Sustainable Finance Advisor, Crisis Contexts - IPSA 12

Senior

Contract

This is a IPSA-12 contract. This kind of contract is known as International Personnel Services Agreement. It is normally internationally recruited only. It usually requires 10 years of experience, depending on education. More about IPSA-12 contracts.

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Office/Unit/Project Description

Present in 166 countries and territories, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supports governments in developing strong policies, institutions, and partnerships to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub was established to aggregate UNDP’s work and expertise on SDG financing and to offer a comprehensive package of tools and support that enables governments, the private sector, philanthropy, and international financial institutions to accelerate financing for the SDGs. To achieve these goals, by 2025 UNDP aims to ensure that all Country Offices will have established SDG finance engagements and promoted $1 trillion of SDG aligned investment, including 100 billion from philanthropy.

Public and private stakeholders around the world are collaborating with UNDP to help them address the challenges of sustainable development financing, and develop robust, holistic approaches to financing recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. UNDPs Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH) offerings help governments to deepen the integration between national planning and financing policies, mobilize new resources and promote greater sustainable development impact from a range of public and private financing, including with philanthropy.

To achieve this target of promoting the investment of over $1 trillion of public expenditure and private capital in the SDGs, UNDP is building its expertise and capacities of Country Offices so that they can offer and tailor SFH products and services to clients. SFH will work across the Global Policy Network, bringing the Regional and Central Bureau combined assets together, taking into account signature solutions and development contexts, and delivering an integrated capacity development initiative for RRs, DRRs and their teams, supported by an internal community of practice and an external group of experts.

The Crisis Bureau (CB) is galvanizing the organization’s efforts to support countries to build resilience by strengthening capacities to anticipate, prevent, respond to, and recover from the impacts of crises and shocks on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These efforts are geared towards reducing countries’ reliance on external humanitarian relief and peace interventions, while risk-informing development planning and decision-making to minimize creation of new risks.

The CB serves as the anchor of UNDP’s upgraded corporate crisis offer and response mechanism that is now expanded beyond contexts of quick onset or sudden impact crises. Specific emphasis is being placed to ensure those most marginalized and excluded are not left behind, reinforcing a rights-based approach. Greater focus is attached on how crisis prevention and recovery can promote structural transformations towards more resilient, equitable and green development pathways. In recognition that gender discrimination is both a driver and consequence of crisis and fragility, special attention is being given to investing addressing the root causes of gender inequalities.

The Sustainable Finance Advisor, Crisis Contexts will support UNDP in taking forward its finance services in crisis contexts working under the guidance of the UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub and Crisis Bureau.

Institutional Arrangement

The Sustainable Finance Advisor, Crisis Contexts will work under the supervision of the Chief of Programme in the Sustainable Finance Hub at UNDP HQ in New York with matrixed reporting to Senior Advisor, CFPET, Crisis Bureau.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

1) Strengthening UNDP’s SDG finance services including through tailoring existing services and developing new services as necessary to better support countries in crisis and fragile contexts:

• Review existing UNDP SFH services and working together with SFH technical leads and Crisis Bureau (CB) personnel, identify methodologies for tailoring services to crisis contexts (for examples by developing appropriate TORs; integrating crisis perspectives into existing offers, adapting INFFs to crisis and fragile contexts, with links to RBPAs, etc);
• In consultations with UNDP COs, RBx, CB and SFH, identify gaps in SFH services for crisis and fragile contexts and develop offers as appropriate, including through improving the quality of ODA;
• Revise SFH service offers on basis of learning from their implementation at country level (See scope of work 3) in crisis and fragile contexts.

2) Develop and lead delivery of modules on financing in crisis contexts into UNDP’s SDG Finance Academy, and into relevant aspects of the Crisis Academies:

• Incorporate appropriate modules, case studies etc into SDG Finance Academy and Crisis Academy training programmes to tailor delivery for SDG financing in crisis contexts.
• Lead the delivery of trainings for UNDP COs and other UNDP teams as appropriate.

3) Pioneering SDG finance services in crisis contexts together with Regional Bureaus:

• Working together with SFH, CB and RBx, identify at least five countries to pioneer SDG finance services in crisis contexts;
• Working with UNDP COs, develop workplans for scaling up SDG finance engagement in priority countries, including through financing strategies/INFFs;
• Lead implementation of new and tailored SDG Finance services as appropriate in five priority countries as well as other countries as appropriate (including guiding L3 crisis countries on financing mappings/approaches as needed);
• Feed lessons from country support back to further strengthen SFH services in crisis contexts.

4) Leading development and management of communities of practice and expert rosters as related to SDG finance in crisis contexts:

• Develop an infrastructure of support including a roster of experts and internal communities of practice to sustain support for UNDP COs as they scale up their SDG finance engagements in crisis contexts;
• Train at least 30 SDG Finance experts in SDG finance in crisis contexts as part of launching and training the internal SDG Finance in crisis contexts Community of Practice (linked to the existing CoPs);
• Guide SFH colleagues as they manage their own internal expert CoP and their external technical expertise roster, link up initiatives and advise Country and Regional offices as needed.

5) Develop partnerships that can leverage SDH services in crisis contexts:

• Working with CB and SFH, identify critical partnership opportunities amongst UN, IFIs, private sector and other partners related to development finance in crisis contexts;
• Undertake advocacy, knowledge production and networking to strengthen partnerships.

Competencies

Competences

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 4: Proactively initiate/lead organizational change, champion new systems/processes

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business Direction & Strategy

Negotiation and Influence

Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates win-win situations

Partnership management

Relationship management

Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding

2030 Agenda: SDG Partnerships

SDG Finance

Public Sector Finance (Tax and domestic resource mobilization, public financial management and public expenditure)

2030 Agenda: SDG Partnerships

SDG Finance

Mobilization and coordination of support for post-crisis recovery and reconstruction processes

2030 Agenda: Peace

Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions

National and sub-national capacities for planning, financing, coordination and crisis management

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum Qualifications of the Successful IPSA

Min. Academic Education

Master’s degree in economics, international development, public policy, social sciences, or related discipline is required.

Min. years of relevant Work experience

Minimum of 10 year of experience in sustainable development financing, policy analysis, public finance, private sector development, strategic planning and budgeting, capacity building and advisory services with a focus on crisis and fragile contexts is required.

Required skills

• Excellent writing skills are required, as demonstrated by previous research/analytical reports/policy notes on relevant topics.
• At least 5 years of work experience in and for crisis and post-crisis countries is a must.

Desired additional skills

• Previous work experience with the UN, other multilateral organisations and / or IFIs/DFIs is desirable.
• Previous experience in designing and delivering trainings related to financing in crisis contexts is highly desirable.
• Previous experience in establishing and managing communities of practice and expert rosters is an advantage.
• Previous experience in nurturing and curating multi-stakeholder partnerships for SDGs within and outside the UN system is desirable.

Required Language(s) (at working level)

Fluency in written and spoken English is required.

Professional Certificates

N/A

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