Job Details of Digital insights and asset manager products advisor

Result of Service

The consultant will leverage their existing knowledge to refine requirements for stakeholders and propose products or solutions targeted to stakeholders’ needs with the goal of raising awareness of methane mitigation and building mitigation capacity and agency in the community. This includes 2 key outcomes: The consultant will: 1) Develop the specifications of digital platform capabilities for target stakeholder groups for the IMEO digital platform, validating the launch versions in development working closely with the platform teams. This entails reviewing the initial set of findings (user centered insights documents) to refine and prioritize critical features and functionalities for the digital data platform’s Tier 1 & 2, identifying any potential gaps and providing insights on how to go about addressing them. 2) Propose non-digital recommendations for products or services for the asset manager network, working closely with OGMP 2.0 including but not limited to defining a specification for components of a Methane Social Performance Guide to address the social behaviour change aspects

Work Location

Remote

Expected duration

3 months

Duties and Responsibilities

UN Environment Programme (Energy and Climate Branch) hosts the International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO). IMEO is a data-driven, action-focused UNEP initiative that takes an innovative approach to address the methane emissions problem by collecting, integrating, and reconciling data from different sources, including scientific measurement studies, satellites, rigorous industry reporting through the Oil and Gas Methane Partnership 2.0 (OGMP 2.0), and national inventories. IMEO will create a global public dataset of empirically verified methane emissions, with an initial focus on fossil fuel sources and will interconnect data with actions on research, reporting, and regulation. This will catalyse deep reductions in human-made methane emissions and serve the rapidly growing ecosystem of governments, companies, investors, researchers, NGOs and other entities engaging in this crucial climate challenge. The digital insights and asset manager products advisor is needed by the IMEO team to provide insights into the development of products and tools for decision makers (sustainability leads, policy makers, investors) and asset managers around the theme of methane mitigation.

Qualifications/special skills

Advanced university degree in energy, environment, management, or a related field. Demonstrable results with engaging networks of people, facilitating community building and social innovation. Knowledge about environmental issues associated with the oil and gas industry, especially methane emissions is preferable Highly motivated to build a community for engagement among asset managers, policy makers, organisational sustainability leads Demonstrable experience in corporate organisational decision making on climate change Demonstrable experience in oil and gas production and operations (minimum 10 years) Digital platform familiarity

Languages

For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English. Additional languages are an asset.

Additional Information

Objectives include: - Refine requirements with the platform team tailored to target stakeholder groups - Define needs criteria of target stakeholder groups - Validate initial findings and product-market fit of the launch versions due for launch end Q2 2025 - Inform the release plan for subsequent releases - Develop and propose recommendations or content for products or services for the asset manager network, including social behaviour change solutions critical to increasing agency to act - Inform CEO engagement with industry-relevant insights motivating for this community Objectives, output expectations and performance indicators - Specification of Tier 1 and 2 IMEO methane data platform capabilities - Suggestions on asset manager network elements, contents, behaviour change approaches Specific tasks and responsibilities - Validation of initial user centered design process findings that capture key takeaways from target stakeholder groups for digital and non-digital needs and pain points, to be presented in a key PDF. - Validate launch approach for first releases for both tier 1 & 2 to be shared as a written PDF. - Recommendations for asset manager network and CEOs

No Fee

THE 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.