Technical Director – New York
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Location:
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Salary:negotiable / YEAR
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Job type:CONTRACTOR
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Posted:4 hours ago
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Category:Management and Strategy
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Deadline:24/10/2024
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.
Job Purpose and Organizational Context
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 (SDG.
UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cuttingedge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GP, a network of fieldbased 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 (BPPhas 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 multistakeholder fora including publicprivate dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN interagency coordination in specific thematic areas. In addition, BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Bureau (Cto support emergency and crisis response.
The world needs an economic governance architecture deliberately designed to support governments, development agencies, civil society, and the private sector to make decisions that prioritize investment in the SDGs. Thus, UNDP established the Sustainable Finance Hub (SFin 2019, aggregating UNDP’s existing work and expertise on financing the SDGs. UNDP aims to promote the investment of over $1 trillion of public expenditure and private capital in the SDGs and maximize development impact for country partners. With this goal, UNDP will mobilize governments, institutional and commercial investors, financial institutions, and enterprises alike to take a more integrated approach to sustainable investment, enabling and promoting the impact integrity of actual and realized investments to enhance transparency, and optimize private and public sectors contributions to achieving the SDGs. Through SFH, UNDP has been increasing its engagement in global financial and economic policy making through the work carried out in different forums (i.e., G7, G20, UN’s Financing for Development process, etc.) as well as other regulatory and marketbased networks.
In this context, UNDP supports the Taskforce on Inequality and Socialrelated Financial Disclosures (TISFD or Taskforce), a global initiative for reporting and managing inequality and socialrelated risks, opportunities, impacts, and dependencies. The Taskforce is a multistakeholder initiative involving investors, business, labor, civil society, policy makers and regulators, service providers, and academia working together to cocreate a global framework for inequality and socialrelated disclosures, guidance and education and capacity building resources. For more information see: TISFD
It is anticipated the framework will be developed over two years, from September 2024 through September 2026, with the production of critical outputs throughout this period and further work on implementation to follow. The Taskforce Secretariat will coordinate and facilitate the Taskforce’s activities according to the direction defined by the Steering Committee and Working Groups. This includes coordinating inputs from a body of subject matter experts structured around the TISFD Alliance participating through Regional Hubs.
The Secretariat will operate mostly virtually with key Secretariat partners spread across the globe and be led by an Executive Director.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Technical Director will oversee the overall technical development of the TISFD’s framework, ensuring that it meets the practical needs of the market while being technically rigorous and aligned with the principles and overarching mission of the TISFD.
The Technical Director will oversee and manage the work of the initiative’s Technical Team delivering the scientific and technical expertise needed to realise the TISFD mandate.
The technical deliverables of the Taskforce involve a set of foundational resources including but not limited to: definitions concerning inequality and socialrelated risks and opportunities; a stakeholder landscape assessment to help maximise alignment and complementarity with existing initiatives, frameworks, and standards, and avoid duplication; a set of user principles to help users understand how to adapt the framework to the context of their organisation and a classification system for inequality and socialrelated risks and opportunities by industry, building on existing work in this space, and an integrated, accessible, and practical disclosure framework.
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Lead TISFD Technical Team, work planning, and implementation.
- Developing and overseeing implementation of plans for all technical deliverables of the TISFD, working consultatively according to TISFD’s governance principles across the initiative while effectively managing tradeoffs to maintain momentum.
- Attracting, deploying, and overseeing the diverse range of talent and resources needed to deliver on these plans, including managing a Technical Team of 45 FTE.
- Identifying and commissioning new applied research from leading experts and relevant institutions worldwide, as required.
Lead development of technical deliverables in collaboration with TISFD Working Groups
- Overseeing the development of all technical deliverables of the Taskforce.
- Managing engagement of the TISFD’s Working Groups, ensuring Working Groups’ guidance and feedback are properly incorporated into technical outputs and followed through.
- Providing independent expertise and advice to the TISFD Working Groups on technical matters upon their request.
- Establishing processes and working methods to ensure the integration of feedback the TISFD Alliance, the Taskforce’s broad multisectoral and crossregional network, at every stage of development of technical outputs.
Piloting, testing, learning and capacity development
- Organising and facilitating systematic piloting of the framework across priority sectors, asset classes, instruments, and stakeholders.
- Promoting and engaging stakeholders for testing of the final framework and market consultations before its launch in 2027, synthetising and integrating feedback of results for informing finalization of the framework.
- Advising on the formulation of learning modules and capacity development resources of the TISFD.
- Working closely with the TISFD’s Regional Hub Coordinators to ensure technical outputs are enriched and reflective of contextual issues across geographies.
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional arrangements
The Technical Director work under the supervision of the Executive Director of the TISFD’s Secretariat in UNDP’s Sustainable Finance Hub.
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The initial contract is concluded for 1 year with extension based on performance results. The role is expected to last a minimum of 2 years.
Core
| Core Competencies | |
| Achieve Results: | LEVEL 4: Prioritize team workflow, mobilize resources, drive scalable results/strategic impact |
| Think Innovatively: | LEVEL 4: Easily navigate complexity, encourage/enable radical innovation, has foresight |
| Learn Continuously | LEVEL 4: Create systems and processes that enable learning and development for all |
| Adapt with Agility | LEVEL 4: Proactively initiate/lead organizational change, champion new systems/processes |
| Act with Determination | LEVEL 4: Able to make difficult decisions in challenging situations, inspire confidence |
| Engage and Partner | LEVEL 4: Construct strategic multipartner alliances in high stake situations, foster cocreation |
| Enable Diversity and Inclusion | LEVEL 4: Create ethical culture, identify/address barriers to inclusion |
People management
UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.
Crossfunctional and technical competencies
| Thematic Area | Name | Definition |
| Business Direction and Strategy | Negotiation and Influence | Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates ‘winwin’ situations |
| 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 |
| Business management | Project management | Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals |
| Business management | Working with evidence and Data | Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decisionmaking. |
| 2030 Agenda: Engagement and Effectiveness | Strategic Policy Engagement
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Influencing the policy agenda and collaboration with UNSDG, IMF, World Bank, G20, EU, OECD, SIDA, WEF |
| 2030 Agenda: Peace | Rule of Law, Security and Human Rights | Human rights institutions/compliance |
| 2030 Agenda: Partnerships | SDG Finance | ESG standards |
Minimum requirements
| Min. Academic Education |
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| Min. years of relevant work experience |
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| Required skills |
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| Desired additional skills |
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| Required Language( (at working leve |
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Travel
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This is a homebased assignment, so no travel to/from the duty station is envisaged.
Costs of other travel, as deemed necessary by UNDP while performing the outlined functions, shall be at UNDP’s expense and in accordance with the applicable UNDP travel policy.
Disclaimer
Under US immigration law, acceptance of a staff position with UNDP, an international organization, may have significant implications for US Permanent Residents. UNDP advises applicants for all professional level posts that they must relinquish their US Permanent Resident status and accept a G4 visa, or have submitted a valid application for US citizenship prior to commencement of employment.
UNDP is not in a position to provide advice or assistance on applying for US citizenship and therefore applicants are advised to seek the advice of competent immigration lawyers regarding any applications.
Applicant information about UNDP rosters
Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.
Nondiscrimination
UNDP has a zerotolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
UNDP is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
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