UNDP UNCDF JPO - Programme Analyst, Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility Jobs in Uganda

UNDP UNCDF JPO - Programme Analyst, Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility Jobs in Uganda

Background

The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 46 least developed countries. With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development.

UNCDF’s financing models work through three channels: inclusive digital economies, connecting individuals, households, and small businesses with financial eco-systems that catalyze participation in the local economy, and provide tools to climb out of poverty and manage financial lives; local development finance, that capacitates localities through fiscal decentralization, innovative municipal finance, and structured project finance to drive local economic expansion and sustainable development; and investment finance, that provides catalytic financial structuring, de-risking, and capital deployment to drive SDG impact and domestic resource mobilization.

By strengthening how finance works for poor people at the household, small enterprise, and local infrastructure levels, UNCDF contributes to Sustainable Development Goal-SDG 1 on eradicating poverty and SDG 17 on the means of implementation.

By identifying those market segments where innovative financing models can have transformational impact in helping to reach the last mile and address exclusion and inequalities of access, UNCDF contributes to a broad diversity of SDGs.

The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) is a mechanism to integrate climate change into local authorities’ planning and budgeting through the regular intergovernmental fiscal transfer system using performance-based grants in a participatory and gender sensitive manner, increase awareness and capacities to respond to climate change at the local level including through ecosystem-based solutions, and increase the quality and number of local investments that address climate change.

LoCAL combines performance-based climate resilience grants (PBCRGs), which ensure programming and verification of change expenditures at the local level, with technical and capacity-building support. It uses the grants and demonstration effect to trigger further flows for local climate action including global climate finance and national fiscal transfers.

LoCAL also aims to support private finance for small and medium businesses and municipal finance and public-private partnerships. LoCAL is currently active in 17 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, with another 17 countries preparing to join (at the design stage).

Position Purpose:

Within this programme context, UNCDF is seeking a Programme Analyst (JPO), P-2 to support the effective delivery of the Programme’s activities in Africa with a focus on eastern and southern Africa in particular Somalia, reporting to the Global Manager, P-5, based in Kampala, Uganda and in close collaboration with the LoCAL global Facility and LDFPA colleagues across the region.

Key Duties and Accountabilities

The Programme Analyst’s (JPO) key focus areas will be:

Programme implementation support

Policy, regulatory and technical support to government counterparts and key stakeholders

Knowledge management and communication

Networking and partnership buildin

Programme implementation support

Contribute to and provide effective support for programme implementation, monitoring and evaluation, reporting and completion activities, in close collaboration with the LoCAL Global Manager and the LoCAL Facility (global) and UNCDF;

Contribute to the provision of technical assistance for LoCAL in the region (e.g. writing terms of reference, recruitment and management of national consultants);

Support establishment of effective and efficient partnerships at the programmatic and operational levels with national counterparts and development partners to coordinate and ensure successful implementation of in-country activities;

Contribute to strengthen the quality of the monitoring and evaluation and reporting of LoCAL in the region (e.g. preparation and monitoring of the annual work plan, participation to field missions contribution to the preparation of the annual report);

Contribute to preparation and timely submission of comprehensive technical and financial reports in line with contractual agreements and provide inputs for semi-annual reporting.

Policy, regulatory and technical support to government counterparts and key

stakeholders

Contribute analysis and input to provision of policy, regulatory and technical advice to government counterparts at central and local levels (e.g. related to NDC, NAP, LTS);

Contribute to the technical dialogue and support provision of policy and technical advisory services to national and local government counterparts in relation to decentralization and climate change, climate finance and (direct) access to international climate finance and (e.g. through accreditation to the Green Climate Fund and Adaptation Fund and subsequent direct access);

Support the process of preparation, design, submission and approval of programme/project concepts and full-fledged proposals for financing

Knowledge management and communication

Contribute to the knowledge and communication efforts of LoCAL in the region based on lessons learned and results achieved (e.g. stories from the field, photos/videos, webpage and social media presence, as appropriate);

Support the preparation of various written outputs and knowledge products, e.g. draft background papers, analyses, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc;

Support organisation of events, meetings, conferences, etc., including proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc;

Contribute to the implementation of the Communication and Visibility Plan of the programme, in collaboration with project team, partners and technical consultants;

Support the process of convening national and regional stakeholders to share lessons learned.

Networking and partnership building

Collect intelligence on technical and financial partners, identify opportunities for collaboration with key actors and support the development of partnerships for LoCAL in the region.
Contribute to collaborative working relationships with other local stakeholders such as CSOs at the local level by building linkages and networks to enhance climate resilience

Contribute to efforts to ensure close collaboration with UN system, as well as identify opportunities for collaboration and joint programming with other UN agencies and partners to maintain and/or strengthen UNCDF/LoCAL strategic positioning and presence in selected countries;

Contribute to UNCDF/LoCAL and government resource mobilization efforts and support partnership building efforts for effective UNCDF/LoCAL positioning in the UN System and with development partners networks.

Required Skills and Experience

Education

Master’s Degree or equivalent Advanced Degree preferably in Environmental Science or Management, Climate Change, Business Administration, International Relations, Development Studies or related field.

Required skills and Experience

A minimum of two (2) years’ paid work experience in progressively more responsible positions in project management in the environment/climate change area with result-oriented objectives, preferably in Africa.

Demonstrated technical and intellectual skills in area of specialty (climate change adaptation and/or climate sensitive public financial management and governance, in particular at local level) is required;

Strong awareness of key and emerging issues related to environmental sustainability and climate change and with addressing gender equality as project objective and/or cross-cutting issue in developing countries;

Previous relevant work experience, working in Africa and/or Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is highly preferable.

Relevant technical experience with policy and regulatory bodies and central and local governments in developing countries is desirable;

Understanding of key concepts related to decentralization and local economic development;

Experience with a UN organization/agency is desirable.

Fully computer literate (office software, use of social media etc)

Language requirements

Full fluency in written and spoken English is required.

Full fluency knowledge of other UN languages is an asset

Nationality of the applicant

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; UNDP UNCDF JPO - Programme Analyst, Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility Jobs in Uganda

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