Project Analyst

Vietnam has united to deal with plastic air pollution, a urgent nationwide problem, with 2.9 million tons of plastic waste generated yearly (as of 202 ). To help Vietnam in addressing this problem, with a goal of decreasing marine plastic litter by 75% by 2030 and selling reuse, discount, and recycling throughout numerous sectors, UNDP has actively partnered with authorities companies and related stakeholders. Together, they’re reworking commitments into actions and deploying sensible options and initiatives. The Circular Economy, Waste, and Chemicals (CE) Portfolio of UNDP has been instrumental on this transformation, piloting and increasing progressive options, and fostering an innovation ecosystem that features innovators, startups, intermediaries, and buyers. These efforts intention to cut back plastic waste and improve a extra sustainable and inclusive round financial system.

Funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), the Ending Plastic Pollution Innovation Challenge (EPPIC) is an ASEAN-wide competitors inviting innovators to share their shiny concepts for tackling plastic air pollution. EPPIC has supported over 100 improvements by means of its acceleration program, providing USD 18,000 to every mission and offering a platform for ASEAN international locations to share information and alternate classes realized. At the nationwide degree, the Vietnam National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) platform brings collectively a number of stakeholders from completely different sectors, enabling collaboration between the federal government and different very important companions to show plastic waste and air pollution commitments into actions. As the host of the NPAP Secretariat, UNDP Vietnam works with NPAP’s Leadership Board chair, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), to plan collaborative plans for nationwide plastic discount objectives and initiatives. And one of many first two technical working teams beneath the NPAP, the Innovation and Financing Task Force, was established in May 2023. Comprising 14 members from authorities companies, companies, NGOs, improvement organizations, and monetary establishments, this job power fosters progressive concepts and options and unlocks new sources of sustainable financing for plastic discount, reuse, and recycling.

In addition, persevering with the momentum of supporting nationwide motion plans, UNDP Regional has partnered with the Coca-Cola Foundation within the Asia-Pacific area, together with Vietnam, to create an enabling surroundings and promote round interventions all through the plastic lifecycle. This partnership will carry extra alternatives for numerous pilot initiatives to deal with plastic air pollution in fisheries and native provinces, promote accountable sourcing all through the provision chain, and enhance waste sorting on the supply. It may even strengthen the engagement of related stakeholders in collective plastic actions in direction of a round financial system in Vietnam

UNDP Viet Nam is in search of a Project Analyst to coordinate and help the profitable implementation of initiatives associated to plastic air pollution and innovation beneath the Circular Economy, Waste, and Chemicals Portfolio.
 

This place is anticipated to ship the next duties:

Coordinate and make sure the profitable implementation of the TCCF Regional Plastics Circularity Project:

• Be liable for day-to-day administration of the mission; develop and modify annual workplan and timeline for the mission with sure deliverables and milestones of 04 mission interventions; 
• Coordinate with the focal factors of the above-mentioned elements (if any) and technical officer throughout the CE portfolio and nationwide and/or worldwide advisor for TORs of consultancies and related work packages, procurement and gear, output overview in accordance with mission’s targets, and occasion group.
• Actively have interaction and keep common contact with native focal factors and authorities authorities to make sure the graceful working of the mission actions;
• Be liable for mission experiences, mission’s information merchandise, expertise exchanges and classes realized compiled from mission actions;
• Coordinate with the UNDP Regional Team to make sure any mission updates and reporting, danger monitoring and communication plan the steering of the Programme Analyst;
• Support Progamme Analyst (PM) with administrative and monetary procedures in bidding and disbursement.

Coordinate the NPAP Innovation and Financing Task Force

• Coordinate and help the implementation of related actions of the Task Force (TF) throughout the year-round timeline in collaboration with the TF chair and co-chair and beneath the steering of NPAP Secretariat’s Manager;
• Facilitate the TF assembly, together with the preparation and group of TF occasions in collaboration with the TF chair, co-chair and the Engagement and Communication Associate;
• Support to replace the NPAP innovation tracker with plastic-associated improvements and the utilization of this database;
• Support NPAP’s report and communication supplies with TF actions and outputs;
• Support to develop impacts of the TF actions in boosting efficient and progressive options to deal with plastic waste and plastic pollutions.
• Support the formulation and the implementation of initiatives beneath the Circular Economy, Waste, and Chemicals Portfolio

The Viet Nam Flagship Project of Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW)

• Act as the point of interest to arrange common conferences and up to date progress of the mission Risk Monitoring Task Force;
• Conduct engagement with native authorities, NGOs, companies and related organizations, stakeholders within the implementation of the mission upon requests.

The ASEAN Blue Innovation Challenge (ABIC) and the Global Plastics Innovation Programme (GPIP)

• Lead the communication with the UNDP Indonesia group relating to the mission implementation, and supply contribution to the pilot phases of the ABIC at CO degree to five innovation winners;
• Coordinate and implement to realize the goal of selling expertise adoption, advance innovation uptake and strengthen South-South cooperation in Plastics administration amongst mission’s chosen international locations beneath the GPIP;
• Tailor actions to streamline and place UNDP Viet Nam in fostering plastic improvements by means of these regional initiatives.

Other duties on mission formulation and implementation

• Participate in planning for the portfolio improvement and fund elevating for mission, actions beneath the Portfolio. 
•  Support to the preparation of experiences, information merchandise and different proposals of the CE portfolio and UNDP relating to the plastic innovation work

Perform different duties inside their purposeful profile as deemed obligatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization. 

Business Direction & Strategy    

• Systems Thinking. Ability to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgement to know how interrelated parts coexist inside an total course of or system, and to think about how altering one factor can impression on different elements of the system

Business Management    

• Risk Management. Identify and set up motion round decreasing, mitigating and proactively managing dangers 
• Project Management. Ability to plan, set up, prioritize and management sources, procedures and protocols to realize particular objectives 
• Monitoring. Ability to offer managers and key stakeholders with common suggestions on the consistency or discrepancy between deliberate and precise actions and programme efficiency and outcomes

Business Development    

• Knowledge Generation. Ability to analysis data and to show it into helpful information, related for context, or aware of a said want. Ability to apply current ideas to new conditions, and to develop new ideas to generate workable options and new approaches. Knowledge of related ideas, conceptual fashions, and theories that may be helpful in addressing new conditions.

Partnership administration    

• Multi-stakeholder engagement & funding. Knowledge and talent to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and take away any obstacles to useful resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms 

2030 Agenda: Planet     

• Climate. Circular financial system and inexperienced financial system