UNDP Regional Policy and Technical Specialist on Chemicals, Wastes, and Plastics Jobs in Ethiopia

UNDP Regional Policy and Technical Specialist on Chemicals, Wastes, and Plastics Jobs in Ethiopia

Position Purpose:

The Regional Policy and Technical Specialist is primarily responsible for providing high-quality technical policy, programming, implementation support and oversight, and knowledge and capacity development services to UNDP country offices in the region. Secondary clients might include other UN agencies, governments and inter-governmental organizations, NGO’s, donors, and the like.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Innovation, Strategic Leadership, Dialogue and Advocacy

Provide support to establishing and maintaining a strategic understanding of, and engagement with, the substantive technical issues, institutions, and processes within the region, including establishing contact with and developing strategic partnerships with other agencies, donors, NGOs, the private sector, scientific institutions and the like;

Contributing to identification, development and implementation of new strategic programming opportunities and partnerships in the area of sound chemicals and waste management, resource efficiency, circular economy, plastic reduction and recycling;

Participating in global work-planning meetings, regional strategic planning, pipeline management exercises, etc.;

Participating in cross-substantive area technical dialogue, common strategic visioning, mainstreaming, programming, and other collaboration within the regional team;

Programming and Management

Supporting the development of strategic policy and guidance for strengthening UNDP Country Offices with chemicals and waste project design and implementation, including alignment with national priorities;

Assisting the development of and advocacy for specific policy analysis and development tools and guidance in support of programming and finance for sound chemicals and waste management;

Supporting the establishment of a trusted leadership role within the region;

Sourcing of technical expertise and support, including assisting with the preparation of TORs, identification and evaluation of experts and reviewing reports;

Contributing to regional retreats, focal area retreats, regional strategic planning, pipeline management exercises, etc.;

Promoting gender equity/empowerment in programming opportunities;

Helping to ensure that strategies and projects are aligned to country outcomes and UNDP corporate environment results in internal UNDP project tracking systems (e.g. ERBM);

Policy Advisory and Resource Mobilization

Track the international policy discussion and development under the Montreal Protocol and its Kigali Amendment, Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, Minamata Convention, recommend to UNDP Country Offices, and Hub Management new policy and strategic alignment options;

Provide trainings to the partners and stakeholders in the programme countries in the region on policies and progress of the Montreal Protocol, Stockholm Convention, Minamata Convention, GEF and MLF;

Contribute the crosscutting work of plastic governance in both chemicals & waste management and ocean protection into a coherent policy and programming framework;

Foster policy innovation in the specific thematic area to enhance programme delivery;

Assist in the provision of timely quality information and technical advice on the source of funds’ policies, priorities and activities;

Development Impact, Quality Assurance, and Risk Management

Assist with inception, contracting and start-up of projects, including establishment of indicators, benchmarks and work plans;

Support UNDP country offices in the supervision, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, troubleshooting and adaptive management of approved projects, including preparing and reviewing annual reports, work plans and budget, provide technical support on major procurement process in projects; timely completion of progress implementation report, project completion report, mid-term reviews and terminal

evaluation;

Maintain project and portfolio information and corporate information systems;

Develop guidance and tools for country offices to utilize in operationalizing project inception, contracting and start-up of projects, including the establishment of indicators, benchmarks and work plans;

Maintain quality/accuracy of data and documents in UNDP project management systems;

Monitor the implementation of projects to ensure expected quality standards, gender mark, stakeholder consultation, compliance with safeguards requirements and other UNDP POPP requirements;

Supporting UNDP HQ, country offices and partners on the communication of the project result, innovation, experience and lessons learned.

Learning, Knowledge Management and Self Development

Evaluating, capturing, codifying, synthesizing lessons and stimulating the uptake of best practices and knowledge, including the development of resource kits and other knowledge materials;

Peer reviewing, commenting on, and seeking to improve, the technical quality of projects, policies, practices, guidelines, advisory notes, publications and the like;

Assisting with preparation of regional Community of Practice meetings;

Preparing and delivering training courses, as needed;

Contribute cross-regional exchange of knowledge by collaborating with policy teams in HQ to research, develop and share knowledge-based tools and guidance to help influence/advance policy dialogue in the thematic area and present such material at various fora;

Developing knowledge products of relevance to UNDP’s support to countries on sound chemicals and waste management;

Developing and carrying out a personal learning plan.

Required Skills and Experience:

Education:

Advanced University degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in chemicals, economics, environment, finance and management or closely related field.

A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in the above-mentioned fields in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience, will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

Minimum of 5 years’ experience with a Master’s degree, or 7 years’ experience with a Bachelor’s degree, in project/programme development and management in the Chemicals focal areas.

Knowledge of the institutions of the UN system, particularly international chemical conventions and relevant institutional mandates.

Demonstrated experience in providing policy advisory services in areas related to cooling, and/or chemicals, waste, plastics, circular economy is required.

Experience working in the Africa region is desirable

Extended general experience in UNDP operational procedures (i.e., NIM) at the national level is an advantage.

Substantive knowledge and understanding of concepts and approaches relevant to supporting results-based programme management and implementation is an advantage;

Full computer literacy ((MS office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Language:

Fluency in written and spoken English;

Second UN language, particularly French, is highly desirable.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UNDP Regional Policy and Technical Specialist on Chemicals, Wastes, and Plastics Jobs in Ethiopia

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