Programme Analyst: Climate Change & Innovation

Volunteering Innovation

Overview

Support climate resilience and innovation programs in ESAR with key activities.

You have:

• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in climate change, environment-related and innovation.
• Demonstrated interest and/or experience (ideally one year) deep understanding of climate and environmental space.
• Knowledge of policy development processes and the ability to analyze the impact of policies on different populations.
• Experience working on youth leadership and climate change.
• Ability to deliver under periodic strict deadlines and quick turnaround.
• Ability to provide advice and guidance on the analysis, interpretation and application of data from project information.
• Ability to be proactive and take leadership of new and existing tasks.
• Experience working with the United Nations System is highly desirable.
• Ability to achieve demonstrable results.
• Previous experience as a volunteer and/or experience of another culture, (i.e. studies, volunteer work, internship) would be highly regarded.

Contract

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The impact of climate change on the most vulnerable populations globally remains a major threat to the vision of human-centered sustainable development outlined in the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action. In 2019, UNFPA organised an International Symposium on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), Gender and Climate Change Resilience to share knowledge and identify programmes to reduce the impacts of climate change and build the resilience of communities in vulnerable settings. The resulting Future Africa Call to Action outlines both the impacts of climate change on the achievement of universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights and the contributions that the ICPD community can make to building climate resilience. It puts forward a programmatic framework with four pillars connecting the promise of the ICPD and the achievement of climate change adaptation and resilience.

In 2020, the UNFPA Executive Committee adopted a value proposition on climate change, “UNFPA and the Climate Crisis: Strengthening Resilience and Protecting Progress within the Decade of Action”, which defines the key activities that will support the strengthening of climate change activities with external and internal partners. The value proposition on climate change influenced the development of the Strategic Plan and associated outcome areas.

UNFPA ESARO’s current (and future) Regional Action Plan (RPAP) fully integrates the UNFPA value proposition on climate change and currently has a number of indicators across all outputs to strengthen women and girls' resilience to climate change. The Programme Analyst will work within the UNFPA ESARO, which covers 23 countries. The Climate team is part of the EKI unit based in Johannesburg, with a dedicated team that supports these 23 Country Offices in three key areas: (1) Policy, Evidence and Advocacy, (2) Capacity Development and innovation, and (3) Adaptation and Climate Finance.

The Programme Analyst is expected to work closely with the ESAR country offices to support their programmatic work on the delivery of agreed actions to strengthen climate resilience and innovation in ESAR. In the 6-month assignment, under the direct supervision of the Programme Specialists, Climate Adaptation and Innovation, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

● Support ESAR country offices in developing a pipeline of proposal to mobilize climate finance especially for climate and health interventions. ● Support research, advocacy and evidence building work on climate change and environment including update of relevant country profiles. ● Support development of a strategy on youth, peace and climate security. ● Support delivery of two UNFPA ongoing regional climate change and innovation projects delivered in 10 countries. ● Perform any additional task as may be assigned. ● Support the coordination of the region's innovation focal point programme. ● Support the Innovation Specialist in providing technical assistance to country offices on innovation mainstreaming and climate change conscious programming ● Support the development of at least three funding proposals for innovation programmes ● Identify at least one innovation project for scalable support.

Accountability, Adaptability and Flexibility, Building Trust, Client Orientation, Commitment and Motivation, Commitment to Continuous Learning, Communication, Ethics and Values, Integrity

Professional experience in climate change, environment-related and innovation will be regarded as an added advantage. ● Candidates with more than 2 years of professional experience in any of the above will also be considered. ● Knowledge of policy development processes and the ability to analyze the impact of policies on different populations. ● Experience working on climate change, environment-related and innovation campaigns. ● Experience working on youth leadership and climate change ● Experience working with the United Nations System is highly desirable. ● Ability to deliver under periodic strict deadlines and quick turnaround. ● Ability to provide advice and guidance on the analysis, interpretation and application of data from project information. ● Experience with achieving demonstrable results. Demonstrated interest and/or experience (ideally one year) deep understanding of climate and environmental space. ● Job knowledge/technical expertise. ● Ability to be proactive and take leadership of new and existing task. ● Previous experience as a volunteer and/or experience of another culture, (i.e. studies, volunteer work, internship) would be highly regarded.

The duty station is Johannesburg, South Africa. The Republic of South Africa is a large country of nine provinces with different climates, races, languages, creeds, cultures, religions and human activity. The landscape is also diverse, with mountains, plains, farmlands, bushveld scrub and arid deserts, each of the many different parts supporting its own distinctive plant and animal life. The country’s multi-cultural and multi-lingual society fuses to make this “Rainbow Nation” a rich and rewarding experience for you as a United Nations official and as a visitor. Pretoria is the duty station for most UN staff. Pretoria, also called Tshwane, is the administrative capital of South Africa. The country has good infrastructure although the Security Risk Management (SRM) level for South Africa is Medium.

UN Volunteers is entitled to the below benefits: • A Monthly Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA): $1987.75 per month. • A once off entry lumpsum of $4000 at the start of the assignment. • Family allowance. • Medical insurance; Life cover, and annual leave. • Access to all learning platforms. • A once off exit lumpsum of $225 for each month served at the end of the assignment.

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