SDG Investment and Impact Management Analyst (Home-based)

Background

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, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. 

Within the context of SDG Financing, UNDP has launched a Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH) which is conceptualized as a finance and innovation platform that draws on a critical mass of UNDP expertise, initiatives, and partnerships to support the mobilization and leveraging of resources for the SDGs and lead the implementation of the new UNDP private sector strategy and other initiatives which fully supports the implementation of the Strategic Plan and supports governments to align private sector activities and financial investments with the 2030 Agenda. The Hub is an integral part of both the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) and the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (BERA), as part of the GPN. 

UNDP SFH is seeking support on a series of activities pertaining to the implementation of the offer’s work on impact measurement and management, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa region. This role will include supporting UNDP with implementing and deploying its Impact Lab platform and provide guidance to a broad private sector audience. 

The Green Growth & Jobs Accelerator Project (GGJAP) in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan aims to support SMEs to become greener in nature and grow to generate jobs through a five-month acceleration programme. To accelerate the outcomes of the GGJAP, the objective of this application is to enhance the methodology employed by the Accelerator, incorporating insights gathered through consultations with national and local stakeholders and potential SME candidates and through experience and successful learning from the implementation of accelerators in and outside the region. This includes boosting the Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) component of the Accelerator to ensure it aligns with international regulatory frameworks. The boost is intended to enable SMEs to comply with sustainability regulation and increasingly ambitious impact reporting requirements from customers and investors. As such, this is an opportunity to not only enhance the SMEs’ sustainability and IMM capabilities but also to position them favorably for potential market expansion, offering a unique opportunity to export products and services to Europe — a crucial market for all the four nations involved by the project. The market expansion will ultimately create favorable conditions for the SMEs to be better equipped to create green growth and green jobs.

Under the guidance of the Sustainable Finance Program Manager and the GGJAP project coordinator, the Analyst will work with the SFH team in engaging private sector actors to provide capacity development, advisory, and technical assistance for integrating impact considerations in their management practices and decision-making processes. The Analyst will be essential to the SFH impact management team maintaining the relationships with key actors at the regional and country level and in deploying the Impact Management and Finance Tracking offer’s work on impact measurement and management. The outcome of this work is the delivery of well-structured trainings, mentoring sessions, and technical deliverables that will contribute to the alignment of public and private sector organizations to assess their contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals.

 

Scope of Work

Ensure partnership management

• Coordinate the development, implementation and quality of assurance of the IMM component for SME within the Green Growth and Jobs Accelerator Project (GGJAP);
• Plan, organize, and follow-up on activities related to the development, implementation, and quality assurance of the SDG Impact Measurement and Management (IMM) component for SMEs within the Green Growth an