Sustainable mobility and digitalisation specialist

Result of ServiceIn consultation with UNEP and ACCESS consortium partners, the consultant will deliver the following activities: Activity 1 - Translate pilot results into actionable policy and planning recommendations at local, national, and regional levels. i) Synthesis of Pilot Learnings: Collect, document, and synthesise lessons learned, successes, and challenges from the six ACCESS pilot projects. ii) Policy Mapping: Identify and review relevant local, sub-national, and national transport, mobility, digitalisation, and gender policies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. iii) Gap and Opportunity Analysis: Compare pilot learnings against existing policy frameworks to highlight gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for mainstreaming innovative approaches. iv) Draft Country-Specific Recommendations: Develop tailored recommendations for each of the six countries, showing how pilot findings can be embedded into ongoing or upcoming policies, strategies, or plans. v) Regional Knowledge Product: Produce a consolidated regional brief that identifies cross-cutting themes and opportunities for regional alignment and peer learning. vi) Consultation and Validation: Organise consultative discussions with national counterparts, consortium partners, and regional actors to validate recommendations. vii) Policy Influence Pathways: Develop practical guidance on entry points and strategies for engaging decision-makers, including timing, framing, and stakeholder mapping, to facilitate uptake of recommendations. Activity 2 - Identify project synergies and strengthen outreach to enhance visibility and collaboration. i) Mapping of Synergies: Review ACCESS activities and outputs to identify potential complementarities with other international, regional, and national initiatives in sustainable mobility, digitalisation, and gender. ii) Stakeholder Scanning: Identify priority organisations, networks, and platforms (e.g., UN agencies, development banks, regional bodies, research centres, NGOs) with which ACCESS can establish or strengthen collaboration. iii) Proactive Engagement: Support UNEP and consortium partners in initiating and following up with selected organisations to lock in synergies and define concrete areas of cooperation. iv) Visibility and Communication: Draft short briefs, talking points, and presentations to showcase ACCESS results and opportunities for collaboration in external events and bilateral meetings. v) Knowledge Exchange Facilitation: Help organise and contribute to cross-project exchanges (webinars, workshops, peer-to-peer dialogues) that highlight ACCESS learnings and foster joint initiatives. vi) Tracking and Reporting: Document engagement outcomes and synergies achieved, including opportunities leveraged, joint activities initiated, and contributions to ACCESS visibility. Activity 3. Facilitate public–private data sharing and establish long-term collaboration frameworks. i) Landscape Analysis: Map key public and private sector stakeholders relevant to mobility and digitalisation data in the six pilot countries. ii) Barriers and Incentives Review: Identify barriers to data sharing (legal, institutional, technical, trust-related) and document good practices or incentives that can encourage collaboration. iii) Dialogue Facilitation: Convene structured dialogues and trust-building sessions between public and private actors to address concerns, align interests, and promote win–win solutions. iv) Data Sharing Frameworks: Develop draft frameworks, agreements, or guidelines that outline roles, responsibilities, governance, and safeguards for long-term collaboration. v) Capacity Support: Provide technical advice on standards, interoperability, and safeguards (e.g., privacy, security, responsible use) to enable sustainable data collaboration. vi) Sustainability Planning: Propose mechanisms to sustain public–private data partnerships beyond the project lifecycle, including incentives, institutional anchoring, and monitoring arrangements. Activity 4. Provide on-demand technical support to UNEP and consortium partners. i) Knowledge Product Development: Develop dedicated knowledge products on transport digitalisation relevant to ACCESS project such as featuring ACCESS case studies and technical insights; translate and adapt into both Spanish and English. ii) Capacity Building: Design and deliver capacity-building sessions (virtual or in-person) based on the knowledge product, tailored for policymakers, practitioners, and consortium members. iii) M&E Tracking Support: Provide technical assistance to UNEP in monitoring and evaluation processes, including gender-responsive data tracking, indicator refinement, and progress reporting. iv) Peer Review of Technical Outputs: Review and provide expert feedback on draft reports, toolkits, guidelines, and pilot documentation produced by consortium partners, ensuring integration of digitalisation, gender, and sustainable mobility considerations. v) Responsive Advisory Support: Provide on-demand technical inputs to UNEP and ACCESS partners as needed across project activities, ensuring timely and high-quality contributions. Work LocationHome–based/Working remotely Expected duration8 Months Duties and ResponsibilitiesBackground (Org. Setting) The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the United Nations systems designated entity for addressing environmental issues at the global and regional level. Its mandate is to coordinate the development of environmental policy consensus by keeping the global environment under review and bringing emerging issues to the attention of governments and the international community for action. The overall objective of the Industry and Economy Division of UNEP is to encourage decision makers in government, local authorities and industry to develop and adopt policies, strategies, practices and technologies that promote sustainable patterns of consumption and production, make efficient use of natural resources, ensure safe management of chemicals and contribute to making trade and environment policies mutually supportive. It promotes the development, use and transfer of policies, technologies, economic instruments, managerial practices and other tools that assist in environmentally sound decision making and the building of corresponding activities. The Sustainable Mobility Unit (SMU) is part of the Industry and Economy Division and promotes sustainable and low & no-emissions transport in low and middle-income countries around the world through projects and programmes for Fuels and Vehicles, Electric Mobility, Active Mobility and Transport Digitalisation, and the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles project. The Sustainable Mobility Unit (SMU) seeks a specialist with technical knowledge and expertise in sustainable mobility and digitalisation, to support gender responsive planning and delivery in our flagship project: Accelerating Access to Low Carbon Urban Mobility Solutions through Digitalization (ACCESS) project funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety. The project focuses on integrating digitalization policies and tools into transport systems to reduce emissions and promote inclusivity across Latin America. The consultant will bring expertise on transport digitalisation to support UNEP in its role as ACCESS Consortium Lead, Regional Work Package Coordinator and Colombia and Peru Country Manager – through development and delivery of technical project activities and outputs. They will provide technical advisory services to strengthen sustainable mobility initiatives through digital solutions at operational, sub-national, and national policy levels. The primary focus will be on applying digitalisation to enhance monitoring, policy coherence, and the effectiveness of pilots and knowledge products across the ACCESS project and ensuring gender and equity considerations are systematically integrated. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES In close consultation with the UNEP Sustainable Mobility Unit ACCESS Team Leader, Project Manager and team, and other ACCESS consortium partner organizations, the consultant will be responsible for the following activities: Activity 1. Translate pilot and operational results into actionable sub-national and national policy recommendations. This activity will capture and synthesise lessons from the six ACCESS pilot projects and link them to relevant transport, mobility, digitalisation, and gender policies in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. The consultant will develop country-specific policy notes and a regional synthesis brief, highlighting opportunities for embedding pilot results into local and national policies and for advancing regional alignment. Activity 2. Identify project synergies and strengthen outreach. The consultant will map complementarities between ACCESS and other initiatives, identify priority organisations and networks for collaboration, and proactively support engagement with selected partners including development banks. This activity will also enhance the visibility of ACCESS by producing targeted outreach materials, facilitating knowledge exchange, and documenting synergies and joint opportunities. Activity 3. Facilitate public–private data sharing and long-term collaboration. This activity will focus on providing recommendations and building trust and establishing frameworks for sustainable data collaboration between public and private stakeholders. The consultant will analyse barriers and incentives, convene dialogues, and draft practical frameworks or guidelines that enable data sharing, while also proposing mechanisms for sustaining these partnerships beyond the project’s duration. Activity 4. Provide on-demand technical support to UNEP for the ACCESS Project. Approximately 30% of the consultant’s time will be dedicated to on-demand support for UNEP. This includes developing knowledge products, developing and delivering capacity building on transport digitalisation, contributing to monitoring and evaluation tracking, and peer reviewing technical outputs from consortium partners to ensure high quality and coherence. Qualifications/special skillsAn advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in transport, sustainable development, urban development, transport digitalisation, or related fields is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. 1. At least 5 years of experience working in sustainable mobility and digitalisation is required. 2. Proven experience in designing and delivering knowledge products and capacity development is required; 3. Proven experience in stakeholder engagement and consultation is required; 4. Proven experience in the sustainable mobility field in Latin America, working with national and city governments and other stakeholders – both directly and in consortium approaches. is required; 5. For this consultancy, being based in one of the following seven countries: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, or Panama is required. 6. Proven experience working in international organizations is required 7. Proven experience in gender and equity mainstreaming in sustainable transport.is required. 8. Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) are required; 9. Experience with national and international development frameworks and donor-funded projects is required; LanguagesEnglish and French are the official languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this post, fluency in oral and written English and Spanish is required. Fluency in Portuguese is desirable. Additional InformationNot available. No FeeTHE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.