Policy Specialist - Roma, Italia - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Descrizione

Job Identification

• 16524

Locations

• Rome, Italy
  Posting Date
• 02/21/2024, 09:09 AM
• 02/28/2024, 10:59 PM

Job Schedule

• Full time

Agency

• UNDP

Grade

• P4

Vacancy Type

• Temporary

Practice Area

• Nature, Climate and Energy

Bureau

• Bureau for Policy and Programme Support

Contract Duration

• 10 months

Education & Work Experience

• Master's Degree 7 year(s) experience OR Bachelor's Degree 9 year(s) experience

Required Languages

• English

Vacancy Timeline

• 1 Week

Mobility required/no mobility
- no mobility required


Background

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at


UNDP:

we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions.

Taking a 'leave no one behind' approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply.

Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories.**UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

UNDP's policy work carried out at Headquarter (HQ), Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy.

In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based 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.

The newly established UNDP Climate Hub will be the arrowhead of UNDP's commitment to climate action.

The Climate Hub will build on UNDP's existing over USD 4 billion country-level climate portfolio on Climate Change Policies and Strategies, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change mitigation, Climate and Forests, covering over 142 countries, as well as on UNDP's Nature portfolio, UNDP's Sustainable Finance Hub and UNDP's Digital offer.

The UNDP Climate Hub will be responsible for:

thought leadership on Climate and be the custodian of UNDP policy positions on Climate; Strategy and vision formulation; Pipeline development in coordination with the other hubs and the Vertical Fund Programme Support, Oversight and Compliance Unit; provision of integrated policy and programme support to Country Offices; Global engagement, advocacy in collaboration with BERA; Integration across thematic areas; Strategic Partnerships development and resource mobilization; Lead and Support global flagship initiatives and partnerships on Climate; Serve as focal point with relevant UN coordination mechanisms and Conventions (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change); Cross-organization knowledge and learning; and Innovation.

The central purpose of the Rome Centre is to ensure the effective implementation and further development of the strategic partnership between UNDP and the government of Italy across the objectives of sustainable development and in doing so advancing the broader partnership between UNDP and G7 and G20 countries.

The initial phase of the activities of the Rome Centre will run from 2022 to 2025 gearing up - among other initiatives - to the Italian Presidency of the G7 in 2024.

The goals of the partnership are linked to 2030 as a crucial year for global climate and sustainability goals.

The Rome Centre in this initial phase will focus on the critical policy areas of climate action, youth engagement and energy for development.

These objectives are pursued through the effective implementation of two initial main programmes:
the Italy-UNDP Energy Partnership and Youth4Climate

• The Italy-UNDP Energy Partnership aims at identifying investment action opportunities that will be converted to country specific investment plans for scaling up energy access and contributing to the energy transition. The investment plans will enable both public and private financing to be deployed towards bankable initiatives.
• Youth4Climate supports the implementation of youthled and youthinclusive solutions to environmental and climate challenges, both financially and through capacity development, for a more innovative and inclusive impact on the ground.

The Rome Centre also has a broader mandate to engage with the Italian ecosystem as a whole, which involves close collaboration with key actors in the public and private sector, with the aim to effectively mobilize financial resources for development objectives.

To guarantee the effective implementation of the Rome Centre's workplan, and indeed to ensure the strategic and long term impact of both its