Founded in 1972 following the landmark UN Conference on the Human Environment, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was conceived to monitor the state of the environment, inform policy making with science, and coordinate responses to the world’s environmental challenges.
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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. The focus of the consultancy is to support activities of the consumer information and ecolabelling team located in the Consumption and Production Unit in Paris, France.
Consumer information covers a range of tools and systems that seek to enable and encourage consumers to make more sustainable choices about products (goods and services), taking into account their use and end of life phases. The Consumption and Production Unit’s work on consumer information (including ecolabelling) supports governments, private sector (including retailers), label and standard organizations/ certification bodies, and civil society (including consumer groups), through global tools and capacity building, awareness raising and technical assistance, as well as policy development.
The work is also contributing to the global Consumer Information Programme (CI-SCP) of the One Planet network (10YFP), in line with its three objectives: improving availability, accessibility and quality of consumer information; driving change in government and business; and enhancing communication to drive behaviour change. Further information can be found on the One Planet network (https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/consumer-information-scp).
Under the supervision of the Associate Programme Officer of the Consumption and Production Unit, the consultant will provide support to the consumer information and ecolabelling work stream, especially the delivery of the webinars for the EcoAdvance project. A simultaneous interpreter is sought to support UNEP with English-Portuguese-Spanish and Portuguese-Spanish-English interpretation to deliver online webinars on the sustainable public procurement and ecolabeling thematic in the languages of the project EcoAdvance beneficiaries.
Qualifications Required
– A bachelor’s degree in the field English, Spanish and Portuguese philology, literature or interpretation. – A minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience in English-Portuguese-Spanish and Portuguese-Spanish-English interpretation is required. – Familiarity with the thematic areas of environmental issues and climate change is desirable. – Experience working with international organizations is desirable. – Experience working in the context of ecolabeling, consumer information and public procurement is desirable.
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.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) was created in 1972 after UN Conference on the Human Environment in Sweden. The conference was the first UN conference to include the word “environment” in its title, and it marked the first time the environment was placed on the global agenda. UNEP’s role is to:
- Monitor the state of the environment
- Use science to inform policy making
- Coordinate responses to environmental challenges
- Promote environmental science and information
- Assist developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and practices
- UNEP’s roleUNEP has been a docking station for 15 multilateral environmental agreements.
- UNEP’s Global Environment OutlookUNEP has published the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) since 1997, which is a comprehensive report on the state of the environment globally.
- UNEP’s work on leaded fuelUNEP led a campaign that helped the world transition away from leaded fuel, which is estimated to have saved 1.2 million lives per year.
