UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
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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.
UNDP’s 2018-2021 Strategic Plan emphasizes the critical links between environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and broader efforts to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement. As part of the Global Policy Network in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP’s Nature, Climate Change, and Energy (NCE) Team promotes and scales up integrated whole-of-governance approaches and nature-based solutions that reduce poverty and inequalities, strengthen livelihoods and inclusive growth, mitigate conflict, forced migration and displacement, and promote more resilient governance systems that advance linked peace and security agendas.
The NCE Team works with governments, civil society, and private sector partners to integrate natural capital, environment and climate concerns into national and sector planning and inclusive growth policies; support country obligations under Multilateral Environmental Agreements; and implement the UN’s largest portfolio of in-country programming on environment, climate change, and energy. This multi-billion dollar portfolio encompasses: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services including forests; Sustainable Land Management and Desertification including food and commodity systems; Water and Ocean Governance including SIDS; Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation; Renewable and Modern Energy; Extractive Industries; Chemicals and Waste Management; Environmental Governance and Green/Circular Economy and SCP approaches. This work advances crosscutting themes on innovative finance, digital transformation, capacity development, human rights, gender equality, health, technology, and South-South learning.
In addition to UNDP’s bilateral partnerships on natural capital, environment and climate, UNDP is an accredited multilateral implementing agency of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Multilateral Fund (MLF), the Adaptation Fund (AF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) which includes the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund (GEF Trust Fund), the Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund (NPIF), the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF). As part of UNDP’s partnership with these vertical funds, UNDP provides countries specialized integrated technical services for eligibility assessment, programme formulation, capacity development, policy advice, technical assistance, training and technology transfer, mobilization of co-financing, implementation oversight, results management and evaluation, performance-based payments and knowledge management services.
The Environmental Finance Unit has the objective to help countries achieve the simultaneous eradication of poverty and significant reduction of inequalities and exclusion by assisting Country Offices (COs) in accessing environmental finance for sustainable development. The Environmental Finance Unit has specialized technical and policy advisory teams in New York, Addis Ababa, Geneva, Istanbul, Bangkok and Panama working on catalyzing environmental and climate finance for climate-resilient, sustainable development. To achieve this, the Environmental Finance Unit works closely with UNDP country offices to develop country capacity to put in place the right mix of regulatory and financial incentives, remove institutional and policy barriers, and create enabling environments that attract and drive public and private sector investment into sustainable development. In doing this, The Environmental Finance Unit assists partner countries to access, combine, and sequence resources from a wide range of funds, financial instruments, and mechanisms.
The Management and Programme Support Unit (MPSU) of the Environmental Finance Unit is responsible for all programme support, operational, and financial matters related to the management and oversight of the GEF Family funds, GCF, AF, Cost Sharing funds, and Management funds to support the Unit. The complexity of GEF/GCF funded projects and donor reporting requirements, the huge Environmental Finance portfolio size, the highly decentralized business structure and delegation to regions, requires a team highly skilled in programme support, operations and financial management located at HQ and in the regions.
The Management and Programme Support Analyst (MPSA) will be reporting to the team lead of the MPSU. The MPSA works in close collaboration with the Environmental Finance teams in HQ and Regional Hubs, with COs, and other UNDP Units to ensure a consistent quality service delivery and practices.
This is an out-posted position and will be located in UNDP’s Regional Hub in Istanbul, Turkey.
Summary of Key Functions:
1) Ensuresoundoversightmanagementof the Environmental Finance Unit GEF/GCF/AF portfolio under COsbyprovidingefficientandeffectiveimplementation oversight and support
2) Ensure exceptions are reviewed periodically and ensure country offices are taken corrective actions
3) Knowledge management, Capacity Building and learning
Core
Innovation
Leadership
People Management
Communication
Delivery
Technical/Functional
Operational Efficiency
Financial Planing and Budgeting
Knowledge Management
Project and Programme Management
Results-based management
Budget Management
Financial Reporting and Analysis
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Experience:
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Contract Duration: 1 Year with possibility for extension
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