Under the overall guidance of the UNEP Brazil Representative and in close coordination with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Team and the Ministry of Finance, the Strategic Engagement Advisor is responsible for engaging a wide range of stakeholders to advance energy transition goals, provide technical advice on raising awareness of the benefits of the transition, identify key actors and levers to enable transition pathways for cities that receive on oil and gas for revenues.
Department/Office: United Nations Environment Programme
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the facilitation strategic multi-stakeholder dialogue on energy transition and economic diversification, at the national and subnational levels.
- Monitor energy transition trends, stakeholder positions, and policy developments to inform engagement strategies.
- Participate in the project coordination in establishing and maintaining trusted relationships with key stakeholders to support energy transition and economic diversification dialogues.
- Participate in the synthetization of University of Campinas (UNICAMP) technical reports into actionable engagement strategies.
- Collaborate closely with UNEP, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), BOGA and Universidade de Campinas teams (technical, policy, communications) to ensure consistency in messaging and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Provide technical inputs in project execution and coordination, as per the Terms of Reference, in close coordination with UNEP, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, UNICAMP and BOGA teams.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of workshops, forums, technical dialogues, and bilateral meetings.
- Collaborate with UNICAMP’s technical experts to ensure that capacity-building content reflects current trends, tools, and best practices on energy transition and economic diversification.
- Prepare various written outputs as draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications.
- Ensure strategic alignment between engagement activities and communication outputs to amplify reach and influence.
- Contribute to reports elaborated by UNICAMP team.
- Participate in policy integration by providing technical advice to align the energy transition strategy and pathways with key national policies and planning documents and processes, including Plano Clima, Plano de Transformacao Ecologica, Green Resilient Cities and other relevant programmes.
- Contribute with the Ministry and project implementation team with technical guidance on global transition pathways and Paris-aligned scenarios, as well as energy transition risk.
- Provide strategic assessments to the coordination to facilitate alignment between stakeholder interests and policy objectives through strategic engagement and dialogue.
- Monitor policy developments at national, regional, and global levels, producing summarized reports to inform engagement strategies and institutional positioning.
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Strategic Engagement Advisor
UNITED NATIONS
Brasília, Região Centro-Oeste