Project Manager

Manages UNEP’s Circular Cities Beyond Plastics project across six Caribbean and Latin American cities. The role coordinates partners, budgets, procurement, monitoring and technical support to help cities adopt circular-economy approaches and reduce marine plastic pollution.

Department: Cartagena Convention Secretariat

• Coordinate implementation, monitoring and evaluation of project activities
• Draft and manage agreements with project partners
• Provide technical support to cities adopting circular-economy approaches
• Develop city-level monitoring methods and indicators
• Organise steering committee consultations and represent the project externally
• Manage budgets, funding, procurement and implementing-agency reporting
• Lead field missions and guide consultants, officials and partners
• Report progress, challenges, opportunities and lessons to governance bodies

• Advanced university degree in environmental or natural-resource management, conservation, management or a related field, or a first-level degree with two additional years of qualifying experience
• At least five years of progressively responsible national and regional experience in environmental or natural-resource management or a related area
• Demonstrated project-management and stakeholder-coordination experience
• Fluent written and spoken English

• UNOPS handles onboarding and payment is subject to approval of deliverables by the UNEP Cartagena Convention Secretariat