Community of Practice Facilitator Energy - IPSA 10

Mid Senior

Contract

This is a IPSA-10 contract. This kind of contract is known as International Personnel Services Agreement. It is normally internationally recruited only. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education. More about IPSA-10 contracts.

Background

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The following documents shall be required from the applicants:

Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.

A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.

Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.

Office/Unit/Project Description

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, South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. 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 in close coordination and thematic synergy with the Crisis Bureau (CB).

The SDG integration team (SDGi team) of the GPN’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) facilitates the delivery of an effective integration offer to countries and the UN Development System, leveraging substantive connections across teams and approaches to complex challenges, leading a new way of working across UNDP’s flagship initiatives, workstreams and capacities.

Knowledge Networks

Communities of Practice is the corporate mechanism for knowledge sharing, peer learning and sourcing latest insights to directly support development solutions. The re-established global Communities of Practice (CoPs), of which UNDP has a rich history, to promote and support knowledge flows within and across the GPN areas of work and enrich UNDP’s global policy and programme functions. The new model of the CoPs has a more inclusive, flexible approach taking advantage of existing networks, both internal and external to UNDP, to build inclusive communities around UNDP’s main thematic areas of work.

UNDP has currently eight thematic Communities of Practice (CoPs) with six aligned to the Thematic Signature Solutions, as well as SDG Integration, and another for HIV and Health. Within each of the eight corporate CoPs are sub-communities focusing on specific subject areas. Thousands of UNDP’s workforce engage in the CoPs to solve problems, stay abreast of the latest knowledge, share ideas, seek information, and learn. CoPs engage in a wide array of activities, including webinars, online consultations, smaller group discussions, virtual missions and more.

Institutional Arrangement

The CoP facilitator for Energy will report to the SDG Engagement Specialist in the SDG Integration team, and will work closely with colleagues in the Energy, Climate and Natural Capital and Environment teams in the GPN.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

The CoP Facilitator plays an important role in fostering strong substantive engagement within and across the CoP, supporting content curation, quality assurance, and providing substantive advice and feedback loops.

This Recognizing that each CoP member has unique needs and comfort levels related to participation, the facilitator will promote and offer a variety of opportunities and approaches for engagement. The main areas of responsibilities are:

Fosters the CoPs alignment to the next Strategic Plan and the proposed Knowledge Management Strategy:

• Aligns the communities learnings needs with UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2022-25 and its Results framework (IRRF), as well as the priorities of UNDP’s Sustainable Energy Hub;
• Leads cross-cutting themes related to gender, youth empowerment and civil society engagement within the energy team, including developing relevant work plans linking the “Energy-Gender Task Team”;
• Compiles a database of relevant energy content, organized against the corporate taxonomy and working together with the various thematic leads within the energy team;
• Provides inputs to relevant documents, strategy and knowledge products from the civil society and gender perspective, working closely with the Energy Communications focal points.
• Develops a learning agenda together with the thematic advisor for the Energy CoP

Foster engagement among CoP members:

• Sources questions from the community and leads the knowledge gathering for the consolidated replies
• Facilitate timely, focused, targeted and crosscutting e-discussions and on/offline events;
• Curate content on SparkBlue, frequently update the CoP Energy Sparkblue homepage
• Engage with Thematic Advisors who lead on relevant practices under the CoP’s purview and are accountable for their respective CoP;
• Engage in continual “behind the scenes” work of connecting practitioners, flagging experts to come in where necessary, and supporting development of queries and discussion topics for members;
• Support the development and implementation of relevant webinars and in person events;
• Manage a “direct connect” service via email/chat for CoP members who prefer reaching out with questions via social networks; thus, enabling small networks of practitioners and peer assists.

Scan the internal and external environment for relevant content for the CoP members:

• Interface with and draw from existing internal and external networks focused on a range of related topics, including energy access, renewable energy, energy efficiency, biodiversity and ecosystem management and nature based solutions, climate change mitigation and adaptation (in the context of raising, and other relevant thematic and cross-cutting areas of UNDP work at the global, national, sub-regional and local scale;
• Scan related media for relevant articles related to the positioning of energy within sustainable development
• Stay on top of industry trends and keep the CoP updated on the latest news, thinking and findings on the topic by continuously sharing with the Community on Sparkblue and Yammer.
• Detect and capture any relevant issues from one or more networks that could be elevated as an inter-practice discussion and utilize online platform tools;
• On a monthly basis, reach out to all the CoP members through digestible, targeted email updates (“Community Snapshots”) to bring the most pertinent updates and opportunities for engagement to the attention of the CoP members, including, relevant discussions, queries, cross-cutting consultations, hands on “labs”, webinars, events;
• Continually update relevant information on a curated, easy to use, central web portal (on SharePoint);

Produce knowledge products related to community engagement and integrate the CoP into corporate processes:

• Prepare relevant knowledge products pulling from the CoP members’ knowledge, experience and engagements including e-discussion summaries, FAQs, lessons learned overviews, guidance documents and case studies, for reference and use by the community members and beyond;
• Connect the CoP and its members to corporate systems and processes, such as capacity mapping exercises, individual and group learning opportunities, and lessons learned capture and reuse from programmes and projects, in order to ensure the CoPs are not stand-alone discussion forums, but are learning from and informing programmes and processes across the organization.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Adhere to internal SOPs in terms of weekly inputs for engagements tracking and monthly inputs for reporting, ensuring all relevant parties have access to information on past as well as upcoming engagement in a timely and efficient manner
• Timely input all internal tracking documents and mechanisms with quantitative and qualitative insights at the end of each calendar month. Update such insights at the end of each quarter, and towards the end of the year (October/November) to facilitate monthly, quarterly, yearly, and ad hoc reporting
• Contribute on an ad hoc basis (at least every 6 months) to special impact-focused corporate internal and external publications (including leaflets, one/two-pagers, animated cards, infographics and more) with useful, clear, concise inputs to help capture how the CoP is supporting UNDP achieve its corporate priorities
• Timely and efficiently respond to ad hoc requests for inputs from management, in terms of quantitative and qualitative insights

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Digital & Innovation

Digital learning & development

Knowledge of digital learning methods and ability to design and develop digital learning program

Digital & Innovation

Digital thought leadership

Ongoing research into emerging technologies and digital trends and the applications, risks, and opportunities associated with digital adoption, combined with the ability to communicate this synthesis with a broad audience

Digital & Innovation

Facilitation of digital innovation

Ability to facilitate groups and individuals through a digital innovation process

Digital & Innovation

Co-creation

Ability to design and facilitate a process that enables a diverse group of stakeholders to solve a common problem, develop a practice, or create knowledge together. Ability to embrace diversity, work with a diverse group of stakeholders understand their interests, perspectives and views and tap into to them as a source for creativity. Ability to facilitate processes and create conditions that are open for diverse inputs, stimulate collaboration and sharing.

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Education requirements

• Master’s Degree in international development, Energy and Environment, Social Sciences, or related area, required. Bachelor’s Degree with additional 2 years of experience may also be considered in lieu of Masters Degree.

Min. years of relevant work experience

• A minimum of 5 years with Masters Degree or 7 years of experience with Bachelors degree of professional working experience in relevant fields related to international development (required);

Required skills

• Proven ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines, and to deliver in a timely manner within cost and quality standards;
• A minimum of 1 year working in the energy and environment area of work (required);
• A minimum of 1 year working in knowledge management within an international organization (required);

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section

• Country Office experience with international organizations or with UNDP (desirable).
• Proven experience organizing and managing events and workshops (desirable);
• Knowledge of the UN system (desirable);
• Proficiency and proven experience in the use of Microsoft Office suite (e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point) is required. Proven experience in the development infographics, online surveys, presentations, organization of webinars would be an asset;
• Proven work experience in managing online platforms

Required Language(s)

• Proficiency in written and spoken English required. Proficiency in other official UN languages is an asset.

Professional Certificates

• N/A

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