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Climate Finance and Development Economist

Apia, Samoa

Job Info

Job Identification 22368

• Posting Date 12/13/2024, 11:06 AM
• Apply Before 01/01/2025, 04:59 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations Apia, Samoa
• Agency UNDP
• Grade P4
• Vacancy Type Fixed Term
• Practice Area Inclusive Growth
• Bureau Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
• Contract Duration 1 Year
• Education & Work Experience Master’s Degree – 7 yr(s) expertise OR Bachelor’s Degree – 9 yr(s) expertise
• Required Languages Fluency in written and oral English is required.
• Desired Languages Working information of one other UN language can be an asset.
• Vacancy Timeline 1 Week
• Mobility required/no mobility mobility required

Job Description

BACKGROUND

UNDP is dedicated to reaching workforce variety when it comes to gender, nationality and tradition. Individuals from minority teams, indigenous teams and individuals with disabilities are equally inspired to apply. All purposes will probably be handled with the strictest confidence.

UNDP doesn’t tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any type of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks.

UNDP is the UN’s world improvement community, a corporation advocating for change and connecting international locations to information, expertise and sources to assist individuals construct a greater life. UNDP is on the bottom in about 170 international locations and territories, working with nationwide counterparts on options to world and nationwide improvement challenges.

Development challenges within the Pacific Islands Countries are multi-faceted and advanced. To reply to those challenges, the UNDP Multi-Country Office (MCO) based mostly in Apia concentrates its efforts on strengthening the capability of the Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tokelau to advertise inclusive, blue-green and sustainable progress, efficient governance for the long run, and sustainable and resilient improvement that leverages innovation and digital transformation and catalyzes financing for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We assist our companions establish related options to their most important improvement challenges and supply coverage advisory and implementation companies to handle these challenges.

Guided by the UNDP Multi-Country Programme Document (MCPD) for the Pacific Island Countries and Territories 2023-27, the MCO’s coverage, advisory, programmatic, and implementation companies focuses on the next areas:

Peace: inclusive, agile and future prepared governance, justice and peace

• Prosperity: inclusive, blue-green and sustainable progress
• Planet: local weather and catastrophe resilience and administration, local weather finance, sustainable administration of pure sources and biodiversity conservation.

UNDP’s programme is anchored within the precept of leaving nobody behind, with particular concentrate on gender equality and ladies’s empowerment together with the battle to finish violence towards ladies and women, and empowerment and engagement of youth and Persons with Disabilities.

The Programme crew, comprising of the Governance and Prosperity crew and Environment and Climate Change crew, works to assist achievement of UNDP strategic aims to create a world the place individuals and planet thrive collectively, and to assist the MCO act with each ambition and scale to handle pressing issues dealing with the 4 international locations in addition to world local weather deteriorating circumstances. Programme employees help the MCO in formulating and implementing programme methods that transcend fixing quick improvement challenges to create future sensible and built-in systemic adjustments in resilience and capability constructing inside the 4 international locations

In addition, UNDP has the mandate to assist SDG Integration to make sure quicker progress on sustainable improvement and gives assist in 4 areas, (1) built-in coverage and programming options, (2) SDG metrics, knowledge and evaluation utilizing state-of-the-art instruments for modelling and forecasting, (3) information and innovation and (4) SDG Financing choices to assist international locations establish revolutionary methods to develop public and personal contributions to succeed in the 2030 agenda. Lastly, the COVID-19 pandemic has additionally highlighted an pressing have to undertake a Systems Approach that’s oriented in the direction of constructing Resilience to future shocks by way of constantly reviewed state of affairs analyses.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

The Climate Finance and Development Economist works below the steerage of the Resident Representative (UNDP Multi County Office, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa and Tokelau) and s/he’ll work carefully with the programme and operations groups within the nation workplace, Accelerator Labs crew, and employees within the Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) and New York each in Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific in addition to the Global Policy Network (GPN) of UNDP. S/he may also collaborate with the Asia-Pacific regional community of nation economists. This will embody systematic engagement with and oversight from the lead regional financial advisors based mostly in Bangkok and New York. S/he’s additionally anticipated to develop and keep a community of colleagues throughout improvement companion companies, authorities establishments, academe, the personal sector, and civil society on the nation degree.

UNDP adopts a portfolio method to accommodate altering enterprise wants and leverage linkages throughout interventions to attain its strategic targets. Therefore, UNDP personnel are anticipated to work throughout models, features, groups, and initiatives in multidisciplinary groups with the intention to improve and allow horizontal collaboration.

Key duties and accountabilities embody:

Provision of strategic coverage recommendation to the UNDP nation workplace administration and nationwide authorities counterparts on local weather finance, inexperienced/blue financial system and SDG acceleration.

• Advise and assist to the event of recent local weather finance programming initiatives and partnerships with multilateral improvement banks, vertical funds (GEF, GCF), bilateral donors, and the personal sector (corporates, traders).
• Provision of technical advisory assist to the implementation of blue/inexperienced financial system and sustainable financing programme.
• Contribution to UNDP’s work throughout the Asia-Pacific area, together with collaboration with the regional economist community and evaluation of precedence regional thematic areas.

Provision of strategic coverage recommendation to the UNDP nation workplace administration and nationwide authorities counterparts on local weather finance, inexperienced/blue financial system and SDG acceleration:

Advise UNDP nation workplace administration with preparation and implementation of nation programmes and methods, together with the event of nation programme doc and associated evaluation, together with on inexperienced/blue financial system and local weather/improvement financing;

• Leading UNDP nation workplace efforts to conceptualize and implement the Development Finance Assessment (DFA) and accompanying course of such because the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) and use present monetary sources extra successfully and effectively to attain the SDGs;
• Provide evaluation and analysis in precedence thematic areas on the nation degree, together with publication of coverage briefs or different analytical outputs and advise and facilitate dialogue on local weather finance and sustainable improvement points with authorities officers, improvement companions, civil society, and the personal sector;
• Provide coverage and programming recommendation and assist for improvement planning, coverage and financing formulation on the nationwide, sub-national and native ranges;
• Support the preparation of coverage briefs, background notes, speeches, speaking factors, presentation supplies, and many others. on vital improvement points inside the SDG framework for senior administration on the nation and regional ranges;
• Lead the event of and advocacy efforts linked to National Human Development Report (HDR) and be certain that it gives added worth when it comes to improvement financial evaluation, up to date knowledge and data for coverage formulation;
• Compile and analyze statistical knowledge as required in assist of nation methods and actions and assist monitoring and reporting of progress associated to SDGs and different nationwide improvement frameworks, together with to assist strengthen nationwide and native degree knowledge assortment and statistical capability;
• Support the creation of large-scale improvement options to assist deal with advanced improvement challenges;
• Lead the enlargement of nation workplace service gives on inexperienced/blue financial system and financing for improvement, together with revolutionary financing fashions and nation particular/sector particular research.
• Support the identification and evaluation of interventions that may affect a number of improvement targets and targets on the identical time;
• Guide monitoring and reporting of progress associated to SDGs and different nationwide improvement frameworks, together with to assist strengthen nationwide and native degree knowledge assortment and statistical capability;
• Support to leverage UNDP’s regional and world programmes, to supply holistic and efficient assist to the nation;

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• Leverage assist and experience from the UNDP’s world/regional Economist networks to help in strengthening UNDP’s assist on local weather and improvement financing, financial evaluation and coverage improvement to Government and the UN Country Team.

Advise and assist the event of a brand new local weather finance programming initiatives portfolio and partnerships with IFIs, multilateral improvement banks, vertical funds (GEF, GCF), bilateral donors, and the personal sector (corporates, traders).:

Advise and facilitate dialogue on local weather finance programming and sustainable improvement points with authorities officers, improvement companions, civil society, and the personal sector;

• Provide coverage and programming recommendation and assist for local weather finance and improvement planning, coverage and financing formulation;
• Support the identification and evaluation of interventions that may affect a number of improvement sustainable improvement targets and targets on the identical time;
• Provide knowledgeable recommendation and assist in growing strategic partnerships with UN companies, IFIs, bilateral improvement companies, personal sector entities, and civil society;
• Support evaluation and mapping of potential companions for UNDP’s work on local weather/improvement finance and SDG acceleration.
• Develop and coordinate partnerships throughout the general public and personal sectors to develop a pipeline of bankable initiatives.
• Carry out outreach to key companions for strategic advocacy for frequent aims,
• Guide within the preparation, implementation and follow-up of exterior partnership engagements.

Provision of technical advisory assist to the implementation of blue/inexperienced financial system and sustainable financing programme.:

Provide technical advisory assist and to programme groups on inexperienced/blue financial system and local weather finance.

• Develop Terms of References (TORs), establish and consider specialists, and present high quality assurance to studies produced as a part of programme implementation.
• Coordinate the supply of the required technical inputs to the implementation of blue/inexperienced financial system and local weather finance initiatives, together with helping in executing the implementation technique and guaranteeing coordination and leveraging sources from different initiatives.
• Provide technical inputs to annual work plans and company reporting processes (e.g. ROAR).
• Provide technical inputs to the event of programme briefs and communication supplies.
• Provide technical advocacy amongst key stakeholders, helping authorities companies and service suppliers in design and implementation of programme interventions.
• Organize capability constructing actions on blue/inexperienced financial system and local weather finance to UNDP and authorities mission groups.

Contribution to UNDP’s work throughout the Asia-Pacific area, together with collaboration with the regional economist community and evaluation of precedence regional thematic areas:

Participate actively within the UNDP Asia-Pacific regional community of economists, by way of attending regional conferences (in-person and/or digital), sharing related experiences, and conducting peer critiques;

• Collaborate and contribute to regional publications, observe notes, and Regional Human Development Reports;
• Substantively contribute as potential to UNDP regional information merchandise and improvement of programming gives in regional precedence areas (e.g., inequality, future of labor, revolutionary financing);
• Enhance UNDP’s understanding and design of recent approaches to sustainable improvement throughout the area by appearing as a regional thematic lead the place potential.

Other Duties:

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

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Advanced college diploma (Master’s Degree or equal) in Finance, Business, Economics, Climate Policy or associated fields is required. or

A primary-level college diploma (Bachelor’s diploma) in Finance, Business, Economics, Climate Policy or associated area together with a further two years of qualifying expertise will probably be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Experience, Knowledge, and Skills:

Minimum 7 years (with Master´s diploma) or 9 years (with Bachelor´s diploma) {of professional} expertise in improvement finance, funding, insurance coverage, local weather change, catastrophe danger administration, partnership programme improvement and useful resource mobilization and/or related fields.

• Demonstrated expertise in coverage evaluation in local weather finance on the nationwide degree submit grasp’s diploma is an asset.
• Experience in growing cutting-edge new initiatives and advancing thought-leadership (papers, occasions) in local weather and improvement financing is an asset.
• Experience with improvement and implementation of blue/inexperienced programmes/initiatives is an asset.
• Proven coverage, advisory and advocacy expertise, together with in areas associated to local weather and improvement financing is an asset;
• Demonstrated expertise in partnering with IFIs, together with WB and ADB, multilateral and bilateral improvement companions in addition to the personal sector for local weather and improvement financing is an asset.
• Experience in getting ready prime quality coverage briefs and steerage notes for use by senior coverage makers, together with within the space of local weather and improvement financing is an asset;
• Experience of strategic visioning with robust technical and extremely developed analytical capabilities is an asset;
• Knowledge of the SDGs and their software on the nationwide degree, politically astute with demonstrated expertise in stakeholder evaluation and engagement is an asset;
• Experience in dealing with of web-based administration techniques and superior programmes for statistical evaluation of information is an asset; and
• Previous work expertise in Asia and the Pacific area can be an asset.

Language Requirements:

Fluency in written and oral English is required.

Working information of one other UN language can be an asset.

COMPETENCIES

Core Competencies.

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

• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential dangers, develop new concepts to unravel advanced 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 quick process/limitations and take motion to attain better outcomes

• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate advanced panorama, champion inter-agency collaboration

• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate advantages of numerous workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross-Functional & Technical Competencies:

2030 Agenda: Prosperity: Inclusive Growth

Economic Transformation

2030 Agenda: Prosperity: Inclusive Growth

SDGs/National Development Strategy, Planning and Budgeting

2030 Agenda: Prosperity: Inclusive Growth

Green Economy

2030 Agenda: Prosperity: Inclusive Growth

Blue Economy

Business Direction & 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 Management: Partnerships Management

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

Business Management: Portfolio Management

Ability to pick out, prioritise and management the group’s programmes and initiatives in step with its strategic aims and capability Ability to steadiness the implementation of change initiatives with common actions for optimum return on funding. Knowledge and understanding of key ideas of mission, programme, and portfolio administration.

Please notice that continuance of appointment past the preliminary 12 months is contingent upon the profitable completion of a probationary interval.

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