Deadline: 16 December, 2020
Location: Dakar, Senegal
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Country Programme Specialist.
UNDP works in nearly 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion.
Responsibilities
- Proactively engage with country office (CO) to better align programmes with corporate and regional priorities, offering knowledge from other country programmes, evaluations, performance analytics, and other available sources of lessons learnt
- Appraise, review and present recommendations to CO’s annual plan on individual projects as well as in support to the supervisor on CO-wide planning, working with policy teams to offer a joint portfolio of available knowledge and resources, and proactively liaising with the COs throughout their programme cycles in order to identify and propose additional support needed
- Review CO requests for policy and programme management support and advise the team leader on urgency/prioritisation against other competing demands
- Ensure quality assurance and contribute to CO’s terms of references (ToRs) for technical, operations, and programmatic support, providing substantive inputs and knowledge of national, sub-regional, regional and sectoral context
- Support the formulation of the UN cooperation framework/equivalent and to the country programme by proposing established and comparative methods and concepts that help ensure the relevance of UNDP’s support to national development priorities
- Perform quality assurance of CO programme planning in alignment with corporate and regional priorities to enhance completeness, appropriateness and compliance of the planning documents with corporate expectations
- Brief regional advisor/specialists and bureau leadership in advance of the regional PAC
- Facilitate alignment/linkage between CO programmes and projects with regional and corporate strategy and priorities by sharing the bureau’s newly developed policies and priorities with the CO leadership, disseminating corporate analysis on sub-regional trends, and providing first level of oversight of compliance with corporate programme management standards
- Guide and review CO integrated work plan (IWP) elaboration process to align with corporate, operational and programmatic standards, conducting field missions, providing advice to CO leadership and undertaking first level of quality assurance before approval by the Bureau
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in International Relations, Economics, Policy Science, or a related field
- Bachelor’s degree with two years of relevant professional work experience or ‘licence’ with an additional year of relevant professional work experience is also acceptable
- Five years, minimum, of progressively responsible professional work experience in development, economics or other related field of work
- Experience in the use of computer packages such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel
- Knowledge of country programme management, preferably within UNDP or the UN system
- Full proficiency in French
- Full proficiency in English (desirable)
To apply and for more information, click here.
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