2025/005: Junior Professional Officer (JPO)

The UNEP/AEWA Secretariat would like to draw attention to Resolutions 8.12 on Financial and Administrative Matters and 8.11 on Institutional Arrangements: Technical Committee, which invite Parties to consider the feasibility of providing personnel and/or junior professional officers, in accordance with the United Nations rules and regulations, to strengthen the capacity of the Agreement Secretariat; and to prioritise and allocate a JPO to the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat for Technical Committee support.

As a matter of course, the Secretariat has recently presented a proposal for an Associate Technical Officer to UNEP which coordinates the JPO programme for all affiliated entities (2025 cycle).

Recognizing the expanding portfolio of the Technical Committee and the growing workload of the Secretariat, the JPO will be primarily supporting the operations of the Technical Committee and contributing to the work of the AEWA International Species Working Groups, the Implementation Review Process and the regular tasks of the Secretariat.

The Secretariat invites AEWA focal points to bring the proposal to the attention of their JPO coordinators in their respective countries.

Please contact the Secretariat at [email protected], if you have questions or require more information on the JPO proposal.