Project and Partnership Analyst - Home-based

Background
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Office/Unit/Project Description

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty and protect the planet. UNDP supports governments in strengthening policies, institutions, skills, and partnerships to sustain progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

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.

In order to streamline its engagement in finance and investment, UNDP launched the Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH) in 2019. The Hub works as platform on finance and innovation that draws on a critical mass of UNDP expertise, initiatives, and partnerships to support the mobilization, alignment and leveraging of resources for the SDGs and lead the implementation of the new private sector strategy and other initiatives.

At the same time, the European Commission (EC), together with EU Member States, development agencies, EU financial institutions and UN organisations, have embarked on coordinating their offer of EU expertise and resources for low- and middle-income countries in the area of sustainable finance, inspired by EU experience, through the EC Sustainable Finance Advisory Hub, of which UNDP is an implementing partner, focusing on supporting countries on sustainable finance taxonomy development, disclosure frameworks and thematic/green bond framework development.

The Project and Partnership Analyst will support the IFI Partnerships Advisor to launch and implement the EC related workplan, coordinate country cooperation and linkages with other UNDP financing work, develop a partnership strategy and with liaison efforts with Sustainable Finance Advisory Hub partners.

Scope of Work

Project coordination

• Coordinate across workplan outputs and their respective teams to ensure alignment across areas of work and resource allocations.
• Contribute to workplan implementation and tracking of country level progress and updates, and input to the monitoring plan design.
• Develop terms of reference for areas of work in collaboration with lead experts.
• Draft progress reports and updates for project board meetings.

Partnership building

• Liaise with the EC team and other implementing partners including identification of opportunities for further cooperation.
• Strengthen linkages across the project teams and SFH offer teams to ensure leveraging of expertise and partners.
• Contribute to the development of a partnerships strategy including with financial institutions.
• Draft analysis and mapping of related work globally to inform technical assistance approaches and partnership building.
• Provide trend and opportunity analysis to inform Sustainable Finance Hub of IFI/DFI interest including supporting teams to engage IFIs/DFIs in their work at global and country level.

Knowledge Management and Communications

• Identify and synthetize lessons learnt and best practices in the area of work, working with the Hub Secretariat to implement communications plan.
• Develop presentation materials.
• Actively promote a knowledge sharing and learning culture.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

 

Institutional Arrangement

• Reporting to the IFI Partnerships Advisor/Financial Institutions, the Project and