Individual Contractor

Il y a 2 mois

Paris, France United Nations Temps plein

Result of Service
An effective independent contractor will support with holding successful regional and global consultations on management of minerals and metals, delivering a successful spotlight publication on mining and obtaining approval for project document for the mining and extractives work.

Work Location
Remote

Expected duration
6 months

**Responsibilities**:
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global 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. Its Industry and Economy Division provides solutions to decision-makers and helps change the business environment by offering platforms for multi
- stakeholder dialogue and cooperation, innovative policy options, pilot projects and creative market mechanisms to improve the quality of the environment and the well-being of citizens. It promotes sustainable patterns of consumption and production, makes efficient use of natural resources, ensures safe management of chemicals and contribute to making trade and environment policies mutually supportive. This opportunity is located within the Consumption and Production Unit at UNEP. The Unit promotes Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in businesses worldwide, across several industrial sectors. It also supports and coordinates the Division and organization’s work on the agenda of circularity.

More specifically the work of the Division with stakeholders from the mining sector has been covering the following priority areas:
1. Environmental Governance of extractives - Regulations / Standards: Enhance policy convening and outreach, stakeholder and capacity-building to promote better environmental governance and sustainable development goals implementation;
2. Science to Policy - Increasing knowledge and evidence on environmental impacts: provide policy-makers and stakeholders with impartial assessments, knowledge and science on environmental threats and impacts of the extractive industries; and

3. Circular Economy
- Sustainable Value Chain - Innovation: Work with companies and international initiatives to encourage adoption of sustainable practices along the value chain and enhance resource efficiency.

The Consumption and Production Unit is leading the implementation of UNEA resolution 5/12 on environmental aspects of minerals and metals management, which includes the organization of regional and global intergovernmental consultations as well as compiling knowledge gaps related to environmental aspects of tailings management. In this context, the Consumption and Production Unit is looking for an individual contractor specifically to support tasks related to the implementation of the resolution, the development of the spotlight publication on mining and support to the drafting of the project document.

Specific tasks and responsibilities

The individual contractor will deliver on the following tasks:
1) Support with holding successful regional and global consultations on mining.

This includes:

- Supporting registration of participants in the sessions
- Supporting the organization of the sessions including by preparing power point presentation, scripts and other background documents for the co-chairs and UNEP presenters, conducting background research on topics related to sustainable energy transition, minerals and metals, circularity, and other topics as needed,
- Supporting other tasks as needed.

Deliverable 1: Latin American and Carribean Consultation report (10 June 2023)

Deliverable 2: Asia Pacific States Regional Consultation report (10 July 2023)

Deliverable 3: African States Regional Consultation report (10 August 2023)

Deliverable 5: Global Consultation report (10 October 2023)

2) Support delivering a successful spotlight publication on mining.

This includes:

- Participate in regular meetings with authors.
- Support in the compilation of feedback received from internal and external reviewers in the template required for the internal approval processes.

Deliverable 4: Compilation of intermediary feedback of spotlight publication (10 September 2023)

3) Support the mining and extractives team with obtaining approval for project document.

This includes:

- Support tasks related to arranging consultations with other teams on the project document.
- Research specific aspects related to minerals and metals
- Compile and integrate feedback received on the project document.
- Perform other related duties as required.

Deliverable 6: Compilation of the preliminary feedback on the project document (10 November 2023)

Qualifications/special skills

- At least a bachelor’s degree in economics, public policy, international relations, environmental policy, environmental, mining or chemical engineering, environmental economics, or

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