New Employment Opportunity at UNDP
POSITION: Biodiversity Finance Manager
Work Description
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Project/Office/Unit Description
UNDP is the UN Development System’s knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development and incorporates SDG activity. UNDP policy work at HQ, Regional, and Country Office levels spans local expertise to global advocacy. To support its Strategic Plan’s distinctive solutions and organizational capacities, UNDP invests in its Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical professionals in many expertise domains.
Our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan focuses eradicating poverty, supporting nations’ SDGs, and implementing the Paris Agreement. UNDP’s Nature, Climate Change, Energy, and Waste (NCE&W) Hubs promote and scale up integrated whole-of-governance approaches and nature-based solutions to reduce poverty and inequalities, strengthen livelihoods and inclusive growth, mitigate conflict, forced migration, and displacement, and promote more resilient governance systems that advance linked peace and security agendas as part of the Global Policy Network
In recent decades, biodiversity funding methods and solutions have become crucial for biodiversity and sustainable development. Countries can accomplish biodiversity targets by better choosing, designing, and implementing appropriate financial options. The Biodiversity Finance Initiative www.biofin.org is using biodiversity financial plans to help countries identify and fill biodiversity funding shortages. The Convention on Biological Diversity approved the Montreal-Kunming Global Biodiversity Framework in December 2022. Several fundraising targets were included. Target 19 references country biodiversity finance plans for resource mobilization.
A global GEF program helped governments build Biodiversity Finance Plans. A Biodiversity Finance Plan outlines financing methods, subsidies with potential environmental harm, biodiversity loss and gain drivers, governmental and private biodiversity expenditures, and a country’s biodiversity financial needs. Biodiversity finance strives to significantly boost investment, green or phase out hazardous financial flows, and enhance expenditure efficiency. A knowledge sharing platform and technical support for country teams provide cross-country experience.
Work scope
- The Biodiversity Finance Manager (‘the Manager’) is expected to lead the production of the Biodiversity Expenditure Review (BER), the Financial Needs Assessment (FNA), and the Biodiversity Finance Plan (BFP) using the latest BIOFIN Workbook and detailed data under the supervision of the Sustainable Finance Specialist (Project Lead).
- The Senior Finance Specialist (Project Lead) and BIOFIN Global Team will examine and validate the Biodiversity Finance Manager’s drafts and analysis.
- To support the Policy and Institutional Review (PIR), assist the Policy Manager in inventorying existing biodiversity financing mechanisms in the country.
- Help the Policy Manager assess BIOFIN-related economic value research.
To review biodiversity spending:
- Review biodiversity spending studies/information/databases, including past environmental expenditure evaluations, as a desk review;
- Create a national definition of “biodiversity expenditures” using BIOFIN or other methods;
- Create a Biodiversity Expenditure Review workplan for the national BFP programme team and GPMTSU to consider;
- Determine a PIR-based target list of organizations for analysis;
- Data for the desk review should include an overview of previous environmental spending evaluations and biodiversity expenditure studies/information/databases.
- Gather budget and expenditure data from specific organizations to review. Refer to existing methods (mapping funding, subsidies, biodiversity-based revenues, etc.);
- Develop tools like Excel tools to examine total biodiversity-related expenditures sorted by major strategy groups using existing methodologies (or national categories like the NBSAP);
- Compile relevant data and work with relevant Ministries and partners to complete the BIOFIN data entry sheets for the BER;
- Help organize bilateral consultation meetings/interviews/discussions with national stakeholders to define and validate biodiversity value in all relevant expenditures;
- Estimate future financing baseline under a “Business-As-Usual Scenario” using budget predictions and other assumptions;
- Develop the draft BIOFIN Biodiversity Expenditure Review with the Sustainable Finance Specialist (Project Lead) based on research, analysis, and the national consultation workshop for the GPMTSU to review;
- With help from the Sustainable Finance Specialist (Project Lead), prepare the final Biodiversity Expenditure Review for GPMTSU review and the validation workshop.
To assess biodiversity finance needs:
- Review current approaches, examples from other countries, the latest NBSAP, and National Biodiversity Reports to create a FNA workplan and outline;
- Talk to the NBSAP team and government agencies that administer it to learn about NBSAP operations and budgeting;
- Work with the Sustainable Finance Specialist (Project Lead) to assess the NBSAP’s scope, alignment with other national policies, and policy areas and activities not covered by it;
- Check the NBSAP and other strategic documents for comprehensive and measurable tasks that can be budgeted. If not, cooperate with NBSAP national focal points and other stakeholders to develop and budget NBSAP actions;
- Co-ordinate data compilation, engage with key Ministries and partners, and hold a nationwide consultation workshop to determine the financial needs of all main biodiversity programs;
- Perform precise computations and complete all national biodiversity finance datasheets;
- Validate cost assumptions and models at a workshop and enhance the analysis in subsequent meetings;
- Help compare the BER future estimates to the FNA as much as the categories allow and estimate the financial gap;
- With team cooperation, create a draft Biodiversity Finance Needs Assessment report for the validation workshop and project national team and GPMTSU evaluation;
- Help finish the Biodiversity Finance Needs Assessment report.
BFP: Biodiversity Finance Plan
- Assist the Sustainable Finance Specialist (Project Lead) in developing the BFP and conducting feasibility evaluations on various financing mechanisms based on expertise.
Outreach and Communication for Projects:
- Prepare workshops, meetings, networking, and presentations to complete the Biodiversity Expenditure Review, Financial Needs Assessment, and stakeholder engagement;
- Offer constructive suggestions for improving existing techniques in Knowledge Management and Reporting.
- Record judgments and assumptions from the Biodiversity Expenditure Review and Finance Needs Assessment;
- Document BFP project lessons from institutional to technical;
- Complete papers and case studies for global summits like CBD COP.
- The incumbent performs such functional activities as needed to run the Office and Organization efficiently.
Institutional Structure
- The Sustainable Finance Specialist (Project Lead) will supervise the Biodiversity Finance Manager.
- UNDP has intellectual property and other proprietary rights over all project-related content.
How to Apply for this Employment Opportunity at UNDP
Closing Date: November 22, 2024
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