Overview
Join UNOPS ETP as a Programme Management Advisor (Home-based) to lead coal phasedown and transition finance strategies. You will advise on early retirement transactions, coal flexibility, and sustainable finance taxonomies while engaging high-level stakeholders in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development and refinement of ETP’s coal phasedown strategies.
- Advise on ongoing and planned coal phasedown activities, including early retirement transactions, coal flexibility mechanisms, transition finance instruments and approaches, taxonomies, and support for enhancing relevant policy and regulations.
- Inform ETP’s strategic positioning and action by monitoring and identifying emerging developments and opportunities in coal transition.
- Support and participate in coal phasedown and transition finance dialogues and events.
- Support in designing and delivering ETP-organized workshops, dialogues and events.
- Support in expanding ETP’s network by initiating connections and building relationships with key actors in the coal transition ecosystem.
- Support in capturing emerging insights, lessons learned from coal phasedown and transition finance initiatives.
- Support the development of knowledge products and case studies.
- Contribute to cross country learning by identifying transferable ideas and supporting their dissemination.
- Review and comment on reports or publications.
- Provide ad-hoc advisory support on other energy transition matters.
Required Experience
- 7 years of relevant experience with an advanced University Degree (Master’s or equivalent) or higher degree in Energy, Law, Public Policy, Climate Change, Economics, Finance Sustainable Development, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- First-level university degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent) in the above-mentioned fields with an additional nine (9) years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of an advanced degree.
- Relevant work experience in energy transition, climate finance, or energy policy.
- Proven experience advising on energy transition strategies in Southeast Asia.
- Experience working on coal transition, including early retirement transactions, coal flexibility.
- Experience working on transition finance instruments, taxonomies, sustainable finance.
- Experience engaging with different types of stakeholders including governments, financial institutions, development partners, industry actors.
- Previous work with international organizations, multilateral development banks, UN agencies, or donor-funded programs is considered an advantage.
- Computer literacy in Google Workspace is an advantage.
Qualifications
- An advanced University Degree (Master’s or equivalent) or higher degree in Energy, Law, Public Policy, Climate Change, Economics, Finance Sustainable Development, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- First-level university degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent) in the above-mentioned fields.
