SDG Finance & Innovative Finance Advisor

Position Purpose

Under the guidance of the Director of Sustainable Finance Hub direct supervision of the Team Leader, SDG, Inclusive Growth and Finance, the SDG Finance & Innovative Finance Advisor will work within the SDG, Inclusive Growth, and Finance (SDG-IGF) Team and will focus on the following areas: 

• Coordinate SDG Financing policy and programme support to country offices.
• Coordinate SDG Financing policy and programme support at the regional level.
• Coordinate regional partnerships and resource mobilization for SDG financing.

Knowledge management. 

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. This is a recognition of interconnected nature of development risks & crises that the world is facing and that call for assembling of multidisciplinary teams for an integrated & systemic response. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across issues, units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Coordinate SDG Financing policy and programme support to RBAS country offices
• Support country offices in their engagement on SDG Financing, with Governments, the UN country team, IFIs and development partners broadly.
• Provide policy advisory support to UNDP country offices and their clients including government and the private sector in scaling up financing for the SDGs at country level.
• Support programme and portfolio development at the country level to enable country offices to test and apply innovative financing approaches and to deliver quality support to governments in financing the SDGs.
• Provide advisory support and leverage internal and external expertise for finance frameworks for development, as well as and private finance alignment to benefit the SDGs.
• Support UNDP COs in accessing support from other UN resources including, but not limited to the UN Joint SDG Fund.

Lead SDG Financing policy and programme support at the regional level

• Support the Regional Bureau Senior Management and the Team Leader, SDG, Inclusive Growth and Finance in collaborative efforts related to SDG financing with regional UN system partners.
• Coordinate the work of the Amman Regional Hub related to SDG Finance and innovative financing approaches within the framework of the Regional Programme – across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Develop regional and/or sub-regional financing and scaling strategies, tools, methodologies in partnership with UN system partners and IFIs.
• Ensure coherence and alignment of financing strategies in regional and country-level programming and integration with policy and programme services.
• Support the SDG, Inclusive Growth and Finance Team Leader and the Sustainable Finance Hub in UN collaboration at HQ providing country and regional inputs to the Interagency Task Force on Financing the SDGs and the SG’s strategy on financing the SDGs.

Coordinate regional partnerships and resource mobilization for SDG Financing

• Build, nurture, and maintain a network of knowledge and implementation partners on SDG financing and innovative financing in the Arab States.
• Coordinate with the SDG-IGF Team and the Sustainable Finance Hub to ensure UNDP RBAS COs have access to thought leaders and experts to support innovative approaches to financing the SDGs.
• Raise resources for UNDP RBAS COs from regional and global sources of support including from traditional as well as new and emerging donor governments, foundations and the private sector as well working with the Sustainable Finance Hub to access global support.

Knowledge Management

• Coordinate a community of practice on SDG finance across country offices of the region and connected to other regions with and through the UNDP Sustainable Finance Hub.
• Coordinate team contributions and support to corporate KM activities and related communication on SDG finance and innovative financing approaches, whether at the regional or global level to help influence/advance policy dialogue in the area of SDG finance in collaboration with policy teams at the Amman Regional Hub and the Sustainable Finance Hub.
• Coordinate and perform knowledge extraction, analysis, documentation, codification of results/lessons learned for SDG and Innovative Finance and ensure that knowledge sharing, and content management is in line with corporate standards and tools.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Economics, Finance or a related area, or related field is required, OR
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in combination with an additional two (2) years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• Minimum of ten (10) years with master’s degree or twelve (12) years with bachelor’s degree of relevant experience at the national or international level of professional experience in Finance for Development and a proven track record in innovative financing and scaling approaches and in partnering with public and private financial institutions.
• Previous experience with multilateral or international organizations is an asset.
• Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advanced knowledge of web-based management systems such as ERP is required.
• Proven track record in policy and advisory support in the areas of development financing, with a focus on financing innovations and financial scaling; is required.
• Experience in management and leadership roles; extensive experience of programming; partnership development and resource mobilization; is required.
• Excellent coordination, negotiating and communication skills and ability to mobilize support from a wide range of partners (public, private, academic, civil society, business community leaders) is required.
• Experience working for development financing institutions is an asset.
• Experience working in the region is an advantage.

Language:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of Arabic and French is an asset.

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