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 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.
Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has 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 multi-stakeholder for including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. In addition, BPPS works closely with UNDP's Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. While ensuring that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP's development programmes, BPPS also assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results-based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. Lastly, BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.
In order to streamline its financial and investment engagement, UNDP launched the Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH), a finance and innovation platform, that draws on a critical mass of UNDP expertise, initiatives, and partnerships to support the mobilization and leveraging of resources for the SDGs and lead the implementation of the new UNDP private sector strategy and other initiatives. The Hub is an integral part of both the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) and the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (BERA), as well as part of the GPN. The Hub serves as a connector, broker and global coordinator among internal and external actors; curates and manages UNDP’s catalogue of service offers on SDG financing to governments, investors and companies, via the COs, to significantly enhance the scale and impact of UNDP’s work.
Through the 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 Ff D process, etc.) as well as other regulatory and market-based networks. Furthermore, as Secretariat of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group, UNDP assists G20 Presidencies in the implementation of their G20 priorities for the Group.
Please visit the SDG Sustainable Finance Hub website for more information.



Ensue strategic planning and execution:

• Provide timely technical and administrative guidance, as required and determined jointly with supervisor, to the G20 Presidency and Sustainable Finance Working Group Co-chairs on the development, uptake and implementation of the SFWG agenda (including daily coordination between these stakeholders, timeline management, etc.);
• Support the preparation and coordination of G20 SFWG meetings and events.

Ensure outreach and partnerships management:

• Cultivate and manage relationships with all SFWG members as well as other G20 working group members to advance the SFWG work;
• Support the identification of relevant knowledge partners for the SFWG work under South Africa G20 Presidency;
• Engage with target constituencies throughout the year (ex: FSB, BIS, WB, IMF, IFC, OECD, Af DB, Network for Greening the Financial System, finance ministries and central banks, etc.) and support the negotiations of G20 SFWG documents;
• Coordinate the outreach and engagement with UNDP HQ and country offices to inform them on the G20 Sustainable Finance Agenda and assist them, as relevant, in the uptake of the agenda;
• Prepare briefing notes for the G20 Presidency SFWG leads, the SFH Director and designees at the Executive Office of the Administrator.

Provision of subject-matter expertise on relevant topics and projects:

• Develop technical documents, reports and briefs for the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group Presidency and Co-chairs
  • Develop a stock-take on the activities planned for 2024-2025 by major sustainable finance networks and support processing inputs to the G20 Sustainable Finance Roadmap tracking exercise in 2025.

Facilitate knowledge and capacity building, knowledge sharing:

• Identify, synthesize and document best practices and lessons learned that are generated from the project and implementing partners;
• Participate in and ensure sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice on project related issues;
• Support establishment of knowledge platforms for the project, facilitate innovative mechanisms for dissemination of knowledge from the project, and develop knowledge resources and products to share with project partners and to support UNDP’s engagement in this area.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
The Sustainable Finance Analyst will work under the direct supervision of the ASFH Sustainable Finance Advisor and Director of ASFH and in close collaboration with the other SFH team members.
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Business Direction & 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 win-win situations

Business Development: Knowledge Generation

• Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need

Business Management: Monitoring

• Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results

Partnership management: 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.

Programme and Policy: SDG Finance

• ESG standards
• Public Sector Finance (Tax and domestic resource mobilization, public financial management and public expenditure)

2030 Agenda: Engagement & Effectiveness: Strategic Policy Engagement

• Strategic policy advice in the context of the G20

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