Job Opening
Job Opening ID: 224530
Job Network : Economic, Social and Development
Job Family : Environmental Affairs
Category and Level : Consultants, CON
Duty Station : NEW YORK
Department/Office : Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Date Posted : Dec 29, 2023
Deadline : Jan 4, 2024

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.