Hardship Stage (not relevant for home-based)

H (no hardship)

Household

UNOPS IICA2

2024-02-01

January 26, 2024

1. Basic Background

UNHCR yearly procures and delivers roughly $1 billion price of products and companies. Mitigating the influence of local weather change and environmental degradation on forcibly displaced individuals and their hosts, supporting their resilience by preserving and rehabilitating the pure atmosphere in displacement settings, and minimizing the environmental footprint of humanitarian help, are crucial for UNHCR to fulfil its mandate.

Since 2022, by implementing its Operational Technique on Local weather Resilience and Environmental Sustainability (2022-2025), UNHCR goals at bettering the sustainability of the end-to-end provide chain, together with planning, sourcing, contents, manufacturing processes, procurement, supply, and lifecycle administration of aid objects to supply humanitarian help.

The Provide Administration Service (SMS) inside the Division of Emergency, Safety and Provide (DESS) is implementing this revolutionary technique inserting a particular deal with sustainable procurement, with a lifecycle view of “Worth for Cash” in specs, analysis standards and contract administration of products and companies.

SMS is dedicated to the next outcomes by 2025:

• Specs for aid objects and mills up to date and improved for environmental sustainability. Proceed increasing to different merchandise.
• Environmentally sustainable (recycled, recyclable, biodegradable or sustainably sourced) contents of UNHCR’s aid objects are elevated by 20%.
• Proportion of plastic in aid objects packaging decreased by 20%.
• Power effectivity from mills utilized by UNHCR elevated by 20% in 70 goal nation operations with intensive provide operations.
• Combination GHG emissions from the manufacturing and supply of aid objects and different customary product merchandise help to refugees and displaced populations decreased by 20%.
• 70 nation operations focused with provide waste administration companies (full hundreds, recycling, re-purpose, protected disposal).
• Geographic distribution of World Body Agreements for 8 aid objects expanded, with 25% discount in supply markets focus.
• CO2 emissions from worldwide freight decreased by 10%.
• Common inventory period readily available (stock ageing) in nation operation warehouses decreased by 25%.

Within the context described above, this broad agenda requires daring and organization-wide considering, as incremental enhancements now not suffice.

The acquisition of energy-using merchandise, tools and companies can have a major influence within the Group’s general carbon footprint. Subsequently, UNHCR is in search of an professional who will help the procurement of energy-efficient items and companies to fulfill the power wants of Individuals of Concern in a protected and sustainable method, to deal with the product lifecycle high quality administration and to make sure that the power crucial for UNHCR’s response is clear and renewable.

The next are a few of the items and companies that are a part of the energy-related procurement undertaken by UNHCR to help refugees, host communities and different Individuals of Concern:

• Photo voltaic lanterns
• Photo voltaic cookers
• Photo voltaic streetlights
• Turbines/renewable power options
• Fuels
• Lighting gadgets (indoor and out of doors)
• Heating, air flow, and air-con
• Constructing and development design (i.e. warehouses)

2. Objective and Scope of Project

To handle the problems associated to sustainability and additional develop a inexperienced transformation of the products and companies, SMS/DESS in 2024 is planning to:

• Assist the procurement of energy-related items and companies with a deal with lowering their environmental influence (together with however not restricted to carbon footprint).
• Present steering and technical help to workers on their procurement requests of energy-related items and companies.
• Conduct market analysis studies for particular energy-related items and companies.
• Develop sustainability analysis methodology for the chosen energy-related items and companies.
• Confirm suppliers’ eligibility and proposals for energy-related product compliance with sustainable choice standards the place requested.
• Coordinate with different class managers (transport, plastic and textile objects, Consultancy
companies, and so forth..) evaluation of procurement request from HQ, regional and discipline operations in addition to different UN companies.
• Collaborate with main business specialists to study and combine sustainable practices into UNHCR’s provide chain.
• Cooperate with different humanitarian organizations in attaining sustainable growth targets.
• Assist calculation of carbon emissions of Scope 3 actions (together with procurement of energy-related items and their transportation) to establish, measure and scale back carbon footprint.
• Steerage on end-of-life administration practices (e-waste therapy, reusability, repairability, and recyclability of energy-related merchandise) for UNHCR operations.
• Involvement in recycling applications (each, native and international) for the energy-related items procured by UNHCR.
• Guarantee compliance with firm insurance policies and procedures associated to procurement, provide chain administration, and sustainability.

The incumbent will contribute to additional embed sustainability in UNHCR’s provide chain, guaranteeing technical information of sustainable and environment friendly power options and practices, and selling elevated adherence to sustainability of procurement and of normal coordination with different Models along with different each day actions guided by Head of Unit.

This place is situated inside SMS in Budapest, Hungary. The place requires shut collaboration inside the completely different Models in SMS. The place may even interact with counterparts within the discipline and regional Bureaux, and stakeholders throughout UNHCR’s Divisions, specifically the technical Models in DRS.

3. Monitoring and Progress Controls

The incumbent will report back to the Head of Unit, who will monitor the progress of following main actions and milestones:

• Growth of technical specs and detailed baselines for the procurement of sustainable energy-related items and companies as requested.
• Growth of sustainable analysis standards for the collection of bids in addition to replace the sustainability analysis methodology for procurement items and companies below this class.
• Present technical help to workers in the direction of extra sustainable outcomes throughout completely different energy-related items and companies together with waste administration practices (e-waste).
• Handle product class assortment, together with assortment planning, choice, and optimization.
• Acquire knowledge and monitor market tendencies of energy-related items and companies, assessing various merchandise, and pricing to establish alternatives, and so informing UNHCR related sourcing choices.
• Keep up to date and monitor market dynamics, together with end-user preferences, business tendencies,
regulatory modifications and rising applied sciences related to the class in order to have the ability to alter the class methods accordingly.
• Assist knowledge assortment for measuring carbon emissions of the 2 classes of Scope 3: 1) procurement of products and companies (LCA) and a pair of) Transport and distribution.
• Analyze buying and stock knowledge and key efficiency indicators to establish alternatives for enchancment and make data-driven suggestions.
• Draft and replace market evaluation studies.
• Collaborate with the World Sourcing Part to barter and keep favorable contractual phrases and pricing in relation to the merchandise below the duty of the class supervisor.
• Evaluate and evaluation of requests from international, regional, and native UNHCR operations, divisions, and related models in compliance with the developed specs for sustainable energy-related items and companies.
• Present steering and help to cross-functional groups inside DESS, and together with Nation Operations and Regional Bureaux, to make sure the profitable execution of class methods.
• Monitor stock ranges and guarantee alignment with forecasts, working intently with the Stock and GSM groups to reduce stock-outs and overstocks.
• Conduct common efficiency evaluations of merchandise and suppliers to make sure they meet high quality requirements and expectations.

4. {Qualifications} and Expertise

a. Training (Stage and space of required and/or most popular schooling)

• College diploma in Engineering, Environmental Administration or Sustainable Growth or equal diploma (fascinating postgraduate).
• Confirmed system evaluation and technical writing abilities and skill to articulate advanced system necessities.
• Robust dedication to environmental preservation, round financial system, and sustainable growth
• Attempt to reside as much as excessive moral {and professional} requirements.
• Glorious communication, presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal abilities.
• Glorious written and spoken English.

b. Work Expertise (Checklist variety of years and space of required work expertise. Clearly distinguish between required expertise and expertise which could possibly be an asset.)

• Minimal of 6 years of expertise on the skilled stage in progressively accountable capabilities, specializing in renewable power; or 5 years related expertise with Graduate diploma; or 4 years related expertise with Doctorate diploma
• Expertise with sustainable/renewable power options/initiatives and/or CO2 emission discount undertaking(s) and/or environmental, social and company governance (ESG).
• Related expertise in growing market analysis studies for energy-related items and companies.
• Familiarity with the most recent sustainable processes/applied sciences/merchandise within the power sector.
• Understanding of sustainable and environment friendly power practices and instruments
• Understanding of associated topics resembling economics, pure useful resource administration, local weather and power insurance policies.

c. Key Competencies
(Technical information, abilities, managerial competencies, or different private competencies related to the efficiency of the task. Clearly distinguish between required and desired competencies)

• Confirmed expertise in class administration or associated roles
• Experiences in working for humanitarian organizations/Worldwide organizations/NGOs/Public Sector/Academia
• Data of market analysis methods and familiarity with market analysis instruments.
• Robust dedication to environmental preservation, round financial system, and sustainable growth.
• Robust information in renewable power sector
• Fascinating information on requirements resembling: ISO 50001- Power Administration, ISO14001 Environmental Administration system and/or Verasol certification
• Attempt to reside as much as excessive moral {and professional} requirements.
• Glorious communication, presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal abilities
• Glorious quantitative and analytical abilities, with confirmed skill to guide and talk undertaking outcomes each verbally and in writing.
• Glorious written and spoken English.
• Superior information of a second UN Official language.
• Proficiency in MS Workplace

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