**Job Identification**- 16960**Locations**- Putrajaya, Malaysia**Posting Date**- 03/13/2024, 04:56 AM- 03/20/2024, 10:59 AM**Job Schedule**- Full time**Agency**- UNDP**Grade**- IPSA-9**Vacancy Type**- International Personnel Service Agreement**Practice Area**- SDG Finance**Bureau**- Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific**Contract Duration**- 6 months**Education & Work Experience**- Master's Degree - 2 year(s) experience OR Bachelor's Degree - 4 year(s) experience**Required Languages**- English**Desired Languages**- UN official languages**Vacancy Timeline**- 1 Week**Mobility required/no mobility**- no mobility required**Background****Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a 'leave no one behind' approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and **inspiring stories.**UNDP is the United Nations' global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. On the ground in more than 170 countries, UNDP works on solutions to global and national development challenges. As the United Nations' development network, UNDP draws on a world of experience to assist Malaysia in developing its own solutions to the country's development challenges. Through impact standards, development finance and strategic innovation, UNDP supports Malaysia achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by reducing poverty and inequality, promoting inclusive growth and prosperity, strengthening the rule of law and governance, promoting environmental sustainability and addressing Climate Change. UNDP's analytical work and policy offerings found uptake from multiple ministries.The international analyst works in close collaboration with the operations team, programme staff, UNDP HQ and Government officials, technical advisers and experts, multi-lateral and bilateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UNDP programme implementation**Duties and Responsibilities**:- Lead projects under the UNDP Malaysia SDG Impact, Finance and Innovation portfolio including the implementation of recommendations from Malaysia's Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF), Blended Climate Finance Pipeline Project, Risk financing for MSMEs' resilience with Insurance and Risk Finance Facility, Biodiversity and Climate Blended Financing, and SDG Impact Facilitation, Measurement and Management initiatives;- Lead the expansion of strategic partnerships with key private sector and private/public financing institutions, including managing initiatives, engagements and events that position UNDP's global value proposition to Malaysian stakeholders, focusing on achievement of the following results:- Establish or strengthen engagement platforms that help identifies opportunities, trade-offs and synergies that exist between different types of public and private financing in support of UNDP's strategic priorities in Malaysia, leveraging both portfolio depth and cross-portfolio synergies;- Prepare overviews, products, presentations and other engagement materials that demonstrate UNDP's value proposition in sustainable financing;- Coordinate technical meetings and discussions with key stakeholders with the aim of establishing and facilitating partnership models for the delivery of sustainable and innovative financing instruments- Strategy and value proposition packages development by bringing different financing considerations together and implement a sequenced, prioritized set of actions and reforms, as determined in the country's SDG Roadmap and other climate and biodiversity blended financing recommendations, together with alignment of guidance provided by UN on financing for development. The recommendations are to pave the way for clear and directed public and private sector investment partnerships through both the national and international capital market, banking system and private equity platforms, particularly in the context of the growing focus on leveraging green and social finance.- Program and pipeline development using the UN SDG Impact guidelines as a basis to translate selected national priorities into investment opportunities, supported by data that highlights the business case and development impact of such investments. Programs partners include private sector, nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies to focus on impact planning, financing, management and measurement.- Support knowledge sharing and
