Climate Analyst

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UNDP is the leading United Nations organization fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change. Working with our broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations to build integrated, lasting solutions for people and planet. Learn more at undp.org or follow at @UNDP

The Climate Promise is the UNDP global initiative to response to climate change. UNDP is now scaling up its support for countries to turn their NDC targets into concrete action – while continuing to push for greater ambition. Leveraging the NDCs as an umbrella, UNDP is bringing together its extensive infrastructure, networks and breadth of substantive offers to provide comprehensive support on NDC implementation. This effort is underpinned by strong support to green COVID-19 recovery measures, as well as leveraging UNDP's strength through measures that align UNDP’s broader portfolio with the Paris Agreement and NDCs. Climate Promise Initiative under a programmatic approach (2022-2026) provides support more than 70 countries, including Kyrgyzstan, in collaboration with more than 35 partners and is the main contribution to the NDC Partnership.

UNDP is well-positioned to support countries on enhancing the climate policy, including NDC, Long Term Low Carbon Strategy focusing on Enhanced Transparency Framework. 

UNDP is seeking the expertise of a Climate Analyst to support the Climate, Energy, and Environmental Cluster in enhancing the climate policy. He/She supports relevant national partners’ commitments to the UNFCCC, including updating NDC, and establishment of the ETF. Responsibilities include supporting Climate Programme Specialist to:

• Coordinate implementation of the project components in multiple languages;
• Coordinate the preparation of policy assessment and policy implementation activities, generation of policy briefs and analytical reports;
• Define, gather, organize, and analyze key project data 
• Support communication with key national and local partners and stakeholders.  Develop and maintain partnerships with key stakeholders, including financial institutions, donors, and the private sector, to promote investment in biodiversity conservation and sustainable natural resource management.
• Support the development of project progress reports, donor reports, trainings, and presentations;
• Track national progress to achieve project components;
• Support the implementation of additional ongoing or emerging projects as assigned;
• Develop reports and policy recommendations related to NDC and ETF;
• Perform literature reviews, knowledge management, compilation of information, and gathering of data on topics pertinent to the project, such as, but not limited to climate change, mitigation, adaptation, transparency, and climate monitoring systems in national, local, and international contexts, sustainable development, Indigenous people and local communities; social entrepreneurship; engagement in global policy processes. 
• Contribute to the preparation of capacity-building engagements at UNDP-participating events, such as UNFCCC Conferences of Parties, virtual events, interventions to raise awareness and build capacity among stakeholders on the importance of biodiversity finance and its role in achieving sustainable development goals, etc.
• Support the drafting of press releases, talking points, PowerPoint presentations, social media communications, blogs, and video messages related to the capacity-building materials, text, photos, and photo essays for the UNDP website.
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

 Institutional Arrangement

Under the overall guidance of Team Leader for Climate Change, Energy and Environment, the Climate Analyst will be in charge of facilitating the CCE cluster projects’ smooth implementation and achieving the project objectives.

• 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.

• Business Management- Project Management    
  • Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.
• Business Management-Communication 
  • Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
  • Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels.
• Business Direction & Strategy- Effective Decision Making             
  • Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one’s authority, area of expertise and resources.
• Business Development-Knowledge Generation  
  • Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, 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 Development-Knowledge Facilitation   
  • Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally, and to design and facilitate activities, to share and exchange knowledge, information, and ideas. Knowledge of tools and approaches to stimulate active participation, contribution, and exchange.
• General (across the functions) - Event planning and execution 
  • Ability to plan, manage and execute of public and private events to ensure that they support and amplify individual communications and advocacy initiatives, as well as UNDP's overall brand and mandate. 
• General (across the functions) - Public relations 
  • Ability to build and maintain an overall positive public image for the organization, its mandate and its brand, while ensuring that individual campaigns and other communications and advocacy initiatives are supported in reaching the public.