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Background Information – Job-specific

UNOPS South East Asia Multi-Country Office (EAPMCO)

The South East Asia and Pacific Multi Country Office (EAPMCO) helps, develops and oversees the UNOPS portfolio of initiatives in South East Asia and the Pacific. EAPMCO was established in January 2023 following the merger of the Thailand Multi-Country Office, which lined 20 nations throughout North East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific, and the Cambodia Multi-Country Office, which lined 4 nations South East Asia – 3 nations within the Mekong Sub-region (Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam) and the Philippines. EAPMCO at the moment covers 24 nations throughout North East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific. With its head workplace in Bangkok, the Multi-Country Office includes 9 enterprise items: EAPMCO Thailand, EAPMCO Indonesia, EAPMCO Pacific Operations Cluster, EAPMCO Papua New Guinea, EAPMCO China, EAPMCO Mekong, and EAPMCO Philippines.

In 2024, the UNOPS EAPMCO applied initiatives value greater than USD 80 million, within the areas of Energy Transition, Digital Transformations, Sustainable Environmental Management, Climate Change, Waste Management, Rule of Law and Access to Justice, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Post Conflict Reintegration, Emergency Relief, Post COVID19 Economic Transformations, and Health, by means of HR, procurement, building, contract administration, fund and program administration providers.

The Multi Country Office head workplace in Bangkok gives strategic route, operational help, supply oversight and assurance of the excellence of enterprise processes and high quality requirements throughout all the complete Multi Country Office places. It can also be accountable for creating, delivering and managing the portfolio of engagements within the nation of the MCO location itself.

Background Information – The Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership

The Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership (ETP) brings collectively governments and philanthropies to work with associate nations within the area. We help the transition in the direction of trendy vitality techniques that may concurrently guarantee financial development, vitality safety, and environmental sustainability. Enabling the transition towards greener vitality techniques will enormously contribute to the achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agreement aims.

ETP focuses on Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, that are the nations within the area with the best vitality demand, a considerable pipeline for fossil gasoline-based mostly initiatives, and a major and price-efficient potential for renewable vitality and vitality effectivity. ETP gives excessive-stage technical advisory help, holistic help to Governments on financing and technical wants, capability and ability growth, and facilitation of dialogues in all associated areas.

Private Sector Accelerator Technical Assistance Facility (PSA TAF)

Engaging the personal sector is important for a profitable vitality transition. Private corporations drive innovation, deliver important funding, and prioritise effectivity, making vitality effectivity and renewable vitality extra economically viable. Their involvement stimulates financial development, creates jobs, and ensures the worldwide dissemination of unpolluted vitality applied sciences. Private sector participation additionally mitigates dangers, leverages experience in challenge administration, and adapts rapidly to market adjustments, contributing to the success of the vitality transition. The collaboration between the private and non-private sectors accelerates the shift in the direction of a sustainable and resilient vitality system.

ETP, in collaboration with the Southeast Asia Clean Energy Facility (SEACEF), implements the Private Sector Accelerator Technical Assistance Facility (PSA TAF) aimed toward supporting personal sector acceleration within the vitality transition sectors. It focuses on these thematic areas:

• Risk Mitigation: Project and sector-stage evaluation of important dangers creating limitations to challenge realisation. This may contain creating threat-sharing mechanisms, insurance coverage choices, or ensures to draw personal capital.
• Market Transparency: Ensuring transparency in vitality markets to construct investor confidence. Clear data on market circumstances, vitality costs, and potential thus permitting personal corporations to make knowledgeable funding choices.
• Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs): Collaboration between the private and non-private sectors by means of PPPs to facilitate the event and implementation of enormous-scale clear vitality initiatives. This shared method helps distribute dangers and sources successfully.
• Climate Disclosure and Reporting: Implementing standardized local weather disclosure and reporting mechanisms may help traders assess and evaluate the environmental efficiency of various corporations. This transparency encourages accountable environmental practices and attracts socially accountable traders.
• Project preparation: Early stage RE, EE and grid (pre) feasibility research, pathway to financing, challenge planning, allowing pathways and convening key private and non-private stakeholders to make sure profitable implementation and lengthy-time period success.

Through PSA TAF, ETP will implement technical help initiatives, together with market research, regulatory assessments, and different technical research, specializing in pre-recognized areas on vitality transition. These initiatives intention to foster better personal sector participation in vitality transition in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam by clarifying personal sector alternatives, and understanding and addressing potential limitations to scaling up their participation.

Technical Senior Analyst – Environmental (Clean Energy)

The Technical Senior Analyst – Environmental (Clean Energy) can be part of ETP’s retainer pool and can present help in implementing the PSA TAF. This is just not a full-time place. Retainer contractors will perform duties on an intermittent foundation, known as upon to work when wanted or as deliberate. There aren’t any assured minimal working hours or days.

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Programme Manager, the incumbent will help the design of technical help initiatives below the PSA TAF, present technical and coordination help to make sure its profitable implementation, help in increasing the PSA TAF portfolio, and help different ETP actions. There are pre-recognized PSA TAF initiatives to be applied throughout Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. The incumbent will help all initiatives within the three nations.

The incumbent could also be required to journey to Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, however a lot of the interplay is predicted to be digital. The place is home-based however could also be required to sometimes report back to the UNOPS workplace.

Functional Responsibilities

• Project Design
• Technical and Coordination Support
• Support Private Sector Engagement

1.Project Design and Portfolio Development

• Support in drafting and refinement of Terms of References (TOR) for technical help initiatives, incorporating technical, monetary/financial, and stakeholder enter. This consists of:
• Conducting analysis and evaluation to tell TOR growth.
• Identifying and fascinating with related stakeholders (e.g. authorities companies/ministries, personal sector actors, civil society organizations, others) to collect enter and guarantee alignment.
• Coordinating with ETP’s nation and regional coordinators to keep away from duplication of effort and exploring synergies with current or deliberate initiatives.
• Coordinating with ETP Program Management and Fund Management groups on finalizing the TOR.
• Participate within the analysis of proposals to pick challenge implementing companions or consultants.
• Support in constructing the PSA TAF challenge portfolio by scoping for rising fields within the vitality sector, figuring out potential focus areas, understanding the wants, and assessing personal sector curiosity.

2.Technical and Coordination Support

• Provide technical and operational help to the implementing companions/consultants, as vital. This could embrace linking them with stakeholders, strategizing on the conduct of actions, and reviewing challenge outputs.
• The incumbent could also be requested to take part in conferences associated to work undertaken below PSA TAF, together with conferences with implementing companions, progress and technique conferences with SEACEF, and engagement with different stakeholders. The incumbent will doc highlights of conferences.
• Gather data and conduct interviews, put together supplies, comparable to slide decks, that ETP can use for dissemination or in discussion board shows to tell of PSA TAF.
• Scope for applications, initiatives, and coverage linkages between PSA TAF and ETP’s aligned applications, and broader applications within the vitality sector funded by growth companions, deliberate or underway.
• Support different ETP actions significantly initiatives which are aligned with the PSA TAF focus areas, as vital. Support could embrace participation in workshops or stakeholder engagement, offering suggestions on challenge outputs, and different duties as recommended by ETP.
• Contribute to ETP’s reporting by drafting sections related to PSA TAF actions and outcomes.
• Inform ETP Program Management and Fund Management groups on potential points or dangers on any of the PSA TAF initiatives to plot options.

• Identify and provoke engagement with key personal sector actors (e.g., builders, traders, business associations) related to the PSA TAF’s focus areas.
• Create and keep a database of key personal sector actors in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam.

Competencies

Treats all people with respect; responds sensitively to variations and encourages others to do the identical. Upholds organizational and moral norms. Maintains excessive requirements of trustworthiness. Role mannequin for variety and inclusion.

Acts as a optimistic position mannequin contributing to the group spirit. Collaborates and helps the event of others. For individuals managers solely: Acts as optimistic management position mannequin, motivates, directs and evokes others to succeed, using acceptable management types.

Demonstrates understanding of the affect of personal position on all companions and all the time places the top beneficiary first. Builds and maintains robust exterior relationships and is a reliable associate for others (if related to the position).

Efficiently establishes an acceptable plan of action for self and/or others to perform a aim. Actions result in whole activity accomplishment by means of concern for high quality in all areas. Sees alternatives and takes the initiative to behave on them. Understands that accountable use of sources maximizes our affect on our beneficiaries.

Open to alter and versatile in a quick paced atmosphere. Effectively adapts personal method to swimsuit altering circumstances or necessities. Reflects on experiences and modifies personal habits. Performance is constant, even below stress. Always pursues steady enhancements.

Evaluates knowledge and programs of motion to achieve logical, pragmatic choices. Takes an unbiased, rational method with calculated dangers. Applies innovation and creativity to drawback-fixing.

Expresses concepts or info in a transparent, concise and open method. Communication signifies a consideration for the sentiments and wishes of others. Actively listens and proactively shares data. Handles battle successfully, by overcoming variations of opinion and discovering widespread floor.

Education/Experience/Language necessities

Education:

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• An superior University Degree (Master’s or equal) or increased diploma in Engineering, Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or any associated subject is required.
• A primary stage college diploma (Bachelor’s or equal) within the above-talked about fields with further two (2) years of related expertise could also be thought of in lieu of a sophisticated diploma.

Experience:

• A minimal two (2) years of related expertise engaged on both of the next areas: vitality transition, renewable vitality, vitality effectivity, sensible grid, investments, financing, market analyses, enterprise growth and different associated areas is required.
• Experience working with or partaking with the personal sector is required.
• Relevant expertise in coordinating advanced environments, a number of and various stakeholders is required.

The following experiences are fascinating:

• Experience in challenge administration, administration, strategic planning and administration, strategic liaison, donor or companions coordination.
• Experience in organizing and conducting workshops, dialogues, consultations.
• Experience working in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Philippines.
• Experience working in UN organizations and/or UNOPS.

• Full working data (Fluency) in written and oral English is required.

Contract kind, stage and period

• Contract kind: Local ICA retainer.
• Contract stage: ICS 9 / LICA-9
• Contract period: 1 Year with the potential for extension topic to organizational necessities, availability of funds and passable efficiency.

• This is just not a full-time place. Retainers could also be requested to hold out duties on an intermittent and want foundation. There aren’t any minimal hours or days assured.
• In responsibility stations the place the NPO class has been established by the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), a Local Individual Contractor Agreement (LICA) should be issued for a home-based contract.
• For home-based place, it will likely be the duty of the chosen candidate to make preparations, to a regular deemed acceptable by UNOPS, for a safe web connections, laptop computer and/or tools vital for work (as outlined by UNOPS).
• For home-based positions, candidates should have the required permissions to work of their home base location with out sponsorship from UNOPS.

Additional Information

• Please word that UNOPS doesn’t settle for unsolicited resumes.
• Applications acquired after the cut-off date won’t be thought of.
• Please word that solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of, which includes varied assessments.
• UNOPS embraces variety and is dedicated to equal employment alternative. Our workforce consists of many various nationalities, cultures, languages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and talents. UNOPS seeks to maintain and strengthen this variety to make sure equal alternatives in addition to an inclusive working atmosphere for its complete workforce.
• Qualified ladies and candidates from teams that are underrepresented within the UNOPS workforce are inspired to apply. These embrace particularly candidates from racialized and/or indigenous teams, members of minority gender identities and sexual orientations, and folks with disabilities.
• We wish to guarantee all candidates carry out at their greatest in the course of the evaluation course of. If you might be shortlisted and require further help to finish any evaluation, together with affordable lodging, please inform our human sources group if you obtain an invite.

Terms and Conditions

• For workers positions solely, UNOPS reserves the best to nominate a candidate at a decrease stage than the marketed stage of the submit.
• For retainer contracts, you should full just a few obligatory programs ( they take round 4 hours to finish) in your individual time, earlier than offering providers to UNOPS. Refreshers or new obligatory programs could also be required throughout your contract. Please word that you’ll not obtain any compensation for taking programs and refreshers. For extra data on a retainer contract right here.
• All UNOPS personnel are accountable for performing their duties in accordance with the UN Charter and UNOPS Policies and Instructions, in addition to different related accountability frameworks. In addition, all personnel should show an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a way in line with UN core values and the UN Common Agenda.
• It is the coverage of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential personnel. Recruitment in UNOPS is contingent on the outcomes of such checks.