Job Description
Hosted by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (MPTF Office) is the one United Nations unit solely devoted to the design and administration of multi-stakeholder pooled financing devices. Since 2003, it has supported over 200 UN-implemented pooled funds, offering an built-in platform of inter-agency pooled fund companies to assist UN organizations and companions make quick and environment friendly progress in direction of collective outcomes, just like the 2030 Agenda. The MPTF Office’s present portfolio is over $16 billion in whole, with greater than $1.8 billion per yr in contributions and consists of greater than 150 lively pooled financing mechanisms. Â
The MPTF Office’s trustee and fund design and administration service is a regular setter within the UN System – professionalized, extremely clear and firewalled from all UN implementing entities. The MPTF Office has put in place plenty of instruments and methods to help its clear and accessible fund administration companies resembling its digital platform the MPTF Office Gateway. As a shared UN service supplier, the MPTFO operates in a definite and devoted enterprise unit. It offers an built-in service platform that, along with core belief fund design and administration capabilities, offers complementary companies to customers like information analytics, analysis administration, and data administration.
UNDP adopts a portfolio strategy to accommodate altering enterprise wants and leverage linkages throughout interventions to attain its strategic objectives. Therefore, UNDP personnel are anticipated to work throughout items, capabilities, groups, and tasks in multidisciplinary groups so as to improve and allow horizontal collaboration.Â
Under the supervision of the Senior Portfolio Manager and the general steerage and course of the Executive Coordinator of the MPTF Office, the Fund Portfolio Associate’s duties will embrace the next fundamental capabilities:Â
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Ensures administrative help for assigned MDTFs/JPs specializing in achievement of the next outcomes:
- Prepare and facilitate signatures of ordinary Contribution Agreements (SAAs) and Memoranda of Understanding (MOU).Â
- Ensure well timed set-up and replace of GATEWAY pages of assigned MPTFs/JPs and associated tasks.
- Prepare requests for organising new donor and implementing company codes, and provoke requests for provider profile creation.
- Maintain all related Fund information (hardcopy and e-copy on SharePoint).
- Update frequently all shoppers contact database together with donor info.
Ensures programme help for assigned MDTFs/JPs specializing in achievement of the next outcomes:
- Provide routine programmatic help to Fund Secretariats and different Fund stakeholders by responding promptly and effectively to queries and requests.
- Create proposals and arrange budgets in Quantum and route proposal and/or funds to Portfolio Manager for approval of award in MDTF1 / sending funds to KK.
- Assist within the preparation of paperwork for the annual consolidated reporting for all MPTFs / JPs and in making certain the well timed receipt of narrative and monetary experiences from Participating Organizations.
- Coordinate actions round undertaking extensions and closure, together with willpower of unutilized funds and donor balances, and facilitation of donor refunds/switch to new funds.
- Conduct overview of the MDTF1 Funds and tasks to keep up correct standing info in Quantum (finish date, budgets, lively, inactive, operationally closed, and financially closed).
Provides finance help for the assigned MDTFs/JPs specializing in the next outcomes:
- Assist in managing of donor commitments and monitoring of receipt of donor contributions and observe donor earmarks.
- Assist in monitoring and monitoring undertaking approvals, funds information, disbursements and statements of expenditure submitted by the Participating Organizations on an on-going foundation.
- Lead authorizing evaluations of Fund Transfer Checklist, together with correct checking of the supporting paperwork for funds and follow-up on lacking documentation.
- Prepare normal monetary experiences for inclusion within the annual consolidated progress experiences for MDTFs / JPs.
Ensures data sharing and facilitates data constructing specializing in the next outcomes:
- Contribute to workplace technique and workplan growth.Â
- Support within the group of information occasions on particular Funds/JPs or the general MPTF Office portfolio.
- Synthesize classes learnt and greatest practices associated to particular features of portfolio administration.
- Provides help to total administrative and workplace administration of the MPTF Office
- Focal level and/or alternate for programme associated journey and workplace operations duties.
Other capabilities:
- The incumbent performs different duties inside their useful profile as deemed mandatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization
Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:Â
- None
Core – CoreBehaviouralCompetencies.pdf (undp.org)
Achieve Results:
- Level 1: Plans and displays personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively:
- Level 1: Open to inventive concepts/recognized dangers, is pragmatic drawback solver, makes enhancementsÂ
Learn Continuously
- Level 1: Open minded and curious, shares data, learns from errors, asks for suggestions
Adapt with AgilityÂ
- Level 1: Adapts to vary, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatileÂ
Act with Determination       Â
- Level 1: Shows drive and motivation, capable of ship calmly in face of adversity, assured
Engage and Partner
- Level 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in direction of others, varieties constructive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion
- Level 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discriminationÂ
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Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:
Business Management – Monitoring & Evaluation
- Ability to systematically monitor outcomes of methods, programmes, and actions with a view to be sure that they’re being applied successfully; Ability to offer managers and key stakeholders with common suggestions and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between deliberate actions and programme administration and outcomes.
- Ability to make unbiased judgment of the administration and outcomes of methods, programmes and actions primarily based on set standards and benchmark, holding in thoughts the wants and issues of consumer, present and upcoming.Â
- Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and analysis frameworks, ideas, methodologies, methods, processes, and instruments.Â
- Ability to make an unbiased judgement primarily based on set standards and benchmarks. Ability to anticipate consumer’s upcoming wants and issues.
Finance – Budget ManagementÂ
- Ability to help budgetary features of labor planning course of, drawing and administration of staff budgetsÂ
Business administration – Partnerships administration        Â
- Build and preserve partnerships with large networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and personal sector companions, specialists and others in step with UNDP technique and insurance policies
Business Management – Communication             Â
- Communicate in a transparent, concise and unambiguous method each via written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers.Â
- Ability to handle communications internally and externally, via media, social media and different acceptable channels
Business Development – Knowledge Generation             Â
- Ability to analysis info and to show it into helpful data, related for context, or attentive to a acknowledged want.Â
- Ability to apply current ideas to new conditions, and to develop new ideas to generate workable options and new approaches.Â
- Knowledge of related ideas, conceptual fashions, and theories that may be helpful in addressing new conditions.
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- Completion of Secondary Education is required OR
- University Degree (Bachelor’s) in Business, Public Administration, Economics or different related fields can be given due consideration however is just not a requirement.
- Minimum 6 years (with Secondary training) or 3 years (with University Degree) of progressively accountable expertise in administrative and/or programme help companies is required.
- At least 2 years of working with UN pooled financing mechanism can be an asset.
- Experience in the usage of computer systems purposes and software program packages (MS Word, Excel, and so forth.) in addition to web-based administration methods is requiredÂ
- Experience in utilizing ERP methods is fascinating.
Language Requirement:
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of French and/or Spanish can be fascinating.Â
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