Project Analyst (Home-based)

Background
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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 is carried out through a network of advisors and specialists located at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, to ensure that local knowledge and context specific expertise is linked to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP provides its policy advisory and programme support functions through the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains, 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 and works closely with the Crisis Bureau (CB) that has the responsibility to guide and implement UNDP’s corporate crisis-related strategies and vision for crisis prevention, response and recovery. 

UNDP's 2022-2025 Strategic Plan highlighting our continued commitment to eradicating poverty, accompanying countries in their pathways towards the SDGs and working towards the Paris Agreement. As part of the Global Policy Network in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP's Nature, Climate Change, Energy, and Waste (NCE&W) Hubs promote and scale up integrated whole-of-governance approaches and nature-based solutions that reduce poverty and inequalities, strengthen livelihoods and inclusive growth, mitigate conflict, forced migration and displacement, and promote more resilient governance systems that advance linked peace and security agendas.

BPPS’ Hubs on Nature, Climate, Energy and Waste works with governments, civil society, and private sector partners to integrate natural capital, environment and climate concerns into national and sector planning and inclusive growth policies; support country obligations under Multilateral Environmental Agreements; and implement the UN’s largest portfolio of in-country programming on environment, climate change, and energy. This multi-billion-dollar portfolio encompasses: 

• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services including forests
• Sustainable Land Management and Desertification including food and commodity systems
• Water and Ocean Governance including SIDS 
• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
• Sustainable Energy
• Extractive Industries 
• Chemicals and Waste Management
• Environmental Governance and Green/Circular Economy and SCP approaches

UNDP has a growing portfolio of global projects implemented directly by the UNDP Nature Hub. These deal with emerging issues such as nature economies and green finance, support to country action on Convention on Biological Diversity, private sector engagement, work with NGOs. The projects are managed in the corporate ERP system, and support to participating countries and agencies is coordinated by UNDP Nature Hub at UNDP HQ in New York (within BPPS). Global projects in the area of nature conservation and sustainable development involve direct engagement with Responsible Parties (RPs) and subcontractors, and in some cases (when projects presuppose ground activities) with country offices. A global technical team at UNDP HQ led by Principal Technical Advisor, includes a number of thematic advisors and specialists who provide technical advice and support. They are supported for administrative and finance aspects by Project Analyst, helping with transactions initiation and recording, reporting and communications throughout global project implementation.

The private sector engagement workstream under the Nature F