Impact Investing Research Intern

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UNDP companions with folks in any respect ranges of society to assist construct nations that may face up to crises and to drive and maintain the sort of development that improves the standard of life for everybody. On the bottom in practically 170 international locations and territories, we provide world perspective and native perception to assist empower lives, construct resilient nations, and obtain the Sustainable Growth Targets (SDGs).

Sustainable Growth Targets signify the worldwide consensus for the great and impressive 2030 Agenda. The extent of ambition and the necessity for sources to succeed in the targets necessitate improvements to extend effectivity, and partnerships for efficient use of current sources in addition to rising them.

As a serious effort to finance SDGs and with a purpose to streamline its monetary and funding engagement, UNDP launched the Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH), a finance and innovation platform, that pulls on a essential mass of UNDP experience, initiatives, and partnerships to assist the mobilization and leveraging of sources for the SDGs and lead the implementation of the brand new UNDP non-public sector technique and different initiatives. The Hub is an integral a part of each the Bureau for Coverage and Programme Help (BPPS) and the Bureau of Exterior Relations and Advocacy (BERA), in addition to a part of the GPN. The Hub serves as a connector, dealer and world coordinator amongst inside and exterior actors; curates and manages UNDP’s catalogue of service gives on SDG financing to governments, traders and corporations, by way of the COs, to considerably improve the size and impression of UNDP’s work. 

By means of SFH, UNDP’s Istanbul Heart for Non-public Sector in Growth (ICPSD), one of many 5 World Thematic Coverage Facilities of UNDP, acts as an enabler for the non-public sector and foundations to grow to be extra energetic companions in improvement, encouraging them by way of coverage recommendation and technical providers on find out how to contribute in the direction of the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. ICPSD was established in 2011 in partnership with the Authorities of Türkiye.

The Heart’s work to interact foundations and the non-public sector focuses on delivering coverage recommendation and technical providers in 4 thematic areas:

• • Non-public sector engagement by way of South-South cooperation for the SDGs
• • Digital transformation and personal sector engagement in expertise improvement
• • SDG Financing and Non-public Sector Growth
• • Resilience and disaster response

Duties and Obligations:

The primary duties that the intern shall be anticipated to hold out are:

• Present analysis, writing and enhancing assist on points associated to impression investing, SDG financing;
• Help publishing data tales/greatest practices on impression investing, SDG financing and;
• Contribute to designing and implementation of initiatives, tasks or programmes;
• Present administrative assist on an as-needed foundation;
• Put together related communications supplies (speeches, brochures, success tales, social media supplies and many others.);
• Collaborate on the event and execution of on-line content material (pictures, infographics, movies, blogs and many others.) and campaigns delivered throughout varied social media channels equivalent to Fb, Twitter, YouTube, and many others. 
• Different related duties as deemed obligatory by the supervisor.

Required Abilities and Expertise:

Training:

Candidates should on the time of utility meet one of many following necessities:

• be enrolled in a second college diploma programme (Grasp Diploma); or
• be enrolled within the ultimate tutorial yr of a primary college diploma programme (Bachelor Diploma); or
• have graduated with a college diploma in in fields equivalent to economics, finance, enterprise, improvement, worldwide relations, regulation, public administration or related and, if chosen, should begin the internship inside one-year of commencement.

Expertise:

• Strong expertise in tutorial writing, analysis and evaluation;
• Expertise on sustainable improvement, impression investing and/or SDG financing is an asset;
• Pc literate in customary software program functions;
• Demonstrated eager curiosity within the work of the UN, and of UNDP specifically, and have a private dedication to UNDP’s Assertion of Function and to the beliefs of the UN Constitution;
• Demonstrated skill to efficiently work together with people of various cultural backgrounds and beliefs;
• Earlier expertise on venture designing and implementation is an asset;
• Social media account administration and content material improvement expertise are fascinating.

Language:

• Fluency in spoken and written English is required;
• Information of Arabic and French are desired;
• Information of one other UN language is an asset.

Supply:  https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=115746

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