• Country: Istanbul, Turkey
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNDP
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-01-24 

• Lead the project at a global scale, working to maximise and showcase impacts and to strengthen relationships with stakeholders at all levels;
• Ensure the management and administrative requirements (technical, financial, communications, audits, evaluations, etc.) of the GEF are met.
• Establish and convene meetings of the Global Project Board.
• Manage and monitor risks and issues, submitting newly identified ones to the Project Board for consideration and decision if required.
• Ensure technical excellence of implementation/outcomes and outputs/products by providing inputs to, and critically reviewing these.
• Contribute to efforts advancing the Nature Pledge in implementing countries.

Knowledge Management and Capacity Building:

• Ensure all components of the project are implemented in a balanced manner, and in particular, coordinate activities related to the Global Knowledge Platform in close collaboration with UNDP’s team working on biodiversity finance, particularly with the BIOFIN Global team.
• Ensure alignment of national work with global methodologies such as the BIOFIN workbook and others.
• Work with UNDP staff and partner organisations to feed lessons learned from the project implementation.
• Synthesise learning from national implementation through web articles, blogs, webinars, regional and global conferences, dedicated knowledge products and inputs into the 2027 BIOFIN Workbook, Catalogue of Finance Solutions, MOOCs, E-learning module, GLOBE, and FIRE Database.

Leading and Overseeing the Development of Biodiversity Finance Plans:

• Review national Policy and Institutional Reviews, Biodiversity expenditure Reviews, Financial Needs Assessments and Biodiversity Finance plans where needed, ensuring a peer review system is in place across the team;
• Ensure that UNDP-specific processes (integrated work planning, budgeting, procurement, monitoring and evaluation, SESP, etc.) are met;
• Undertake cross-country analysis of policy reviews, expenditure analysis, financial needs, and biodiversity finance plans, identifying trends, gaps and generating global overview data. Develop at least one brief overview publication per year;
• Lead the organization of regional and global experience sharing events as outlined in the Project Document, in partnership with the BIOFIN Team;
• Liaise with relevant initiatives and programs in UNDP and other organizations in support of the execution of the project, including BIOFIN, the NBSAP support programme, the GEF 7 Early Action Support Programme, the Nature Facility, TNC, TNFD, UNDP INFF, OECD and UNEP FI;
• Ensure timely delivery of required reporting to the GEF with high quality content.

Provide advisory support and technical guidance:

• Identify and source necessary technical expertise and support, and oversee the recruitment of international consultants and service providers, ensure necessary training and ongoing capacity building are carried out;
• Liaise with other relevant UNDP staff including in-country colleagues regarding the project, including to share information about trends and issues in the thematic area;
• Provide strategic guidance and technical oversight to support all countries, reviewing on a regular basis progress reports, deliverables, disbursements, and budgets to ensure implementation is on track, and troubleshooting and adapting management as required.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:

• Supervise the Global Technical and Management Support Unit and any additional contractors as necessary;
• Organize periodic team calls,
• Ensure Performance Management and Development (PMD) and other evaluations are completed timely;
• Contribute to a positive team atmosphere including by delineating specific workflows of team members, identifying, and addressing any potential points of conflict and organise team building activities;
• Liaise with the Senior Management of the Nature Hub, UNDP Regional Hubs on a regular basis;
• Ensure regular communication flows with country offices are in place, including through a quarterly update message.

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

Core:

Achieve Results:

• Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact

Think Innovatively:

• Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems

Learn Continuously

• Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences

Adapt with Agility

• Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands

Act with Determination:

• Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results

Engage and Partner:

• Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity

Cross-Functional & Technical:

Agenda 2030: Planet – Nature Climate and Energy:

• Ecosystems and biodiversity: Biodiversity Finance

Agenda 2030: Planet – Nature Climate and Energy:

• Environmental Governance: Global Environmental Governance

Agenda 2030: Planet – Nature Climate and Energy:

• Environment: Environmental economics, including valuation, data collection and analysis, SEEA, macro and micro tools and policies

Business Direction and Strategy – 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

Business Management – Risk Management:

• Ability to identify and organize action around mitigation and proactively managing risks

Business Management – Portfolio Management:

• Ability to select, prioritise and control the organization’s programmes and projects, in line with its strategic objectives and capacity; ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual, while optimising return on investment

Business Management – Partnerships Management:

• Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts, and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies

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