Climate Senior Analyst (Infrastructure)

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.

The Climate Action Programme (CAP) is an organization-wide initiative dedicated to addressing climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing climate resilience in its operations and project life-cycle, with a focus on renewable energy transition, operational efficiency, and sustainable development. 

UNOPS 2026-29 Strategic Plan includes an ambition of reducing UNOPS climate footprint, as part of the UN global priority of combating climate change. The CEB-approved UN Sustainability Strategy (UNSS) 2020-2030 places a similar expectation on UN system agencies, with a view of aligning to the IPCC emission reduction targets. 

Within UNOPS, the CAP has small, dedicated teams of climate specialists supporting on-the-ground transformation. This includes working with the portfolio of offices across 6 regions to reduce operational climate emissions and reduce the vulnerability of our personnel and operations to climate impacts.  Equally important is our work across our service lines to influence and support the design and implementation of low carbon, resilient solutions.  

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.

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.

Required

• 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.

Desired

• 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

• Please note that UNOPS does not accept unsolicited resumes. 
• Please note that UNOPS will at no stage of the recruitment process request candidates to make payments of any kind.
• Applications to vacancies must be received before midnight Copenhagen time (CET) on the closing date of the announcement. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. 
• Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process, which involves various assessments. 
• UNOPS embraces diversity and is committed to equal employment opportunity. Our workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities. UNOPS seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. 
• UNOPS evaluates all applications based on the skills, qualifications and experience requirements outlined in the vacancy announcement. We are committed to considering all candidates in a fair and transparent manner, and we value diverse perspectives and experiences, including those of women, indigenous and racialized communities, individuals with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities.
• We would like to ensure all candidates perform at their best during the assessment process. If you are shortlisted and require additional assistance to complete any assessment, including reasonable accommodation, please inform our human resources team when you receive an invitation.

• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post. 
• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few mandatory courses (they take around 4 hours to complete) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS. Refreshers or new mandatory courses may be required during your contract. Please note that you will not receive any compensation for taking courses and refreshers. For more information on a retainer contract here. 
• For more details about the contract types, please click here.
• All UNOPS personnel are responsible for performing their duties in accordance with the UN Charter and UNOPS Policies and Instructions, as well as other relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, all personnel must demonstrate an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a manner consistent with UN core values and the UN Common Agenda. 
• It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential personnel. Recruitment in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.