WESR Project Implementation Consultant

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global authority on the environment.

UNEP’s mission is to inspire, inform, and enable nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

For over 50 years, UNEP has worked with governments, civil society, the private sector and UN entities to address humanity’s most pressing environmental challenges - from restoring the ozone layer to protecting the world's seas and promoting a green, inclusive economy.

UNEP is driving transformational change by drilling down on the root causes of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss and pollution.

UNEP’s work is focused on helping countries transition to low-carbon and resource-efficient economies, strengthening environmental governance and law, safeguarding ecosystems, and providing evidence-based data to inform policy decisions.

Through cutting-edge science, coordination and advocacy, UNEP supports its 193 Member States to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and live in harmony with nature.

And this work has never been more critical.

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WESR Project Implementation Consultant

The responsibilities of the consultant will be to:

  • Leads the overall development and delivery of the WESR platform, including overall coordination, vendor management, requirements specification and implementation in close collaboration with the product management and DevOps teams.
  • Leads the WESR project; monitors and analyzes project development and implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; ensures follow-up actions.
  • Provides support to the WESR road-map implementation, and scoping of new WESR use-cases.
  • Manages day-to-day team tasks and assignments and promotes collaboration across the different units within CDO to serve the WESR project.
  • Supports resource mobilization and partnership efforts for WESR, including identifying targets, preparing background materials and delivering presentations on the value proposition of the platform.
  •  Proposes ways to improve the platform and new features to be added, along with a technical and financial analysis of required resources and preparation and management of an implementation plan.
  • Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
  • Coordinates all physical, ICT and knowledge products related to the WESR.
  • Provides inputs related to WESR budget and funding (project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements, etc.) and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget, etc.).
  • Collect and analyze data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
  • Oversee all activities within the WESR project management scope, identifies project goals, monitors project progress.

Qualifications/special skills

  • Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in IT, data science, information management, Geographic Information Systems or a related field. A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
  • Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.
  • A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in data related project or programme management, IT, digital transformation or related area is required. Experience leading similar data-intensive platforms is required.
  • Experience leading digital and data product development teams is required. Experience of working with international multi-agency projects, ideally in an environmental context, is desirable. Two (2) years or more of experience in data science or analytics is desirable.

Method of application

If you are interested and qualified, kindly submit your application via the link provided below,

https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/275464?language=en&utm_source=Jobinkenya

Deadline 19-Apr-2026

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