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Technical Specialist, TISFD (Home-based)

New York, United States

Job Info

Job Identification 22863

• Posting Date 12/12/2024, 09:15 PM
• Apply Before 12/27/2024, 04:59 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations New York, United States
• Agency UNDP
• Grade IPSA-10
• Vacancy Type International Personnel Service Agreement
• Practice Area SDG Finance
• Bureau Bureau for Policy and Programme Support
• Contract Duration 1 Year
• Education & Work Experience Master’s Degree – 5 12 months(s) expertise OR Bachelor’s Degree – 7 12 months(s) expertise

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• Required Languages Fluency in english
• Vacancy Timeline 2 Weeks
• Mobility required/no mobility no mobility required

Job Description

Background

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core rules at UNDP: we worth variety as an expression of the multiplicity of countries and cultures the place we function, we foster inclusion as a approach of guaranteeing all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we guarantee fairness and equity in all our actions. Taking a ‘depart nobody behind’ method to our variety efforts means growing illustration of underserved populations. People who establish as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly inspired to apply. Learn extra about working at UNDP together with our values and inspiring tales.

UNDP doesn’t tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any form of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks.

Job Purpose and Organizational Context

UNDP is the data frontier group for sustainable improvement within the UN Development System and serves because the integrator for collective motion to comprehend the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

UNDP’s coverage work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office ranges, varieties a contiguous spectrum of deep native data 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 information domains and in assist 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 accountability for growing all related coverage and steering to assist the outcomes of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s workers 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 assist emergency and disaster response.

The world wants an financial governance structure intentionally designed to assist governments, improvement 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 current 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 improvement affect for nation companions. With this aim, UNDP will mobilize governments, institutional and industrial traders, monetary establishments, and enterprises alike to take a extra built-in method to sustainable funding, enabling and selling the affect integrity of precise and realized investments to reinforce transparency, and optimize personal and public sectors contributions to attaining the SDGs. Through SFH, UNDP has been growing its engagement in world monetary and financial coverage making by means of the work carried out in several boards (i.e., G7, G20, UN’s Financing for Development course of, and many others.) 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 world 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 world framework for inequality and social-related disclosures, steering and schooling and capability constructing sources. For extra data see: TISFD

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

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

Duties and Responsibilities

The Technical Specialist will contribute to the event of the TISFD’s disclosure framework, together with its conceptual foundations, suggestions, metrics and indicators, and related steering.

The Technical Specialist will conduct analysis and evaluation underpinning the TISFD’s deliverables and contribute to the event of its outputs, in coordination with the Technical Director.

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

Ensure substantive contributions to analysis, drafting and supply of technical outputs.

Conduct analysis and evaluation associated to inequality and social-related affect and danger pathways, the identification and evaluation of such dangers by corporates and monetary establishments, and related indicators and metrics.

• Contribute to the drafting of the Taskforce’s outputs, together with the disclosure framework and proposals, conceptual foundations, and related steering, and intermediate outputs for consideration of working teams and the Steering Committee, beneath the supervision of the Technical Director.
• Liaise with the TISFD Alliance and Knowledge Partners to supply data and analysis related to the event of the Taskforce’s deliverables.
• 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.

Ensure efficient session and co-creation.

Support the coordination of TISFD Working Groups, guaranteeing Working Groups’ steering and suggestions are correctly included into technical outputs and adopted by means of.

• Contribute to the documentation of suggestions from Technical Working Groups, the TISFD’s Alliance, and public consultations, and be certain 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.

Facilitate piloting, testing, studying and capability improvement.

Facilitate piloting of the framework throughout precedence sectors, asset courses, devices, and stakeholders.

• Advise on the formulation of studying modules and capability improvement sources of the TISFD.
• Work 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 her/his useful profile as deemed needed for the environment friendly functioning of the TISFD Secretariat.

Institutional preparations

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

Competencies

Core Competencies

Achieve Results

LEVEL 3: Set and align difficult, achievable aims for a number of tasks, have lasting affect

Think Innovatively

LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential dangers, develop new concepts to resolve complicated issues

Learn Continuously

LEVEL 3: Create and act on alternatives to develop horizons, diversify experiences

Adapt with Agility

LEVEL 3: Proactively provoke and champion change, handle a number of competing calls for

Act with Determination

LEVEL 3: Think past speedy activity/limitations and take motion to realize larger outcomes

Engage and Partner

LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complicated panorama, champion inter-agency collaboration

Enable Diversity and Inclusion

LEVEL 3: Appreciate advantages of numerous workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross-functional and technical competencies

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business Direction and Strategy

Negotiation and Influence

Ability to achieve an understanding, persuade others, resolve factors of distinction, acquire benefit within the end result of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable options by means of compromise and creates ‘win-win’ conditions

Business Direction and Strategy

System Thinking

Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated parts coexist inside an general course of or system, and to think about how altering one component can affect on different components of the system

Business administration

Project administration

Ability to plan, manage, prioritize and management sources, procedures and protocols to realize particular targets

Business administration

Working with proof and Data

Ability to examine, cleanse, rework and mannequin knowledge with the aim of discovering helpful data, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making.

2030 Agenda: Peace

Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights

Human rights establishments

2030 Agenda: Partnerships

SDG Finance

Taxation and the SDGs

2030 Agenda: Partnerships

SDG Finance

Unlocking personal capital and aligning enterprise operations for the SDGs

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Academic Education

An superior college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal), in International Development, International Relations, Law, Anthropology, Business Administration, Economics, Physics, Mathematics, or different related area is required, OR

A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) within the areas talked about above together with a further two years of qualifying expertise will probably be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Min. years of related work expertise

Minimum of 5 years (with grasp’s diploma) and seven years (with bachelor’s diploma) of expertise in company sustainability and/or sustainable finance, sustainability requirements, social affect and danger measurement and/or enterprise and human rights within the public sector, the personal sector or academia.

Required expertise

Experience within the area of company and/or finance sector sustainability administration and/or reporting.

Proven expertise conducting analysis and evaluation, on social affect and danger measurement and/or enterprise and human rights

Desired extra expertise or experiences

Track file within the improvement of sources for managing inequality and/or social-related impacts, dangers and alternatives for the company and/or finance sectors.

• Experience with co-creation or consensus-building processes in worldwide and multi-stakeholder settings.
• Experience translating complicated technical data to personal and finance sector audiences, and to a various vary of different stakeholders.
• Experience with related coverage making processes and dynamics at worldwide and nationwide ranges regarding company sustainability-related reporting and disclosure frameworks and laws.
• Experience with the event or implementation of the suggestions of TNFD or TCFD and/or comparable initiatives involving sustainability reporting and disclosure by the personal sector.

Required Language(s) (at working degree)

Fluency in English required.

Travel

This is a home-based task, so no journey to/from the obligation station is envisaged.

Costs of different journey, as deemed needed by UNDP whereas performing the outlined features, shall be at UNDP’s expense and in accordance with the relevant UNDP journey coverage.

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

Disclaimer

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Non-discrimination

UNDP has a zero-tolerance coverage in the direction of sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules.

UNDP is an equal alternative and inclusive employer that doesn’t discriminate based mostly on race, intercourse, gender id, faith, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, incapacity, being pregnant, age, language, social origin or different standing.

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