Individual contractor for the replacement of information manager on sabbatical leave

Result of Service A direct and timely assistance service provided to the Latin American OzonAction Network to coordinate and review OzonAction publications and translations into French and Spanish as well as initial preparation of regional art contest.

Work Location Home based.

Expected duration Six months

Duties and Responsibilities The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global 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. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action. UNEP's Law Division works with international and national partners, providing technical assistance and capacity development for the implementation of environmental policy, and strengthening the environmental management capacity of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

UNEP is an Implementing Agency of the Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. That role is discharged through the Law Division's OzonAction Branch, whose goal is to enable developing countries to meet and sustain their compliance obligations under the treaty. OzonAction’s Compliance Assistance Programme (CAP) provides a range of clearinghouse services and project implementation support to assist those countries.

In line with global clearinghouse services, the OzonAction Branch in LAC is requesting approval to hire an individual contractor to coordinate and review OzonAction publications and translations into French and Spanish as well as preparation of regional art contest while the information manager is on sabbatical leave.

Qualifications/special skills Academic Qualifications: - Master´s degree in environmental science, social sciences, public information, journalism or international relations is highly desirable. Experience: - At least 10 years of professional working experience in the development of outreach materials and publications is required. - Experience in working with intergovernmental institutions is highly desirable. Language: - High proficiency in English and Spanish skills are required - Good working knowledge of French is highly desirable.

Additional Information Objectives:

Coordinate four OzonAction publications and related products are published according to UNEP publishing requirements with good quality and electronic versions are provided for upload to the Ozonation website. Three OzonAction products are translated into French and Spanish and provided in electronic form for upload to the OzonAction website.

Expected Outputs:

- Output 1: An electronically submitted and detailed report containing activities processed, including: 1. Watch out for Illegal Trade publication (finalization) - Include comments of gender and scientific reviews (editor), - Send for plagiarism test (Stephen Tengo, Law Division) and approval of cover page (Reagan Sirengo, Communications Division). - Send for design at UNESCO (Martin Wickenden, UNESCO) and verify design. - Send the publication and posters for approval (Halvart Koppen and Jim Curlin, UNEP OzonAction), - Send finalized publication for upload to OzonAction website. - Send finalized publication for CAP teams with outreach note. - Output 2: An electronically submitted and detailed report containing activities processed, including: 2. Kigali Amendment campaign (finalization) - Review of first draft and five posters: comments, - Review of second draft, - Send for peer review, Include comments of peer review, - Send the publication and posters for approval Marco Pinzon and Jim Curlin, UNEP OzonAction), 5/7 - Send for gender (Janet Macharia, Head, Gender and Safeguards Unit, UNEP) and scientific review (Andrea Hinwood, Chief Scientist, UNEP), include comments of those reviews, - Send for French and Spanish translations, - Send for plagiarism test (Stephen Tengo, Law Division) and approval of cover page (Reagan Sirengo, Communications Division), - Prepare payments of consultants, - Send finalized publication for upload to OzonAction website, - Send finalized publication for dissemination by CAP teams with outreach note. - Output 3: An electronically submitted and detailed report containing activities processed, including: 3. Montreal Protocol and Sustainable Development Goals (finalization) - Collection of information from Implementing Agencies and discussions with regional teams, - Review of first draft: comments, - Review of second draft, - Send for peer review, Include comments of peer review, - Send the publication for approval (Marco Pinzon and Jim Curlin, UNEP OzonAction), - Send for gender (Janet Macharia, Head, Gender and Safeguards Unit, UNEP) and scientific reviews (Andrea Hinwood, Chief Scientist, UNEP), Include comments of those reviews, - Send for Spanish and French translations, - Send for plagiarism test (Stephen Tengo, Law Division) and approval of cover page (Reagan Sirengo, Communications Division, - Prepare payments for consultants, - Send finalized publication for upload to OzonAction website. - Send finalized publication for CAP teams with outreach note. - Output 4: An electronically submitted and detailed report containing activities processed, including: 4. Montreal Protocol and gender in Latin America and the Caribbean (finalization) - Review of first draft: comments, - Review of second draft, - Send for peer review, Include comments of peer review, - Send the publication and posters for approval (Marco Pinzon and Jim Curlin, UNEP OzonAction), 6/7 - Send for gender (Janet Macharia, Head, Gender and Safeguards Unit, UNEP) and scientific review (Andrea Hinwood, Chief Scientist, UNEP), include comments of those reviews, - Send for English translation, - Send for plagiarism test (Stephen Tengo, Law Division) and approval of cover page (Reagan Sirengo, Communications Division), - Translate case studies into English and send case studies for global publication (Shaofeng Hu), - Prepare the payments for consultants, - Send finalized publication for upload to OzonAction website. - Send finalized publication for CAP teams with outreach note. - Output 5: An electronically submitted and detailed report containing activities processed, including: Translations (finalization) - Supervision of ongoing OzonAction translations into French and Spanish, - Prepare the payments for consultants, - Send finalized publications/products for upload to OzonAction website. - Output 6: Submission in electronic format of detailed report, including activities completed, namely: Regional Art Contest (initiation) - Establishment of a contract with one university. - Launching the contest. The assignment may include other ad hoc duties defined by Regional Network Coordinator for Latin America.

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.