dialogue spaces, enabling effective coordination between different levels of government and social actors.
With more than 20 projects underway, the program operates through four strategic focal areas:
- Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
- Adaptation and mitigation to climate change.
- Innovation in public policies and environmental finance.
- Proper disposal and handling of chemicals and contaminants.
Through these interventions, UNDP Peru’s Environment and Energy Program not only seeks to catalyze systemic transformations but also generate sustainable and inclusive impacts, aimed at strengthening the country’s environmental, social, and economic resilience.
In this context, the Program seeks to incorporate a Program Associate (Environment and Energy) into the team to provide specialized technical support for the design, implementation, monitoring, and coordination of the initiatives of the UNDP Environment and Energy Program in Peru.
The selected individual will directly support the Program team in reviewing technical content, monitoring indicators, systematizing strategic information, and preparing analytical inputs, contributing to the technical quality and programmatic coherence of the portfolio.
This role aims to strengthen the team’s technical capacity to advance the efficient implementation of interventions that promote environmental sustainability, resilience, and inclusion throughout the country.
Duties and Responsibilities
a) Technical support in the design and formulation of initiatives:
- Contribute to the development and review of concept notes, theories of change, results frameworks, and technical proposals for new initiatives.
- Systematize technical and regulatory information relevant to the design of interventions in biodiversity, climate change, environmental financing, and pollutant management.
- Support the incorporation of cross-cutting approaches (territoriality, gender, human rights, interculturality) in the design of initiatives.
b) Systematization and technical analysis:
- Systematize good practices, replicable technical models, and lessons learned from the Program’s interventions.
- Prepare technical inputs such as summary sheets, analysis documents, comparative tables, or technical mappings.
- Support the drafting of working papers, thematic reports, technical notes, and impact presentations.
c) Technical articulation of initiatives:
- Support the identification of technical synergies between portfolio initiatives.
- Contribute to the preparation of inputs that promote programmatic coherence between different components and levels of intervention.
- Participate, together with the team, in multi-stakeholder and multi-level technical dialogue spaces.
d) Contributions to knowledge management:
- Support the production of technical content for dissemination, learning, and positioning products of the Program.
- Collaborate in the design and facilitation of technical exchange spaces (workshops, technical reflection sessions, among others).
- Keep key technical documentation of the portfolio up to date.
e) Monitoring of portfolio projects:
- Support the monitoring of indicators, products and results of the Program’s projects.
- Support the review of the Program’s project reports.
- Consolidate and analyze information from project reports and other monitoring tools.
- Support in the preparation of Corporate Annual Reports (ROAR)
The incumbent performs other duties within his or her functional profile that are deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Competencies
Essential Competencies
| Achieving Results: | Level 1 Plans and supervises own work, pays attention to detail, delivers quality work by deadline. |
| Think Innovatively: | Level 1 Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic in solving problems, makes improvements. |
| Continuous Learning: | Level 1 Open-minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback. |
| Adapt with Agility: | Level 1 Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible. |
| Act with Determination: | Level 1 Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in the face of adversity, confident. |
| Participate and Associate: | Level 1 Shows compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships. |
| Facilitating Diversity and Inclusion: | Level 1 Appreciates/respects differences, is aware of unconscious biases, confronts discrimination. |
Transversal and Technical Competencies
| Thematic Area | Name | Definition |
| Agenda 2030: Planet | Nature | Ecosystems and biodiversity: Natural resource management |
| Agenda 2030: Planet | Nature, climate and energy | Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Access to and benefit-sharing from biodiversity, land, forests and oceans |
| Agenda 2030:
Peace |
Governance | Governance and territorial development
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| Organizational Management and Strategy | Strategic thinking | Develop effective strategies and prioritized plans aligned with UNDP’s mission and objectives, based on a systematic analysis of challenges, opportunities, and potential risks; link the overall vision with on-the-ground realities to create concrete and targeted solutions; learn from diverse sources to anticipate and respond effectively to current and future trends; and demonstrate foresight. |
| Foreign relations and promotion | Event planning and execution | Ability to plan, manage and execute events
public and private partners to ensure they support and amplify individual communication and advocacy initiatives, as well as UNDP’s overall brand and mandate. |
| Communications | Digital asset management | Ability to use digital asset management (DAM) systems to effectively store, share, and organize assets. |
| Digital | Awareness | Ability to facilitate group reflection and induce collective learning to extract meaning from experiences; share these insights to inform problem-solving, decision-making, strategic planning, or future work. |
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Complete secondary education is a requirement.
- A Bachelor’s or University Degree (Bachelor’s level) in Environmental Sciences, Biology, Geography, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Economics, Development Management, Public Policy, or related disciplines will be given due consideration, but is not a requirement.
- Postgraduate studies (in progress or completed) in sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity, environmental policies or related areas are desirable.
Experience:
Minimum of 6 years (with secondary education) or 3 years (with a bachelor’s or university degree) of work experience in technical analysis, design assistance, or monitoring of projects related to the environment, sustainability, climate change, biodiversity, or environmental public policies.
Experience in systematizing technical information, preparing reports, analytical documents, or tracking tools will be highly valued.
Experience in programs or projects implemented by international organizations, public institutions, or non-profit organizations related to sustainability or territorial development will be highly valued.
Skills:
- Excellent writing and synthesis skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively.
- Ability to organize, plan, and deliver results based on specific deadlines.
- Knowledge of gender and intercultural approaches.
Languages:
Fluency in Spanish and knowledge of English at an Intermediate level is a requirement.
When applying, while the portal will allow you to attach your CV, we appreciate it if you remember to include your language skills, including Spanish, and provide detailed information about your work experience and education.
Please note that the vacancy closes New York time (2 hours before midnight in Peru). Please note that the system will only allow you to attach one (0) document, so you must include a single (0) scanned PDF file: the signed P11 and your CV.
Stages of the selection process:
The stages of the selection process are:
- Curriculum filter
- Technical evaluation
- Final interview
UNDP will only contact pre-selected applicants. In order to maximize the efficiency of funding and resources, we will contact applicants who are considered at each stage of the process. Candidates who do not receive any feedback or communication within three months of their application should consider their application unsuccessful and will receive an email informing them.
Likewise, those selected as alternates during the interview stage may be considered for future roster appointments in similar positions.
Diversity at work
UNDP is committed to achieving diversity within its workforce and encourages all qualified applicants, regardless of gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, culture, religious, or ethnic background, to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.