Environmental Inventory Consultant

Contract

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Result of Service

OCHA, as part of its Environmental Management System, adopts a process for calculating its environmental footprint and can use the analysis for decision making and transparency in its efforts.

Work Location

Remote

Expected duration

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant is expected to hold the following key duties and responsibilities: • Prepare for the 2024 environmental inventory and future inventories • Follow-up with UNS to determine how the data was collected and by whom • Carryout consultations for the development of an inventory management system across the entity's country, regional and headquarter offices and identify required trainings • Collaborate with the SUN on environmental inventory data requirements • Calculate OCHA's environmental footprint in pilot field offices and provided calculation tools • Work with the IMU to submit OCHA environmental data into OCHA's Environmental Dashboard and ensure its links to the SUN dashboard • Check results to ensure proper processing of data • Work with the SUN team to ensure inventory data is in the formats requested

Qualifications/special skills

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience with at least 2 years of work on environmental inventories/ with humanitarian actors (UN agencies, NGOs, governments, etc.) is required. • Experience in data analysis with a high attention to detail is required. • Experience in gathering large amounts of information and distill into succinct concise actions to communicate across functions is desirable. • Demonstrated expertise in environment management and/or climate change programming is desirable. • Experience in the use of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is desirable.

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 and a knowledge of French is desirable.

Additional Information

An advanced university degree (Master's degree or above) or specialization in a field related to environmental sustainability, science/engineering. humanitarian or international development or fields such as risk analysis, environment, climate, political science, business management, social studies, or related field is required.

A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

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.