Overview
Provide direct support to the Chief Digital Officer in managing day-to-day priorities, stakeholder engagements, and strategic research activities related to artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and environmental sustainability.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide logistical and analytical support to the CDO in organizing meetings.
- Support strategic engagement of meetings, workshop and stakeholder consultations and attend events, coordinate logistics, prepare documents, hold pre-meetings, draft conclusions, summaries, and reports, and deliver presentations as required.
- Assist the CDO and its immediate team in generating talking points, speech inputs, presentations, and other documentation.
- Support the CDO in setting up meetings, teleconferences, and high-level visits.
- Prepare agendas, briefing notes and presentation and accompany the CDO in meetings or presentations to take notes and provide required assistance.
- Organize, manage, and follow up on the daily agenda, activities, and pending topics of the CDO.
- Track calls, emails, or special requests from the CDO and handle them appropriately.
- Perform any other tasks required or assigned by the supervisor.
- Support to office wide efforts in strategic research and analysis on key trends in AI, digital technologies and sustainability.
- Monitor and identify national, regional and global policy discourses, and their implications for UNEP’s digital agenda.
Required Experience
- At least Three (3) years of relevant professional experience in research, policy analysis, strategic coordination, or project support roles.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct structured research and synthesize complex information into clear briefs, summaries, and presentations.
- Experience supporting high-level meetings, workshops, consultations, or stakeholder engagements.
- Strong drafting skills, including preparation of talking points, briefing notes, reports, and presentations.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks under tight timelines.
- Strong analytical skills with interest in artificial intelligence, digital technologies, and sustainability.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and virtual collaboration tools.
- Ability to work independently while maintaining close coordination with supervisors and team members.
- Experience within the UN system or international organizations (Desirable).
- Familiarity with AI, digital governance, or environmental data initiatives (Desirable).
- Experience preparing materials for senior leadership engagements (Desirable).
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Public policy, International Relations, Political Science, Economics, Environmental Studies, Data Science, Digital Innovation, Communications, Business Administration, or a related field is required.
- Digital transformation, artificial intelligence, or emerging technologies;
- Environmental governance, sustainable development, or climate policy;
- Public policy analysis or international development;
- Strategic communications or stakeholder engagement;
- Research and analytical methods.
