Project Clerk

UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to end poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, as well as protect the planet, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Together, these efforts aim to ensure that improvements in human wellbeing remain within ecological boundaries. We also help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities and institutional capabilities, as well as build resilience, in order to achieve the SDGs.

UNDP China has been working in China over the past 45 years, partnering to advance various phases of China’s development. UNDP China’s actions and programmes for the period of 2021-2025 are defined in its Country Programme Document for China (CPD), prepared in cooperation with the Government of China and other partners. The CPD contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for China (UNSDCF) 2021-2025 and is aligned to support the development priorities outlined in the Government of China’s 14th Five Year Plan.

The Biodiversity Finance Initiative – BIOFIN – is a global programme that developed, piloted, and is continuously improving a methodology to measure existing biodiversity expenditure levels, assess future financial needs, and design comprehensive plans to use finance tools and solutions that increase financing,  reduce harmful expenditure, and improve financial effectiveness and efficiency of biodiversity management over 41 countries. BIOFIN’s first phase (2012-2018) enabled full assessments and initial implementation of finance plan elements in target countries. Significant enhancement and scaling up of finance solutions is required in all countries to address the biodiversity finance challenge.  BIOFIN’s second phase enables countries to complete the design and implementation of priority finance solutions and will allow new countries to undertake the assessments and create the finance plan. At the central level, knowledge management platforms will be expanded and addititonal guidance produced for most valuable finance solutions. BIOFIN Global is also managing the Enabling and Scaling up Nature-related Financial Disclosures project (short for IKI-TNFD project). BIOFIN China is facilitating the IKI-TNFD project in China.

•    Provide administrative and basic financial support to the project, especially those related to project funding and accounting.
•    Assist in project related activities, including administrative support for meetings, local and national consultations, trips and other project related activities, e.g. raising TR,  receiving visitors.
•    Assist in logistical matters to organise the inception workshop, consultation workshops and any meetings as required
•    Facilitate all travel for participants to global and regional workshops and other international meetings, ensuring all necessary visa, security clearances and plane tickets are obtained timely and confirmations/changes of travel arrangements are communicated to the global BIOFIN team immediately.
•    Document and share records of meetings, decisions, actions, etc.
•    Maintain basic financial date in the Quantum system.
•    Assist in submitting project procurement requests and do necessary follow-ups.
•    Administrative support to project closure.
•    Document and file all project related papers and reports including project documents, work plan, etc.
•    Assist in coordinating with other departments in the country office such as procurement and finance team to facilitate project procurement and payment processes.
•    Any other duties assigned by the National BIOFIN Leader or National Project Coordinator that have direct relevance to the projects.

Institutional Arrangement

The project clerk will report to the National Coordinator of BIOFIN China.

• Business Management - Customer Satisfaction/Client Management:  • Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfill and understand the real customers' needs. • Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy.  • Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests. • Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns
• Business Management - Working with Evidence and Data: Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making
• Business Management - Communication: • Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.  • Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels.

• Secondary education (Completion of High School Education) is required.
• University degree (Bachelor’s degree) in Finance, Ecology, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Management, Business Administration, or International Studies will be given due consideration but is not a requirement.