Background

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Background:

UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 identifies development financing as an enabler to scale up development impact and calls on partners to join UNDP in its $1 trillion ‘Moonshot’ target to help mobilise game-changing public and private sector resources towards the SDGs. UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub has established four offers through which country offices can scale up their engagements with public and private partners towards the delivery of the SDGs and to achieve this Moonshot. Ultimately these offers will contribute to the systemic transformation required for finance to deliver on the SDGs at scale in all countries. These services are interlinked and offered across the following areas: (i) Public Finance for the SDGs; (ii) Private Finance for the SDGs (iii) Integrated National Financing Frameworks and Portfolios; and (iv) the SDG Finance Academy.

To take sustainable finance to required scale and collectively achieve $1 trillion of public expenditure and private capital in the SDGs, UNDP is working across its Global Policy Network (GPN) and building its expertise and capacities of Country Offices and Regional Bureaus so that they can offer and tailor SFH products and services to clients supported by an internal and external experts. Further, as part of its role as SDG Integrator, UNDP is committed to promoting partnerships to develop SDG finance capacities of all stakeholders, including governments as UNDPs key client, and the private sector to collectively design and implement finance instruments and reforms at the country levels.

To scale and expand the reach of the SDG Finance Academy’s technical skill offering to UNDP country offices, and public and private partners. The Academy delivers in-person training and self directed e-learning on sustainable finance in the areas of public finance, unlocking private capital, impact management and finance tracking, and financing strategies.

To develop these skills, share knowledge and provide expertise, which lead to the generation of such engagements with partners to scale SDG finance, UNDP has established the SDG Finance Academy. Being a part of the Sustainable Finance Hub Team, the Sustainable Finance Capacities Analyst will support the SDG Finance Academy to provide training, share knowledge and curate experts across various policy areas such as climate, crisis contexts and fragile states, gender equality, governance etc. These efforts will in turn, support colleagues internally at UNDP and externally in the public and private sectors to shape policy reforms and design financial instruments to solve development challenges and contribute to the trillion dollar moonshot. 

Duties and Responsibilities

General support to the SDG Finance Academy:

• Supporting the planning, development and delivery of SDG Finance Academy training events.
• Supporting the ongoing development and delivery of the SDG Finance Academy e-Learning programme.including coordinating the translation of course materials with regional staff

Technical support on sustainable finance in crisis contexts joint Offer between UNDP and Crisis Bureau:

• Develop a policy paper and evidence base outlining the role of sustainable finance, evidencing UNDPs Offers, in crisis settings and fragile states.
• Support the design of forthcoming joint trainings between Sustainable Finance Hub and Crisis Bureau on sustainable finance in fragile and crisis contexts and NEXUS.
• Support the collection of country impact stories on financing in fragile and crisis contexts that can be used to inform and guide training materials

Supporting the SDG Finance roster management and implementation:

• Ensure the ongoing systemic running of the sustainable finance roster, including by working with Crisis Bureau, and Regional Bureaus and Country Offices to ensure access to roster experts, SOPs, TORs etc. and liaise with experts on pre and post deployment activities.
• Provide ongoing analysis of expert roster deployments, experts skill sets, and undertake vetting of new experts.

Supporting the development and tracking of the $1 trillion Moonshot:

• Work with Regional Bureaus and Country Offices to guide them in describing their contributions to the $1 trillion moonshot through clinics, direct one to one support, interpretation of guidelines etc.
• Coordinate, collect, analyse and present quantitative and qualitative data from Country Offices on their contribution to the moonshot and deliver for ongoing HQ reporting

The incumbent performs other duties within the functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Reporting to the Sustainable Finance Capacities and Partnerships Specialist, the Sustainable Finance Capacities Analyst will support SFH on the implementation and efficient execution of the SDG Finance Academy. The incumbent will be responsible for the coordination specifically of the Moonshot, sustainable finance in crisis contexts, and roster implementation facets with UNDP, its Regional Bureaus, Country offices, the GPN and its partners; engaging stakeholders and facilitating linkages between teams, existing partners  and stakeholders

Competencies

Core competencies:

• Achieve Results:        LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively:        LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
• Learn Continuously:        LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
• Adapt with Agility:        LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
• Act with Determination:         LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
• Engage and Partner:        LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion:        LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

Required Skills and Experience

Education requirements:               

• Advanced university degree (Master´s degree or equivalent) in international relations, international development, public policy, or other relevant fields such as social science, economics, business administration, etc.is required, or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above-mentioned fields of study, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Min. years of relevant work experience:   

• Minimum of 2 years (with Master’s degree) or 4 years (with Bachelor’s degree) in international development, or combined experience in the public/private CSO space and in the development world in sustainable finance and crisis and peacebuilding settings.
• Experience with quantitative and qualitative data collection, research, review, analysis and presentation.
• Experience with capacity building training programmes and approaches.
• Experience and knowledge on the sustainable finance agenda, both public and private sector is an advantage.
• Experience managing relationships and partnerships is an advatnage.

Required Language(s):      

• Excellent writing, editing, and oral communication skills in English
• Working knowledge of other UNDP working languages, (French or Spanish) is an advantage.