Inclusive Parliaments Specialist – Part-time 50%

• The Pacific Parliamentary Effectiveness Initiatives Project – Phase 2, 2019 – 2024
• The Nauru Accountable and Inclusive Governance Project, 2021 – 2024
• Strengthening Legislatures’ Capacity in Pacific Island Countries Project – Phase 2, 2023-2026
• Fiji Parliament Support Project – Phase 3, 2022-2025

Through these initiatives, UNDP offers direct help to the Legislatures of Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

As consultant establishments, Parliaments have an inherent must mirror the society they symbolize. UNDP’s parliamentary growth programming has a significant deal with supporting legislatures to be extra inclusive, in a number of methods, as follows:

• Increasing the proportion of ladies Members of Parliament (descriptive illustration);
• Supporting ladies Members of Parliament to be simpler, impactful and resilient;
• Improving the capability of Parliaments, Committees, MPs and workers to take actions that advance all ladies’s rights and gender equality (substantive illustration);
• Supporting Parliaments to extra successfully have interaction with and symbolize younger folks and take motion on the insurance policies that have an effect on and matter to them.
• Supporting Parliaments to be extra inclusive of their engagement with all members of society, particularly marginalized and minoritized teams, and the weak.

The Inclusive Parliaments Specialist will execute the duties and duties outlined above underneath the steerage and supervision of the Parliamentary Development Portfolio Manager, and in shut collaboration with the Parliamentary Development Specialist. 

The Inclusive Parliaments Specialist will work underneath the supervision of the Parliamentary Development Portfolio Manager and act as technical specialist for the portfolio of initiatives offering parliamentary help with a deal with initiatives aimed toward rising the inclusivity of Pacific Island Country Parliaments. This publish requires substantive technical advisory information to advise the nationwide counterparts, suggest efficient approaches and formulate new initiatives within the topic space, with specific ability to advocate for and help implementation of measures to extend inclusivity in a context the place the prevailing urge for food or perceived readiness for change could also be restricted. The Specialist member shall be home-based, with frequent journey to Suva (Fiji) in addition to different international locations coated by the Portfolio. The Specialist will work in shut coordination with the Country Office’s broader gender equality programming, notably with the Gender Specialist of the Inclusive Governance workforce.

The Specialist may also help an engagement with worldwide growth companions, constructing strategic partnerships, and figuring out new alternatives for UNDP to maximise its influence and visibility on this space by means of growth of recent proposals and technical recommendation.

Provide strategic technical course and management, and lead on provision of excessive-high quality coverage recommendation and help on Inclusive Parliaments in keeping with worldwide finest apply. 

• Lead on drafting of coverage suggestions on Inclusive Parliaments (that leverages UN experience, assets, worldwide finest apply) aiming at bettering each the provision and demand of alternatives for traditionally underrepresented and excluded people and teams to be a part of and interact within the work of Parliaments, in shut collaboration with the Parliament Speakers, administration and all related departments inside the Parliaments. 
• Deliver forefront technical recommendation and thought management on inclusive parliaments to nationwide counterparts and lead analytical work to determine key coverage points/gaps to enhance insurance policies for the thematic space of the portfolio.
• Advise the design and implementation of programming initiatives within the space of ladies’s political illustration and participation, improved inclusion of youth, individuals with incapacity, marginalized and minoritized teams together with by means of collaboration with different parliamentary portfolio specialists and UNDP election help workforce.
• Conduct thorough evaluation of the political, social, and financial scenario within the context of the portfolio and supply strategic recommendation to the UNDP CO administration on points associated to the thematic space.
• Provide background papers, briefing notes and idea notes to tell decision- makers for a complete, lengthy-time period strategy to inclusive parliaments the Pacific together with strengthening of the legislatures’ legislation-making, illustration, oversight and different roles of Parliaments.
• Provide strategic recommendation to the Parliamentary Development Portfolio Manager resulting in strategic positioning of UNDP almost about sustainable capability growth of the Pacific Parliaments and advise the UNDP Pacific Office on attainable key interventions with an extended-time period perspective that can complement the method of deepening democracy and facilitate the event of recent initiatives on this or adjoining areas.

Substantively contribute to the supply of the Inclusive Parliaments actions and initiatives by means of consultants, contractors and NGOs, together with growing phrases of reference, taking part in procurement, choice and hiring, and overseeing their supply to make sure prime quality outputs.   

• Together with programme counterparts, determine new areas of help and facilitates implementation of recent initiatives. 
• Support monitoring and analysis knowledge for parliamentary growth and girls’s political participation / illustration work. 
• Guide preparation for, and actively take part in Project Board conferences.
• Guide related substantive a part of the quarterly, mid-yr and annual reporting.  
• Contribute to the identification of dangers and points and updating of threat logs. 

Provide technical oversight and high quality assurance for portfolio and venture implementation within the space of inclusive parliaments.

• Provide technical experience and strategic steerage to the Portfolio Manager (PM) in successfully planning and implementing Inclusive Parliaments actions to make sure achievement of targets and outcomes. Oversight duties embody annual work planning and budgeting, monitoring, and reporting on progress and budgets, administration of portfolio assets, procurement of products and companies, and contractual administration. 
• Advise on adaptation choices envisaged within the portfolio venture paperwork and determine wants for exterior technical help for efficient implementation, together with growing phrases of references. Update and revise related portfolio indicators, baselines, targets, and technique of verification for portfolio outcomes, outputs, and actions as required for efficient planning, implementation, M&E, and reporting. 
• Carry out assessments of the technical, monetary, political, operational and administration conditions on the bottom that have an effect on the portfolio implementation within the space of Inclusive Parliaments and hold the UNDP CO abreast of the conditions and potential portfolio dangers. Provide management in growing threat mitigation measures throughout all portfolio phases and figuring out options to handle current gaps arising out of assessments. Prepare and consolidate info, knowledge, and reviews on the achievements of the portfolio within the space of Inclusive Parliaments in line with the indications and targets within the log body and necessities of donors.
• Lead the design and put in place high quality management mechanisms, together with coordination of contributions from related accountable events to make sure highest high quality of portfolio outputs, merchandise, publications, and coverage dialogue papers and briefs earlier than overview and approval by UNDP and parliament companions (if wanted).
• Provide technical steerage, enter, and help to the portfolio workforce. Ensure coordination between UNDP and all portfolio stakeholders to make sure that monetary and operational procedures of the portfolio are in keeping with UNDP guidelines and laws.
• Lead programme of help to accomplice establishments to discover, experiment with and implement digitization initiatives throughout the total spectrum of parliamentary exercise together with inner techniques, engagement with the general public, and oversight of regulatory and coverage initiatives within the digital house.
• Ensure full integration and mainstreaming of initiatives within the space of ladies’s political illustration and participation with broader programming areas, and guarantee assortment of related knowledge enabling measurement on progress in direction of portfolio targets associated to gender equality and girls’s empowerment. 
• Lead the design and growth of regional portfolio initiatives to strengthen capability constructing help to portfolio beneficiaries, to make sure the sustainability of portfolio interventions and help accomplice establishments to strengthen their very own capacities for coaching, skilled growth and information administration.

Develop and help the strengthening of partnerships and relationships with key stakeholders and companions.

• Together with the Portfolio Manager and Parliamentary Development Specialist, contribute to donor reviews on implementation, the achievement of outputs in addition to contributes to reporting on progress in direction of outcomes and influence.
• Promote info sharing and coordination with UN companies within the space of inclusive parliaments.
• Develop partnerships with different companies offering help to Pacific Parliaments within the space of inclusive parliaments.
• Ensure that UNDP and worldwide finest apply and lesson studying is fed into programmatic and strategic growth of the inclusive parliament’s growth element of UNDP help to Pacific Parliaments.
• Strengthen UNDP’s partnerships with the worldwide neighborhood of parliamentary growth practitioners within the space of inclusive parliaments.

Lead information and capability constructing, information sharing, and advocacy on inclusive parliaments and UNDP. 

• Provide substantive recommendation and technical help to the event and implementation of a capability growth/ studying plan on inclusive parliaments for related colleagues within the Country Office and take part in international/regional studying initiatives.
• Lead the method of information seize of nationwide and worldwide know-how in inclusive parliaments and doc portfolio classes, experiences, and finest practices that could be helpful in design and implementation of comparable initiatives for organizational and exterior sharing and studying. Produce supplies with classes realized and finest practices and different information-primarily based instruments.
• Keep abreast of the developments in parliamentary growth and supply steerage on the way to incorporate them into UNDP’s present and future programming. Provide technical steerage and high quality assurance to content material growth for information merchandise.
• Lead advocacy for and strengthening of nationwide capability for planning and coordination of inclusive parliaments programmes.  

The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed mandatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.

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