Result of Service

Three online webinars delivered within the framework of UNEP Eco-Advance project are supported with professional, simultaneous English-Portuguese and Portuguese-English interpretation, with technical focus on ecolabelling, sustainable public procurement, and consumer information.

Work Location

Remote

Expected duration

3 days over 5 months

Duties and Responsibilities

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations system’s designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action. The focus of the consultancy is to support activities of the consumer information and ecolabelling team located in the Consumption and Production Unit in Paris, France. Consumer information covers a range of tools and systems that seek to enable and encourage consumers to make more sustainable choices about products (goods and services), taking into account their use and end of life phases. The Consumption and Production Unit’s work on consumer information (including ecolabelling) supports governments, private sector (including retailers), label and standard organizations/ certification bodies, and civil society (including consumer groups), through global tools and capacity building, awareness raising and technical assistance, as well as policy development. The work is also contributing to the global Consumer Information Programme (CI-SCP) of the One Planet network (10YFP), in line with its three objectives: improving availability, accessibility and quality of consumer information; driving change in government and business; and enhancing communication to drive behaviour change. Further information can be found on the One Planet network (https://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/consumer-information-scp). Under the supervision of the Associate Programme Officer of the Consumption and Production Unit, the consultant will provide support to the consumer information and ecolabelling work stream, especially the delivery of the webinars for the EcoAdvance project. A simultaneous interpreter is sought to support UNEP with English-Portuguese-Spanish and Portuguese-Spanish-English interpretation to deliver online webinars on the sustainable public procurement and ecolabeling thematic in the languages of the project EcoAdvance beneficiaries.

Qualifications/special skills

– A bachelor’s degree in the field English, Spanish and Portuguese philology, literature or interpretation. – A minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience in English-Portuguese-Spanish and Portuguese-Spanish-English interpretation is required. – Familiarity with the thematic areas of environmental issues and climate change is desirable. – Experience working with international organizations is desirable. – Experience working in the context of ecolabeling, consumer information and public procurement is desirable.

Languages

English is the working language of the United Nations. For the post advertised, fluency in English, Spanish and Portuguese, both oral and written is required.

Additional Information

Not available.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.