To respond to growing demands by countries and UNDP Country Offices, a multi-disciplinary ‘governance of climate change finance’ team was established in 2009 to deliver the abovementioned services through a coordinated regional approach. It is currently implementing two flagship regional projects—one funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and one by Government of Sweden. UNDP has been supporting governments to better articulate their response to climate in Asia and the Pacific through advocacy at multi levels, technical assistance, and policy advisory services. Support includes strengthening coordination mechanisms between Ministries of Finance, Planning, Environment, and local governments through a ‘whole of government’ approach to deliver integrated and comprehensive policies, strengthening budgeting processes and frameworks, and strengthening budget accountability mechanisms. Taken together, these activities are pivotal to enhancing partner countries’ ability to mobilize, manage, and target resources earmarked toward a national climate change response.

UNDP Regional bureau for Asia Pacific’s Climate Finance Network (CFN) project (2022-2028) is also housed in the Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH). The project aims to accelerate implementation of climate change agenda, a Climate Finance Network project has been put in place by UNDP Asia Pacific region. The project aims to support governments and other actors in the ecosystem to identify and scale up climate finance innovations and in their efforts to mobilize and use both public and private climate-responsive resources more effectively. The CFN is part of a bigger UK Government programme ‘Climate Action for Resilient Asia (CARA)’ announced at the COP 26 on the 8th of November 2021, which aims to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities, economies, and the environment against the impacts of climate change and promote low carbon growth across the Indo-Pacific. The Climate Finance Network will cover 18 countries in Asia Pacific.

UNDP’s Regional bureau for Asia Pacific’s Sweden-funded Governance of Climate Change Finance (GCCF Phase I and II) project was housed in the Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH) during 2017-2022.   UNDP with the support of Government of Sweden (Sweden) is also in the process of implementing the inception phase of Strengthening the Governance of Climate Finance to Promote Inclusive Climate Resilience in Asia Pacific. This will be the 3rd phase of Governance of Climate Change Finance which will be implemented in partnerships with UNCDF in 5 countries, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.

The GCCF III and the CFN is being implemented by the same team which constitutes of a multi disciplinary expertise across climate finance. Both the  programmes will serve as a knowledge management and technical support facility to identify and support climate finance innovations in the region and facilitate, accelerate and scale up these innovations.

Develop, manage, develop, and maintain monitoring plan for GCCF and CFN projects.

• Continuously maintains project results frameworks. Ensures the availability of necessary data and information for project monitoring.
• Ensures that the baseline and benchmarking is available for different outputs and outcome indicators.
• Advises on the selection of indicators measuring progress towards higher-level results.
• Ensures that project indicators are appropriate to measure corresponding results.
• Identifies the data requirements for different indicators.
• Leads on data management from the country teams and the regional team to ensure that contributes towards reporting of the results.
• Ensures that country teams understand and implement the project M&E approach.  In consultation with project team, maintain a schedule for all M&E activities and ensure that they are carried out in a timely manner.
• Collaborates with the project team in preparing regular project reports.
• Supports project manager in developing guidance on how to implement UNDP and donor policies and requirements regarding M&E.
• Works with RBAP team to ensure the quality of project monitoring and learning and alignment with the Regional Programme.
• Guides the team on direct and indirect beneficiaries of the multiple interventions under the project. The information will inform the baseline and determination of the targets.

Develops and ensures implementation of an evaluation plan.

• Supports project team in ensuring adequate planning and budgeting to evaluate and document results.
• Supports the management of evaluations, including the mid term and final evaluations, commissioned by project team.
• Ensures that evaluations are properly planned and carried out in a high-quality and professional manner.

Gender

• Collaborates with the team and Gender Specialist to ensure gender-sensitive results-based management.
• Includes specific benchmarks for gender and social inclusion based on country gender and vulnerability assessments.
• Identifies gender and poverty related data requirements for measuring progress on transformative change in gender and social integration in climate finance interventions.

Learning

• Analyzes and interprets activity data to understand how it could be used for decision-making, improving project efficiency, effectiveness, informing project design.
• Advises and trains UNDP project staff (country and regional) on results-based management principles and procedures.
• Advises on the procedures and templates for data collection against project results frameworks.

Business Direction & Strategy

• Business Acumen: Ability to understand and deal with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome. Ability to make good judgments and quick decisions within such frameworks.  Knowledge and understanding of the operational frameworks in the organization.
• 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

Digital and Innovation

• Data storytelling and communication: Skilled in building a narrative around a set of data and
  its accompanying visualizations to help convey the meaning of that data in a powerful and compelling fashion

Business Development

• Knowledge Generation: Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for content, or responsive to a stated need.  Ability to apply existing concepts to new situations, and to develop new concepts to generate workable solutions and new approaches.  Knowledge of relevant concepts, conceptual models, and theories that can be useful in addressing new situations.

Business Management

• Results Based Management: Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results

Data

• Data Analysis. Ability to extract, analyse and visualize data to form meaningful insights and aid effective business decision making.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements