Closing Date: 30 July 2025
Call for Energy Experts: exciting opportunity to join the UNDP ExpRes Roster
Calling all the Energy experts, especially in the low-carbon industry! Do you have a Master’s Degree +5 years (+7 with a Bachelor’s degree) of professional experience?
Please join the UNDP ExpRes Roster for an opportunity to support country offices and government partners on UNDP Climate work:
Application Process and Contractual Considerations for UNDP ExpRes Roster Candidates:
- Encouraging Applications:
All qualified candidates with expertise in areas outlined in the Vacancy Announcement are encouraged to apply. - Registration and Consideration:
Successful candidates will be invited to register under the Low-Carbon Industry (sub-profile) of the Energy Roster and may be considered for future similar assignments with UNDP. - Roster Retention:
Retention in the Roster of selected experts will be contingent on continuous delivery of satisfactory services. - Eligibility for Assignments:
Upon completion of registration, experts will be eligible for consideration for roster assignments. - Contractual Assurance:
Entry into the expert roster system does not guarantee a contract with UNDP; it depends on forthcoming needs. - Direct Contracting:
When a request for services arises, the UNDP office in need of services shall directly contract the consultant from the roster without further selection processes. - Terms of Reference and Contract Issuance:
A specific Terms of Reference (ToR) outlining the outputs for each assignment shall be provided.
Subject to agreement from the designated candidate, a contract would be issued. - Negotiable Conditions:
Conditions of a particular assignment may be negotiable.
Required Qualifications
A Master’s degree, preferably in energy, climate change, international development, law, international affairs, business administration, development economics, or other relevant field, or extensive compensating experience in relevant technical fields.
What is Low-Carbon Industry?
The latest Global Stocktake (GST), a major international assessment of progress on climate action, has made it clear that the world is not on track to limit global warming to 1.5°C — the internationally agreed target aimed at avoiding the most dangerous impacts of climate change. Despite ongoing efforts, there remain significant gaps and challenges that are slowing progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To close this gap, science points to the urgent need for transformational action across energy systems. This includes tripling the world’s renewable energy capacity, doubling improvements in energy efficiency by 2030, and rapidly reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
In parallel, countries and industries need to accelerate the transition towards energy systems that produce little to no greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, making greater use of zero- and low-carbon energy sources well before or by the middle of this century. Crucially, industrial emissions — particularly from heavy industry sectors such as steel, cement, and chemicals — remain among the largest sources of energy-related emissions worldwide. Achieving a net-zero energy system will therefore also require significant efforts to decarbonize industry – i.e., reducing emissions across industrial sectors, with a particular focus
on energy-intensive and hard-to-abate industries such as steel, cement and chemicals.
UNDP is uniquely positioned to support countries and partners in accelerating the shift to low-carbon industries. As the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. Within this context, UNDP invests in a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.
Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s personnel provides technical advice to Country Offices, advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government, and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response.
Scope of Work
Within this context, the Climate Hub is establishing a roster of energy experts to provide substantive policy and technical advisory services to UNDP Country Offices and national governments on low-carbon industry — a critical pillar of support under UNDP’s Climate Promise 2025. The Climate Promise 2025 aims to mobilize the UN system to support developing countries in aligning their third-generation Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with the 1.5°C goal and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while strengthening the quality and investment-readiness of NDCs and accelerating their implementation to drive sustainable development.
The key responsibilities include:
- Policy advice and technical support to advance low-carbon industrial strategies, just and inclusive industry decarbonization in response to requests from UNDP Country Offices and national governments.
- Development of innovative tools, methodologies, and resources to support policies and investments to decarbonize industry sectors, particularly for steel, cement, and petro-chemicals industries.
- Landscape analysis of the industry sector including overall GHG emission, energy consumption, production processes, sustainable practices, regulatory landscape, impact on natural resources, contribution to GDP, etc.
- Identification of GHG reduction options and their technology requirements
- Scenario modelling for the different reduction options and target setting
- Identification of policies and measures to facilitate the implementation of selected GHG reduction options.
- Cost & benefit analysis of selected measures and policies
- Assessment of investment needs
- Identification of financing options
Experts with the following sub-profiles would be particularly attractive for this opportunity.
- Low-carbon industrial systems modelling and analysis, with a focus on hard-to-abate sectors (steel and cement)
- Industrial energy efficiency and process optimization
- Energy audits and diagnostics for industrial facilities
- Fuel switching and alternative energy sources for industry (including green hydrogen, electrification, biomass, etc.)
- Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) for industry
- Circular economy and materials efficiency in industry
- Life cycle analysis of industry sectors
- Policy, regulation, and industrial planning for industrial decarbonization
- Industrial finance and investment strategies (including de-risking and market development for low-carbon industry)
- Landscape analysis of industrial data, emissions, and mitigation opportunities
- Industrial data, monitoring, and emissions accounting
- Climate risk management and adaptation in industrial sectors
- Gender equality and social inclusion in industrial transformation
- Supply chain decarbonization and green procurement
- Industrial policy advocacy and multi-stakeholder engagement
- Industrial governance and institutional capacity building
- Knowledge sharing and South-South cooperation on low-carbon industry
Click Here To Apply
Follow Opportunities For Everyone on Social Media
