WEC (Water & Energy Cluster) Background:

The Water, Environment and Climate (WEC) portfolio, based in Vienna, and with offices based globally, is part of the UNOPS Global Portfolio Office. The Portfolio has built strong partnerships and is effectively managing a portfolio of over 500 million USD over the last 15 years to support key initiatives with fund management, project implementation and administrative support.

WEC effectively operationalizes partners' agendas with global approaches, as well as regional and country specific activities focused on climate action, protection and conservation of the environment. Partners profit from WEC’s ability to operationalize and/or scale up their important substantive agendas, including in support of key multilateral environmental and climate agreements, such as the Paris Agreement, the Cartagena Convention as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.

The NDC Partnership:

The NDC Partnership is a global coalition of countries and institutions collaborating to drive transformational climate action through sustainable development. In 2015, the world endorsed the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Nations signal their commitments to the Paris Agreement through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) - each country’s strategy to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience against the negative effects of a changing climate. The Partnership advances the goals of the Paris Agreement by bringing together nearly 200 countries and institutions in new ways to accelerate NDC implementation and enhance ambition over time. The Partnership’s work through 120 partners supporting almost 80 countries produces many examples of impact, lessons learned and ideas for the future. The Partnership is governed by a Steering Committee, co-chaired by two country representatives. The Partnership’s work is facilitated by a Support Unit based at World Resources Institute in Washington DC and the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, Germany. UNOPS supports the NDC Partnership and its Support Unit through the Water, Environment and Climate (WEC).

Under the overall guidance of the NDC Partnership Support Unit’s Regional Manager for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region and in coordination with the UNOPS WEC Head of Programme, the incumbent will support the Regional Manager for the Latin America and the Caribbean regions in day-to-day work of regional engagement including; partnership building at the regional level, preparation of inputs to respond to regional or multi-country information requests; regional level and regional aggregation of knowledge and information; monitoring and reporting for the aggregate region; documenting lessons learned and best practices for implementing CE strategy at the regional or multi-country level. This includes applying knowledge tools and communication work of the Support Unit (SU) to drive implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in its member countries.