Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, June 18, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Team leader of the Africa Borderlands Centre, the Senior Water Resources Adviser is responsible for the formulation of a cohesive corporate climate-resilient water normative framework and signature interventions for Africa borderlands programmatic to promote resilience.

S/he will be responsible to:
• Provide thought leadership, strategic guidance and advice to the Regional Director for Africa and the ABC on climate-resilient and sustainable water management in Africa’s borderlands;
• Provide technical leadership for the formulation of an effective, best-in-class climate-resilient water normative framework, which serves to guide sustainable water governance in Africa borderlands;
• Provide overall leadership for the development of a new programme pipeline on climate-resilient and sustainable water management, with a specific focus on innovative and blended finance, and in close coordination with bilateral and multilateral institutions;
• In line with the ABC 4-pillar approach, develop specific programmatic interventions on climate-resilient and sustainable water resource management for the borderlands in a manner that accelerates the achievement of the SDGs and Agenda 2063 in the borderlands
• Oversee the entire project cycle of governance, innovation, concept design, development, implementation, supervision and sustainability of flagship climate-resilient water and resilience interventions in the Borderlands areas;
• Build, expand and cultivate relationships with leadership partners (development banks, international financing institutions, foundations, private sector) in support of partnerships and resource mobilization objectives of the ABC;
• Direct the preparation of the annual work plans and budgets for the climate-resilient water programme, fundraising and partnerships; planning and management of human, financial, and material resources with a view to ensuring their optimum utilization;
• Represent UNDP at key public and private sector international meetings and conferences as requested.
Strategic leadership
• Develop and set the strategic direction for climate-resilient water in the UNDP Africa Borderlands Centre and Regional Resilient Hub and its integration into UNDP country offices, regional and global corporate planning, programming and operations;
• Thought leadership in developing the governance structure and investment case for UNDP and the required support and resources in the area of climate-resilient water in the Africa Borderlands and Resilience Hubs network on the basis of assessments of the risks/threats
• Establish new partnerships for the Africa Borderlands Centre, in the area of climate-resilient water
• Represents UNDP at senior representational levels in interagency forums for policy and decision making in the area of climate-resilient water,
• Provide on-demand technical regional and global thought leadership and be the focal for UNDPs engagement in the multi trust fund Climate-resilient water Investment Programme for Africa
Research, produce data, and design programme and implementation
• Lead teams across multiple borderlands sites in a number of countries in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa to design programmes (undertake pre-feasibility, feasibility) for mobilizing development finance;
• Lead the introduction of innovative pipelines of bankable sustainable climate-resilient water investments in borderlands to maximize development finance,
• Develop transformative governance partnerships, approaches, funding and financing resources to assess and produce climate-resilient water projects in the Borderlands,
• Ensures organizational compliance with all United Nations Environmental and Social Safeguarding policies, procedures and regulations;
• Establish technology innovation partnerships with global and regional climate-resilient water academic and private sector organizations to undertake human-based design and operational research.
• Inform innovative evidence-based policy changes that impact communities in the borderlands areas in regards to climate-resilient water.
Management supervision
• Provides oversight of climate-resilient water interventions in the ABC;
• Build UNDP climate-resilient water project preparation and implementation capacity in coordination with relevant functional units in UNDP;
• Facilitate and directs the planning, management, operations and activities of UNDP climate-resilient water for consistently high levels of performance, efficiency and engagement;
• Oversees and administers allocation and utilization of funding for climate-resilient water in the UNDP Africa Resilient Hub – Borderlands Programme;
• Advocates the implementation of corporate and best-practice approaches to ensure effective procurements and service (human, financial and administrative) resources provision aligned with results.
Innovation and Knowledge management
• Encourage technological and financial innovation models to crowd in private sector partners to provide sustainable climate-resilient water services,
• Collate, document and disseminate with counterparts and partners the best practices and lead knowledge events,
• Provides inputs to the development of systems to capture and codify knowledge in the climate-resilient water practice for the enhancement of staff training, learning and awareness concerning security issues.


Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
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