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.
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.
Lead TISFD Technical Team, work planning, and implementation.
Lead development of technical deliverables in collaboration with TISFD Working Groups
Piloting, testing, learning and capacity development
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.
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
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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 |
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Travel
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.