This position is located in the Environment Division at UNECE. The Inter-Regional Adviser will work under the direct supervision of the Director of the Division and the overall guidance of Deputy Executive Secretary and the Executive Secretary. The Inter-Regional Adviser acts as a primary focal point for environmental governance matters for the 17 UNECE programme countries, and is a cross-sectoral focal point for UNECE with the Resident Coordinator Offices of three programme countries, and with the respective UN Country Teams. The Environment Division is mandated to improve environmental governance and performance for safeguarding the environment and health. The services of the Inter-Regional Adviser aim to ensure the provision of high-level technical expertise in the areas of environmental governance, the transfer of knowledge from UNECE to Governments on policy-related issues and development strategies and the formulation. The Inter-Regional Adviser engages with the Resident Coordinators (RCs) and the United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) to maximise the impact of country-level and subregional technical cooperation, in support of the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (UNSDCFs). The UNECE Technical Cooperation Strategy serves as a general framework for planning and implementing UNECE technical cooperation activities including RPTC.