Overview
Support the development of a Unified National Waste Management Strategy and provide advisory and capacity-building materials for policy and regulatory design.
Key Responsibilities
- Review existing National Waste Management Strategy documents.
- Prepare an inception and methodology report.
- Conduct a technical review of existing strategies to identify overlaps, gaps, and inconsistencies.
- Conduct a baseline data validation and gap assessment.
- Review and harmonise strategic objectives, targets, and KPIs.
- Develop a KPI Review and Harmonisation Matrix.
- Conduct a high-level target plausibility review.
- Prepare the Draft Unified National Waste Management Strategy.
- Support stakeholder consultation by preparing technical inputs and documenting comments.
- Identify priority areas for advisory support.
- Prepare the Final Unified National Waste Management Strategy.
- Prepare presentation materials for a knowledge-sharing session.
Required Experience
- At least 10 years of professional experience in waste management policy, strategy development, environmental governance, circular economy, or related fields is required.
- Demonstrated experience preparing national or sectoral strategies, implementation roadmaps, or action plans is required.
- Strong technical writing and analytical skills is required.
- Strong understanding of waste management systems, waste hierarchy, circular economy, and institutional implementation challenges is required.
- Experience with waste management indicators, KPI frameworks, monitoring and evaluation, or performance tracking is required.
- Experience supporting institutional coordination and stakeholder consultation processes is required.
- Experience in policy or regulatory advisory work, provided it is within a technical advisory capacity is an asset.
- Experience in the Gulf region or similar national waste management contexts is an asset.
- Experience working with government institutions, international organizations, or UN-supported projects is required.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Waste management, Environmental engineering, Environmental policy, Environmental management, Circular economy, public policy, Sustainable development, or another relevant discipline is required.
- A first-level university degree (bachelor's degree or equivalent) in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
