Advisor, Technical (Energy Transition)
Organizational Context
The Partnerships and Futures Group (PFG) at UNOPS strengthens partnerships and builds knowledge, innovation, and foresight capabilities to accelerate progress toward the SDGs. PFG collaborates with diverse partners and leads thematic missions, providing expertise and technical advice to anticipate partner needs and emerging trends, ensuring UNOPS is ready to deliver impactful solutions.
Job Purpose
The Technical Advisor (Energy Transition) serves as UNOPS' primary focal point and thought leader for the energy transition mission, coordinating with partnerships colleagues and the Chief Climate Officer. This role drives the integration of mission-led knowledge, innovation, and foresight into UNOPS' partnership development, opportunity identification, policy formulation, service refinement, and delivery mechanisms. The objective is to enhance mission readiness, accelerate SDG progress, and translate partner energy commitments into actionable and investable project pipelines, potentially contributing to other missions like digital transformation or SIDS resilience.
Responsibilities
The role involves providing thematic leadership as a principal focal point and thought leader for the energy transition mission, defining UNOPS' expertise and value proposition, and serving as a technical expert for internal and external stakeholders. This includes developing and disseminating mission-aligned materials. The advisor will drive mission-led intent in partnership and opportunity development, offering technical expertise in high-level discussions and supporting the translation of partner commitments into investable pipelines. A key function is integrating mission-driven knowledge, innovation, and foresight into UNOPS' policies and service delivery, providing business partnering support, and fostering systematic knowledge and innovation processes. The role also includes people leadership, fostering a culture of trust, diversity, and accountability.
Work Experience
Required experience includes providing technical advisory support on energy transition, including its social and economic dimensions, and expertise in areas like renewable energy, energy efficiency, grid modernization, and energy policy. Experience in foresight analysis, stakeholder engagement, multicultural environments, and energy project preparation/implementation is also required. Desirable experience includes work related to digital transformation, SIDS resilience, food systems, or humanitarian/development contexts, as well as experience within the UN system or with multilateral development bank-financed energy operations.
Skills
Climate Change, Data Analysis, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy, Knowledge Management, Proposal Generation, Stakeholder Management, Sustainable Development, Strategic Thinking