Junior Environment and Climate Change Officer

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of its efforts, UN Women is mandated to lead and co-ordinate United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming are translated into action. It is also mandated to provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

In line with the Tanzania’s national priorities, UN Women’s strategic Plan 2022-2026 lays out the agency’s unique role and comparative advantage in supporting national stakeholders in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women by strengthening women’s leadership and participation in political and governance systems, gender statistics, implementation of global gender norms and standards, ending violence against women and girls, and women’s economic empowerment.

The assignment focuses on advancing women’s climate action across key sectors such as agriculture, the green and blue economy, and sustainable energy. Particularly the volunteer will participate in co creation, implementation of projects not limited to agriculture programming, advancing women’s engagement in food systems in selected value chains such as seaweed and sunflower and fostering women’s engagement in the energy sector particularly clean cooking for Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar. Successful candidate will gain hands-on experience in sustainable development and climate-focused programming.

Under the direct supervision of the Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme Specialist, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

1. Programme Implementation (40%)
• Supports the implementation of ongoing programmatic initiatives with a focus on the green and blue economies, energy and related sectors.
• Contributes to the development of new WEE programme initiatives.
Supports partnership development with other UN agencies, government institutions and Civil Society Organizations.
2. Policy Analysis/Research (20%)
• Supports policy analysis and research and identifies entry points for strengthening UN Women’s programming in the area of women’s economic empowerment, with a focus on climate change sectors such as agriculture, renewable energy and water resource management
3. Inter-Agency Coordination Support (20%)
• Supports annual reporting processes in relation to the UNSDCF for the planet and prosperity outcome group
• Participates in UNSDCF coordination meetings and in particular the planet and prosperity outcome groups.
• Support inter-agency coordination efforts to enhance collaboration on climate action, ensuring alignment with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and national climate policies.

4. Advocacy support and facilitation of knowledge building and management (20%)
• Supports relevant, advocacy activities and campaigns with key partners of the UN Joint Programmes.
• Collects knowledge on current and emerging trends by gathering relevant information on programmes, projects, strategies, approaches, and ongoing experience for lessons learned, best practices at regional and global level.
• Participates in program monitoring visits at the field level and helps to prepare re-ports.
• Contributes to knowledge networks and communities of practice.

Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to:
• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day);
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country.
• Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities.
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.
• Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly arrived UN Volunteers.
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service when-ever technically possible.