Job Vacancies at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the development, refinement, and organization of legal templates, standard operating procedures, and internal guidance materials.
• Maintain and update legal databases, case management systems and document repositories, ensuring proper version control and tagging.
• Support the development of knowledge management initiatives and products, including legal resources for internal and external use
• Provide administrative support, including organizing legal meetings and workshops, assist with legal training, preparing agendas, and drafting meeting minutes.
• Provide administrative support including preparing meeting summaries, assisting with legal correspondence, and coordinating follow-up actions from legal meetings.
• Conduct legal and policy research relevant to UNEP’s mandate, including administrative law, and institutional legal frameworks and present findings in short memos
• Assist Legal Officers in reviewing agreements and legal documents, preparing summaries, and tracking key legal issues.
• Draft background notes, legal memos, and templates under the guidance of Legal Officers.
• Act as a backup to the Legal Assistant, including during periods of absence or increased workload, by supporting legal filing, docketing and assignment of requests for legal support, agreement tracking, scheduling, and meeting preparation.
• Assist in onboarding and knowledge-sharing for new staff including interns as needed.
• Perform any other tasks requested by the Head of the Legal Unit to support efficient legal service delivery.

Qualifications/special skills

• First level university degree in law. A practicing certificate is desirable.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in legal research, practice, or advisory services is required.
• Experience in database management and drafting legal advice is required.
• Experience in an international context is desirable.

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Support the CFU Communications Lead in developing and implementing the Unit’s communications strategy across digital and traditional channels.
• Support in Drafting, editing and proofreading communications materials including newsletters, blog posts, social media content, press releases and website updates.
• Assist in the design and production of visual communications materials such as infographics, fact sheets, brochures and presentation templates.
• Support the documentation of CFU events, workshops and milestones through photography, note-taking and post-event write-ups.
• Help maintain and update the Unit’s online presence, including website content and social media accounts. 
• Support in Monitoring media coverage and compile media roundups related to the Unit’s work on climate finance, nature-based solutions and sustainable land use.
• Participate in CFU’s internal meetings and assist the team in preparing report documents and communication resources.
• Support in any other duties on a needs basis.

Qualifications/special skills

Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:

• Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
• Be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalent). We encourage applicants with a degree/background in the following fields: International Relations, Geography, Environmental Science, Energy Policy, Communications, Business Administration, or a related discipline focusing on climate change, sustainable development, and/or international environmental governance

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Duties and Responsibilities

• Support in Monitoring calls for proposals, funding opportunities and other resource mobilization prospects, and help draft concept notes and proposals.
• Assist in Conducting market research and competitive landscape analysis to support the Unit’s fundraising strategy, including mapping donor priorities, funding trends and partnership opportunities.
• Support the preparation of pitch decks, presentations and briefing materials for donor engagement and partnership development.
• Assist in compiling data, case studies and impact narratives for inclusion in fundraising and reporting documents.
• Support coordination efforts with other units to help identify areas of synergies and mutual interventions
• Participate in CFU’s internal meetings and assist the team in preparing report documents and communication resources.
• Support on other other duties on a needs basis.

Qualifications/special skills

Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:

• Be enrolled in, or have completed, a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
• Be enrolled in, or have completed, the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s degree or equivalent).
• We encourage applicants with a degree/background in the following fields: International Relations, Geography, Environmental Science, Energy Policy, Communications, Business Administration, or a related discipline focusing on climate change, sustainable development, and/or international environmental governance.