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Background and Organizational Context
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.
Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP's Strategic Plan. BPPS's staff provides technical advice to Country Offices, advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government, and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP's Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP's development programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results-based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.
BPPS’s Hubs on Nature, Climate, Energy and Waste, with the support of the Vertical Fund Programme Support, Oversight and Compliance Unit, works with governments, civil society, and private sector partners to integrate nature, climate, energy and waste related concerns into national and sector planning and inclusive growth policies, support country obligations under Multilateral Environmental Agreements, and oversee the implementation of the UN’s largest portfolio of in-country programming nature, climate change, energy and waste.
The newly established UNDP Climate Hub is the arrowhead of UNDP’s commitment to the “Climate Promise” that aims to support programming countries designing and implementing pledges under the Paris Agreement, including ambitious National Determined Contributions, with climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions fully embedded in the national development planning and budgetary processes. The Climate Hub will build on UNDP’s existing over USD 4 billion country-level climate portfolio on Climate Change Policies and Strategies, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate and Forests, covering over 142 countries, as well as on UNDP’s Nature portfolio, UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub, UNDP’s Digital offer and other relevant portfolios on youth, gender, health, climate security among others.
The UNDP Climate Hub is responsible for:
- Thought leadership on Climate and to be the custodian of UNDP policy positions on Climate;
- Strategy and vision formulation;
- Pipeline development in coordination with the other hubs and the Vertical Fund Programme Support, Oversight and Compliance Unit;
- Provision of integrated policy and programme support to Country Offices;
- Global engagement, advocacy in collaboration with BERA;
- Integration across thematic areas;
- Strategic Partnerships development and resource mobilization;
- Lead and Support global flagship initiatives and partnerships on Climate;
- Serve as focal point with relevant UN coordination mechanisms and Conventions (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change);
- Cross-organization knowledge and learning; and
- Innovation.
In 2021, at UNFCCC COP26, over 140 world leaders committed to “halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 while delivering sustainable development and promoting an inclusive rural transformation” through the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land-Use (GLD). The Forest & Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP), was launched the World Leaders Summit at COP27 to maintain high-level political leadership on forests, land-use and climate, to rapidly scale action, and to ensure accountability for the Glasgow Leaders Declaration and linked initiatives. The FCLP will include a focus on strategically targeted voluntary initiatives where combined political attention and complementary approaches from multiple countries, partners and other alliances will make the greatest difference globally at delivering the systemic shifts required. It will be capped each year by a high-level ambition moment, held in the margins of the UNFCCC COP, allowing countries and partners to publicly showcase both national progress and the advancement of collective solutions to this global challenge. UNDP is the host of the FCLP Secretariat.
UNDP is recruiting a Programme Analyst contribute to the management of the Secretariat as part of the operations team. The candidate will support both the FCLP Secretariat (approximately 90%) and UNDP Climate Hub (10%).
Duties and Responsibilities
Working as part of the FCLP Secretariat, the Programme Analyst will provide critical daily support to the Secretariat and FCLP members. This will comprise approximately 90% of the Programme Analyst’s time. Specific tasks will include:
- Contribute to the delivery of FCLP meetings and events, including liaising with UNDP procurement, drafting terms of reference, and liaising with vendors such as hotels to coordinate logistics, such as event space, catering, translations, interpretations and other goods and services.
- Act as the point of FCLP point of contact for administration processes, including liaising between UNDP and Secretariat and FCLP members to coordinate travel, drafting terms of reference for the missions, tracking claims and payment of allowances, drafting of logistics notes.
- Facilitate FCLP Secretariat with people management processes, including drafting terms of reference supporting Secretariat onboarding.
- Facilitate FCLP Secretariat with the coordination of translations and interpretations for documentation and meetings.
- Facilitate FCLP Secretariat to keep track of the team’s annual leave, travel plans and missions to ensure business continuity.
- Act as FCLP Secretariat gender focal point, including monitoring and reporting on gender-based targets and indicators in the Global Project and donor reporting.
- Develop and maintain stakeholder mapping and analysis to identify stakeholder needs and how best to leverage their participation and/or strengthen their engagement. Prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation and opportunities for joint initiatives. Make recommendations to the management team on activities with potential for scale-up, replicability and synergies.
- Promote advocacy on development trends and opportunities to collaborate in coordination with the project partners, stakeholders, and UNDP communications staff.
In addition, the Programme Analsyst will provide broader support to the Climate & Forests Team in the Climate Hub. This will comprise approximately 10% of the Analyst’s’s time. Specific tasks will include:
- Contribute to the UNDP’s Climate & Forests Team and Regional Center in LAC around their work on the UN-REDD[1] Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Gender and REDD+ online Platform. This work will include:
- Contribute tothe development of knowledge products around gender, REDD+ and climate change, involving activities, such as conducting research and drafting an info brief and presentations, as necessary.
- Support the FCLP Secretariat and Climate Hub in other tasks as time allows.
- The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization
Institutional Arrangement
The Programme Analyst will be supervised by, and report to the Principal Technical Advisor for the Climate & Forests Programme. For the purposes of the FCLP Secretariat S/he will be managed by the Programme Manager and closely collaborate with the Secretariat Director, Engagement Analyst, Policy staff and other staff members. S/he will collaborate with policy leads and FCLP members as appropriate, as well as external communications partners as needed.
The assignment is home-based. If travel is required, such travel shall be at UNDP’s expense and processed in accordance with UNDP’s travel guidance and policy.
CompetenciesCoreAchieve Results:LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadlineThink Innovatively:LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements Learn Continuously:LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedbackAdapt with Agility:LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confidentEngage and Partner:LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationshipsEnable Diversity and Inclusion:LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discriminationCross-Functional & Technical competencies
Thematic AreaNameDefinitionBusiness ManagementCommunicationAbility to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels.
Business Management MonitoringAbility to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme
performance and results.
Partnership management Relationship ManagementAbility to engage with a wide range of public and
private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen
working relations, trust and mutual understanding
2030 Agenda: PlanetNature, Climate & EnergyClimate and Forests: Reduced emissions from Deforestation and Forest DegradationBusiness Direction and StartegySystem Thinking Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system Required Skills and ExperienceMin. Education requirementsAdvanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in International Affairs, Media Studies, Political Science or other relevant field is required. Or A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree)in the above-mentioned fields of study, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree
Min. years of relevant work experience A minimum of two (2) years (with master’s degree) or a four (4) years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience in a communication, program management, and/or engagement focused role.Required skills- Excellent writing and editing skills with the ability to translate complex information into clear, engaging and inclusive content.
- Demonstrated ability of excellent verbal communication with the ability to influence and engage effectively with colleagues and partners.
- Demonstrated excellent organisation and planning skills, including ability to meet conflicting work demands and priorities.
- Experience in program management and attention to detail
- Proficient in MS Office Suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience managing government-led programs and/or supporting events with government partners an advantage, particularly in the Global South.
- Experience working with forest countries an advantage.
- Experience working on gender equality and women’s empowerment, preferably within the context of environment and/or climate chance.
- Analytical capabilities and experience with applying evidence to improve policy design and delivery would be an advantage.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English is required
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