Sustainable Development Officer

The Sustainable Development Officer is responsible for monitoring and analyzing sustainable development programmes and projects, conducting research and policy analysis, providing substantive support to intergovernmental bodies, and coordinating capacity-building initiatives within the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The role involves data analysis, policy formulation, and supporting multilateral environmental processes.

Responsibilities

• Monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and sustainable development issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; and ensures follow-up actions.
• Performs consulting assignments, in collaboration with clients, by planning and facilitating workshops on sustainable development issues, conducting interactive sessions and assisting in developing action plans.
• Researches and analyzes sustainable development issues and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provides insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods.
• Develops draft policy recommendations on sustainable development issues, including review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies.
• Formulates survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
• Organizes and prepares written outputs on sustainable development issues such as draft background papers, analytical contributions, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications.
• Provides substantive backstopping to consultative and other meetings, conferences, including proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, and preparing documents and presentations.
• Provides substantive support on sustainable development issues to intergovernmental bodies.
• Participates in or leads specific inter-agency or expert task forces or working groups internally or with outside parties.
• Initiates and coordinates outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, and makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
• Leads and/or participates in large, complex field missions, providing guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries.
• Coordinates activities related to budget funding and prepares related documents/reports.
• Prepares speeches and other inputs for presentations by senior staff on sustainable development issues.
• Designs, manages and monitors the implementation of capacity-building projects on sustainable development.
• Performs other duties as required.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in sustainable development, economics, public policy, public administration, finance, natural resources management, engineering, law, social sciences or a related field.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, policy-oriented work in a broad range of sustainable development issues is required.
• Experience in policy analysis and formulation related to sustainable development issues is required.
• Experience in environmental governance, climate change, and/or international environmental agreements is required.
• Experience addressing the interlinkages between human rights and the environment is desirable.
• Experience supporting multilateral environmental processes or international negotiations is desirable.
• Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
• English and Spanish are required at UN Level III proficiency; French or Portuguese is desirable at UN Level II proficiency.

Skills

• Sustainable Development
• Project Management
• Programme Management
• Policy Analysis
• Policy Formulation Support
• Environmental Governance
• Climate Change
• International Environmental Agreements
• Data Analytics
• Business Analytics
• Data Science
• Research
• Capacity Building
• International Negotiations
• Multilateral Environment Convention Processes

Languages

English, Spanish, French, Portuguese