Hosted Entities Sustainable Energy for All
Job categories: Energy, Climate, Programme Management, Environment
Vacancy code: VA/2024/B5007/29254
Level: ICS-8
Department/office: GPO, GVA, Geneva
Duty station: Vienna, Austria
Contract type: International ICA
Duration: Ongoing, subject to organizational requirements
Application period: 21-Nov-2024 to 05-Dec-2024
Applications to vacancies must be received before midnight Copenhagen time (CET) on the closing date of the announcement.
Please note that UNOPS will at no stage of the recruitment process request candidates to make payments of any kind.
UNOPS hosts the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) Secretariat/Programme in Vienna, Austria. SEforALL is an independent organization with a global mandate to accelerate progress on the energy transition in emerging and developing countries. We work at the intersection of energy, climate, and development. We collaborate with governments and partners worldwide to end energy poverty, accelerate the deployment of renewable energy solutions, and combat climate change.
Our vision is a world where everyone, everywhere, can lead a dignified life on a healthy planet, powered by sustainable energy. We promote this vision by pushing for higher ambitions, stronger policies, greater finance flows, increased localization and green jobs, and faster results toward an energy transition that leaves no one behind.
This position is located within the Sustainable Cooling and Integrated Energy Access Planning programmes. The main objectives of these programmes are:
1. Sustainable Cooling: Provide advice, convene leaders and support policy progress on access to sustainable cooling; Develop tools and resources that enable partners to have improved decision-making on access to sustainable cooling; Track and analyze access to sustainable cooling through Chilling Prospects; Provide and lead communications efforts that improve understanding of access to sustainable cooling through #ThisIsCool.
2. Integrated Energy Access Planning: Provide the sector with up-to-date data, tools, and knowledge for accelerating the adoption of ‘best-in-class’ integrated energy access plans among high energy access deficit countries; provide tailored advisory support to countries that have developed or are developing an Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) to help them better utilize their IEPs and translate them into policies, finance, and action; use high-level advocacy to secure political buy-in on integrated energy access planning and the role of distributed energy in meeting energy access goals. The target audience includes government planners, development partners, donors, and private sector actors.
Under the guidance of the Programme Manager, carry out data collection and support...
Education: First Level University (Bachelor’s) degree in en...
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Please note that UNOPS does not accept unsolicited resumes.
UNOPS – an operational arm of the United Nations – supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by successfully implementing its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian, and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development.
We are proud of our people. The UNOPS family brings together approximately 160 nationalities, represented by over 5,000 UNOPS personnel as well as some 7,800 personnel recruited on behalf of our partners. Spread across 80 countries, our workforce is rich in diversity and culture – with inclusion at its core.
We understand the importance of balancing professional and personal demands and offer several flexible working options.
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