Climate Senior Analyst (Infrastructure)
Job Highlight
Support UNOPS’ climate action by strengthening monitoring, reporting, and capacity building, while embedding climate risk screening and carbon analysis into infrastructure projects to deliver transparent, data-driven, low carbon and resilient development outcomes.
About The Group
The Executive Office provides overall leadership and direction for UNOPS, ensuring strategic alignment, operational integrity, and delivery of the organization’s mandate in support of Member States and the UN system. It drives the development and implementation of the corporate strategy and Strategic Plan, overseeing organizational performance, budget delivery, and financial accountability.
The Office leads major transformation initiatives, including cultural reform, while strengthening systems for governance, risk management, decision-making, and performance reporting. Externally, it represents UNOPS to the Executive Board, Member States, UN partners, and key stakeholders, positioning the organization as a trusted partner in advancing the 2030 Agenda and UN Development System repositioning.
Through strategic leadership, transparent governance, and effective communications, the Executive Office enhances organizational impact, visibility, and trust, ensuring UNOPS remains fit-for-purpose in a dynamic global environment.
Role Purpose
The Climate Senior Analyst supports the successful delivery of UNOPS’ climate programme by strengthening data coordination, monitoring, reporting, and capacity-building across operations. The role works with field office focal points to gather and validate data, maintain dashboards and tracking tools, and provide practical technical support, while contributing research, guidance, training materials, and case studies that help embed climate objectives into everyday practice. With a specific focus on infrastructure, the position advances the integration of climate action across UNOPS infrastructure projects.
Functions / Key Results Expected
Required
Experience Requirements
Support UNOPS’ climate action by strengthening monitoring, reporting, and capacity building, while embedding climate risk screening and carbon analysis into infrastructure projects to deliver transparent, data-driven, low carbon and resilient development outcomes.
About The Group
The Executive Office provides overall leadership and direction for UNOPS, ensuring strategic alignment, operational integrity, and delivery of the organization’s mandate in support of Member States and the UN system. It drives the development and implementation of the corporate strategy and Strategic Plan, overseeing organizational performance, budget delivery, and financial accountability.
The Office leads major transformation initiatives, including cultural reform, while strengthening systems for governance, risk management, decision-making, and performance reporting. Externally, it represents UNOPS to the Executive Board, Member States, UN partners, and key stakeholders, positioning the organization as a trusted partner in advancing the 2030 Agenda and UN Development System repositioning.
Through strategic leadership, transparent governance, and effective communications, the Executive Office enhances organizational impact, visibility, and trust, ensuring UNOPS remains fit-for-purpose in a dynamic global environment.
Role Purpose
The Climate Senior Analyst supports the successful delivery of UNOPS’ climate programme by strengthening data coordination, monitoring, reporting, and capacity-building across operations. The role works with field office focal points to gather and validate data, maintain dashboards and tracking tools, and provide practical technical support, while contributing research, guidance, training materials, and case studies that help embed climate objectives into everyday practice. With a specific focus on infrastructure, the position advances the integration of climate action across UNOPS infrastructure projects.
Functions / Key Results Expected
- Climate Action, Monitoring and Reporting
- Contribute to the implementation of UNOPS climate action/ activities.
- Contribute to climate action reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
- Contributing to the development of new methodologies through research, data analysis, and preparation of visual materials, presentations and other analytical content.
- Review on an ongoing basis existing guidance, tools and good practices for actions towards mitigation and reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
- Calculate and support accounting of emissions across infrastructure portfolio.
- Support the corporate Environmental and GHG reporting process by coordinating the collection of reports from field offices, interfacing with climate focal points, responding to technical and operational queries, and contributing to data quality assurance.
- Support the development of metrics, progress reports, dashboards and other analytical tools.
- Monitor progress on climate action work, including the work plan and roadmap.
- Support coordination on climate-related initiatives with other units, field offices, and relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Align carbon accounting processes with the GHG Protocol (Scope 3) and ISO 14064 standards.
- Develop dashboards (LookerStudio) to track carbon intensity and project-level climate performance.
- Capacity Building
- Support the development of practical guidance for the incorporation of climate into our projects and operations.
- Support creation and roll out of capacity development and training materials for climate activities and actions - both internal subject matter experts and external, including partners and suppliers.
- Collaborate with relevant internal stakeholders and experts on the translation of technical materials for online and in-person training sessions and e-learning modules.
- Promote communications and knowledge sharing around climate and our service lines.
- Contribute to the successful organization of climate-related events, e.g. workshops, conferences, webinars, and panel discussions.
- Support the development of pilots to trial new criteria and approaches with country offices, project teams, partners, and other stakeholders.
- Provide technical climate support to country offices, project teams, partners, and other stakeholders.
- Contribute to UNOPS knowledge management by capturing case studies and best practice examples of climate-related activities throughout UNOPS.
- Infrastructure
- Support the application of the requirement for climate risk screening on infrastructure projects.
- Support the capture and analysis of embodied and operational carbon on infrastructure projects.
- Contribute to Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) to calculate embodied carbon emissions for infrastructure projects
Required
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Environmental Science, Climate Science, Energy Management, Natural Resources Management, Engineering, Development Studies, Political Science, Public Policy, International Relations or any related discipline with 4 years of relevant experience OR
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above or related disciplines with 2 years of relevant experience is required.
Experience Requirements
- Relevant experience includes work related to climate change (mitigation and adaptation), environment management, renewable energy, or sustainable development.
- Knowledge and application of Google Workspace tools, including Sheets, Docs, Slides and Drive, is required.
- Experience in resilient infrastructure planning, development/use of decarbonization, and GHG accounting (specifically Scope 3, GHG Protocol) methodologies is desired.
- Experience in project, knowledge, communication, information, and stakeholder management is desired.
- Knowledge of Life Cycle Assessment software (e.g., SimaPro, or OpenLCA) is desired.
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets/LookerStudio/BigQuery for data accounting is desired
- Green Building Certification, e.g. Edge, LEED or BREEAM, is desired