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Mission and objectives
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty while protecting the planet. We help countries develop strong policies, skills, partnerships and institutions so they can sustain their progress. In Angola, the Country Office (CO) is currently implementing its Country Programme (CPD) for the period of 2020 – 2022, which is based on the premise of ‘leaving no one behind’ and ‘reaching those furthest behind first’. The programme includes integrated solutions to complex, interconnected development challenges. These challenges are currently being addressed through three complementary priorities:
1. fostering poverty eradication and inclusive economic growth;
2. increasing resilience to shocks and crises and enhancing management of natural re-sources for conservation and economic development; and
3. strengthening inclusive democracy, human rights, justice and rule of law.
In partnership with the Government of Angola, the CO under programme priority 2 (increasing resilience to shocks and crises and enhancing management of natural resources for conservation and economic development) has been mobilizing efforts and resources to address development challenges in the areas of biodiversity and ecosystems, renewable energy, environmental policy and planning, natural resources management and governance, climate change, disaster risk reduction, resilience building, recovery and livelihoods. UNDP operates through offices in Luanda (for national level interventions), with site representations in Benguela, Cuanza Sul and Huíla.
1. fostering poverty eradication and inclusive economic growth;
2. increasing resilience to shocks and crises and enhancing management of natural re-sources for conservation and economic development; and
3. strengthening inclusive democracy, human rights, justice and rule of law.
In partnership with the Government of Angola, the CO under programme priority 2 (increasing resilience to shocks and crises and enhancing management of natural resources for conservation and economic development) has been mobilizing efforts and resources to address development challenges in the areas of biodiversity and ecosystems, renewable energy, environmental policy and planning, natural resources management and governance, climate change, disaster risk reduction, resilience building, recovery and livelihoods. UNDP operates through offices in Luanda (for national level interventions), with site representations in Benguela, Cuanza Sul and Huíla.
Context
This assignment is anchored in the “Sustaining Ecosystem Restoration in Angola’s Extended Central Plateau” Project, with primary responsibility for advancing its sustainable finance agenda and supporting the implementation of Component 3: Promoting capacity to leverage sustainable financing to scale up sustainable land management (SLM) and generate global environmental benefits. The assignment will contribute to strengthening Angola’s readiness to access and mobilize financing for ecosystem restoration, biodiversity conservation, climate resilience, sustainable land management, and nature-positive livelihoods. These efforts include supporting green, climate, carbon, biodiversity and other sustainability-linked financing opportunities, alongside the institutional, regulatory, capacity and partnership frameworks required to operationalize them effectively.
The Sustainable Finance Specialist (SFS) will play a central role in supporting the design, coordination and implementation of sustainable finance solutions under the Project. Working closely with government counterparts, development partners, financial institutions, consultants and international finance actors, the Specialist will help position Angola to access, attract and deploy sustainable finance instruments while strengthening national capacities and enabling conditions for investment. The Specialist will support the development of Communities of Practice, coordinate capacity-building and knowledge-sharing activities, and contribute to advancing financing opportunities aligned with Angola’s commitments under the UNFCCC, UNCCD and Convention on Biological Diversity.
While the Project constitutes the assignment’s principal programmatic and funding anchor, the position is designed to contribute more broadly to UNDP Angola’s sustainable finance portfolio. Sustainable finance is recognized as a cross-cutting accelerator for the Country Programme, supporting efforts to mobilize public and private capital for sustainable development, climate action, biodiversity conservation, inclusive economic transformation and resilient livelihoods. As such, the Specialist may support complementary initiatives related to the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF), country investment platforms, thematic and sustainability bonds, blended finance, impact investment, carbon-market readiness, biodiversity finance, BIOFIN processes, investment opportunity development, financing strategies for SMEs and value chains, and resource mobilization efforts across the portfolio. Beyond supporting project-level implementation, the position will contribute to the development, coordination and consolidation of UNDP Angola’s Sustainable Finance and Economic Transformation expertise domain, promoting knowledge sharing, portfolio coherence, investment pipeline development, and the integration of financing solutions across thematic pillars and programmes.
The Sustainable Finance Specialist (SFS) will play a central role in supporting the design, coordination and implementation of sustainable finance solutions under the Project. Working closely with government counterparts, development partners, financial institutions, consultants and international finance actors, the Specialist will help position Angola to access, attract and deploy sustainable finance instruments while strengthening national capacities and enabling conditions for investment. The Specialist will support the development of Communities of Practice, coordinate capacity-building and knowledge-sharing activities, and contribute to advancing financing opportunities aligned with Angola’s commitments under the UNFCCC, UNCCD and Convention on Biological Diversity.
While the Project constitutes the assignment’s principal programmatic and funding anchor, the position is designed to contribute more broadly to UNDP Angola’s sustainable finance portfolio. Sustainable finance is recognized as a cross-cutting accelerator for the Country Programme, supporting efforts to mobilize public and private capital for sustainable development, climate action, biodiversity conservation, inclusive economic transformation and resilient livelihoods. As such, the Specialist may support complementary initiatives related to the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF), country investment platforms, thematic and sustainability bonds, blended finance, impact investment, carbon-market readiness, biodiversity finance, BIOFIN processes, investment opportunity development, financing strategies for SMEs and value chains, and resource mobilization efforts across the portfolio. Beyond supporting project-level implementation, the position will contribute to the development, coordination and consolidation of UNDP Angola’s Sustainable Finance and Economic Transformation expertise domain, promoting knowledge sharing, portfolio coherence, investment pipeline development, and the integration of financing solutions across thematic pillars and programmes.
Task description
Under the supervision of the Nature, Climate and Energy (NCE) Specialist, the Sustainable Finance Officer (SFO) will help strengthen UNDP Angola’s capacity to design, coordinate, and operationalize sustainable finance solutions that mobilize public and private capital for inclusive, climate-resilient, and nature-positive development, while ensuring timely and coherent delivery of the sustainable finance outputs of the Extended Central Plateau Project.
The assignment combines technical advisory support, partnership development, financing governance, capacity development, and implementation coordination. The Specialist will engage and maintain collaboration with relevant ministries and public institutions, particularly the Ministry of Finance and other entities involved in economic planning, environmental management, investment promotion, and capital markets. The role will also involve engagement with development partners, development finance institutions (DFIs), multilateral banks, investors, and specialized initiatives, including BIOFIN and the UNDP High Integrity Carbon Markets Initiative. Working in close coordination with technical consultants and advisers, including legal, financial, and safeguards experts, the Specialist will help ensure coherent implementation of sustainable finance activities, facilitate stakeholder coordination, and support the development of a stronger and more integrated sustainable finance ecosystem in Angola.
The SFO will organize the assignment around four mutually reinforcing pillars:
Pillar 1. Sustainable Finance, Investment and Economic Transformation
• Lead the development of key sustainable finance knowledge products and analytical outputs under Component 3, Output 3.2, Output 2.1.6, and related project activities, including the Angola Carbon & Biodiversity Credit Market: Roadmap to Readiness, De-risking Investments in Nature assessments, financing-readiness reviews, and recommendations related to sustainable bonds, conservation trust funds, carbon and biodiversity finance, and other innovative financing mechanisms.
• Coordinate the implementation of sustainable finance activities under Component 3 and Output 3.2, supporting the identification, design, structuring, and promotion of financing mechanisms and investment opportunities that contribute to sustainable land management, ecosystem restoration, biodiversity conservation, and nature-positive livelihoods.
• Support financing readiness and investment mobilization for Extended Central Plateau Project (ECP) interventions by assessing sustainable finance opportunities, advancing carbon and biodiversity market readiness, promoting impact-investment approaches, and ensuring alignment with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) priorities and relevant commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and Convention on Biological Diversity.
• Provide technical inputs to sustainable finance strategies, financing roadmaps, readiness assessments, concept notes, business cases, and investment narratives across the portfolio.
• Support the identification and preliminary assessment of financing opportunities, including blended finance, impact investment, thematic bonds, climate and biodiversity finance, carbon and biodiversity markets, conservation funds, and other relevant instruments.
• Support investment-readiness and pipeline development by helping teams identify financing needs, gaps, risks, potential instruments, partners, and next steps.
• For the Extended Central Plateau Project, coordinate and contribute to the “Angola Carbon and Biodiversity Credit Market: Roadmap to Readiness,” “De-risking Investments in Nature” work, sustainable or nature-bond recommendations, conservation trust-fund proposals, and relevant feasibility and investment-readiness processes.
• Support appropriate impact, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), climate, biodiversity, and sustainability tagging of project concepts and investment opportunities, in coordination with relevant experts.
• Review technical products for coherence with national priorities, applicable safeguards, inclusion objectives, and relevant UNDP or partner frameworks, and consolidate comments for decision-making.
• Support the identification, development, and promotion of sustainable financing and investment pipelines that advance economic transformation, economic diversification, micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) development, productive value chains, sustainable livelihoods, and territorial development, while mobilizing capital for climate action, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, and other sustainable development outcomes.
Pillar 2. Partnerships, Financing Governance and Resource Mobilization
• Maintain an up-to-date stakeholder and partnership map covering relevant ministries, regulators, public institutions, financial institutions, development finance institutions, donors, investors, private-sector networks, academia, civil society, and specialized initiatives.
• Support structured engagement with government counterparts, particularly institutions responsible for finance, planning, environment, investment promotion, and capital markets.
• Organize and document technical consultations, financing dialogues, investor engagement sessions, and validation processes, including clear agendas, briefing notes, decisions, action trackers, and follow-up.
• Support alignment and practical linkages among the Extended Central Plateau Project, Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) and country-platform processes, NDC investment planning, BIOFIN-related work, sustainable and thematic bond initiatives, conservation finance, and other relevant portfolio efforts.
• Support the four Project Communities of Practice, namely Farming, Logistics, Ecological, and Carbon and Biodiversity, and connect them with relevant programme, market, and financing partners.
Pillar 3. Capacity Development and Knowledge Management
• Assess priority capacity needs with relevant teams and stakeholders, avoiding generic training where tailored technical assistance or applied learning would be more effective.
• Coordinate the development and quality assurance of sustainable finance and financial-literacy tools for government, SMEs, agricultural value chains, project partners, and Communities of Practice.
• Plan and support workshops, peer exchanges, study visits, and practitioner learning, with clear objectives, participant profiles, learning outputs, and post-event follow-up.
• Promote practical learning on investment readiness, financing instruments, safeguards, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and impact considerations, carbon and biodiversity finance, monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) interfaces, and inclusive benefit-sharing, within the limits of the incumbent’s expertise.
• Create and maintain a structured repository of templates, stakeholder records, finance opportunities, lessons, reference materials, and portfolio knowledge products.
• Capture and disseminate lessons, case studies, and transferable approaches from the Project for application across UNDP Angola’s wider portfolio.
Pillar 4. Project Coordination, Results Monitoring and Portfolio Coherence
• Prepare and maintain an integrated workplan that clearly distinguishes core Extended Central Plateau Project commitments from portfolio-wide support requests.
• Coordinate inputs from consultants, project teams, and partners; monitor dependencies, due dates, risks, decisions, and required follow-up; and promptly escalate delivery constraints to the supervisor.
• Provide technical inputs to Terms of Reference, procurement documentation, and evaluation processes as requested, without assuming procurement or approval authority.
• Monitor progress against agreed outputs and indicators and prepare concise monthly updates, quarterly results summaries, mission or workshop records, and inputs to corporate and project reporting.
• Support coordination across sustainable finance initiatives to reduce duplication, promote sequencing, and ensure that analytical products and engagement processes reinforce one another.
• Provide operational, administrative, and financial support to project delivery and portfolio management.
• Contribute to programme and project missions, meetings, reviews, and other duties within the scope of the assignment, as agreed with the supervisor.
• Perform any other additional duties or tasks that fall within the purview of the role as directed.
The assignment combines technical advisory support, partnership development, financing governance, capacity development, and implementation coordination. The Specialist will engage and maintain collaboration with relevant ministries and public institutions, particularly the Ministry of Finance and other entities involved in economic planning, environmental management, investment promotion, and capital markets. The role will also involve engagement with development partners, development finance institutions (DFIs), multilateral banks, investors, and specialized initiatives, including BIOFIN and the UNDP High Integrity Carbon Markets Initiative. Working in close coordination with technical consultants and advisers, including legal, financial, and safeguards experts, the Specialist will help ensure coherent implementation of sustainable finance activities, facilitate stakeholder coordination, and support the development of a stronger and more integrated sustainable finance ecosystem in Angola.
The SFO will organize the assignment around four mutually reinforcing pillars:
Pillar 1. Sustainable Finance, Investment and Economic Transformation
• Lead the development of key sustainable finance knowledge products and analytical outputs under Component 3, Output 3.2, Output 2.1.6, and related project activities, including the Angola Carbon & Biodiversity Credit Market: Roadmap to Readiness, De-risking Investments in Nature assessments, financing-readiness reviews, and recommendations related to sustainable bonds, conservation trust funds, carbon and biodiversity finance, and other innovative financing mechanisms.
• Coordinate the implementation of sustainable finance activities under Component 3 and Output 3.2, supporting the identification, design, structuring, and promotion of financing mechanisms and investment opportunities that contribute to sustainable land management, ecosystem restoration, biodiversity conservation, and nature-positive livelihoods.
• Support financing readiness and investment mobilization for Extended Central Plateau Project (ECP) interventions by assessing sustainable finance opportunities, advancing carbon and biodiversity market readiness, promoting impact-investment approaches, and ensuring alignment with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) priorities and relevant commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and Convention on Biological Diversity.
• Provide technical inputs to sustainable finance strategies, financing roadmaps, readiness assessments, concept notes, business cases, and investment narratives across the portfolio.
• Support the identification and preliminary assessment of financing opportunities, including blended finance, impact investment, thematic bonds, climate and biodiversity finance, carbon and biodiversity markets, conservation funds, and other relevant instruments.
• Support investment-readiness and pipeline development by helping teams identify financing needs, gaps, risks, potential instruments, partners, and next steps.
• For the Extended Central Plateau Project, coordinate and contribute to the “Angola Carbon and Biodiversity Credit Market: Roadmap to Readiness,” “De-risking Investments in Nature” work, sustainable or nature-bond recommendations, conservation trust-fund proposals, and relevant feasibility and investment-readiness processes.
• Support appropriate impact, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), climate, biodiversity, and sustainability tagging of project concepts and investment opportunities, in coordination with relevant experts.
• Review technical products for coherence with national priorities, applicable safeguards, inclusion objectives, and relevant UNDP or partner frameworks, and consolidate comments for decision-making.
• Support the identification, development, and promotion of sustainable financing and investment pipelines that advance economic transformation, economic diversification, micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) development, productive value chains, sustainable livelihoods, and territorial development, while mobilizing capital for climate action, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration, and other sustainable development outcomes.
Pillar 2. Partnerships, Financing Governance and Resource Mobilization
• Maintain an up-to-date stakeholder and partnership map covering relevant ministries, regulators, public institutions, financial institutions, development finance institutions, donors, investors, private-sector networks, academia, civil society, and specialized initiatives.
• Support structured engagement with government counterparts, particularly institutions responsible for finance, planning, environment, investment promotion, and capital markets.
• Organize and document technical consultations, financing dialogues, investor engagement sessions, and validation processes, including clear agendas, briefing notes, decisions, action trackers, and follow-up.
• Support alignment and practical linkages among the Extended Central Plateau Project, Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF) and country-platform processes, NDC investment planning, BIOFIN-related work, sustainable and thematic bond initiatives, conservation finance, and other relevant portfolio efforts.
• Support the four Project Communities of Practice, namely Farming, Logistics, Ecological, and Carbon and Biodiversity, and connect them with relevant programme, market, and financing partners.
Pillar 3. Capacity Development and Knowledge Management
• Assess priority capacity needs with relevant teams and stakeholders, avoiding generic training where tailored technical assistance or applied learning would be more effective.
• Coordinate the development and quality assurance of sustainable finance and financial-literacy tools for government, SMEs, agricultural value chains, project partners, and Communities of Practice.
• Plan and support workshops, peer exchanges, study visits, and practitioner learning, with clear objectives, participant profiles, learning outputs, and post-event follow-up.
• Promote practical learning on investment readiness, financing instruments, safeguards, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and impact considerations, carbon and biodiversity finance, monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) interfaces, and inclusive benefit-sharing, within the limits of the incumbent’s expertise.
• Create and maintain a structured repository of templates, stakeholder records, finance opportunities, lessons, reference materials, and portfolio knowledge products.
• Capture and disseminate lessons, case studies, and transferable approaches from the Project for application across UNDP Angola’s wider portfolio.
Pillar 4. Project Coordination, Results Monitoring and Portfolio Coherence
• Prepare and maintain an integrated workplan that clearly distinguishes core Extended Central Plateau Project commitments from portfolio-wide support requests.
• Coordinate inputs from consultants, project teams, and partners; monitor dependencies, due dates, risks, decisions, and required follow-up; and promptly escalate delivery constraints to the supervisor.
• Provide technical inputs to Terms of Reference, procurement documentation, and evaluation processes as requested, without assuming procurement or approval authority.
• Monitor progress against agreed outputs and indicators and prepare concise monthly updates, quarterly results summaries, mission or workshop records, and inputs to corporate and project reporting.
• Support coordination across sustainable finance initiatives to reduce duplication, promote sequencing, and ensure that analytical products and engagement processes reinforce one another.
• Provide operational, administrative, and financial support to project delivery and portfolio management.
• Contribute to programme and project missions, meetings, reviews, and other duties within the scope of the assignment, as agreed with the supervisor.
• Perform any other additional duties or tasks that fall within the purview of the role as directed.
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