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 inspiring stories.
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.
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.
Sustainable Finance Hub
The Sustainable Finance Hub, a finance and innovation platform, draws on a critical mass of UNDP expertise, initiatives, and partnerships to leverage and align resources for the SDGs and support the implementation of UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025. The Hub is an integral part of both the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) and the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (BERA), as well as part of the GPN. Through regional focal points, it supports sustainable finance work in UNDP’s Country Offices and works in close collaboration with the Regional Bureaus. The Hub serves as a connector, broker and global coordinator among internal and external actors; curates and manages UNDP’s catalogue of service offers on SDG financing to governments, investors and companies. The Hub has five interconnected service offers: 1) Public finance for the SDGs; 2) Unlocking private capital and aligning business operations for the SDGs; 3) SDG impact management and finance tracking; 4) Integrated National Financing Frameworks and Portfolios; and 5) SDG Finance Academy.
UNDP’s Insurance and Risk Finance Facility
UNDP is charting new pathways for insurance and risk finance to build resilience, incentivize growth and safeguard development. The UNDP Insurance and Risk Finance Facility, housed with the Sustainable Finance Hub, is currently working with governments and the insurance industry at scale in 34 countries.
The Tripartite Agreement, financed by the German Government, works in 20 countries with 20 of the world’s largest insurance companies under the framework of the Insurance for Development Forum, with a projection of 64 million beneficiaries. The Facility’s Financial Resilience in Agriculture (FRA) Initiative is bolstering smallholder farmers’ financial resilience and adaptation to climate change, while a series of IRFF global insurance Innovation challenges are creating a pipeline of affordable insurance products in 20 countries. In 2023, the IRFF also supported the FSO Safer operation, with insurance playing a critical role in enabling the successful transfer of 1.1 million barrels of oil from the decaying tanker off the coast of Yemen, and preventing a US$20billion ecological catastrophe.
In this era of climate hazards, health risks and other shocks, insurance and risk finance are powerful tools for building resilient countries, communities, households, businesses, nature and food systems. UNDP’s IRFF is committed to developing and implementing the insurance solutions needed right now, while working with governments on the long-term financial management of growing risks.
The Project Management and Communications Analyst is a critical role to support the delivery of UNDP’s Financial Resilience in Agriculture (FRA) Global Platform with its 5 streams – Digital Engagement, Research and Evidence, Convenings, Community of Practice and trategic Partnerships. This dynamic role will drive the delivery of the Platform’s Digital Engagement stream and coordinate overall platform progress by working closely with the FRA team members leading the four other platform streams as well as team members implementing FRA projects in 5 countries. This role is central to the advancement of cross-cutting FRA platform activities, events and ecosystem engagement across the internal IRFF staff and teams working on FRA, the wider IRFF team, the Sustainable Finance Hub and beyond.
Learn more at www.irff.undp.org
Duties and Responsibilities
Ensure effective FRA Global Platform Project Management
- Actively Track and advance the FRA global platform progress on key deliverables across the 5 platform streams – digital engagement, research/evidence, convenings, strategic partnerships, community of practice
- Initiate and facilitate collaboration within the FRA and broader IRFF team, including through internal meetings, supporting and reviewing tasks and knowledge management
- Facilitate the organization of strategic events linked to the Community of Practice, strategic partnerships or digital engagement streams, in collaboration with external stakeholders including the development of event concepts, events proposal submission, development of events agendas, sourcing vendors, event related mail-outs and invitations and developing speaker briefing packets.
- Guide and manage the production of FRA global platform materials including decks and key partner related documentation, while making sure they are reviewed, cleared, updated and shared to the team.
- Guide the FRA team in maintaining an up-to-date FRA Knowledge Hub as a repository for new literature, data, reports that are relevant to the FRA ecosystem of actors and theory of change
- Draft TORs for consultants and coordinate their timely completion of deliverables for the Global Platform.
- Guide t the FRA team in developing knowledge products in partnership with colleagues at UNDP Country Offices that increase awareness of FRA’s innovative approach and visibility of progress in countries where FRA projects are being implemented
Lead FRA Global Platform Communications
- Develop and implement a dynamic content strategy for the Financial Resilience in Agriculture Initiative that a) positions FRA’s innovative market system transformation approach in building resilience for smallholder farmers and b) draws in government, insurance, finance, development, technology, climate and agriculture actors
- Create timely, accurate, accessible communications materials including a pipeline of video messages for the ‘Voices of FRA’ series, key messages, FAQs, social media posts, website content, articles, explainer videos, success and human-interest stories – among other products
- Curate a diverse and dynamic content pipeline that draws in different – usually siloed- groups of actors relevant to FRA, and lends itself to an engaged FRA community
- Leveraged the FRA team, IRFF, and partners to increase the visibility and reach of FRA activities, events, technical knowledge and findings.
- Coordinate FRA knowledge sharing initiatives through diverse platforms including webinar, podcast, etc
- Facilitate information flow and exchange in and between the FRA team, key stakeholders, the IRFF team and internal UNDP stakeholders (Sustainable Finance Hub, BERA, BPPS, country offices and regional bureau comms teams) as needed.
- Regularly update and maintain the FRA webpages and create opportunities to generate new and return site traffic.
- The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional Arrangement
The Project Management and Communications Analyst will work under the direct supervision of of the IRFF’s Strategic Communications and Engagement Specialist and under matrix supervision ofValue Chain Resilience Specialist and Agricultural Insurance Specialist and will be responsible for the fulfilment of the deliverables as specified above.
The Project Management and Communications Analyst will engage with other relevant UNDP staff as needed. This position will be supervising Consultants and Interns.
Competencies
Core Competencies
- Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
- Think Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking
- Learn Continuously: LEVEL 2: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
- Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process
- Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
- Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
People Management (Insert below standard sentence if the position has direct reports.)
- UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
- Communications – Digital strategy
- Ability to plan the use of resources through digital channels to reach and engage target audiences effectively and to achieve particular objectives
- 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
- Communications – Multimedia writing/editing/production
- Ability to create and/or edit written content for multimedia, and to combine images, text and audio-visuals to produce multimedia content
- General (across the functions) – Event planning and execution
- Ability to plan, manage and execute of public and private events to ensure that they support and amplify individual communications and advocacy initiatives, as well as UNDP’s overall brand and mandate.
- 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
- Digital & Innovation – Innovation ecosystem curation
- Ability to identify key players in an ecosystem, engage with them and mobilise them to build a community and over time a movement around a common mission that can bring about changes at the system level. Ability to give sense of purpose and build trust, develop programmes of activities and platforms to build and strengthen relationships.
Required skills and competencies
- Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages
- Demonstrated experience in excellent written and oral communication skills articulating complex ideas and concepts required.
Desired additional skills and competencies
- Previous experience in the UN, OECD or other multilateral agency working in financing sustainable development is considered an asset.
- Experience with graphic design and basic video-editing is highly desirable.
- Experience managing dynamic multi-stakeholder digital content pipelines is highly desirable.
- Experience organizing strategic events in collaboration with external stakeholders is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated experience working on academic and technical texts in development finance, insurance, risk finance, economics and or sustainable development is an advantage
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Communications, Journalism, Business Administration or other relevant disciplines is required. OR
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in the above-mentioned field of study, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- Minimum of 2 (two) years (with Master’s degree) or 4 (four) years (with Bachelor’s degree) of experience in communications or project management in the field of sustainable development, with an emphasis on development cooperation, development finance, gender equality, food systems or climate.
Language:
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required
- Working knowledge of another UN language is an asset.
Disclaimer
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