Overview
Provide technical advisory support to UNEP OzonAction and National Ozone Units in Oman, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen to enhance the quality, consistency, and compliance of national inventories of banks of used or unwanted controlled substances and corresponding national action plans.
Tasks Summary
- Develop and provide standardized methodologies, technical guidance notes, templates, and tools.
- Provide advice on approaches for identifying data gaps, uncertainties, and priority sectors.
- Support consistency and comparability of methodologies across countries.
- Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and areas requiring clarification and provide written technical feedback.
- Validate technical assumptions, calculations, and estimates.
- Provide technical assessments of national institutional, policy, and regulatory frameworks.
- Benchmark national frameworks against international best practices.
- Provide illustrative technical options and reference examples for recovery, recycling, reclamation, transport, storage, and disposal pathways.
- Provide technical inputs, briefing materials, and presentation templates for stakeholder consultations.
- Participate in selected technical discussions or meetings in an advisory capacity.
- Support the incorporation of stakeholder feedback into national drafts.
- Review consolidated national outputs to ensure internal consistency, clarity, and readiness for submission.
- Provide technical inputs to UNEP for internal progress updates and reporting.
- Coordinate technical support across the five countries.
- Deliver agreed technical outputs within the specified timeframe.
- Review national data, analyses, inventories, and draft action plans.
- Support UNEP in ensuring that draft and final national inventories and action plans are technically sound and aligned with ExCom Decision 91/66, Montreal Protocol obligations, and Multilateral Fund reporting standards.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in ODS/HFC management and related environmental projects is required.
- Strong knowledge of Multilateral Fund (MLF) procedures and Executive Committee guidelines is required.
- Proven experience preparing technical project documents under the Montreal Protocol (e.g., inventories, policy assessments, HPMP documents) is required.
- Experience conducting national‑level environmental data collection, verification, and analytical assessments is required.
- Strong analytical, data‑management, and technical report‑writing skills are required.
- Experience working with UN agencies or other international organizations is desirable.
- Experience working in West Asia or similar operating contexts is desirable.
Qualification Requirements
- An advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in Mechanical, Chemical, Environmental, or Energy Engineering or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree, combined with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience, may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
