Technical Manager, TISFD (Home based)

UNDP is the information frontier group for sustainable growth within the UN Development System and serves because 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, types a contiguous spectrum of deep native information to cutting-edge world views and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests within the Global Policy Network (GPN), a community of field-based and world technical experience throughout a variety of data domains and in help of the signature options and organizational capabilities envisioned within the Strategic Plan. 

Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the duty for growing 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. In addition, BPPS works intently with UNDP’s Crisis Bureau (CB) to help emergency and disaster response. 

The world wants an financial governance structure intentionally designed to help governments, growth businesses, civil society, and the personal sector to make choices that prioritize funding within the SDGs. Thus, UNDP established the Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH) in 2019, aggregating UNDP’s present work and experience on financing the SDGs. UNDP goals to advertise the funding of over $1 trillion of public expenditure and personal capital within the SDGs and maximize growth impression for nation companions. With this purpose, UNDP will mobilize governments, institutional and business traders, monetary establishments, and enterprises alike to take a extra built-in method to sustainable funding, enabling and selling the impression integrity of precise and realized investments to boost transparency, and optimize personal and public sectors contributions to attaining the SDGs. Through SFH, UNDP has been rising its engagement in world monetary and financial coverage making via the work carried out in several boards (i.e., G7, G20, UN’s Financing for Development course of, and so on.) in addition to different regulatory and market-based networks.

In this context, UNDP helps the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD or Taskforce), a worldwide initiative for reporting and managing inequality and social-related dangers, alternatives, impacts, and dependencies. The Taskforce is a multistakeholder initiative involving traders, enterprise, labor, civil society, coverage makers and regulators, service suppliers, and academia working collectively to co-create a worldwide framework for inequality and social-related disclosures, steering and training and capability constructing assets. For extra data see: TISFD

It is anticipated the framework will likely be developed over two years, from September 2024 via September 2026, with the manufacturing of vital outputs all through this era and additional work on implementation to observe. The Taskforce Secretariat will coordinate and facilitate the Taskforce’s actions in keeping with the course outlined by the Steering Committee and Working Groups. This contains coordinating inputs from a physique of material consultants structured across the TISFD Alliance taking part via Regional Hubs. 

The Secretariat will function principally nearly with key Secretariat companions unfold throughout the globe and be led by an Executive Director.
 

The Technical Manager will coordinate the analysis and evaluation underpinning the TISFD’s deliverables and lead the event of its outputs, in coordination with the Technical Director. 

The technical deliverables of the Taskforce contain a lot of assets together with however not restricted to: an built-in and accessible disclosure framework and suggestions, knowledgeable by a set of conceptual foundations and a physique of proof on social and inequality-related impacts, dependencies, dangers and alternatives; numerous sorts of steering to assist corporates and monetary establishments in figuring out, assessing and reporting on inequality and social associated impacts and dangers, constructing on present work on this area. 

Coordinate the event of technical deliverables in collaboration with TISFD Working Groups

• Advice and help the Technical Director within the growth of the technical deliverables of the Taskforce, together with in planning and growing a technique and managing the well timed supply of the Taskforce’s outputs.
• Contribute to the event of a course of for co-creating the Taskforce’s framework, together with involving the Taskforce’s Alliance and Regional Hubs, in addition to the roll-out of a collection of public consultations on the TISFD’s deliverables, in accordance with the TISFD Governance Principles of Inclusivity, Co-creation, Effective and Efficient Decision-Making, Continuous Learning and Improvement and Transparency.
• Coordinate a number of TISFD Working Groups, guaranteeing Working Groups’ steering and suggestions are correctly integrated into technical outputs and adopted via. 
• Coordinate the documentation of suggestions from Technical Working Groups, the TISFD’s Alliance, and public consultations, and make sure that inputs are adequately mirrored within the technical deliverables or appropriately responded to.
• Maintain good working relationships with key TISFD stakeholders, together with Working Group and Alliance members.

Lead Research, drafting and supply of technical outputs 

• Lead the drafting of the Taskforce’s outputs, together with the disclosure framework and suggestions, conceptual foundations, and related steering, beneath the supervision of the Technical Director.
• Coordinate and conduct analysis and evaluation associated to inequality and social-related impression and danger pathways, the identification and evaluation of such dangers by corporates and monetary establishments, and related indicators and metrics.
• Liaise with TISFD Knowledge Partners to supply data and analysis related to the event of the Taskforce’s deliverables.
• Supervise the work of analysis associates, consultants and interns as wanted, together with offering steering and course and reviewing work to make sure high quality requirements are met.
• Keep abreast of developments in relation to voluntary and regulatory sustainability-related disclosure requirements and frameworks and analysis and coverage developments within the intersection between enterprise and finance and inequality- and social-related points.

Piloting, testing, studying and capability growth

• Organising and facilitating systematic piloting of the framework throughout precedence sectors, asset lessons, devices, and stakeholders.
• Promoting and fascinating stakeholders for testing of the ultimate framework and market consultations earlier than its launch in 2027, synthetising and integrating suggestions of outcomes for informing finalization of the framework.
• Advising on the formulation of studying modules and capability growth assets of the TISFD.
• Working intently with the TISFD’s Regional Hub Coordinators to make sure technical outputs are enriched and reflective of contextual points throughout geographies.

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

The Technical Manager will work beneath the supervision of the Technical Director of the TISFD’s Secretariat in UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub.

The preliminary contract is concluded for 1 12 months with extension primarily based on efficiency outcomes. This function is anticipated to final a minimal of two years.

Competencies

Cross-functional and technical competencies