Programme Analyst

The Programme Analyst for Nature and Climate Change at UNDP Bolivia is responsible for technical coordination, planning, implementation, and monitoring of environmental and climate projects. The role supports strategic and operational management of the portfolio, resource mobilization, and ensures alignment with national and international frameworks related to biodiversity, climate, and sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to formulation and implementation of UNDP programme strategies and policies, including analysis of political, social and economic situation and inputs to UN Common Country Assessment and Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework.
• Ensure effective management of the CO programme within assigned thematic/sector areas focusing on quality assurance and risk management from formulation to implementation.
• Oversee planning, budgeting, implementation and monitoring of assigned programme areas; track use of financial resources in accordance with UNDP rules and regulations.
• Ensure effective application of results-based management tools and track achievement of strategic results.
• Support trends analysis for future informed and anticipatory programming.
• Prepare and aggregate reports on activities, outputs and outcomes, including donor and corporate reports.
• Develop partnerships with UN Agencies, international financial institutions, government institutions, donors, private sector, and civil society in assigned programme/thematic areas.
• Identify strategic programme areas of cooperation including for joint programming and support resource mobilization efforts.
• Provide top-quality advisory services and facilitate knowledge building and management, including policy advice and advocacy.
• Organize training for operations/projects staff on programme related matters.
• Supervise programme and project staff.

Requirements

• Master's degree with 2 years of relevant experience, or a bachelor's degree with 4 years of relevant experience.
• Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Biology, Ecology, Natural Resource Management, Geography, Sustainable Development, Forestry Engineering, Agronomy, or related fields or a first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Master’s degree in Climate Change, Environmental Management, Environmental Policy, Conservation, Risk Management/Resilience is desirable.
• Courses/certifications in MRV/Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA), Landscape Restoration, Watershed Management, Safeguards/ESG, Environmental Economics are desirable but not required.
• Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) in environmental or climate project management/programming (planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting).
• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), database packages, and web-based management systems such as ERP.
• Experience in biodiversity/conservation, restoration, natural resource management, climate (mitigation/adaptation), community resilience, or Nature-based Solutions (NbS) is desirable.
• Experience with indicator monitoring, logical frameworks/Theories of Change, and donor reporting is desirable.
• Experience working with the public sector, subnational governments, communities/NGOs, academia, or development cooperation is desirable.
• Experience in project proposal development, budget/schedule management, and support in drafting Terms of Reference (ToRs) and procurement processes is desirable.
• Experience with environmental and social safeguards, gender, knowledge management, and technical communication is desirable.
• Experience at the national and/or international level in providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development portfolios and projects in a related thematic area is desirable.
• Experience managing teams is desirable.
• Fluency in Spanish and English is required.

Skills

• Environmental Project Management
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Climate Change Mitigation
• Natural Resource Management
• Biodiversity Conservation
• Environmental Policy
• Sustainable Development
• Risk Management
• Recovery and resilience planning
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Logical Frameworks
• Theories of Change
• Donor Reporting
• Project Proposal Preparation
• Budget Management
• Procurement Procedures
• Environmental and Social Safeguards
• Knowledge Management
• Technical Communication
• ERP Systems
• MS Word
• MS Excel

Languages

English, Spanish