Portfolio Analyst – Home Based

Job title:

Portfolio Analyst – Home Based

Company

United Nations Development Programme

Job description

Job Description:

Background

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

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. 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:

• Thought leadership on Climate and to be the custodian of UNDP policy positions on Climate;
• Strategy and vision formulation;
• Pipeline development in coordination with the other hubs and the Vertical Fund Programme Support, Oversight and Compliance Unit;
• Provision of integrated policy and programme support to Country Offices;
• Global engagement, advocacy in collaboration with BERA;
• Integration across thematic areas;
• Strategic Partnerships development and resource mobilization;
• Lead and Support global flagship initiatives and partnerships on Climate;
• Serve as focal point with relevant UN coordination mechanisms and Conventions (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change);
• Cross-organization knowledge and learning; and
• Innovation.

UNDP is seeking a Portfolio Analyst to assist in developing new management tools and processes for the Climate Hub portfolio, as well as oversee its day-to-day coordination.

Scope of Work

a) Pipeline development and portfolio management

• Support the preparation of project initiation plans, project documents and project proposals under the Climate Promise portfolio
• Support the negotiation process of the Climate Promise portfolio contribution agreements
• Support the contribution agreements management process including the facilitation of any clearance process, due diligence, and archiving process
• Support the monitoring of the contribution receipt and facilitation of the payment requests to the donors

b) Oversight and monitoring

• Support the monitoring of global, regional and country implementation modalities and timeframes of the portfolio
• Support the oversight of the portfolio reporting obligations
• Support any audit-related processes

c) Compliance and quality assurance

• Support the development of tools to communicate the contractual requirements of the portfolio to the team and build their knowledge
• Support the review of all portfolio, programme and donor narrative and financial reports to ensure compliance with UNDP practices and donor contractual obligations
• Support the QA appraisals and assessments of the portfolio

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

Institutional Arrangement

The Portfolio Analyst will report directly to the Portfolio Specialist. S/he will be part of the larger Climate Hub.

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
Administrations and Operations Documents and records management Overall document (hard or electronic) management; registry and retention policy including storing and archiving
Business Management Operations management

– Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the Organization’s business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner.

– Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanisms
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
Programme and policies Climate Understanding of climate change policies: Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

Minimum Qualifications of the Successful IPSA

Min. Education requirements

Master’s degree in environmental sciences, environmental management, environmental economics, development, business, administration or related disciplines or another relevant field, or a bachelor’s degree in the aforementioned fields with additional 2 years of experience is required.

Min. years of relevant work experience

Up to 2 years (with Master’s degree) or minimum 2 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience of progressively responsible work experience in project reporting, programme management, knowledge management, or policy management in an international development context.

Required skills

• Demonstrated experience delivering, managing and/or monitoring projects or initiatives under tight deadlines with competing commitments
• Experience in coordinating or canvassing inputs from, or promoting collaboration across multiple stakeholders or groups towards a common objective
• Previous research experience, volunteer work and/or advocacy on issues related to environment, human rights, peace and security, gender or other development sectors at local, national, regional or international level
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advanced knowledge of web-based management systems and databases

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section

• Demonstrated experience in working in/with developing countries
• Demonstrated experience in ODA/donor agencies
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge with ERP systems
• Demonstrated ability to manage legal documents and donor agreements.
• Demonstrated experience to working with the United Nations, an international institution, IGO, INGO, NGO, CSO, etc.
• Demonstrated experience with UNDP corporate reporting, programming and/or oversight instruments (including ROAR, UNDP evaluation plans, UNDP project documents, etc.)

Required Language(s)

• Fluency in English (written and oral) is required.
• Fluency in French and/or Spanish is an advantage.

Disclaimer

Expected salary

Location

New York

Job date

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:32:33 GMT

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