Background

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

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.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) China is the China country office of the United Nations Development Programme – the global development network of the United Nations.

UNDP China is programming in line with the UNDP Strategic Plan (SP), under which the work domains/portfolios include People and Prosperity, Energy and Environment and Global Partnerships.

Guided by the senior management of UNDP China, the Strategic Partnership and Policy Team serves as the office’s research hub, closely cooperating with and providing content support to office-wide teams. Under the overall guidance of the International Economist and the supervision of the National Economist, the intern will be dedicated to providing technical, analytical and logistic support for research products and dialogue events. The intern will also be undertaking cross-team coordination functions, as requested by the senior manager or supervisor. The intern’s work aligns with UNDP’s mandate and mission and the implementation of the SDGs.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of Key Functions:

• Support the Strategic Partnership and Policy Team to compile, collate and analyze data, in particular on socio-economic policies, rural development, climate and environment issues, SDG finance and development cooperation related topics.
• Support as well as compilation, analysis and interpretation of knowledge products, providing thorough research of the policy and development issues in the country.
• Assist preparing policy briefs.
• Assist the coordination of publication launch events, missions and policy dialogues.
• Advocate and support the localization of the SDGs through research, preparing presentations and by participating in relevant forums, conferences and trainings, and take notes. 
• Support office-wide activities, including but not limited to employee association initiatives, green commitment activities, and other team-building events.
• A.O.B as assigned.

Support Management of events and publications on economic issues.

The internship is full-time, he/she will work five days per week (35 hours), with at least four days at UNDP offices.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

• Interest in development;
• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Functional Competencies:

• Ability to manage diverse and complex tasks, with tight deadlines;
• Value the equal importance of research and administrative tasks;
• Ability to manage coordination and logistic tasks with minimum supervision.
• Familiarity with knowledge management and learning;
• Ability to provide high quality policy notes, briefs on thematic topics;
• Sound writing and data management skills;
• Excellent organizational, inter-personal, communication and administrative skills;
• Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals;

Required Skills and Experience

Education and Experience

Field of study: International development, Economics, Social Sciences, International relations, Climate science, Environmental studies, Business and Management, or equivalent.

Candidates must meet one of the following educational requirements:

• Enrolled in a Master's or in a PhD programme
• In the final year of a Bachelor’s programme;
• Or within one year after graduation from a Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD programme,
• Or be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program
• Experience in developing research communication products would be an advantage.

Language and Skills

Excellent written and spoken Chinese and English language.

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

Please submit your application with below documents in one PDF. For people who apply from UNDP Jobs, please note that the system will not accept the uploading of more than one document so please merge or scan all your documents into one prior to uploading.

a)     CV and letter of motivation

b)     Copy of school transcript

c)     Indicate if you will be financially supported by any institution or programme, such as a university, government, foundation or scholarship programme, and the financial amount.

*Candidate who didn’t submit required documentation will not be further considered.

INTERNSHIP CONDITIONS

• Interns must provide proof of enrolment in health insurance plan and medical certificate of good health prior to starting the internship. Any cost arising from accidents and illness incurred during an internship assignment will be the responsibility of the intern.
• The stipend will be paid monthly. Interns will have 1.5 days of leave per month.
• Interns are responsible for obtaining necessary visas and arranging travel to and from the duty station where the internship will be performed; Cost and arrangement for travel, visas, passports, accommodations and living expenses are the responsibility of the nominating institution, related institution or government, which may provide the required financial assistance to its students; or the intern.
• Interns must not apply for or be appointed to a position that should be encumbered by a staff number during the period of their internship. Interns are expected to fulfil the terms of their internships. Therefore, the internship must not be foreshortened for the purposes of allowing an intern to apply for a position.
• Interns are not staff members and may not represent UNDP in any official capacity.

Disclaimer

Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more 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.

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Background

ATTENTION TO APPLICANTS:

To apply for this short-term assignment, kindly fill in and upload a signed  Personnel History Form. Only applications with a duly filled in and submitted Personnel History Form will be reviewed.

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.