Technical Manager

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 fora 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. 

The world needs an economic governance architecture deliberately designed to support governments, development agencies, civil society, and the private sector to make decisions that prioritize investment in the SDGs. Thus, UNDP established the Sustainable Finance Hub (SFH) in 2019, aggregating UNDP’s existing work and expertise on financing the SDGs. UNDP aims to promote the investment of over $1 trillion of public expenditure and private capital in the SDGs and maximize development impact for country partners. With this goal, UNDP will mobilize governments, institutional and commercial investors, financial institutions, and enterprises alike to take a more integrated approach to sustainable investment, enabling and promoting the impact integrity of actual and realized investments to enhance transparency, and optimize private and public sectors contributions to achieving the SDGs. Through 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 Financing for Development process, etc.) as well as other regulatory and market-based networks.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Technical Manager will coordinate the development of the TISFD’s framework, ensuring that it meets the practical needs of the market while being technically rigorous and aligned with the principles and over-arching mission of the TISFD.
• The Technical Manager will coordinate the research and analysis underpinning the TISFD’s deliverables and lead the development of its outputs, in coordination with the Technical Director.
• The technical deliverables of the Taskforce involve a number of resources including but not limited to: an integrated and accessible disclosure framework and recommendations, informed by a set of conceptual foundations and a body of evidence on social and inequality-related impacts, dependencies, risks and opportunities; various types of guidance to help corporates and financial institutions in identifying, assessing and reporting on inequality and social related impacts and risks, building on existing work in this space.
• Coordinate the development of technical deliverables in collaboration with TISFD Working Groups
• Advice and support the Technical Director in the development of the technical deliverables of the Taskforce, including in planning and developing a strategy and managing the timely delivery of the Taskforce’s outputs.
• Contribute to the development of a process for co-creating the Taskforce’s framework, including involving the Taskforce’s Alliance and Regional Hubs, as well as the roll-out of a series of public consultations on the TISFD’s deliverables, in accordance with the TISFD Governance Principles of Inclusivity, Co-creation, Effective and Efficient Decision-Making, Continuous Learning and Improvement and Transparency.
• Coordinate one or more TISFD Working Groups, ensuring Working Groups’ guidance and feedback are properly incorporated into technical outputs and followed through.
• Coordinate the documentation of feedback from Technical Working Groups, the TISFD’s Alliance, and public consultations, and ensure that inputs are adequately reflected in the technical deliverables or appropriately responded to.
• Maintain good working relationships with key TISFD stakeholders, including Working Group and Alliance members.

Lead Research, drafting and delivery of technical outputs: 

• Lead the drafting of the Taskforce’s outputs, including the disclosure framework and recommendations, conceptual foundations, and associated guidance, under the supervision of the Technical Director.
• Coordinate and conduct research and analysis related to inequality and social-related impact and risk pathways, the identification and assessment of such risks by corporates and financial institutions, and associated indicators and metrics.
• Liaise with TISFD Knowledge Partners to source information and research relevant to the development of the Taskforce’s deliverables.
• Supervise the work of research associates, consultants and interns as needed, including providing guidance and direction and reviewing work to ensure quality standards are met.
• Keep abreast of developments in relation to voluntary and regulatory sustainability-related disclosure standards and frameworks and research and policy developments in the intersection between business and finance and inequality- and social-related issues.

Piloting, testing, learning and capacity development:

• Organising and facilitating systematic piloting of the framework across priority sectors, asset classes, instruments, and stakeholders.
• Promoting and engaging stakeholders for testing of the final framework and market consultations before its launch in 2027, synthetising and integrating feedback of results for informing finalization of the framework.
• Advising on the formulation of learning modules and capacity development resources of the TISFD.
• Working closely with the TISFD’s Regional Hub Coordinators to ensure technical outputs are enriched and reflective of contextual issues across geographies.

Required Skills and Experience:

Min Academic Education:

• An advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent), in International Development, International Relations, Law, Anthropology, Business Administration, Economics, Physics, Mathematics, or other relevant field is required OR
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Min. years of relevant work experience Minimum of 7 years (with master’s degree) and 9 years (with bachelor’s degree) of experience in sustainable finance, sustainability standards, social impact and risk measurement and/or business and human rights in the public sector, the private sector or academia is required.

Required skills:

• Experience in the field of corporate and/or finance sector sustainability management and/or reporting.
• Proven experience conducting research and analysis on social impact and risk measurement and/or business and human rights

Desired additional skills:

• Track record in the development of resources for managing inequality and/or social-related impacts, risks and opportunities for the corporate and/or finance sectors.
• Experience in managing co-creation or consensus-building processes in international and multi-stakeholder settings.
• Experience translating complex technical information to private and finance sector audiences, and to a diverse range of other stakeholders.
• Proven track record in successfully delivering complex, interdisciplinary projects across multiple partners and regions.
• Experience in scoping, commissioning, and integrating applied research from a diverse set of technical experts.
• Experience with relevant policy making processes and dynamics at international and national levels concerning corporate sustainability-related reporting and disclosure frameworks and regulations.
• Experience with the development or implementation of the recommendations of TNFD or TCFD and/or comparable initiatives involving sustainability reporting and disclosure by the private sector.

Required Languages:

• Fluency in English required.

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