Project Manager – Environmental Statistics in ENP countries in support to the gradual SEIS extension

Job description:

The EEA will implement a project under ENPI (the European Neighbourhood Policy Instrument) covering monitoring, reporting and gradual extension of Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) to the South and East neighbours respectively. Capacity building in all these areas will represent also an important part of the work. The contract will run over the period 2010-2014 and will cover all ENP neighbours (East[1] and South[2] and the Russian Federation). In the framework of this work the EEA is seeking a full-time project manager to ensure the implementation of the planned activities in the area of environmental statistics in the ENP region and help EEA developing links between the environmental and statistical networks in the region.

The position will entail the following tasks:

• To evaluate the existing environmental data and information flows, specifically for priority issues under Horizon 2020 and in support of implementation of legal environmental commitments and targets of relevance for East neighbours, in terms of quality, timeliness, completeness, and consistency. Set up criteria for data quality assurance in view of their comparability and consistency across countries. The work will be carried out in close cooperation with the national statistics institutes in ENP region responsible for the production, storage, and dissemination of environmental data;
• To contribute to strengthening environmental statistic flow and information systems in the EU neighboring countries, jointly with the national statistical systems and the main environmental authorities, with the aim of establishing SEIS-compliant national and regional environmental information systems;
• To coordinate the production of environmental indicators and scorecards; particularly contribute to the future development and production of relevant indicators for the East neighbors, and identify and produce key indicators for the priority areas of Horizon 2020 for the South neighbours;
• To facilitate the partnership with environmental institutions and statistical offices, strengthening links with environmental statistics, as well as with international bodies in the region (especially UNEP/MAP, UNECE, WHO, OECD, UNSD, CISTAT);
• To contribute to the implementation of EEA assistance project including cooperation and linkages with Eurostat, covering ENP regions for the period 2010-2014;
• Communicate project objectives, tasks and main outputs across the ENP region, in particular related to environmental statistics in order to widely and actively engage the different stakeholders in the execution of the work and in the dissemination of the results.