The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.

UNEP’s Science Division is responsible for analyzing the state of the global environment, providing early warning information and assessing global and regional environmental trends to catalyze and promote international cooperation and action on the environment. Under the overall guidance of the UNEP Executive Director/UN Under Secretary General, the incumbent shall be accountable to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Plenary, through its Bureau on policy, programmatic and financial matters. This post is located within the IPBES Secretariat at the Bonn duty station.