United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Background
The Biodiversity Finance Initiative – BIOFIN – is a global programme that developed, piloted, and is continuously improving a methodology to measure existing biodiversity expenditure levels, assess future financial needs, and design comprehensive plans to use finance tools and solutions that increase financing, reduce harmful expenditure, and improve financial effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity management over 41 countries. BIOFIN’s first phase (2012-2018) enabled full assessments and initial implementation of finance plan elements in target countries. Significant enhancement and scaling up of finance solutions is required in all countries to address the biodiversity finance challenge. BIOFIN’s second phase enables countries to complete the design and implementation of priority finance solutions and will allow new countries to undertake the assessments as well as create and implement their biodiversity finance plan. At the central level, knowledge management platforms will be expanded and additional guidance produced for most valuable finance solutions.
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the National Coordinator of BIOFIN China and Project Manager of Shandong team. the Intern will provide daily support to IP in Shandong, especially on delivering Biodiversity Finance Policy and Institutional Review (PIR), Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER), Financial Needs Assessment (FNA), Biodiversity Finance Plan (BFP) and Implementation of Biodiversity Finance Solutions, corresponding to the 2018 BIOFIN Workbook. This will involve supporting scoping research into key current issues on the topics and support to development of reports and publications to increase UNDP BIOFIN advocacy and visibility on such issues. Help logistic arrangement of related meetings with partners and help to take meeting minutes as well. During the period of the internship, the intern will also learn about UNDP’s role in supporting partners in China in the areas and be exposed to experiences with in key cooperation programmes. The intern works in close collaboration with IP in Shandong. The intern is also expected to be involved in the daily operation work including formulation and implementation projects/programmes. |
Duties and Responsibilities
Competencies
- Skills for solution oriented contacting with related different stakeholders;
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team, ability for managing timely and effective delivery of both quantity and quality before the deadlines;
- Computer proficiency, especially related to professional office software packages (Microsoft Office).
Required Skills and Experience
Education and Experience
Language and Skills
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS Please submit your application with below documents in one PDF. For people who apply from UNDP Jobs, please note that the system will not accept the uploading of more than one document so please merge or scan all your documents into one prior to uploading. a) CV and letter of motivation b) Copy of school transcript c) Indicate if you will be financially supported by any institution or programme, such as a university, government, foundation or scholarship programme, and the financial amount. *Candidate who didn’t submit required documentation will not be further considered. INTERNSHIP CONDITIONS
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