• to enhance the understanding on climate change and gender empowerment matters, via synergetic engagement of public authorities from both national and local level;
• to expand the poll of experts on gender&climate nexus through fellowship progammes, knowledge management portal etc and with participation of the NGOs;
• to foster cooperation among the main local stakeholders – LPAs, community members and women-led businesses which all contribute to addressing the same priority issues identified in the Sustainable Energy and Climate Actions Plans (SECAPS);

• Capacities of national and local authorities to advance gender transformative climate change actions are enhanced. This result is achieved through mainstreaming climate and gender into policy frameworks and enabling multi-stakeholder engagement. It ensures that climate and gender considerations are integrated from national to local levels, fostering a comprehensive response to the challenge.

• National and local women’s leadership in climate actions is expanded and advanced. The project achieves this by enabling education, capacity-building, and a gender-specific leadership fellowship program. Empowering women as leaders and change-makers in climate adaptation and mitigation efforts is key to fostering inclusive and sustainable development.

• Women led climate-smart solutions are identified, supported and replicated among women groups and target communities. The project supports the implementation of climate-smart activities in households and women-led agri-businesses, fostering sustainable practices and generating economic opportunities. These solutions are grounded in gender-sensitive approaches, enhancing women’s resilience and community well-being.

• Women-led climate-smart solutions are disseminated, and societal awareness is raised. The project conducts information campaigns, contributes to development of the gender-sensitive climate change knowledge management portal, and ensures project visibility. By showcasing success stories and engaging multiple stakeholders, the project promotes a culture of climate awareness and gender sensitive actions. These expected results collectively address the challenge by integrating gender considerations into policies, empowering women leaders, promoting sustainable practices, and raising climate awareness. Through these outcomes, the project catalyzes positive change, contributing to Moldova’s journey towards climate resilience, gender equality, and sustainable development.

The Project Finance Associate will ensure, in line with the Project scope, the provision of the following development services and products pertaining to an effective administrative and financial management, as well as procurement:

Financial management: 

• Ensure compliance with all corporate rules of UNDP in the field of financial planning, reporting, and auditing;
• Monitor budget expenditures and maintain a proper record of approved project budgets and their revisions;
• Prepare proposals for budget revisions; budget corrections etc.;
• Upon request, prepare and submit expenditure and program budget status reports;
• Maintain accurate budget reporting in both UNDP and EU standard templates;
• Prepare other recurring reports as scheduled and special reports as required for budget/financial preparations and audit;
• Respond to queries from the UNDP and EU in respect to financial aspects of the program, liaise with UNDP-appointed and external auditors wherever required;
• Prepare requests for advance of funds and/or direct payments, as well as proposals for budget revisions;
• Perform necessary checks of the financial reports submitted by project suppliers;
• Advise international and national consultants on all aspects of allowances, travel claims and other financial matters and calculate payments due for claims and services;
• Prepare Travel Requests and F10 claims for project staff and consultants;
• Ensuring payments in Quantum to project suppliers;
• Verify and monitor the accuracy of e-requisitions in Quantum;
• Provide advice to the team on project financial issues;
• Undertake other financial tasks as required;

Administrative management: 

• Assume overall responsibility for the coordination of project administrative matters;
• Contribute to project implementation and ensure conformity to expected results and work plans;
• Monitor compliance with both UNDP and Donor standards and ensure the corresponding quality control;
• Provide advice to the project team on administrative issues, at the necessity;
• Maintain records on all project suppliers, including their respective status (e.g. appropriate contract management, monitoring of deadlines, ToRs and reports, etc.) in accordance with accepted policies and procedures;
• Ensure compliance with corporate human resources policies and strategies under UNDP HR procedures;
• Undertake other administrative tasks on an ad hoc basis.

Support knowledge building, knowledge sharing and capacity building relevant to the assigned project.

• Provide support in the dissemination and sharing of relevant data and lessons learned within the CO and regionally. Keep pulse on emerging best practices nationally, regionally, and internationally that relate to the work of the assigned project.
• Make sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice. Support compiling and systematizing project knowledge, products and tools as well as their wide distribution to partners.

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 Finance Associate will execute the duties and responsibilities outlined above under the guidance and supervision of the Project Manager.

Project Finance Associate works in close collaboration with the Programme, Operations, Communications and other project teams in the Country Office (CO) for effective achievement of results, anticipating and resolving complex project-related issues and information delivery.

The incumbent is expected to exercise full compliance with UNDP programming, financial, procurement and administrative rules, regulations, policies and strategies, as well as implementation of the effective internal control systems.

• Digital awareness and literacy:
  • Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skillfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed.
• Working with evidence and data
  • Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making.
• Monitoring
  • Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results.
• Budget management
  • Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets.
• Financial planning and budgeting
  • Ability to create and manage processes to achieve UNDP’s long and short-term financial goals, including through planning, budgeting, forecasting, analyzing and reporting.
• Financial reporting and analysis
  • Understands changes in regulatory, legal and ethical frameworks and standards for financial reporting in the public sector.
  • Ability to extract, evaluate financial data, derive relevant findings and present them in a meaningful and coherent manner to facilitate effective decision making and performance monitoring.
  • Understands the benefits of integrated reporting, including non-financial resources such as human, social and intellectual capital, and environmental and governance performance.
• Assets management
  • Knowledge of policy & procedures on PP&E;
  • Ability to prepare financial statements on PP&E;
  • Maintain Asset Management Module in Quantum, Asset Dashboard;
  • Develop supporting tools for assets certification and further enhancements for AM module;
  • Design and run training programs, etc. on assets management and assets recording;
  • Run AP-AM interface; perform AP-AM-GL reconciliation;
  • Perform analytical review of AM reports and asset information to ensure completeness and accuracy of asset information.