Programme Analyst - IPSA 9 (Home Based)

Background
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Background and Organizational Context 

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. BPPS works closely with UNDP's Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP's development programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results-based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.

BPPS’s Hubs on Nature, Climate, Energy and Waste, with the support of the Vertical Fund Programme Support, Oversight and Compliance Unit, works with governments, civil society, and private sector partners to integrate nature, climate, energy and waste related concerns into national and sector planning and inclusive growth policies, support country obligations under Multilateral Environmental Agreements, and oversee the implementation of the UN’s largest portfolio of in-country programming nature, climate change, energy and waste.

The newly established UNDP Climate Hub is the arrowhead of UNDP’s commitment to the “Climate Promise” that aims to support programming countries designing and implementing pledges under the Paris Agreement, including ambitious National Determined Contributions, with climate change mitigation and adaptation interventions fully embedded in the national development planning and budgetary processes. The Climate Hub will build on UNDP’s existing over USD 4 billion country-level climate portfolio on Climate Change Policies and Strategies, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Climate and Forests, covering over 142 countries, as well as on UNDP’s Nature portfolio, UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub, UNDP’s Digital offer and other relevant portfolios on youth, gender, health, climate security among others. 

The UNDP Climate Hub is responsible for: 

In 2021, at UNFCCC COP26, over 140 world leaders committed to “halt and reverse forest loss and land degradation by 2030 while delivering sustainable development and promoting an inclusive rural transformation” through the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land-Use (GLD). The Forest & Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP), was launched the World Leaders Summit at COP27 to maintain high-level political leadership on forests, land-use and climate, to rapidly scale action, and to ensure accountability for the Glasgow Leaders Declaration and linked initiatives. The FCLP will include a focus on strategically targeted voluntary initiatives where combined political attention and complementary approaches from multiple countries, partners and other alliances will make the greatest difference globally at delivering the systemic shifts required.  It will be capped each year by a high-level ambition moment, held in the margins of the UNFCCC COP, allowing countries and partners to publicly showcase both national progress and the advancement of collective solutions to this global challenge. UNDP is the host of the FCLP Secretariat. 

UNDP is recruiting a Programme Analyst contribute to the   management of the Secretariat as part of the operations team. The candidate will support both the FCLP Secretariat (approximately 90%) and UNDP Climate Hub (10%). 
Duties and Responsibilities
Working as part of the FCLP Secretariat, the Programme Analyst will provide critical daily support to the Secretariat and FCLP members. This will comprise approximately 90% of the Programme Analyst’s time. Specific tasks will include: 

In addition, the Programme Analsyst will provide broader support to the Climate & Forests Team in the Climate Hub. This will comprise approximately 10% of the Analyst’s’s time. Specific tasks will include:

Institutional Arrangement

The Programme Analyst will be supervised by, and report to the Principal Technical Advisor for the Climate & Forests Programme. For the purposes of the FCLP Secretariat S/he will be managed by the Programme  Manager and closely collaborate with the Secretariat Director, Engagement Analyst, Policy staff and other staff members. S/he will collaborate with policy leads and FCLP members as appropriate, as well as external communications partners as needed.  

The assignment is home-based. If travel is required, such travel shall be at UNDP’s expense and processed in accordance with UNDP’s travel guidance and policy.    Competencies Core Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements  Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible  Act with Determination:  LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination 

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies Thematic Area Name Definition Business Management Communication

Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience. 

Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels. Business Management  Monitoring 

Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme 

performance and results. 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: Planet Nature, Climate & Energy Climate and Forests: Reduced emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Business Direction and Startegy System Thinking  Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system   Required Skills and Experience Min. Education requirements

Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent)  in International Affairs, Media Studies, Political Science or other relevant field is required. Or   A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree)in the above-mentioned fields of study, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying  experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree  Min. years of relevant work experience  A minimum of two (2) years (with master’s degree) or a four (4) years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience in a communication, program management, and/or engagement focused role. Required  skills