Social and Environmental Standards Analyst

Job description

Background UNDP’s Social and Environmental Standards (SES) underpin UNDP’s commitment to mainstream social and environmental sustainability in its interventions (portfolios, programs, and projects). The standards aim to: Strengthen the quality of programming by ensuring a principled approach; Maximize social and environmental opportunities and benefits; Avoid adverse impacts on people and the environment; Minimize, mitigate, and manage adverse impacts where avoidance is not possible; Strengthen UNDP and partner capacities for managing social and environmental risks; and Ensure full and effective stakeholder engagement, including through a mechanism to respond to complaints from project-affected people. The SES are an integral component of UNDP’s quality assurance and risk management approach to programming. To this end, UNDP has a global SES team that is hosted by BPPS and involves global and regional SES technical advisors matrixed to relevant Regional Bureaux. The SES team provides advisory and oversight services to UNDP operations, aiming to fuel the integration of SES into project design and guiding the SES risk assessment and management in compliance with the UNDP SES Policy....