Job Description
Background
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The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 46 least developed countries. With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development.
The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) is a mechanism to integrate climate change into local authorities’ planning and budgeting through the regular intergovernmental fiscal transfer system using performance-based grants in a participatory and gender sensitive manner, increase awareness and capacities to respond to climate change at the local level including through ecosystem-based solutions, and increase the quality and number of local investments that address climate change. LoCAL combines performance-based climate resilience grants (PBCRGs), which ensure programming and verification of change expenditures at the local level, with technical and capacity-building support. It uses the grants and demonstration effect to trigger further flows for local climate action including global climate finance and national fiscal transfers. LoCAL also aims to support private finance for small and medium businesses and municipal finance and public-private partnerships. LoCAL is currently active in 17 countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, with another 17 countries preparing to join (at the design stage).
UNCDF has supported the Government of Liberia (GoL) design the LoCAL-Liberia Mechanism with aims of increasing local government access to climate finance for implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAP)-aligned change adaptation priority investments in Liberia (outcome 1); and will consolidate a standard and internationally recognized country-based mechanism of performance-based climate resilience grants in the country, further attracting climate finance, domestic and international (outcome 2). LoCAL aims to raise awareness and strengthen capacities for subnational climate change adaptation at subnational level (output1); support the integration of climate change into local planning and budgeting processes and finance local adaptation interventions and investments in NDC and NAP-aligned adaptation sectors (output 2) and deploy at scale across the country an effective performance-based climate resilience grant system (financing mechanism) that can attract various sources of climate finance (output 3).
Within this programme context, UNCDF is seeking a National Coordinator, NPSA to contribute to the effective delivery of the Programme’s activities in Liberia.
Scope of Work
The National Coordinator will provide policy, regulatory and technical advice to the national and subnational counterparts in relation to the LoCAL programme activities, and with a focus on the integration of climate change and environmental sustainability into public planning and budgeting systems at sub-national level.
The National Coordinator will also be responsible for providing technical, policy, and programming implementation support and oversight, and knowledge and capacity development services for the effective deployment of LoCAL programmatic activities, for providing operational support to the LoCAL Facility, and is also expected to contribute to LoCAL’s resource mobilization activities on an ongoing basis.
Duties And Responsibilities
Summary of key functions:
Programme management and implementation (30%)
Outreach, partnership building and resource mobilization (25%)
Policy, regulatory and technical advice to government counterparts and key stakeholders (25%)
Coordination with government counterparts, UN system and development partners (10%)
Knowledge management and communication (10%)
Additional information on LoCAL can be found here https://www.uncdf.org/local/homepage
Institutional Arrangement
The National Coordinator reports to the LoCAL Global Programme Manager, P-5, based in Kampala, Uganda and works in close collaboration with other LTF and LoCAL colleagues in the regional office/HQ based and country and across the region. This position will be based in Monrovia, Liberia.
Competencies
CORE
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
External Relations & Advocacy
Communication: Advocacy strategy
Partnership management: Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding
Partnership management: Strategic engagement
Programme and Policy
2030 Agenda: Planet: Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery
2030 Agenda: Planet: Nature, Climate and Energy
2030 Agenda: Planet: Nature, Climate and Energy
2030 Agenda: Planet: Nature, Climate and Energy
Education
Required Skills and Experience
Experience
Language Requirement
Disclaimer
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Non-discrimination
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.
UNDP is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
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