Policy Associate

Since its inception in 1972, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has been the global authority that sets the 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.

UNEP’s mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, UNEP works through its divisions as well as regional, liaison and out-posted offices and a growing network of collaborating centres of excellence.

This post is in the Secretariat for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (Ozone Secretariat) at the Nairobi duty station. Project results will lead to enhanced capacity of the Ozone Secretariat in dealing with compliance and policy issues, support parties’ efforts in implementing the Montreal Protocol and enhance collaboration with partners in the area of climate action and environmental protection.

The results will be legal and policy research, support to the intergovernmental process, including the work of the Implementation Committee under the Non-Compliance Procedure for the Montreal Protocol and during the global meetings of the parties to Protocol. Results will also include a set of policy and communication tools such as policy toolkit on energy efficiency, atlas on sustainable cold chain and communication products on sustainable lifestyles and cooling, among others.

Under the supervision of the Programme Officer for Monitoring and Compliance the specialist volunteer is expected to perform the following tasks:
• Undertake research on issues related to the legal provisions of the Protocol and their implementation;
• Provide substantive support to the Secretariat team supporting the Implementation Committee for the preparation of Committee meetings;
• Coordinate the development of an online toolkit of policy options for promotion of energy efficiency in the refrigeration, air-conditioning and heat pump sector, which will be part of a policy toolkit for sustainable cooling to be developed in coordination with a number of partners;
• Coordinate the expansion of the existing online exhibition on sustainable cold chains into an atlas of sustainable cold chain solutions with inclusion of new entries in consultation with partners (FAO and Cool Coalition), validation of entries with the partners or proponents of sustainable cold chain solutions, coordination of the expanded layout with the Ozone Secretariat’s web designer among other tasks;
• Contribute to the development and fundraising for the sustainable cooling and lifestyles communication campaign;
• Perform other duties as required, including servicing of the Montreal Protocol’s global meetings.