Climate change is a key component of UNDP’s programme in Ghana, with a growing project portfolio. Under its Country Programme Document, UNDP aims to strengthen public institutional capacities to reduce environmental degradation and implement climate action, as well as facilitate access to information, knowledge and tools that promote green jobs, citizen participation in environmental conservation, and community resilience. In this regard, UNDP is collaborating with the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation and other institutions to turn Ghana’s commitments under the Paris Agreement into concrete action, ensuring that climate change is addressed in a wholesome and strategic manner, that plans are gender responsive, and that different strategies are employed to mobilize the financial resources that are needed to implement Ghana’s climate agenda. This area of work includes support to have attractive and realistic financing strategies in place, access vertical funds, take advantage of international cooperation mechanisms outlined in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, as well as build local capacities (including of the private sector) to mobilize climate finance. At the local level, UNDP is helping communities to adapt to climate change and reduce their vulnerabilities to disasters.
UNDP Ghana Country Office seeks to engage the services of a Sustainable Development and Climate Change Specialist to 1) strengthen UNDP’s technical advisory support in the area of sustainable development and climate change; 2) contribute to the effective and high-quality delivery of the sustainable development, environment and climate change portfolio; 3) manage and expand current sustainable development, environment and climate change project pipeline; and 4) strengthen key partnerships that advance UNDP’s vision for supporting NDC enhancement and implementation.
Summary of Key Functions:
Under the guidance of the Deputy Resident Representative (DRR) and/or the Resident Representative (RR), the Programme Specialist, Environment and Climate serves as the team lead of the project and programme staff to play a pivotal role in advancing UNDP’s program in Ghana, specifically focusing on sustainable development, environmental conservation, and climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, in alignment with the country’s commitments under the Paris Agreement. The role encompasses technical advisory support, portfolio delivery, project management, and partnership building to achieve these goals.
UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.
2. Lead implementation of CO’s project portfolio on sustainable development, environment and climate change and contribute to implementation of the Country Programme:
3. Maintain and expand strategic partnerships and support resource mobilization for the Country Programme with focus in the area of sustainable development, environment and climate change:
4. Partnership and Resource Mobilization:
5. Knowledge Management:
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities: Supervision and performance management of Country Office Programme Team.
Achieve Results: LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact
Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems
Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences
Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands
Act with Determination: LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results
Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity
People Management Competencies:
UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.
Technical and Cross-functional competencies:
Business Direction & 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
Partnership Management: Strategic Engagement: Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their buy-in of high-level vision and objectives
Business Development: Knowledge Facilitation: Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally
Business Management:
Client Satisfaction/Management: Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers’ needs. Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests. Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns.
Results-Based Management: Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results
Project Management: Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
Portfolio Management : Ability to select, prioritize and control the organization as programmes and projects, in line with its strategic objectives and capacity; ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual, while optimizing return on investment
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