Development Finance and Green Economic Development Officer

UNDP will continue its support in the areas of development and green finance and green development to help the government of the Kyrgyz Republic and other relevant stakeholders to advance inclusive, fundamentally sound development solutions and reforms in complex settings. In this light, UNDP in the Kyrgyz Republic aims to hire a Development Finance and Green Economic Development Officer to provide substantive and coordination support to the diverse efforts of national partners building on achieved results and prioritized UNDP’s interventions for development finance and green development.

Duties and Responsibilities

Project Management and Coordination:

• Manage and coordinate the design and implementation of projects activities related to the operationalization of INFF and GFV and support to the development of the next phase green economy development programme under PAGE to ensure the maintenance of quality and timeliness, and delivery of outputs;
• Report regularly to the Team Leader of the Sustainable Economic Development (SED) Programme and other relevant stakeholders on the projects progress;
• Coordinate the management and implementation of activities of the projects as set out in the AWPs (Annual Work Plan) in consultation with Team Leader of the SED Programme and other relevant stakeholders;
• Maintain close cooperation with designated focal point from key stakeholders, indicating any estimated changes to the work plan, and proposing a budget revision when appropriate;
• Monitor the projects budgets, funds and resources according to UNDP guidelines;
• Prepare progress and financial reports of the projects when required;
• Engage and lead on the preparation of relevant knowledge products, including publications and reports, knowledge sharing and exchange practices, developing expert pool/community for leveraging development ang green economy expertise, and relevant data storage and dissemination.
• Liaise and coordinate with the relevant stakeholders’ focal points in regard to projects implementation;
• Support continuous awareness-raising and results-oriented communication for development and green economy thematic areas;
• Represent UNDP in joint meetings and stakeholder consultations related to the select thematic areas.

Technical Advisory:

• Lead the development and implementation of stakeholder engagement for INFF (with particular focus on the Financing Strategy and Governance) and GFV operationalization;
• Substantively contribute to policy support to ensure national partners’ ownership for INFF process and GFV operationalization;
• Provide technical support and intelligence to development of the SDG investor map and other private sector engagement solutions under INFF facilitation services;
• Ensure expert advice on the design of a Project Preparation Facility for building project pipeline under the GFV;
• Provide technical assistance for the design phase and implementation planning for a Public Finance Management project;
• Provide substantive advice to the design and implementation of development finance related technical assistance interventions, including SDG tagging and costing, Voluntary National/Local Reviews, review the adjustment of fiscal policies, e.g. through gender lenses;
• Assist the Team Leader of the SED Programme in deploying technical expertise for the design and implementation planning of the low-carbon development mobility-focused project.

Strategic Partnership:

• Support partnership and resource mobilization mapping, design and update of donor fund-raising strategy, management of relations and thematic communication with donor community and investors;
• Develop concept notes and support drafting of project proposals in line with the national priorities, UNDP CPD, and development partners’ priorities;
• Promote partnership and cooperation for the thematic areas through continuous interaction with the national stakeholders and development partners;
• Support development finance and green economy related advocacy action on the national and global levels by continuously shaping and validating agenda with national stakeholders and relevant development partners.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in finance, public finance, economics, development economics, statistics, public administration, management or another relevant field.
• Bachelor’s degree in the above-mentioned fields with additional 2 years of experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s degree.

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years (with Master’s degree) or 4 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience in the field of economics, public finance, private finance, or other relevant fields:
• public finance management, local government finance, development finance;
• policy advice, policy design, policy impact evaluation.

Required Skills:

• Proven experience of working with/in international organizations’ programme and projects;
• Proven experience in providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring & evaluation of development projects in governmental structures or international organizations including relevant experience in the respective programme sphere;
• Proven experience in sustainable finance / business development / banking / finance / fund and/or corporation management and other related areas.

Desired Skills:

• Experience of private sector engagement for sustainable development and mobilization of private finance is an asset;
• Strong demonstrated interest towards both global and national green development agenda;
• Demonstrated knowledge of quantitative approaches to researching development challenges related to sustainable finance frameworks, policy briefs or other development finance knowledge products is desirable.

Languages:

• Spoken and written proficiency in Russian and English.
• Kyrgyz language proficiency is desirable.

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