Development Finance and Green Economic Development Officer

The Kyrgyz Republic is extremely dedicated to reaching the 2030 Agenda and integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into the nation’s nationwide improvement efforts. The SDGs have been mirrored within the nationwide improvement framework by hole evaluation and priority-setting undertaken within the 2040 National Development Strategy of the Kyrgyz Republic (NDS), the mid-term National Development Programme of the Kyrgyz Republic (2021–2026) (NDP), and by numerous programmes and methods on healthcare, training, gender, youth, inexperienced economic system, digitalization, regional improvement, and different sectors. The mixed influence of COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide financial decline, home instability, and regional battle have taken a toll on folks’s resilience lately in Kyrgyzstan pushing again the progress in the direction of reaching SDGs and realization of 2030 Agenda and posing more and more advanced improvement challenges to financial and political stability, governance, environmental stability, social inclusion, gender equality, and past. 

The financing for sustainable improvement as one of many key technique of implementation presents multi-fold challenges for the Kyrgyz Republic and requires complete efforts from the federal government and key companions. Understanding the size and forms of funding wanted to realize the SDGs is a key basis on which governments can construct efficient SDG financing methods and guarantee their profitable implementation by multi-party collaboration. The authorities of the Kyrgyz Republic supported by worldwide organizations has undertaken substantial efforts in the direction of enhancing financing alternatives and alignment with nationwide sustainable improvement objectives. To enhance the effectivity, effectiveness and transparency of the usage of public funds and governance of personal finance in an effort to assist the implementation of Kyrgyzstan’s National Development Strategy and the SDGs, the federal government launched the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF). The INFF will guarantee the event of a holistic, complete and built-in financing technique and institution of respective governance and coordination mechanisms.

Further, to inexperienced the event of Kyrgyzstan, the federal government’s ambition targets the institution of a nationwide Green Finance Vehicle (GFV). The GFV goals to streamline investments in inexperienced tasks by strengthening a dialogue on inexperienced improvement between numerous stakeholders and leveraging a number of sources of finance to materialize inexperienced development potential. These efforts are aligned with each NDS and the Green Economy Development Programme of the Kyrgyz Republic and notably supported by the UNDP in Kyrgyzstan by such initiatives as Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) and capacity building for sustainable improvement financing within the CIS Region.

UNDP will proceed its assist within the areas of improvement and inexperienced finance and inexperienced improvement to assist the federal government of the Kyrgyz Republic and different related stakeholders to advance inclusive, essentially sound improvement options and reforms in advanced settings. In this mild, UNDP within the Kyrgyz Republic goals to rent a Development Finance and Green Economic Development Officer to offer substantive and coordination assist to the varied efforts of nationwide companions constructing on achieved outcomes and prioritized UNDP’s interventions for improvement finance and inexperienced improvement.

Summary of key capabilities:

• Project Management and Coordination (50%): Act as UNDP Project Manager and Coordinator for implementation of actions and collaboration with different applications and stakeholders.
• Technical Advisory (30%): Provide technical inputs, oversight and advisory companies within the design of actions and initiatives and to make sure environment friendly end result and service supply.
• Strategic Partnership (10%): Lead and facilitate strategic partnership with related stakeholders for implementation of actions.
• Other duties (10%): Perform different duties that could be required by the Team Leader of the Sustainable Economic Development (SED) Programme on the UNDP within the Kyrgyz Republic.

Project Management and Coordination:

• Manage and coordinate the design and implementation of tasks actions associated to the operationalization of INFF and GFV and assist to the event of the subsequent part inexperienced economic system improvement programme beneath PAGE to make sure the upkeep of high quality and timeliness, and supply of outputs;
• Report usually to the Team Leader of the Sustainable Economic Development (SED) Programme and different related stakeholders on the tasks progress;
• Coordinate the administration and implementation of actions of the tasks as set out within the AWPs (Annual Work Plan) in session with Team Leader of the SED Programme and different related stakeholders;
• Maintain shut cooperation with designated focus from key stakeholders, indicating any estimated adjustments to the work plan, and proposing a price range revision when applicable;
• Monitor the tasks budgets, funds and sources based on UNDP tips;
• Prepare progress and monetary stories of the tasks when required;
• Engage and lead on the preparation of related information merchandise, together with publications and stories, information sharing and alternate practices, creating professional pool/neighborhood for leveraging improvement ang inexperienced economic system experience, and related knowledge storage and dissemination;
• Liaise and coordinate with the related stakeholders’ focal factors in regard to tasks implementation;
• Support steady awareness-raising and results-oriented communication for improvement and inexperienced economic system thematic areas;
• Represent UNDP in joint conferences and stakeholder consultations associated to the choose thematic areas.

Technical Advisory:

• Lead the event and implementation of stakeholder engagement for INFF (with explicit deal with the Financing Strategy and Governance) and GFV operationalization;
• Substantively contribute to coverage assist to make sure nationwide companions’ possession for INFF course of and GFV operationalization;
• Provide technical assist and intelligence to improvement of the SDG investor map and different non-public sector engagement options beneath INFF facilitation companies;
• Ensure professional recommendation on the design of a Project Preparation Facility for constructing venture pipeline beneath the GFV;
• Provide technical help for the design part and implementation planning for a Public Finance Management venture;
• Provide substantive recommendation to the design and implementation of improvement finance associated technical help interventions, together with SDG tagging and costing, Voluntary National/Local Reviews, evaluate the adjustment of fiscal insurance policies, e.g. by gender lenses;
• Assist the Team Leader of the SED Programme in deploying technical experience for the design and implementation planning of the low-carbon improvement mobility-focused venture.

Strategic Partnership:

• Support partnership and useful resource mobilization mapping, design and replace of donor fund-raising technique, administration of relations and thematic communication with donor neighborhood and traders;
• Develop idea notes and assist drafting of venture proposals consistent with the nationwide priorities, UNDP CPD, and improvement companions’ priorities;
• Promote partnership and cooperation for the thematic areas by steady interplay with the nationwide stakeholders and improvement companions;
• Support improvement finance and inexperienced economic system associated advocacy motion on the nationwide and international ranges by repeatedly shaping and validating agenda with nationwide stakeholders and related improvement companions.

Perform different duties that could be required by the Team Leader of the Sustainable Economic Development (SED) Programme on the UNDP within the Kyrgyz Republic.

Institutional Arrangement

The Development Finance and Green Economic Development Officer will work beneath the direct supervision of the Team Leader of the Sustainable Economic Development (SED) Programme and in shut engagement with the Programme Associate of the SED Programme, RBEC/IRH financial advisers, UN Agencies and in shut collaboration with key nationwide companions – President’s Administration, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Ministry of Finance, National Statistical Committee and different key governmental our bodies and improvement companions.

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and screens personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline.
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to inventive concepts/identified dangers, is pragmatic drawback solver, makes enhancements.
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares information, learns from errors, asks for suggestions.
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to vary, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile.
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, capable of ship calmly in face of adversity, assured.
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in the direction of others, types optimistic relationships.
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.

•  Business Direction & Strategy- Strategic Thinking            
  • Ability to develop efficient methods and prioritized plans consistent with UNDP’s goals, primarily based on the systemic evaluation of challenges, potential dangers, and alternatives, linking the imaginative and prescient to actuality on the bottom, and creating tangible options.
  • Ability to leverage studying from a wide range of sources to anticipate and reply to future developments; to exhibit foresight to mannequin what future developments and doable methods ahead appear like for UNDP.
• Business Development- Knowledge Generation 
  • Ability to analysis and flip data into helpful information, related for context, or attentive to a said want.
• Business Development- Integration inside the UN           
  • Ability to determine, and combine capability and property of the UN system, and have interaction in joint work; information of the UN System and capability to apply this data to strategic and/or sensible conditions.
• Business Management- Results-based Management      
  • Ability to handle applications and tasks with a spotlight at improved efficiency and demonstrable outcomes.
• Business Management- Project Management     
  • Ability to plan, arrange, prioritize, and management sources, procedures, and protocols to realize particular objectives.
• Partnership Management-Relationship Management     
  • Ability to interact with a variety of public and non-public companions, construct, maintain and/or strengthen working relations, belief, and mutual understanding.
• Business Management- Operations Management            
  • Ability to successfully plan, arrange, and oversee the Organization’s enterprise processes to transform its property into the very best leads to essentially the most environment friendly method.
  • Knowledge of related ideas and mechanisms.

• Fluency in English and Russian is required.
• Kyrgyz language proficiency is fascinating.

Required abilities and competencies:

• Proven expertise of working with/in worldwide organizations’ programme and tasks;
• Proven expertise in offering administration advisory companies, hands-on expertise in design, monitoring & analysis of improvement tasks in governmental constructions or worldwide organizations together with related expertise within the respective programme sphere;
• Proven expertise in sustainable finance / enterprise improvement / banking / finance / fund and/or company administration and different associated areas.

Desired abilities and competencies:

• Experience of personal sector engagement for sustainable improvement and mobilization of personal finance is an asset;
• Strong demonstrated curiosity in the direction of each international and nationwide inexperienced improvement agenda;
• Demonstrated information of quantitative approaches to researching improvement challenges associated to sustainable finance frameworks, coverage briefs or different improvement finance information merchandise is fascinating.

The following paperwork shall be required from the candidates:

• Personal CV or P11, indicating all previous positions held and their predominant underlying capabilities, their durations (month/yr), the {qualifications}, in addition to the contact particulars (e-mail and phone quantity) of the Candidate, and not less than three (3) the newest skilled references of earlier supervisors. References might additionally embrace friends.
• A canopy letter (most size: 1 web page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be appropriate for the place.
• Managers might ask (advert hoc) for every other supplies related to pre-assessing the relevance of their expertise, such as stories, displays, publications, campaigns or different supplies.