Reporting to the Infrastructure Sustainability & Resilience Specialist, within the Strategic Initiatives team, the successful incumbent will be expected to be responsible for providing technical support to Strategic Initiatives activities.
The Infrastructure and Project Management Analyst (Development Economics and Finance) will be based in Copenhagen; however, the incumbent may be required to travel to support Strategic Initiatives activities in the field.
The Infrastructure and Project Management Analyst (Development Economics and Finance) responsibilities will include:
Support to Strategic Initiatives
● Support the development and piloting of frameworks, tools and methodologies which focus primarily on improving the sustainability and resilience of infrastructure;
● Support the development of research and tools for green and climate finance;
● Support the development of initiatives for increasing knowledge and developing an applied understanding of sustainable and resilient infrastructure;
● Support the drafting of reports and other key positioning pieces, including those which highlight the role of economics and finance for sustainable and resilient infrastructure in global development, including relations to the global agendas;
● Support the development of awareness materials, including case studies, that promote UNOPS infrastructure activities internally and externally across UN agencies and the private sector;
● Support the mainstreaming of sustainable and resilient infrastructure within UNOPS policy and standards.
Operations Support
● Support the creation of knowledge products and tools to improve the capacity of the organisation in the area of development economics and financing sustainable and resilient infrastructure;
● Support the planning and delivery of missions to regions through the creation of technical materials;
● Support the design and implementation of activities and initiatives around sustainable and resilient infrastructure and its application within the development and infrastructure management contexts;
● Support various tasks, work packages and projects as outlined and assigned in the annual work plan;
● Provide research and data collection on topics upon request by supervisors;
● Perform other duties as and when assigned.
Reporting & Tools
● Identify areas for improvement and provide on-going maintenance and updates to the Strategic Initiatives workspace;
● Support the drafting of external articles, presentations, e-mails and other communication;
● Support the team with stakeholder management (internal and external)
● Support the preparation of reports and other communication materials including blogs, newsletters, and bulletins to promote Strategic Initiatives’ achievements;
● Support organisational reporting - i.e. quarterly progress reports, management reports, and end of year report.
Monitoring and Progress Controls
● Setting standards, personal and development objectives in Performance Evaluation Review;
● Responsible for monitoring and reporting on set goals, targets and performance requirements against the Performance Evaluation Review and work plan;
● Support the updating of the Intranet Page for the Strategic Initiatives team;
● Successfully meeting deadlines based on workplan;