Regional Policy and Technical Specialist on the Montreal Protocol, Chemicals and Wastes

Background
 

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UNDP is the data frontier group for sustainable growth in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective motion to appreciate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s coverage work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office ranges, kinds a contiguous spectrum of deep native data to cutting-edge world views and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a community of field-based and world technical experience throughout a variety of information domains and in help of the signature options and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan. 

Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the accountability for creating all related coverage and steering to help the outcomes of UNDP’s Strategic Plan.  BPPS’s employees supplies technical recommendation to Country Offices, advocates for UNDP company messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora together with public-private dialogues, authorities, and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in particular thematic areas.  BPPS works carefully with UNDP’s Crisis Bureau (CB) to help emergency and disaster response.  BPPS ensures that problems with threat are totally built-in into UNDP’s growth programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and companions to attain larger high quality growth outcomes by an built-in strategy that hyperlinks results-based administration and efficiency monitoring with simpler and new methods of working.  BPPS helps UNDP and companions to be extra revolutionary, data and information pushed together with in its programme help efforts.

BPPS’s Hubs on Nature, Climate, Energy, and Chemicals and Waste, with the help of the Vertical Fund Programme Support Oversight and Compliance Unit, work with governments, civil society, and personal sector companions to combine nature, local weather, vitality and waste associated issues into nationwide and sector planning and inclusive progress insurance policies, help nation obligations underneath Multilateral Environmental Agreements, and oversee the implementation of the UN’s largest portfolio of in-country programming nature, local weather change, vitality and waste. This multi-billion-dollar portfolio encompasses:

• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services together with forests.
• Sustainable Land Management and Desertification together with meals and commodity programs. 
• Water and Ocean Governance together with SIDS. 
• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. 
• Sustainable Energy. 
• Extractive Industries. 
• Chemicals and Waste Management. 
• Environmental Governance and Green/Circular Economy and SCP approaches. 

This work advances crosscutting themes on revolutionary finance, digital transformation, capability growth, human rights, gender equality, well being, expertise, and South-South studying.

In addition to UNDP’s bilateral partnerships in Nature, Climate, Energy and Chemicals & Waste, UNDP is an accredited multilateral implementing company of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Multilateral Fund (MLF), the Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). As a part of UNDP’s partnership with these vertical funds (VFs), UNDP’s Vertical Fund Programme Support Oversight and Compliance Unit helps UNDP’s Nature, Climate, Energy and Waste associated Hubs and supplies international locations specialised built-in technical providers for eligibility evaluation, programme formulation, capability growth, coverage recommendation, technical help, coaching and expertise switch, mobilization of co-financing, implementation oversight, outcomes administration and analysis, performance-based funds and data administration providers.

Sound chemical and waste administration may remove the hazardous chemical compounds and waste from the key worth chains and facilitate the transition to sustainable manufacturing and consumption patterns in direction of circularity. Chemicals and Waste Hub has specialised technical and coverage advisory groups in New York, Istanbul, Bangkok, Addis, Amman, and Panama to help shoppers’ international locations by UNDP Regional Hubs and Country Offices to place in place the correct mix of regulatory and monetary incentives, take away institutional and coverage boundaries, and create enabling environments that appeal to and drive public and personal sector funding into sustainable growth. In doing this, the Chemicals and Waste Hub assists associate international locations to entry, mix, and sequence sources from a variety of funds, monetary devices, and mechanisms, together with GEF and MLF. 

This place is to help the portfolio growth and oversight in the chemical and waste focal space for the LAC area by working carefully with Senior Technical Advisor in Panama and Chemical and Waste Hub. 

Position Purpose

The Regional Policy and Technical Specialist is primarily answerable for offering high-quality technical coverage, programming, implementation help and oversight, and data and capability growth providers to UNDP nation places of work in the area. Secondary shoppers would possibly embrace different UN businesses, governments and inter-governmental organizations, NGO’s, donors, and the like. 

UNDP adopts a portfolio strategy to accommodate altering enterprise wants and leverage linkages throughout interventions to attain its strategic targets. Therefore, UNDP personnel are anticipated to work throughout items, capabilities, groups, and tasks in multidisciplinary groups to reinforce and allow horizontal collaboration.

Duties and Responsibilities

Provision of Strategic Leadership, Innovation, Dialogue and Advocacy 

• Provide help to establishing and sustaining a strategic understanding of, and engagement with, the substantive technical points, establishments, and processes inside the area, together with establishing contact with and creating strategic partnerships with different businesses, donors, NGOs, the personal sector, scientific establishments and the like. 
• Contributing to identification, growth and implementation of latest strategic programming alternatives and partnerships in the space of sound chemical compounds and waste administration, useful resource effectivity, round economic system, plastic discount and recycling.
• Participating in world work-planning conferences, regional strategic planning, pipeline administration workout routines, and so forth. 
• Participating in cross-substantive space technical dialogue, frequent strategic visioning, mainstreaming, programming, and different collaboration inside the regional group. 
• Mobilize, foster, and strengthen strategic partnerships with UN entities and different related regional our bodies and present substantive inputs to these partnerships in help of UNDP initiatives. 
• Advocate coverage and programme progress that UNDP is supporting in varied fora together with related world and regional conferences (e.g., regional assembly of BRS, GFC, community assembly of the Montreal Protocol, Mercury group assembly, Plastics, and so forth.) and in the related stakeholder session course of together with academia and civil society. 
• Advise and help Regional Team on traits and points with respect to the substantive technical space.

Ensure Effective Programming and Management 

• Supporting the growth of strategic coverage and steering for strengthening UNDP Country Offices with chemical compounds and waste mission design and implementation, together with alignment with nationwide priorities.
• Advising on growth of and advocacy for particular coverage evaluation and growth instruments and steering in help of programming and finance for sound chemical compounds and waste administration.
• Supporting the institution of a trusted management position inside the area. 
• Sourcing of technical experience and help, together with helping with the preparation of TORs, identification and analysis of consultants and reviewing studies.
• Contributing to regional retreats, focal space retreats, regional strategic planning, pipeline administration workout routines, and so forth.
• Promoting gender fairness/empowerment in programming alternatives.
• Guiding to make sure that methods and tasks are aligned to nation outcomes and UNDP company atmosphere ends in inner UNDP mission monitoring programs (e.g., ERBM);
• Maintaining high quality and accuracy in information and mission administration programs (e.g., PIMS+), administration of Quantum Risks logs, and portfolio supply charges.
• Monitoring to make sure anticipated high quality requirements are maintained in mission implementation critiques. 
• Provide steering to the RCU to internalize classes from evaluations in programming in the area.

Provision of Policy Advisory and Resource Mobilization 

• Track the worldwide coverage dialogue and growth underneath the Montreal Protocol and its Kigali Amendment, Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, Minamata Convention, advocate to UNDP Country Offices, and Hub Management new coverage and strategic alignment choices.
• Provide trainings to the companions and stakeholders in the programme international locations in the LAC area on insurance policies and progress of the Montreal Protocol, Stockholm Convention, Minamata Convention, GEF and MLF.
• Contribute the crosscutting work of plastic governance in each chemical compounds & waste administration and ocean safety right into a coherent coverage and programming framework.
• Foster coverage innovation in the particular thematic space to reinforce programme supply.
• Assist in the provision of well timed high quality data and technical recommendation on the supply of funds’ insurance policies, priorities, and actions.
• Work with UNDP nation places of work and companions, draft, revise, finalize and assist edit ideas and mission paperwork for submission to donors.
• Advise on the coordination of design, preparation, submission and approval of mission proposals and requests for mission growth financing.
• Support the liaison with potential (co)financing businesses and establishments.

Ensure Development Impact, Quality Assurance, and Risk Management 

• Guide with inception, contracting and start-up of tasks, together with institution of indicators, benchmarks, and work plans.
• Advise and help UNDP nation places of work in the supervision, implementation, monitoring, analysis, troubleshooting and adaptive administration of authorized tasks, together with getting ready and reviewing annual studies, work plans and funds, present technical help on main procurement course of in tasks, well timed completion of progress implementation report, mission completion report, mid-term critiques and terminal analysis.
• Maintain mission and portfolio data and company data programs.
• Develop steering and instruments for nation places of work to make the most of in operationalizing mission inception, contracting and start-up of tasks, together with the institution of indicators, benchmarks, and work plans.
• Maintain high quality/accuracy of knowledge and paperwork in UNDP mission administration programs.
• Monitor the implementation of tasks to make sure anticipated high quality requirements, gender mark, stakeholder session, compliance with safeguards necessities and different UNDP POPP necessities. 
• Monitor the supply of the work plan and funds utilization and present help to enhance the supply. 
• Provide help to UNDP Country places of work and execution companions to deal with important implementation challenges, establish the tasks in danger and facilitate the implementation of threat mitigation measures.
• Engage with UNDP Country Support Team in regional hub on mission progress, supply, and troubleshooting.
• Supporting UNDP HQ, nation places of work and companions on the communication of the mission end result, innovation, expertise, and classes realized. 

Facilitate Learning, Knowledge Management and Self Development 

• Evaluating, capturing, codifying, synthesizing classes and stimulating the uptake of finest practices and data, together with the growth of useful resource kits and different data supplies.
• Peer reviewing, commenting on, and in search of to enhance, the technical high quality of tasks, insurance policies, practices, tips, advisory notes, publications and the like. 
• Assisting with preparation of regional Community of Practice conferences. 
• Preparing and delivering coaching programs, as wanted.
• Contribute cross-regional trade of information by collaborating with coverage groups in HQ to analysis, develop and share knowledge-based instruments and steering to assist affect/advance coverage dialogue in the thematic space and current such materials at varied fora. 
• Developing data merchandise of relevance to UNDP’s help to international locations on sound chemical compounds and waste administration. 
• Developing and finishing up a private studying plan.

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

Competencies

Core:
Achieve Results 

• Set and align difficult, achievable targets for a number of tasks, have lasting affect. 

Think Innovatively:         

• Proactively mitigate potential dangers, develop new concepts to resolve complicated issues. 

Learn Continuously:       

• Create and act on alternatives to increase horizons, diversify experiences.

Adapt with Agility:          

• Proactively provoke and champion change, handle a number of competing calls for. 

Act with Determination:

• Think past quick process/boundaries and take motion to attain larger outcomes.

Engage and Partner:       

• Political savvy, navigate complicated panorama, champion inter-agency collaboration.

Enable Diversity and Inclusion: 

• Appreciate advantages of various workforce and champion inclusivity.

Cross-Functional & Technical:
Business Development: System Thinking              

• Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated components coexist inside an total course of or system, and to think about how altering one factor can affect on different elements of the system.

Business Management: Results-based Management      

• Ability to handle programmes and tasks with a spotlight at improved efficiency and demonstrable outcomes.

Business Management: Portfolio Management 

• Ability to pick out, prioritise and management the group´s programmes and tasks, according to its strategic targets and capability; means to stability the implementation of change initiatives and the upkeep of business-as-usual, whereas optimising return on funding.

Business Management: Communications             

• Ability to speak in a transparent, concise, and unambiguous method each by written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers.
• Ability to handle communications internally and externally, by media, social media, and different acceptable channels.

2030 Agenda: Planet – Nature, Climate and Energy           

• Chemicals and Waste administration: sensible software.

Partnership Management: Relationship administration    

• Ability to interact with a variety of public and personal companions, construct, maintain and/or strengthen working relations, belief, and mutual understanding. 

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Advanced University diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in mechanical engineering, chemical compounds, economics, atmosphere, finance and administration or carefully associated area is required, OR
• A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) in above-mentioned fields together with a further two years of qualifying expertise, shall be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Experience:        

• Minimum of 5 years (with Master´s diploma) or 7 years (with Bachelor´s diploma) of expertise in mission/programme growth and administration in the Chemicals focal areas is required.
• Prior expertise and data of the establishments of the UN system, significantly worldwide chemical conventions and related institutional mandates is very desired.
• Demonstrated expertise in offering coverage advisory providers in areas associated to cooling, and/or chemical compounds, waste, plastics, round economic system is required.
• Experience working in the Latin America and the Caribbean area is fascinating.
• Extended common expertise in UNDP operational procedures (i.e., NIM) at the nationwide stage is a bonus. 
• Substantive expertise, data and understanding of ideas and approaches related to supporting results-based programme administration and implementation is a bonus. 
• Full laptop literacy is required. 

Language:           

• Fluency in English and Spanish is required.
• Working data of one other UN language is an asset.

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