Regional Technical Specialist on Cooling, Circularity, and Pollution Prevention

Please note the appropriate Tier indicated in the vacancy title and ensure that you are holding the applicable contract as defined below:

• Tier 1: UNDP/ UNCDF/ UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed term (FTA) appointments (defined as “internal” candidates)
• Tier 2: UNDP/ UNCDF/ UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA) and personnel on regular PSA contracts
• Tier 3: All other contract types from UNDP/UNCDF/UNV and other agencies, and other external candidates

Background

UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Within the full UNDP scope of UNDP’s portfolio, the organization delivers integrated solutions to the interconnected environmental and social challenges of climate change, disasters, biodiversity loss, energy transition including access and efficiency, public health, food security, and chemicals and waste pollution – while advancing development priorities on governance, prosperity, and resilience.

UNDP supports countries to identify the right mix of policies, institutions, and financial frameworks to scale up climate and nature action, reducing chemical and waste pollution. UNDP helps translate global commitments under the Paris Agreement, the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, the Montreal Protocol, Basel, Rotterdam, Stockholm Conventions and other international accords into effective local action, harnessing new ideas to tackle the financing challenge and supporting just and sustainable transitions that leave no one behind.

Across the areas of climate, nature, chemicals and waste, and energy, developing countries are seeking UNDP’s support to translate global commitments into tangible national and local action. Governments are requesting policy and regulatory advice, institutional capacity building, financing solutions,