United Nations Environment Programme is looking for a Private Sector Value Chains Specialist (Remote)

Position title: Private Sector Value Chains Specialist

Organization: United Nations Environment Programme

Location: GENEVA

Level: CON - CON

Job Family: ENV

Application Deadline: 11 April 2026 at 03:59 UTC

Job Opening Number: 26-United Nations Environment Programme-274589-Consultant

Apply via: UN Inspira Portal

Result of Service

GGKP and FARM’s ability to support implementation of sustainability actions within supply chains is strengthened by improved connections to and between key value chain actors and their associated access to tailored knowledge and support.

Work Location

Remote

Expected duration

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

As an established global knowledge brokerage, the Green Growth Knowledge Partnership (GGKP) is a global community of policy, business, and finance professionals and organisations committed to collaboratively generating, managing, and sharing knowledge on the transition to an inclusive green and circular economy. The GGKP is led by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the World Bank. The mission of GGKP is to empower government decision makers, companies and financial institutions with evidence-based knowledge that can best support them to contribute effectively to the green and circular economy transition. GGKP provides its best practice knowledge brokerage services through its three core platforms, the Green Policy Platform, the Green Industry Platform, and the Green Finance Platform, as well as its online interactive community space, the Green Forum. The core focus of GGKP as a knowledge brokerage is to provide practitioners, policymakers, and other experts with opportunities to access, share, and apply green and circular economy policy analysis, guidance, information, and data though world-class knowledge management and application systems and tools In addition to its three platforms and the Green Forum, GGKP also provides targeted knowledge management, communication and stakeholder engagement services for global projects funded under the Global Environment Facility (GEF). These include the global child project of the Financing Agrochemical Reduction and Management (FARM) programme, which aims to strengthen the sound management of agricultural chemicals and their waste, through better control, and reduction and / or elimination. There are seven Child Projects within the programme in three regions, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America, for which the executing agencies are UNEP/Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Asian Development Bank (ADB), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNIDO. The role of GGKP’s Global Child Project is to coordinate the efforts of the child projects, promote knowledge generation and sharing, and lead engagement with international stakeholders. A consultant is sought to support the GGKP in the establishment of a value chain-based facilitation mechanism designed to strengthen suppliers and retailers’ capacity to implement sustainability actions that align with technical, regulatory, value-chain and investment efforts. The initiative connects and empowers existing technical assistance (TA) initiatives, corporates, and suppliers through a shared, AI-powered knowledge ecosystem to ensure suppliers receive coherent, demand-driven support. The consultant will be responsible for supporting the piloting of this facilitation mechanism for the Agri-food value chain and support the FARM programme and its partners as key champions for the pilot phase. This work will include, amongst others:

• Building the foundational stakeholder base and industry outreach communication materials.
• Mapping the landscape of relevant TA initiatives , corporate programmes, and business coalitions active in the agri-food sector.
• Facilitating structured engagement between corporations and TA initiatives to identify collaboration and pilot opportunities.
• Support the design and launch of initial pilot projects connecting corporates with TA providers at supplier level.
• Document early lessons and develop insights to support continuous improvement of the facilitation mechanism, support advocacy campaigns and respond to stakeholder feedback.
• Support efforts to ensure outcomes can be easily replicated and scaled for other related programmes/value chains.

To deliver the outputs, the consultant will engage in the following activities:

• Stakeholder engagement — Build and maintain active relationships with key stakeholders including corporations, TA initiatives, business coalitions, and FARM partners and child projects, ensuring all actors are actively engaged under the facilitation mechanism and understand its purpose and value, and that engagement activities are aligned with programmatic gender components.
• Thematic focus definition — Facilitate early discussions to agree the priority sustainability themes that will guide the Agri-food value chain facilitation mechanism’s work.
• Communication and outreach — Working with the GGKP communications team, develop accessible materials that clearly present the facilitation mechanism to diverse audiences, supporting awareness-raising, advocacy campaigns and the ongoing onboarding of new participants.
• Facilitated multi-stakeholder engagement — Develop and convene structured meetings, roundtables, and workshops that bring corporations and TA initiatives relevant to the agri-food value chain together to share knowledge and identify complementarities, ensure alignment with Gender related activities, and build the relationships needed for effective collaboration and advocacy campaigns.
• Pilot project development and support — Facilitate the identification of initial collaborative projects that connect corporates with TA providers to deliver practical sustainability support to suppliers.
• Knowledge capture and dissemination — Document lessons, insights, and early results from the Agri-food activities and disseminate to key target audiences.
• Governance and operational continuity — Support the development of regular reporting and updated workplans as well as input required to ensure replication and scaling across other related programmes/value chains.

Qualifications/special skills

Advanced University degree (master's or equivalent) in sustainable development, engineering, international development, business administration or related fields. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree. Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in the field of stakeholder engagement, ideally involving private sector, development agencies, and civil society actors, is required. Strong understanding of sustainability in value chains, including corporate procurement standards, supplier capacity challenges, related international frameworks, and the role of technical assistance initiatives is required. Experience in stakeholder mapping, knowledge management, and developing accessible communication materials for diverse audiences is preferred. Experience of working on specific topics related to the agri-food value chain would be an advantage Experience of working in international or intergovernmental organizations would be an advantage

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised excellent written and verbal English proficiency is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is an advantage.

Additional Information

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