Economic and Sustainable Finance Specialist

Tiered Approach

In line with the commitment to safeguard capacity and support personnel already in the Organization, a majority of UNDP UNCDF/UNV vacancies are advertised using a tiered application process whereby:

• Tier 0: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV IP staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments, whose posts will be abolished, or contracts will be terminated or not renewed during 2026.
• Tier 1: Other UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments
• Tier 2: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA), personnel on regular PSA contracts, and Expert and Specialist UN Volunteers
• Tier 3 or no tier indicated: All other contract types from UNDP/UNCDF/UNV and other agencies, and other external candidates

Please make note of the Tier(s) indicated in the vacancy title, if any, and ensure that you satisfy the eligibility to apply.

Background 

Viet Nam is undergoing a period of significant economic transformation, driven by its ambition to achieve high-income status by 2045 while transitioning towards a greener, more resilient and low-carbon development model. These ambitions are taking place in a rapidly evolving global environment, where climate change, technological transformation, changing trade and investment patterns, and increasing demands for sustainable production are reshaping the country's development opportunities and challenges.

Achieving these ambitions will require not only effective public policies and investment, but also new approaches to mobilizing and directing finance towards sustainable development. Public resources alone will not be sufficient to meet Viet Nam's development and climate financing needs. Increasingly, the challenge is to create policy, regulatory and market conditions that can mobilize domestic and international private capital and align financial flows with national development priorities.

UNDP Viet Nam works across several areas where these economic, policy and financing dimensions intersect. These include the energy transition and green growth; carbon markets and carbon pricing; biodiversity and nature finance; climate and disaster risk finance and insurance; circular economy; and sustainable private-sector development. Across these areas, UNDP combines policy advice, institutional support, innovative financing approaches and partnerships with Government, development partners, international financial institutions and the private sector.

As these areas of work evolve, there is an increasing opportunity to connect individual initiatives into a more coherent economic and financing offer. This requires understanding the economic and financial drivers underlying different development challenges; identifying synergies and opportunities across portfolios; assessing emerging policy and market developments; and translating these into strategic policy propositions, programmes and partnerships capable of mobilizing finance on a scale.