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UNDP is a long-term development partner of the Maldives for over 45 years. In the Upper Middle-Income Country context, UNDP country office in Maldives provides technical assistance, policy and technical advisory services to the Government of Maldives in their efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG); in partnership with development partners, financial institutions, private sector and civil society. In Maldives, UNDP’s programme priorities and partnerships are defined and operationalized through the Country Programme between Government of Maldives and UNDP to support and contribute to the development priorities and results envisioned in the 5-year Strategic Action Plan. Maldives is currently in the process of formulating its Strategic Action Plan with UNDP support following the change of government in 2023.

In the current Country Programme cycle 2022 – 2026 (https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/2022- 07/CPD%20Maldives.pdf), UNDP has significantly shifted its programme offer to Maldives around 3 pillars supported by a diverse funding base from government finance, bilateral and multilateral donors, blended and innovative finance, etc.: (i) Integrated Governance Programme focusing on justice sector reform, decentralization and local governance with youth, gender and people with disabilities’ participation; (ii) resilience and climate actions, (iii) SDG finance and fiscal spacing, to enable Maldives to achieve sustainable development by eradicating inequality and poverty in all its forms and dimensions, accelerating structural transformations for sustainable development and building resilience to crises and shock.

UNDP Maldives is recruiting a Climate Finance Policy Analyst to contribute to its overall work programme on Finance for Sustainable Development. The position will support the country office by providing support on economic analysis to management and government counterparts that favor inclusive development, including the integration of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs into national plans and activities. S/he will also work closely with all programme teams and be responsible for helping develop large-scale development solutions and activities aimed at enhancing UNDP’s programmatic support.

The Climate Finance Policy Analyst works under the guidance and directly reports to the Senior Economist and the position is located within the Country Office and is part of the socioeconomic team within the Policy and Innovation Hub (PIH). S/He will collaborate closely with key Government partners, most notably, the Ministry of Economic Development and Ministry of Finance. S/He will work closely with counterparts on issues of policy development, planning and research and work with both the Policy and Programme clusters, and UNDP projects, enabling a strong team response to the challenges faced by Maldives.

• Implement and manage Climate Finance Network’s medium term Country Strategy for the Maldives
• Provide technical assistance and capacity development support to programme partners, coordinate and collaborate with other stakeholders to build synergies and maximize results
• Provide substantive inputs to building partnerships and resource mobilization strategies
• Advocate and facilitate knowledge-building and communicationefforts

Implement and manage Climate Finance Network’s medium term Country Strategy for the Maldives

• Planning and coordinating CFN activities with CO management, portfolio leads, national nodal finance and planning agencies, and relevant sub-national agencies to mainstream climate resiliency into key economic activities in the Maldives.
• Draft and provide inputs to annual work planning, budgeting and quarterly reporting.
• Draft reports on monitoring missions, programme results, outputs and outcomes.
• Provide substantive inputs to the preparation of donor and UNDP reports.
• Monitor implementation, results management and lesson learning.
• Ensure appropriate application of systems and procedures and develop enhancements asnecessary.
• Monitor budget implementation and make budget re-alignments/ revisions, asnecessary.
• Support the preparation of policy briefs, background notes, speeches, talking points, presentation materials, on critical issues relevant to CFN activities in Maldives and at regional level

Provide technical assistance and capacity development support to programme partners, coordinate and collaborate with other stakeholders to build synergies and maximize results

• Receiving requests for support from national and other relevant agencies related to various workstreams of CFN, and liaising with CO focal points and regional program leads to arrange relevant expertise and offers of support
• Staying abreast of the socioeconomic, environmental and climate change policy landscape and institutional architecture of Maldives and provide timely analysis and research in priority thematic areas at the country level and advise CO and regional focal points on aligning and refining programme activities in Maldives.
• Coordinate relationships with national partners to support implementation of activities in the area of climate finance governance
• Identify opportunities for capacity building of partners and facilitate technical/ programming support and trainings to partners.
• Coordinate with Climate finance related projects, other UNDP projects and relevant UN agencies and develop an integrated work plans to promote rights-based and gender-responsive climate finance governance agenda in UNDP and broader UNCT.
• Coordinate with government, UN and non-government partners and stakeholders on actions, activities and events.
• Contribute to the joint advocacy in identifying key issues, building evidence-base, communication.
• Build synergies with other programmes at national, local and community levels.

Provide substantive inputs to building partnerships and resource mobilization strategies

• Provide substantive inputs to resource mobilization strategies as required, including contributing to efforts to unlock further gender-responsive multilateral and bilateral climate finance.
• Prepare relevant documentation such as project summaries, conference papers, and advocacy materials.
• Support UNDP Maldives management, partnerships cluster, and UNDP Headquarters in implementing resource mobilization strategies and engaging potential partners to the gender-responsive climate finance governance programme and participate in donor meetings, as needed.
• Conducting research and providing support to Country Office with designing of financing instruments (such as innovative financing instrument) to finance the SDG agenda for Maldives.
• Support and facilitate dialogue on sustainable development issues with government officials, development partners, civil society, and the private sector.
• Support monitoring and reporting of progress related to SDGs and other national development frameworks, including to help strengthen national and local level data collection and statistical capacity.

Advocate and facilitate knowledge-building and communication efforts

• Enhance the evidence and knowledge base across the gender, poverty and climate change nexus and promote the scaling-up of gender-responsive and inclusive approaches to climate change adaptation, mitigation, disaster management, natural resource management and adaptive social protection in the country programme portfolio
• Develop background documents and presentations related to gender-responsive climate finance governance.
• Contribute to advocacy campaigns, events, trainings, workshops and knowledge products, for internal and external stakeholders.

• Achieve Results: Level 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively: Level 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
• Learn Continuously: Level 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
• Adapt with Agility: Level 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
• Act with Determination: Level 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
• Engage and Partner: Level 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Level 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

2030 Agenda: Prosperity

• Inclusive Growth. conomic Planning

2030 Agenda: Prosperity

• Recovery Solutions and Human Mobility. Economic Recovery

2030 Agenda: Peace

• SDG Finance. Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation

Digital Innovation

• Co-Creation. Ability to design and facilitate a process that enables a diverse group of stakeholders to solve a common problem, develop a practice, or create knowledge together. Ability to embrace diversity, work with a diverse group of stakeholders understand their interests,
  perspectives and views and tap into to them as a source for creativity. Ability to facilitate processes and create conditions that are open for diverse inputs, stimulate collaboration

Partnership Management

• Resource mobilization. Ability to identify, develop and manage partnerships that leverage private sector technical expertise and resources
• Relationship Management. Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding