Job Title: Sustainable Finance Coordinator - IPSA 9 (Home
Based)
Organization: UNDP
Job Identification: 12678
Location: Home Based
Apply Before: 08/11/2023, 06:59 AM
Job Schedule: Full time
Grade: IPSA-9
Vacancy Type: International Personnel Service Agreement
Practice Area: Management
Bureau: Bureau for Policy and Programme Support
Contract Duration: 1 Year
Education & Work Experience: Master's Degree - 2 year(s)
experience
Required Languages: English
Vacancy Timeline: 2 Weeks
Job Description
Background
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value
diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we
operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered
to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions.
Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means
increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as
belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to
apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment,
including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will,
therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
Office/Unit/Project Description
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable
development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for
collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNDP's policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country
Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to
cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in
the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical
expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the
signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic
Plan.
Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support
(BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance
to support the results of UNDP's Strategic Plan. BPPS's staff provides
technical advice to Country Offices, advocates for UNDP corporate messages,
represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues,
government and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency
coordination in specific thematic areas. In addition, BPPS works closely with
UNDP's Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. While
ensuring that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP's development
programmes, BPPS also assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality
development results through an integrated approach that links results-based
management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of
working. Lastly, BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative,
knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.
In order to streamline its financial and investment
engagement, UNDP launched the Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH), a finance and
innovation platform, that draws on a critical mass of UNDP expertise,
initiatives, and partnerships to support the mobilization and leveraging of
resources for the SDGs and lead the implementation of the new UNDP private
sector strategy and other initiatives. The Hub is an integral part of both the
Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) and the Bureau of External
Relations and Advocacy (BERA), as well as part of the GPN. The Hub serves
as a connector, broker and global coordinator among internal and external
actors; curates and manages UNDP’s catalogue of service offers on SDG financing
to governments, investors and companies, via the COs, to significantly enhance
the scale and impact of UNDP’s work.
Through the SFH UNDP has been increasing its engagement
in global financial and economic policy making through the work carried out in
different forums (I.e., G7, G20, UN’s FfD process, etc.) as well as
other regulatory and market-based networks. Furthermore, as Secretariat of
the G20 Sustainable Finance
Working Group, UNDP assists G20 Presidencies in the implementation of
their G20 priorities for the Group.
Please visit the SDG Sustainable Finance
Hub website for more information.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Sustainable Finance Coordinator will be responsible
for supporting UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub in providing expertise and
coordinating topics and projects related to the uptake and implementation of
the sustainable finance agenda in its various forms across the G20 but most
specifically within the finance track.
Strategic Planning and Execution:
- Provide
timely technical and administrative guidance, as required and determined
jointly with supervisor, to the G20 Presidency and Sustainable Finance
Working Group Co-chairs on the development, uptake and implementation of
the SFWG agenda (including daily coordination between these stakeholders,
timeline management, etc.).
- Support
the preparation and coordination of G20 SFWG meetings and events.
- Coordinate
the planning and execution of sustainable finance initiatives, linked to
SFWG work, in at least 2 selected countries.
Outreach and Relationships Management:
- Coordinate
the outreach to the 2023 Brazil G20 Presidency, to advance and implement
the work of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group. Cultivate and
manage ‘client relationships’ with all SFWG members as well as other
working group members to advance policy work.
- Engage
with target constituencies (ex: FSB, BIS, WB, IMF, IFC, OECD, Alliance for
Financial Inclusion, Network for Greening the Financial System, finance
ministries and central banks, etc.).
- Coordinate
the outreach and engagement with UNDP country offices to inform them on
the G20 Sustainable Finance Agenda and assist them, as relevant, in the
uptake of the agenda.
- Prepare
briefing notes for the SFH Director and designees at the Executive Office
of the Administrator.
Subject-Matter Expertise on Relevant Topics and Projects:
- Develop
technical documents, reports and briefs for the G20 Sustainable Finance
Working Group Presidency and Co-chairs.
- Support
in the preparation of Terms of Reference, as relevant for Brazil G20
Presidency.
- Develop
a stock-take on the activities planned for 2023-2024 by major sustainable
finance networks and support processing inputs to the G20 Sustainable
Finance Roadmap tracking exercise in 2024.
Perform any other duties related to this assignment as
may be required by Supervisor.
Institutional Arrangement
The Sustainable Finance Coordinator will work under the
direct supervision of a Sustainable Finance Advisor, Sustainable Finance Hub
and in close collaboration with the other SFH team members.
Competencies
|
Core |
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Achieve Results: |
LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes,
balances speed and accuracy in doing work |
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Think Innovatively: |
LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches,
demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking |
|
Learn Continuously: |
LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and
support their learning |
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Adapt with Agility: |
LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations,
involve others in change process |
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Act with Determination: |
LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources
of pressure simultaneously |
|
Engage and Partner: |
LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together,
build/maintain coalitions/partnerships |
|
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: |
LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences,
considers in decision making |
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
|
Thematic Area |
Name |
Definition |
|
Business Direction & Strategy |
Negotiation and Influence |
Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others,
resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue,
negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and
creates win-win situations |
|
Business Development |
Knowledge Generation |
Ability to research and turn information into useful
knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need |
|
Business Management |
Monitoring |
Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with
regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual
activities and programme performance and results |
|
Partnership management |
Relationship management |
Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private
partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and
mutual understanding |
|
Programme and Policy |
SDG Finance |
ESG standards Public Sector Finance (Tax and domestic resource mobilization,
public financial management and public expenditure) |
|
Programme and Policy |
Strategic Policy Engagement |
Strategic policy advice in the context of the G20 |
Required Skills and Experience
|
Min. Academic Education |
Minimum Master’s degree in Economics / Development
Economics, International Development, international Management Relations,
Public Policies, Development Finance, or other closely related area is
required. |
|
Min. years of relevant Work experience |
A minimum of 2 years of progressively responsible experience
in outreach for major initiatives or institutions involving multi-
stakeholder engagement, inter or intra-governmental negotiations, and
experience with the financial sector through the private or public sector is
required. |
|
Required skills and competencies |
|
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Desired additional skills and competencies |
|
|
Required Language(s) (at working level) |
Proficiency in English language is required: excellent
presentation, writing, and editing skills. |
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Important information for US Permanent Residents ('Green Card' holders)
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US Permanent Residents. UNDP advises applicants for all professional level
posts that they must relinquish their US Permanent Resident status and accept a
G-4 visa, or have submitted a valid application for US citizenship prior to
commencement of employment.
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candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain
applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar
positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description,
experience and educational requirements.
Non-discrimination
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation
and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected
candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks,
and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
UNDP is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate
based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin,
sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other
status.
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