Quality Assurance Consultant at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Detailed deliverables:

• An inception meeting with the UNEP team, produce a brief inception report covering the approach and workplan; Finalisation of the review and clearance of 6 projects including RBM, risk and safeguard aspects; Support the rollout of implementation support.
• Finalisation of the review and clearance of 5 projects including RBM, risk and safeguard aspects; Support the rollout of implementation support.
• Finalisation of the review and clearance of 6 projects including RBM, risk and safeguard aspects.
• Finalisation of the review and clearance of 3 projects including RBM, risk and safeguard aspects; Production of analytical report including trend and performance analysis, findings and recommendations.
• Finalisation of the review and clearance of 6 projects including RBM, risk and safeguard aspects.
• Finalisation of the review and clearance of 6 projects including RBM, risk and safeguard aspects.
• Finalisation of the review and clearance of 4 projects including RBM, risk and safeguard aspects;
• Support the analytical aspects to inform the annual report.
• Production of analytical report including trend and performance analysis, findings and recommendations.
• The payment schedule is performance-based, associated with the above eight deliverables to be concluded during the period of the consultancy. The expected start date of this consultancy is 1 May 2025.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degrees (master’s or above) in Environmental Science, Social Science, Business or Public Administration, Project Management, Results-based Management or a related field is required.
• A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience with programme and project design; project implementation and management is required.
• Good knowledge of the UN/UNEP quality assurance, risk and safeguards system(s) and good understanding of UNEP’s project cycle is required.
• 5 years of relevant international experience in environmental, social safeguard systems is required. Demonstrated experience in data analytics (performance trends and patterns) in a development context is desirable.