Overview
The role involves establishing a knowledge base on chemicals, waste management, and innovative materials in the fashion and construction sectors, identifying knowledge gaps, and providing recommendations to inform programme strategy and country-level implementation.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct desk research and review existing programme documentation.
- Map existing knowledge platforms, databases, tools, and training resources.
- Identify and analyse knowledge gaps and priority needs.
- Conduct research on sustainable and innovative material options.
- Contribute to the design and structuring of a knowledge database/compendium.
- Collect, curate, and organise relevant documents, tools, and materials.
- Support the development of knowledge products.
- Provide evidence-based inputs and recommendations.
- Organise and support consultations, surveys, and exchanges.
- Develop and maintain a stakeholder mapping.
- Engage with country-level partners.
- Support mapping and identification of training and capacity-building opportunities.
- Provide inputs to activities related to the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).
- Support engagement with the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC).
- Contribute to the preparation of the Global Forum and other programme events.
- Support coordination and communication with internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Provide inputs to reports, presentations, and programme documentation.
Required Experience
- At least two years of demonstrated experience with topics related to engineering, materials analysis & performance comparisons based on performance, efficiency, and viability is required.
- Demonstrated ability to gather, synthesize, and assess technical and policy-related information is required.
- Demonstrated experience with project coordination support, resource planning, and strategic thinking is required.
- Academic or practical understanding of material properties and applications is required.
- Experience with knowledge management tools, databases or data visualization platforms (e.g. Power BI or similar) is an asset.
- Experience working on Fashion and Construction topics in the contexts of chemicals, waste and materials is an asset.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in a field related to Environment/ Material Science/Engineering. A first-level university degree in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
