Background
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
UNDP’s Insurance and Risk Finance Facility
The collaboration between the insurance industry and the development sector has grown significantly over the last five years. Key initiatives, such as the Insurance Development Forum, Insurance Resilience Global Partnership and the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance, have evolved into significant policy and standard setting partnerships, bringing together countries, the development sector, and the private and mutual/cooperative sectors of industry. The Tripartite Agreement between the German Government, UNDP and Insurance Development Forum (and its private sector members) is a flagship example of such transformative partnerships. Increasingly, these partnerships are moving beyond policy to programming, with a strong focus on not only delivering insurance and risk financing solutions to countries and communities, but also on long-term transformational change of insurance markets.
UNDP’s growing work on insurance and risk financing manifests in our flagship initiative called the Insurance and Risk Finance Facility (the Facility) which supports UNDP Country Offices and country partners worldwide. This work covers a range of critical areas where insurance and risk transfer solutions and collaboration with the industry can add significantly to achieving and delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs.)
Covering inclusive insurance, sovereign risk financing, insurance investments, natural capital, UNDP will work towards developing and delivering insurance solutions together with countries and communities, as well as collaborating with partners to transform insurance markets through enhancing legislation, regulation and institutional capacity.
Within the framework of the Tripartite Agreement between, the Insurance Development Forum (IDF) and the German government, UNDP has conducted a diagnostic study on inclusive insurance and risk finance for Bangladesh. The study emphasizes the need for a comprehensive financing framework to promote inclusive insurance and national disaster risk financing strategies to support the different phases of disaster risk management. It also identifies potential interventions and support required to create an enabling environment and to facilitate market development for inclusive insurance and risk finance in Bangladesh and indicates opportunities to integrate risk transfer instruments such as insurance into ex-ante and ex-post risk financing.
UNDP-IRFF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will enable small-scale producers to adapt and become more resilient to climate change by building their financial resilience through risk transfer and insurance. Spanning five years, the investment starts in five countries in Africa and Asia to foster public-private partnerships that scale up agricultural insurance, coupled with a global component that will mobilize additional resources for small-scale producers’ resilience, supported by research, evidence and advocacy. The initiative will enable inclusive agricultural transformation through the expansion of agricultural insurance by improving country capacity and integrating climate insurance into public policies, increasing risk coverage and strengthening the global interaction of stakeholders supporting small-scale producers’ resilience. For more information please check: https://irff.undp.org/publications/advancing-smallholder-farmers-resilience-and-adaptation-climate-change
Abovementioned projects has close collaborations with global and regional programmes related to financial resilience and climate change mitigation and initiatives namely Equanomics, LoGIC and GCF. Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, other relevant line ministries and development partners (WFP, SDC) are the key stakeholders for these national and regional programmes. The Project Associate will deal with the relevant financial and administrative matters in relation to the programmes of the climate portfolio of the Resilience and Inclusive Growth Cluster in an effective and accountable manner, complying with UNDP guidelines and reporting requirements. The Project Associate is expected to perform the relevant duties in a coherent manner to enhance the synergies and linkages among the global and regional programmes of the climate portfolio of the UNDP and ensure efficient use of resources while implementation.
Duties and Responsibilities
Key functions of Project Associate are:
Support in overall financial, administrative and logistics managements of the project;
Support for implementation of project activities;
Participating in knowledge-building and sharing activities;
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 Project Associate is part of the Insurance and Risk Finance Facility and work with the Climate Change team members and with other colleagues from Resilience and Inclusive Growth cluster. The Project Associate will be supervised by the National Programme Officer-Insurance and Risk Finance Facility. UNDP will provide office space at the country office for desk works and printing facilities.
Note: UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and people living with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
This vacancy is archived.