UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 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 Crisis Bureau guides UNDP’s corporate crisis and fragility related strategies and vision for crisis prevention, response and recovery. The Bureau has the responsibility for support to prevention, crisis response, resilience, recovery and peacebuilding work under the auspices of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. Crisis Bureau staff provide global strategic advice to UNDP management and technical advice to Regional Hubs and Country Offices; advocate for UNDP corporate messages, represent UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora, and engage in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. As part of the Global Policy Network (GPN), the Crisis Bureau works in an integrated manner with UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) ensuring that issues are fully integrated into UNDP’s development programmes. Peace outcomes are delivered in a coherent manner, working across the GPN that includes the Governance team in Bureau of Policy and Programme Support.

The Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions (CPPRI) Team covers the following thematic/programming areas as part of the GPN:

• Conflict prevention and peacebuilding;
• Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE);
• Core government functions, including local governance in transition, conflict and fragile settings
• Climate security

As a member of the Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions Team (CPPRI) and the Regional Hubs in Bangkok, Dakar, Istanbul and Panama, the Programme Specialist – Climate and Security Risk will provide technical guidance on climate, environment, peace and security. S/he works with teams in the Crisis Bureau, as well as across UNDP’s Global Policy Network (GPN) particularly with NCE, the Regional Hubs, Country Offices and Global Policy Centers, supporting the development of substantive approaches, products and tools on responsive, accountable, and effective institutions to support policy and programming services to UNDP Country Offices.

The Programme Specialist – Climate and Security Risk will have dual reporting lines, respectively to the Regional Hubs for Bangkok, Dakar, Istanbul or Panama and to Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding & Responsive Institutions/ Climate Security Team (CPPRI/CS) .

The Programme Specialist – Climate and Security Risk for Africa/ Asia and the Pacific/ Europe and Central Asia/ Latin America and the Caribbean will be responsible for the following duties:

Summary of functions:

1. Policy and programming
2. Partnerships; and
3. Resources and funds mobilization
4. Communications and advocacy

Policy and programming

• Plays a leading role in the implementation of the UNDP’s offer on climate, environment, peace and security with other teams in the GPN
• Ensures alignment of the climate security offer with the prevention offer, the Climate Promise, and UNDP’s other corporate offers, including on fragility, governance, stabilization, human mobility and risk-informed development.
• Provides oversight to climate security regional programmes/ initiatives, project management and operations
• Through provision of authoritative, substantive guidance supports the implementation, acceleration and scaling up of the Climate Security Mechanism field initiatives in the region.
• Guides Country Offices in mainstreaming climate security and environmental peacebuilding approaches into national and local policy, strategy and planning processes, including Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), peace processes, UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (UNSDCFs) and Common Country Assessments (CCAs).
• Monitors overall implementation based on programmatic indicators, as well as on corporate reporting and evaluation requirements.
• Provides inputs to analysis and assessments of climate-related security risks, analytical reports and papers, including to the General Assembly, Security Council, the Peacebuilding Commission, etc. in the region, making use of the UN Climate Security Mechanism Toolbox, as appropriate.

 Partnerships

• Develops and maintains partnerships, and provides support on climate, environment, peace and security with Member States, international and regional organizations, Special Political Missions and Peacekeeping Operations, the research community and civil society in support of UNDP’s climate security initiatives in the region.
• Maintains close contact with relevant UN focal points working on climate security in the region.
• Participates in conferences, seminars and academic fora related to his/her assigned area of expertise.
• Drafts notes, background papers, talking points, speeches and other correspondence for senior UN officials.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Resources and funds mobilization  

• Analyzes trends and identifies opportunities for resource mobilization in the region, conduct donor mapping and contributes to resource mobilization strategies and ensures alignment with corporate and regional goals
• Supports the preparation and submission of concept notes and project proposals on climate security, and advises on regional and country pipelines.
• Ensures compliance with partner’s requirements, including monitoring, narrative and financial reporting, and evaluation.
• Prepares presentations, updates and project briefs for as per donor’s requirements.

Communications and advocacy

• Leads UNDP’s climate-security communications and advocacy efforts in the region.
• Guides and coordinates cross-regional exchange of knowledge by collaborating with policy teams in the Regional Hub to research, develop and share knowledge-based tools and guidance to help influence/advance policy dialogue in the thematic area and present such material at various fora.
• Supports UNDP knowledge generation, lessons, innovations, policy developments, programmatic offers and practice experiences on climate security in the region.
• Drafts notes, background papers, talking points, speeches and other correspondence for senior UN officials.