Background
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UNDP is the UN’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP is on the ground in about 170 countries and territories, working with national counterparts on solutions to global and national development challenges.
To respond to the growing demands and imperatives, UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) has been providing support to countries in Asia Pacific on sustainable finance. There has been a key focus on climate change financing, enhancing the mobilisation of private and innovative finance and improving the efficiency of public sector investments in climate change.
UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Asia Pacific with the support of Government of Sweden (Sida) has been implementing Governance of Climate Change Finance (GCCF Phase I and II) from 2017-2022. With the continued support of Sida, Strengthening the Governance of Climate Finance to Promote Inclusive Climate Resilience in Asia Pacific has been put in place. This is a UNDP-UNCDF joint project (2023-2028) and will be implemented in partnership with UNCDF in 5 countries, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. As it builds on the achievement and lessons learnt in the next two phases, the focus will be on the sector ministries and the sub national governments to assist in gender inclusive climate integrated budgeting, ensuring accountable climate finance and assistance in mobilizing alternate sources of finance.
In addition, UNDP Regional bureau for Asia Pacific’s Climate Finance Network (CFN) project (2022-2028) is also housed in the Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH). The project aims to accelerate implementation of climate change agenda, a Climate Finance Network project has been put in place by UNDP Asia Pacific region. The project aims to support governments and other actors in the ecosystem to identify and scale up climate finance innovations and in their efforts to mobilize and use both public and private climate-responsive resources more effectively. The CFN is part of a bigger UK Government programme ‘Climate Action for Resilient Asia (CARA)’ announced at the COP 26 on the 8th of November 2021, which aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities, economies, and the environment against the impacts of climate change and promote low carbon growth across the Indo-Pacific. The Climate Finance Network will cover 17 countries in Asia Pacific.
Duties and ResponsibilitiesEnsure the team’s smooth operations management by providing effective and efficient support in administration and financial management, procurement process, Human Resource management, protocol process, travel arrangements, registry and IT support focusing on the achievement of the following results;
Ensure that all activities are undertaken in full compliance with UNDP rules, regulations and policies. Build and maintain good internal relationship with all UNDP country offices and BRH’s practice teams especially with the Operation Support Team to ensure the smooth coordination and proper operational process; Smooth administrative process for team members’ official obligations in official financial payments, official travel arrangements, good and service procurements including consultants’ contracts process, payments for consultants and venders, official HR-related activities, office workspace and equipment, UNLP, working visa and stay permit in close collaboration with UNDP BRH Management Support Services teams namely Finance, HR, Procurement, IT, Administrative Unit using Quantum/UNALL ERP platforms and other related online applications; Well-Updated Procurement plan of Climate Finance Network (CFN) Project and GCCF3 Project’s; Other relevant tasks as requested by the CFN team.Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:
Business Management
Project Management. Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals Customer Satisfaction/ Client Management. Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfill and understand the real customers ’needs. Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests. Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns. Monitoring. Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results.Finance
Budget Management. Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets. Financial reporting and analysis. Understands changes in regulatory, legal and ethical frameworks and standards for financial reporting in the public sector. Ability to extract, evaluate financial data, derive relevant findings and present them in a meaningful and coherent manner to facilitate effective decision making and performance monitoring. Understands the benefits of integrated reporting, including non-financial resources such as human, social and intellectual capital, and environmental and governance performanceAdministration & Operations
Travel policy and procedures. Knowledge of travel policy and procedures; ability to interpret travel policy, the Staff Rules, administrative Events management (including retreats, trainings and meetings). Ability to manage events, including venue identification, accommodation, logistics, catering, transportation, and cash disbursements, etc. Required Skills and ExperienceRequired languages:
Proficiency in English and Thai with advanced command of speaking and writing. Working knowledge of other UN official language is an asset.