Overview
Provide technical support to bridge evidence, policy, and practice through a science- and data-informed approach, enabling the translation of risk, climate, and development information into actionable plans and investments for the SHIELD Programme.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support and coordination for the implementation of UNDP project outputs.
- Support resilience financing and investment initiatives.
- Facilitate engagement with Philippine national government agencies and Australian scientific institutions.
- Help translate scientific outputs into practical policy recommendations and decision-support tools.
- Provide technical inputs to ensure alignment with national frameworks on DRRM, climate change adaptation, and resilience.
- Assist in the preparation and updating of annual work plans, procurement plans, and M&E frameworks.
- Prepare monitoring implementation progress, ensuring timely delivery of outputs and alignment with programme targets.
- Support results tracking systems, linking scientific outputs to policy uptake and local action.
- Identify risks and propose mitigation measures to ensure effective implementation.
- Ensure compliance with UNDP policies, including Social and Environmental Standards (SES) and GEDSI integration.
- Ensure national-level coordination among government agencies, scientific and technical institutions, and SHIELD Consortium partners.
- Facilitate multi-stakeholder platforms and dialogues to strengthen collaboration across sectors.
- Help build and maintain strategic partnerships to enhance programme impact and sustainability.
- Support alignment between national priorities and subnational implementation.
- Support the development of knowledge products, including policy briefs, technical reports, and guidance notes for LGUs.
- Ensure scientific and technical information is accessible, usable, and actionable.
- Help identify and document best practices and lessons learned.
- Contribute to UNDP knowledge networks and communities of practice.
- Support budget planning, tracking, and financial monitoring for assigned components.
- Draft Terms of Reference (TORs), technical specifications, and manage consultants and contractors.
- Ensure efficient resource utilization and timely implementation of project activities.
- Coordinate with UNDP operations units on procurement and financial processes.
- Provide technical backstopping to subnational teams by helping translate national-level outputs into LGU-applicable tools and guidance.
- Ensure feedback loops from local implementation inform national policy and scientific systems.
- Promote integration across all SHIELD components through coordinated planning and implementation.
- Provide support to other SHIELD Programme and Climate Action Programme initiatives, as needed.
- Perform other duties within the functional profile as assigned for effective programme delivery.
Required Experience
Applicants with a master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are not required to have professional work experience. Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in providing technical support to development projects in the areas of climate change, DRRM, resilience programming; policy development, institutional coordination, or scientific/data systems; and working with national government agencies or technical institutions. Desired experience includes the use of Microsoft Office applications, web-based management systems, and virtual collaboration and communication platforms (e.g., Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc.). Demonstrated experience in translating scientific and technical information into policy recommendations and developing knowledge systems. Demonstrated experience in applying UNDP policies, procedures, and frameworks, including the SES and GEDSI principles. Demonstrated experience in project management, monitoring, and reporting. Demonstrated experience in facilitating and coordinating multistakeholder partnerships.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in climate change, disaster risk management, environmental science, public administration, development studies, or related fields is required; or A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above fields, in combination with an additional two (2) years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
