SDG Finance & Innovative Finance Advisor

Background

 

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Anchored within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in step with the priorities outlined within the UNDP Strategic Plan, the Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS) helps the Arab States area to realize sustainable improvement by eradicating poverty in all its kinds and dimensions, accelerating structural transformations for sustainable improvement, and constructing resilience to crises and shocks. Within this work, the Regional Bureau for Arab States responds to wants throughout improvement settings together with Least Developed Countries, Middle Income Countries, Net Contributor Countries and international locations affected by disaster, with a view to assist the constructing of resilience, battle local weather change, leverage the promise of innovation, and prioritize the advance of girls, youth and weak teams as a part of its dedication to the rules of universality, equality and leaving nobody behind in an growing complicated regional context.

The Regional Hub for Arab States in Amman focuses on thought management, disaster response and nation workplace assist. With a give attention to efficient, well timed and responsive assist in step with UNDP’s programme priorities and tailor-made to the rising and altering wants and priorities within the area the supply of assist consists of strategic coverage recommendation, programme improvement and implementation, capability improvement, coverage analysis and evaluation, data companies, and operations. 

The Amman Regional Hub implements regional initiatives below the Regional Programme for Arab States 2022-2025 which touches upon the next areas of labor: governance and anti-corruption, regional cooperation for the discount of poverty and inequality, data financial system, battle prevention and peacebuilding, local weather safety, youth engagement and empowerment, gender equality, resilience constructing, amongst others. 

In this context UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Arab States (RBAS) is looking for to recruit an SDG Finance & Innovative Finance Advisor as a strategic place to assist coordinate UNDP’s work within the Arab States on financing the SDGs, together with by way of south-south cooperation. The portfolio consists of work to assist SDG financing methods, with a give attention to the Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF), finances reform, debt and financial devices, leveraging worldwide public finance, in addition to monitoring and reporting on the impression of SDG Finance, and offering oblique built-in assist to different key areas comparable to unlocking personal capital and aligning enterprise methods. 

Position Purpose

Under the steering of the Director of Sustainable Finance Hub direct supervision of the Team Leader, SDG, Inclusive Growth and Finance, the SDG Finance & Innovative Finance Advisor will work inside the SDG, Inclusive Growth, and Finance (SDG-IGF) Team and can give attention to the next areas: 

• Coordinate SDG Financing coverage and programme assist to nation workplaces. 
• Coordinate SDG Financing coverage and programme assist on the regional degree. 
• Coordinate regional partnerships and useful resource mobilization for SDG financing. 
• Knowledge administration. 

UNDP adopts a portfolio method to accommodate altering enterprise wants and leverage linkages throughout interventions to realize its strategic targets. This is a recognition of interconnected nature of improvement dangers & crises that the world is dealing with and that decision for assembling of multidisciplinary groups for an built-in & systemic response. Therefore, UNDP personnel are anticipated to work throughout points, models, capabilities, groups, and tasks in multidisciplinary groups to reinforce and allow horizontal collaboration.

Duties and Responsibilities 

Coordinate SDG Financing coverage and programme assist to RBAS nation workplaces

• Support nation workplaces of their engagement on SDG Financing, with Governments, the UN nation group, IFIs and improvement companions broadly. 
• Provide coverage advisory assist to UNDP nation workplaces and their purchasers together with authorities and the personal sector in scaling up financing for the SDGs at nation degree. 
• Support programme and portfolio improvement on the nation degree to allow nation workplaces to check and apply revolutionary financing approaches and to ship high quality assist to governments in financing the SDGs. 
• Provide advisory assist and leverage inside and exterior experience for finance frameworks for improvement, in addition to and personal finance alignment to profit the SDGs. 
• Support UNDP COs in accessing assist from different UN assets together with, however not restricted to the UN Joint SDG Fund. 

Lead SDG Financing coverage and programme assist on the regional degree

• Support the Regional Bureau Senior Management and the Team Leader, SDG, Inclusive Growth and Finance in collaborative efforts associated to SDG financing with regional UN system companions. 
• Coordinate the work of the Amman Regional Hub associated to SDG Finance and revolutionary financing approaches inside the framework of the Regional Programme – throughout multi-disciplinary groups. 
• Develop regional and/or sub-regional financing and scaling methods, instruments, methodologies in partnership with UN system companions and IFIs. 
• Ensure coherence and alignment of financing methods in regional and country-level programming and integration with coverage and programme companies. 
• Support the SDG, Inclusive Growth and Finance Team Leader and the Sustainable Finance Hub in UN collaboration at HQ offering nation and regional inputs to the Interagency Task Force on Financing the SDGs and the SG’s technique on financing the SDGs. 

Coordinate regional partnerships and useful resource mobilization for SDG Financing

• Build, nurture, and preserve a community of information and implementation companions on SDG financing and revolutionary financing within the Arab States. 
• Coordinate with the SDG-IGF Team and the Sustainable Finance Hub to make sure UNDP RBAS COs have entry to thought leaders and specialists to assist revolutionary approaches to financing the SDGs. 
• Raise assets for UNDP RBAS COs from regional and international sources of assist together with from conventional in addition to new and rising donor governments, foundations and the personal sector as effectively working with the Sustainable Finance Hub to entry international assist.

Knowledge Management

• Coordinate a group of apply on SDG finance throughout nation workplaces of the area and related to different areas with and thru the UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub. 
• Coordinate group contributions and assist to company KM actions and associated communication on SDG finance and revolutionary financing approaches, whether or not on the regional or international degree to assist affect/advance coverage dialogue within the space of SDG finance in collaboration with coverage groups on the Amman Regional Hub and the Sustainable Finance Hub. 
• Coordinate and carry out data extraction, evaluation, documentation, codification of outcomes/classes discovered for SDG and Innovative Finance and be certain that data sharing, and content material administration is in step with company requirements and instruments. 

The incumbent performs different duties inside their useful profile as deemed needed for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organisation.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities: The SDG Finance & Innovative Finance Advisor can be chargeable for supervision, efficiency administration and improvement of UNDP Tax for SDGs and TIWB Specialist (IPSA, 10), Inclusive Finance Specialist (IPSA, 10) and a Digital & Inclusive Finance Specialist (IPSA, 10).

Competencies

Core:
Achieve Results:

• Set and align difficult, achievable goals for a number of tasks, have lasting impression.

Think Innovatively:

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

Learn Continuously:

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

Adapt with Agility:

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

Act with Determination:

• Think past speedy activity/obstacles and take motion to realize higher outcomes.

Engage and Partner:

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

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

• Appreciate advantages of numerous workforce and champion inclusivity.

People Management:

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Cross-Functional & Technical:
Business Direction and Strategy: Strategic Thinking         

• Ability to develop efficient methods and prioritized plans in step 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 quite a lot of sources to anticipate and reply to future tendencies; to reveal foresight with a purpose to mannequin what future developments and doable methods ahead appear like for UNDP.

Business Management: Results-based Management      

• Ability to handle programmes and tasks with a give attention to improved efficiency and demonstrable outcomes.

Business Management: Partnerships Management         

• Ability to construct and preserve partnerships with extensive networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and personal sector companions, specialists, and others in step with UNDP technique and insurance policies.

Business Management: Communication               

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

Business Management: Portfolio Management 

• Ability to pick out, prioritize and management the group’s programmes and tasks, in step with its strategic goals and capability.
• Ability to steadiness the implementation of change initiatives and the upkeep of business-as-usual, whereas optimizing return on funding.

Business Development: Integration inside the UN           

• Ability to determine, and combine capability and belongings of the UN system, and interact in joint work; data of the UN System and skill to apply this information to strategic and/or sensible state of affairs.

2023 Agenda: Partnerships: SDG Finance              

• Impact funding incl. SDG Finance 

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Economics, Finance or a associated space, or associated discipline is required, OR
• A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) together with an extra two (2) years of qualifying expertise can be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.

 Experience:

• Minimum of ten (10) years with grasp’s diploma or twelve (12) years with bachelor’s diploma of related expertise on the nationwide or worldwide degree {of professional} expertise in Finance for Development and a confirmed monitor file in revolutionary financing and scaling approaches and in partnering with private and non-private monetary establishments. 
• Previous expertise with multilateral or worldwide organizations is an asset.
• Experience in using computer systems and workplace software program packages (MS Word, Excel, and so on.) and superior data of web-based administration techniques comparable to ERP is required. 
• Proven monitor file in coverage and advisory assist within the areas of improvement financing, with a give attention to financing improvements and monetary scaling; is required. 
• Experience in administration and management roles; intensive expertise of programming; partnership improvement and useful resource mobilization; is required. 
• Excellent coordination, negotiating and communication expertise and skill to mobilize assist from a variety of companions (public, personal, educational, civil society, enterprise group leaders) is required.
• Experience working for improvement financing establishments is an asset.
• Experience working within the area is a bonus.

Language:

• Fluency in English is required. 
• Knowledge of Arabic and French is an asset.

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