Waste Management Lead in Africa – UN High Level Climate Champions Team

The United Nations High Level Climate Champions team is seeking a Safe and Sustainable Waste Management lead in Africa who will raise the topic of open and uncontrolled waste burning on the global climate mitigation and resilience agenda, leading to progress in reducing it. This role is funded by Engineering X, an international collaboration founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering UK and Lloyd’s Register Foundation. 

 

This as an exciting, new role which will support the resilience and mitigation objective of clean air and equity in climate smart cities in Africa in the run up to COP26 through to COP27. It will be specifically focused on the issue of open and uncontrolled waste burning with the aim to develop safe, nature-sensitive solutions based on emissions reductions which do not displace waste pickers and provide improved, safer livelihoods.

 

The successful applicant will shape the work and role in collaboration with leaders and peers within the UN Climate Champions Team and external partners including the Marrakesh Partnership. The role will work with the Engineering X Safer End of Engineered Life programme, building on our findings to date to align and converge the evidence base, shape the narrative, indicators and create a manifesto that will lead to a range of solutions which are locally context specific on this issue, as well as developing the Community of Practice.

            

Apply now: raeng.org.uk/HLC-team

Application deadline: 14 July 2021 at midday BST

Interviews: 28 July 2021

Salary: flexible depending on location and level of seniority

Contract type: flexible, open to secondments, consultancy contracts and other routes with discussion

       

Applicants must be based in Africa and have the right to work in their country of residence. If your are based elsewhere, please share with your networks in Africa and help us spread the word.