Consultant on Data and Finance

The Consultant on Data and Finance will be responsible for the integrity, consistency and defensibility of the data and financial analysis produced across the Sustainable Finance team's grant portfolio, including all figures reported to donors. The Consultant will work on the project for 12 months initially, with possibility of extension subject to funding availability and Office's needs, with clear deliverables and expected results, per the workplan to be developed in the first weeks of service.

New York

12 months initially

This consultancy assignment is with the United Nations Global Compact Office (UNGCO) in New York. The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) is the United Nations' voluntary corporate sustainability initiative in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment, and anticorruption. It revolves around ten universal principles drawn from four key international instruments in these areas. The Global Compact Office is the United Nations entity responsible for the overall management and coordination of the Global Compact initiative. It pursues two complementary objectives: (1) making the Global Compact and its principles part of business strategy and operations everywhere; and (2) facilitating cooperation among key stakeholders by promoting partnerships and collective action in support of United Nations, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Project background: The Consultant on Data and Finance holds the data and financial analysis backbone of the Sustainable Finance team's grant portfolio, including Scaling Sustainable Finance in Africa and the Invest in Women Initiative. The role maintains the Annual Impact and Progress Report (AIPR) data infrastructure for the CFO Coalition for the SDGs and the financial analysis on which donor reporting depends. • Maintain and develop the AIPR data infrastructure for the CFO Coalition for the SDGs, including data collection, validation, reconciliation and methodology documentation. • Lead the financial and data analysis underpinning the baseline sustainable finance report and subsequent programme reporting. • Design, test and manage the impact survey instrument, including distribution, response management and analysis. • Maintain the results framework and indicator tracking across the grant portfolio, ensuring data is captured consistently and is audit-ready. • Produce the financial data and certified reporting inputs required for donor reports, in coordination with the Government and UN Relations team and the finance function. • Develop data visualizations, dashboards and analytical outputs for internal decision-making and external knowledge products. • Provide analytical support to programme design, including contributions to the Theory of Change and the quantification of programme targets. • Serve as the technical point of contact on data methodology questions from Country Networks, member companies and external reviewers. The consultant will report to the Programme Officer (Social Sustainability).

Master's Degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Business Administration or other relevant areas. A first-level degree with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree. Minimum 7 years of experience in data analysis, financial analysis or monitoring and evaluation is required Demonstrated experience building and maintaining data infrastructure for recurring reporting cycles is required. Experience producing financial or programmatic data for institutional donors, including audit-ready reporting, is required. Experience in designing and analysing survey instruments is highly desirable. Experience working with corporate sustainability or sustainable finance data is desirable. Experience working with the United Nations or other multilateral organizations is desirable.

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another UN official language is desirable

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