Programme Officer

Org. Setting and Reporting

The mandate of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is to promote sustainable and inclusive development and regional connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region. The role of ESCAP as a regional development arm of the United Nations Secretariat is to support its membership with policy-oriented research and analysis and with normative, technical and capacity-building assistance to respond to the development priorities and changing needs of countries in Asia and the Pacific. This position is located in the Energy Connectivity Section of the Energy Division (ED). The incumbent reports to the Senior Economic Affairs Officer. The focus of this position is to lead the implementation of a three year externally funded initiative - the Energy Transition for Green Growth and Prosperity programme - working closely with staff from the Energy Division and the Macroeconomic Policy and Financing for Development Division, as well as the internal project steering group set up to oversee the management of this programme.

Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Economic Affairs Officer, and overall supervision of the Director, Energy Division, the incumbent is required to perform the following functions:

• Develops and implements the Energy Transition for Green Growth and Prosperity programme; leads, monitors and analyzes programme development and implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; ensures follow-up actions.
• Performs consulting assignments, in collaboration with the project steering group, by planning and facilitating workshops, through other interactive sessions and developing the annual activity plan the project steering group will use to manage the change. Provides secretariat support to a high level advisory group of experts set up to oversee the analytical outputs of the programme.
• Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
• Coordinates policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies,
• Generates survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identify problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
• Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, dealing with themes including but not limited to energy transition, green industrial transformation, social development, macroeconomic stability, power grid interconnection, artificial intelligence, green finance and carbon markets.
• Provides substantive backstopping to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying parti...