Result of Service - Under the overall guidance of the UNEP Brazil Representative and in close coordination with Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Team and the Ministry of Finance, the Strategic Engagement Advisor is responsible for engaging a wide range of stakeholders to advance energy transition goals, provide technical advice on the best approach to raise awareness on the benefits of the transition, identify key actors and levers to enable transition pathways for cities that receive on oil and gas for revenues. The incumbent will be responsible for the following duties: Strategic stakeholder engagement - Collaborate with the facilitation strategic multi-stakeholder dialogue on energy transition and economic diversification, at the national and subnational levels. - Monitor energy transition trends, stakeholder positions, and policy developments to inform engagement strategies. - Participate in the project coordination in establishing and maintaining trusted relationships with key stakeholders to support energy transition and economic diversification dialogues. - Participate in the synthetization of University of Campinas (UNICAMP) technical reports into actionable engagement strategies. - Collaborate closely with UNEP, Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA), BOGA and Universidade de Campinas teams (technical, policy, communications) to ensure consistency in messaging and alignment with strategic objectives. - Provide technical inputs in project execution and coordination, as per the Terms of Reference, in close coordination with UNEP, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, UNICAMP and BOGA teams. Events and visibility material - Contribute to the design and delivery of workshops, forums, technical dialogues, and bilateral meetings. - Collaborate with UNICAMP’s technical experts to ensure that capacity-building content reflects current trends, tools, and best practices on energy transition and economic diversification. - Prepare various written outputs as draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications; - Ensure strategic alignment between engagement activities and communication outputs to amplify reach and influence. Policy-advice and capacity-building - Contribute to reports elaborated by UNICAMP team. - Participate in policy integration by providing technical advice to align the energy transition strategy and pathways with key national policies and planning documents and processes, including Plano Clima, Plano de Transformacao Ecologica, Green Resilient Cities and other relevant programmes. - Contribute with the Ministry and project implementation team with technical guidance on global transition pathways and Paris-aligned scenarios, as well as energy transition risk. - Provide strategic assessments to the coordination to facilitate alignment between stakeholder interests and policy objectives through strategic engagement and dialogue. - Monitor policy developments at national, regional, and global levels, producing summarized reports to inform engagement strategies and institutional positioning. - Work Location - UNEP Brazil Office, Brasília, Brazil - Expected duration - 6 monthsResponsibilities: - 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. 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 UNEP Latin America and the Caribbean Office (LACO), located in Panama City, works closely with the 33 countries of the region and its activities are integrated into the Medium-Term Strategy and the Programme of Work approved by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). UNEP Country Office in Brazil is a key development partner of the Brazilian government and supports national and sub‑national public and private sector institutions and civil society to advance a more sustainable and inclusive society by strengthening the relationship between people and nature, and between economic development and environmental protection. Brazil is at a critical juncture in its energy transition. On 5 December 2025, the President of the Republic issued an Executive Dispatch (Despacho Presidencial) mandating the Ministries of Mines and Energy (MME), Finance (MF), Environment and Climate Change (MMA), and the Casa Civil to develop, within 60 days, a proposal for a CNPE (National Energy Policy Council) resolution establishing directives for a just and planned energy transition roadmap, including mechanisms for the creation of an Energy Transition Fund to be financed by government revenues f