Duties and Responsibilities
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system’s designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action. As an established global knowledge brokerage, the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) is a global community of policy, business, and finance professionals and organisations committed to collaboratively generating, managing, and sharing knowledge on the transition to an inclusive green and circular economy. The GGKP is led by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the World Bank. The mission of GGKP is to empower government decision makers, companies and financial institutions with evidence-based knowledge that can best support them to contribute effectively to the green and circular economy transition. GGKP provides its best practice knowledge brokerage services through its three core platforms, the Green Policy Platform, the Green Industry Platform, and the Green Finance Platform, as well as its online interactive community space, the Green Forum. In addition to its three platforms and the Green Forum, GGKP also provides targeted knowledge management, communication and stakeholder engagement services for a variety of development projects. The core focuses of GGKP as a knowledge brokerage are: ●Using world-class knowledge management, communication and application systems and tools to provide practitioners, policymakers, and other experts with opportunities to access, share, and apply green and circular economy policy analysis, guidance, information, and data. ●Identifying major knowledge gaps in green and circular economy theory and practice and addressing these gaps by promoting collaboration and coordinated research. To deliver the outputs, the consultant will engage in the following activities: • Curating the data collection and data provision pipeline using the GGKP data catalogue, including identifying sources, collating them and bringing them into the data catalogue. • Configuring, deploying and maintaining data visualization dashboards based on Infogram and connected to the GGKP data catalogue. • Configuring, deploying and maintaining Drupal based data-collection forms. • Supporting the editing and curation and publication of knowledge products through GGKP’s content management system. • Configuring and maintaining mini-websites hosted through GGKP’s main knowledge platforms. • Supporting the quality control of the performance and behaviour of the GGKP’s knowledge collation, classification and curation API and AI models across their development and deployment workflow. • Providing training to GGKP and project teams on the use of the data collection forms, data catalogue and mini-websites.
Qualifications/special skills
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, knowledge management, data science or related field is required • A bachelor’s degree in computer science, knowledge management, data science or related field is required. • A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in knowledge and data management is required. • Experience with content management systems is required • Experience with data pipelines and data quality control is required. • Experience working with international organizations is preferred. • Understanding of AI and API solutions and basic architecture, and drupal is preferred.
Languages
• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations. For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.
No Fee
THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.
