SENIOR INTEGRATED ENERGY SYSTEMS EXPERT

Senior Integrated Energy Systems Expert Job Opening Job Opening ID : 283196 Job Network : - Job Family : Programme Management Category and Level : Affiliate Personnel – Consultants/Individual Contractors, CON Recruitment Type : Consultant Duty Station : PARIS Department/Office : United Nations Environment Programme Date Posted : Aug 24, 2026 Deadline : Sep 3, 2026 Apply Now Result of Service The consultant will support the following activities: 1. Programme leadership and strategic development Lead the technical design, development and initial implementation of UNEP’s Global Demand Flexibility Accelerator, including programme strategy, work planning, results framework, risk management, partner roles and technical priorities. 2. Country programme leadership Lead UNEP’s technical and policy engagement with governments and power-sector institutions in priority countries, initially Brazil and the Philippines, to develop nationally owned demand-side flexibility programmes and roadmaps. 3. National roadmap development Lead the development of a common UNEP methodology for national demand-side flexibility roadmaps and oversee its application in priority countries, covering flexibility potential, power-system value, institutional responsibilities and policy, regulatory, market and financing pathways. 4. Senior government and stakeholder engagement Represent UNEP in technical and strategic discussions with ministries, regulators, planning agencies, system operators, utilities, standards institutions and other national stakeholders; support establishment of government ownership, governance arrangements and institutional partnerships for country activities. 5. International standards and interoperability Lead UNEP engagement with relevant international and national standards organisations, including ISO, IEC and national standards and conformity-assessment bodies, to identify and advance practical standards pathways for demand-side flexibility, appliances, buildings and interoperable energy systems. 6. Market and regulatory frameworks Provide senior technical guidance on the development of enabling market arrangements for demand-side flexibility, including aggregation, utility and system-operator procurement, measurement and verification, contractual arrangements, consumer safeguards and participation of flexible buildings, cooling, EVs and distributed energy resources. 7. Technical oversight and quality assurance Provide technical oversight and quality assurance for analytical work undertaken by consultants, implementing partners and technical organisations, including power-system analysis, country diagnostics, market and regulatory studies, standards assessments and implementation studies. 8. Strategic partnerships Lead technical coordination with IRENA and other international and technical partners and ensure effective integration of demand flexibility activities across UNEP platforms including the Cool Coalition, GlobalABC, United for Efficiency and relevant sustainable mobility activities. 9. Resource mobilisation and donor engagement Lead or substantially contribute to the development of funding proposals, donor engagement and resource-mobilisation strategies for demand-side flexibility and integrated energy systems, including development of programme concepts, budgets, results frameworks and implementation partnerships. 10. Global thought leadership and representation Lead or coordinate major UNEP knowledge products on demand-side flexibility and represent UNEP in international technical and policy forums, workshops and standards processes, translating country experience into global guidance and disseminating international good practice to country partners. Work Location Expected duration Duties and Responsibilities Qualifications/special Skills Languages Additional Information No Fee Apply Now