Environmental Finance Specialist Pacific Region- IPSA​/Home Based UNDP Careers

UNDP is hiring an Environmental Finance Specialist for the Pacific Region, focusing on developing national biodiversity finance plans. The role involves providing technical support, reviewing outputs, and assisting national teams with planning and reporting. The position is home-based, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, and encourages applications from marginalized populations. UNDP emphasizes sustainable development and collaboration with various stakeholders to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Position: Environmental Finance Specialist for Pacific Region- IPSA 10 (Home Based) UNDP Careers
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 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.
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 offers a spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in its 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 UNDP’s 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 staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages; represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora, including public-private, government and civil society dialogues; and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas.

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.

This work advances crosscutting themes on innovative finance, digital transformation, capacity development, human rights, gender equality, health, technology, and South-South learning.

UNDP is seeking an Environmental Finance Specialist to provide technical services and support to countries in the Pacific region that are designing or implementing their national biodiversity finance plans.

Duties And Responsibilities

Design of national Biodiversity Finance Plans
• Support the development of Terms of Reference, workplans, and reports by national teams;
• Provide technical support and undertake reviews and impact monitoring of BIOFIN methodological outputs and processes;
• Policy and Institutional Reviews – including an assessment of the existing landscape of financing mechanisms, drivers of biodiversity loss, and gain;
• Biodiversity Expenditure Reviews – in-depth assessment of major government programmes to define their biodiversity relevance;
• Financial Needs Assessments – a costing of the main national biodiversity targets;
• Guide countries on the use of the Catalogue of Financing Solutions and the E-learning module on biodiversity finance;
• Biodiversity Finance Plans – an action agenda with priority financing solutions;
• Travel to countries as needed to support the design of national Biodiversity Finance Plans;
• Advise on linkages with related initiatives;
• Develop tailored guidance materials or other knowledge products on selected finance solutions.

Implementing finance solutions
• Help identify opportunities for the early implementation of finance solutions;
• Support the design and review of finance solution proposals;
• Provide…