Biodiversity Policy Specialist

UNDP's 2022-2025 Strategic Plan highlights our continued commitment to eradicating poverty, accompanying countries in their pathways towards the SDGs and working towards the Paris Agreement. As part of the Global Policy Network in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP's Nature, Climate Change, Energy, and Waste (NCE&W) Hubs promote and scale up integrated whole-of-governance approaches and nature-based solutions that reduce poverty and inequalities, strengthen livelihoods and inclusive growth, mitigate conflict, forced migration and displacement, and promote more resilient governance systems that advance linked peace and security agendas.
The implementation of the project in NIGERIA falls under the GEF8 Umbrella programme for the development of the first National Biodiversity Finance Plan. The overall implementation of the project will be led by the Project Lead/Senior Finance Expert with the support of a technical team and in coordination to a government project director and the National Steering Commit-tee.
For the implementation of the GEF8-BFP Umbrella program at the national level, UNDP is recruiting a national team composed of a Senior Finance Expert (Project Lead), a Project Support Associate, a Policy Expert and a Biodiversity Finance Specialist.
The Environmental Policy Expert will lead the production of the Policy and Institutional Review and will provide initial input to support the Project Lead to develop the Biodiversity Finance Plan.

Under the direct supervision of the Senior Finance Expert (Project Lead), the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
• Support the Senior Finance Expert (Project Lead) in the conception and preparation of the PIR.
• Plan and implement the PIR step of the BIOFIN methodology.
• Identify relevant stakeholders to inform and participate this step.
• Stocktake and analyse relevant biodiversity related policy instruments and studies (such as harmful subsidies analysis that might be delivered prior or parallel to this step of the methodology), these include NBSAPs and beyond.
• Develop an inventory of existing Biodiversity Financing Mechanisms in the country.
• Review existing economic valuation studies relevant to the BIOFIN process.
• Review legal framework relevant to the BIOFIN process.
• Review other sources relevant to BD finance.
• Describe relevant stakeholders, sectors and institutions to inform the BER analysis.
• Provide relevant findings of financial mechanisms that contribute to biodiversity finance and potential areas in need of finance
• Support the Senior Finance Expert (Project Lead) with summary of findings, finance mechanism baseline and initial preparation guidance of the BFP.
• Support detailed feasibility analyses on a range of financing mechanisms depending on knowledge and experience.
• Preparation of workshops, meetings, networking and presentations as required, to complete the Policy and Institutional Review.
• Provide substantive comments and feedback on how to improve the existing method-ologies.
• Document decisions and assumptions made while completing the Policy and Institutional Review (PIR)
• Document lessons learned from conducting the BFP project ranging from institutional considerations to technical issues.
• Prepare reports and case studies, as required, for submission to global meetings (e.g. CBD COP).
• Provide insights and recommendations for the BFP.