The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners' peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Mandated as a central resource of the United Nations, UNOPS provides sustainable project management, procurement and infrastructure services to a wide range of governments, donors and United Nations organizations. With over 6,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, where they need it. By implementing around 1,000 projects for our partners at any given time, UNOPS makes significant contributions to results on the ground, often in the most challenging environments.

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, bringing together more than 250 members, including more than 130 countries, developed and developing, and more than 110 institutions to deliver on ambitious climate action that helps achieve the Paris Agreement and drive sustainable development. Governments identify their NDC implementation priorities and the type of support that is needed to translate them into actionable policies and programs. Based on these requests, the membership offers a tailored package of expertise, technical assistance and funding. This collaborative response provides developing countries with efficient access to a wide range of resources to adapt to and mitigate climate change and foster more equitable and sustainable development. The NDC Partnership Support Unit is jointly hosted by the World Resources Institute (WRI), the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the UN Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC). For this project, the Consultant will be contracted through UNOPS.

Under the overall guidance of the NDC Partnership Support Unit’s Regional Manager for the Francophone Africa and MENA Region, the incumbent will be the strategic single face to the assigned countries in their portfolio to maximize the NDC Partnership Support Unit’s (SU) impact and effectiveness by: 1) identifying country needs to catalyze matchmaking to SU offerings, available support/funds and ideal partners, 2) continuously monitoring and optimizing the country engagement by collaborating with the Regional Manager to realize regional synergies and highlight opportunities and risks, 3) strengthening and building relationships with key stakeholders (country focal points, embassies, partners in country offices) for SU visibility and resource mobilization in coordination with Regional Manager, 4) sharing impact stories to showcase examples of positive outcomes of engaging in initiatives enabled by the SU, and 5) building and sharing in-depth knowledge of countries with the SU to jointly collaborate in shaping communications and knowledge products.