Policy Component Manager

Policy Component Manager


  • Job Identification
    22228
  • Posting Date
    2024-11-18, 04:58 p.m.
  • Apply Before
    2024-12-03, 07:59 a.m.
  • Job Schedule
    Full time
  • Locations





    Chisinau, Republic of Moldova





  • Agency
    UNDP
  • Grade
    NPSA-9
  • Vacancy Type
    National Personnel Service Agreement
  • Practice Area
    Inclusive Growth
  • Bureau
    Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS
  • Contract Duration
    1 Year with Possibility for extension
  • Education & Work Experience
    Master’s Degree – 2 yr(s) expertise OR Bachelor’s Degree – 4 yr(s) expertise
  • Required Languages
    English and Romanian
  • Vacancy Timeline
    2 Weeks

  • Job Description

    Background

     
    Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core ideas at UNDP:  we worth variety as an expression of the multiplicity of countries and cultures the place we function, we foster inclusion as a manner of making certain all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we guarantee fairness and equity in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ strategy to our variety efforts means rising illustration of underserved populations. People who determine as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly inspired to apply. Learn extra about working at UNDP together with our values and inspiring stories.

     
    UNDP doesn’t tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any sort of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks.

    The Swiss-UNDP undertaking “Resilient, Inclusive Markets in Moldova” (RIM) is ready to contribute to the promotion of built-in approaches to inclusive and sustainable native financial improvement and employment creation, in partnership with ILO and SDC, focusing on each native populations, in addition to returning migrants and refugees.

    Previous and ongoing SDC – UNDP efforts to deal with the constructive affect of migration and interact migrants in native socio-economic improvement, together with design and piloting of native financial developments fashions and partnerships formed a positive enabling atmosphere to develop the present work and take it to a different degree. In this context, Moldova has plenty of comparative benefits that may be harnessed to steam up the expansion, broaden its geography, and make it extra socially inclusive.

    In order to take action, UNDP Moldova will additional advance the profitable LED interventions by scaling up the main focus from native to (micro)-regional, whereas on the identical time leveraging income technology, strengthening enterprise help providers and worth chains to extend the competitiveness of native economic system, retention of human capital and facilitate native socio-economic improvement. The position of the SMEs, together with owned and led by migrants, is essential, being doubtlessly essentially the most environment friendly transmission between the financial progress and welfare of the employed individuals, notably within the distant rural communities and small cities. Also new political and socio-economic improvement required new approaches, considering the necessity to construct extra resilient, inclusive, and progressive native communities and native markets. 

    Hence, the strategic aim of the RIM undertaking is to boost the SMEs-based sustainable financial improvement and promote equal entry to respectable work on the native and (micro)-regional ranges, focusing on each native populations, in addition to returning migrants and refugees. It leverages the improved multi-stakeholder cooperation, improved enterprise help providers and complementary regulatory frameworks on the degree of particular person communities and micro-regions.

    The Project will improve sustainability of the outcomes from the earlier efforts supported by the Swiss Government, form them to new political and socio-economic developments, by embracing and selling related coverage and community-action improvements and by making certain engagement of all related stakeholders within the design and implementation of native improvement options for constructing responsive establishments, inclusive economic system, and resilient communities. In gentle of the regional safety atmosphere that’s anticipated to stay turbulent even in essentially the most optimistic situations, the Project is meant to convey a beneficial contribution to the triple humanitarian-development-peace nexus on the native/regional degree.

    The strategic aim of the RIM undertaking is to boost the inclusive, aggressive, and sustainable financial improvement, and promote equal entry to respectable work on the native and (micro)-regional ranges, by leveraging the improved multi-stakeholder cooperation, improved enterprise help providers and complementary regulatory frameworks.

    The Project targets three interrelated Outcomes. As a part of ;

    Outcome 1, coverage and institutional frameworks create an empowering atmosphere for inclusive and sustainable financial improvement within the focused financial sectors.

    The Outcome 2 assumes that native/regional communities together with non-public sector representatives, meaningfully cooperate in cluster codecs to boost worth chains and enhance their competitiveness.

    As a part of Outcome 3, the folks of Moldova, particularly ladies, youth, returning migrants and refugees, will profit from improved financial alternatives within the pilot micro-regions.
     

    Duties and Responsibilities

     The Policy Component Manager will coordinate the implementation of the Project’s Component devoted to improved financial alternatives within the pilot micro-regions (akin to Outcomes 1 and three), notably specializing in:

    Ensure Component administration

    • Assume general duty for the coordination of the Project’s Component devoted to improved financial alternatives, particularly on coverage and employment associated areas within the focused micro-regions;
    • Contribute to the well timed and environment friendly supply of outputs and merchandise resulting in the achievement of anticipated Project outcomes and guarantee full compliance of all actions with UNDP insurance policies and procedures;
    • Contribute to the collection of preparatory steps to be undertaken within the pilot micro-regions, together with from the attitude of capability constructing and adoption of native views;
    • Build up and coordinate the availability of top-quality advisory providers (by the help crew of technical consultants and specialised specialists) as to make sure the profitable implementation of the Component actions (notably within the discipline of SME improvement, native employment, and financial reintegration);
    • Contribute to the enhancement, through stronger partnerships, of native private and non-private stakeholders’ capability to draw expert workforce within the micro-regions focused by the RIM Project;
    • Advise and oversee the implementation of a pilot facilitation/incentives mechanism for enhancing the employment potential within the chosen worth chains (notably of ladies, returning migrants and refugees, NEET from goal communities);
    • Support the RIM Project Manager and the UNDP CO typically undertaking implementation and associated strategic processes.

    Provision of Policy advocacy and advisory

    • Facilitate the coordination with the ILO and FAO Projects of stakeholder engagement, as to make sure the required co-benefits and synergy of experience/ scope inside the SDC Programme;
    • Liaise and coordinate with institutional companions/ stakeholders pertaining to the Component’s actions within the discipline of public insurance policies, regulatory updates, and governmental programme implementation;
    • Conduct institutional and threat analyses, capability evaluation and coverage evaluations pertaining to the Component’s portfolio of interventions, in addition to play an energetic position in coverage recommendation, strategic considering, and data sharing;
    • Elaborate and keep monitoring instruments and oversee the correct reporting and documentation of the Component’s actions by means of completely different strategies (which can embody, however usually are not restricted to information assortment and evaluation, strategic conferences, discipline visits, particular studies, and many others.);
    • Make sound contributions to coverage data networks and communities of follow;
    • Provide stable inputs to undertaking’s analytical merchandise, work plans and progress studies, and many others.;
    • Prepare thematic briefs on doable areas of cooperation with improvement companions.

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

     Institutional Arrangement

    Under the steerage and direct supervision of the RIM Project Manager and with the general steerage of the UNDP Programme Specialist, the Policy Component Manager shall make sure the efficient and environment friendly administration of the Project’s Component devoted to improved financial alternatives within the pilot micro-regions (akin to Outcomes 1 and three).

    The Project Component Manager shall apply and promote the ideas of results-based administration (RBM), in addition to a client-oriented strategy in step with UNDP guidelines and laws.

    The Component Manager will work in shut collaboration with the Project Manager, Senior Project Officer on Local Development and Communication Analyst for the efficient achievement of outcomes, anticipating and resolving advanced project-related points and data supply.

    The incumbent is predicted to train full compliance with UNDP programming, monetary, procurement and administrative guidelines, laws, insurance policies, and techniques, in addition to implementation of the efficient inner management methods.
     

    Competencies
     
    Core-Competencies:
    • Achieve Results:             
      • LEVEL 1: Plans and screens personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline.
    • Think Innovatively:        
      • LEVEL 1: Open to artistic concepts/recognized dangers, is pragmatic downside solver, makes enhancements. 
    • Learn Continuously:     
      • LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares data, learns from errors, asks for suggestions.
    • Adapt with Agility:          
      • LEVEL 1: Adapts to alter, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile. 
    • Act with Determination:              
    • LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, capable of ship calmly in face of adversity, assured.
    • Engage and Partner:      
      • LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in the direction of others, types constructive relationships.
    • Enable Diversity and Inclusion:               
      • LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.
    Cross-Functional & Technical Competencies
    • Results-Based Management:    
      • Ability to handle the implementation of methods, programmes, and tasks with a spotlight at improved efficiency and demonstrable outcomes. 
      • Knowledge and understanding of related theories, ideas, methodologies, devices, and instruments.
    • Project Management:   
      • Ability to plan, manage, prioritize and management assets, procedures and protocols to attain particular objectives.
    • Communication:             
      • Communicate in a transparent, concise and unambiguous method each by means of written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers. 
      • Ability to handle communications internally and externally, by means of media, social media and different acceptable channels.
    • System Thinking:              
      • Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to know how interrelated parts coexist inside an general course of or system, and to contemplate how altering one aspect can affect on different elements of the system. 
    • Knowledge technology: 
      • Ability to analysis and switch info into helpful data, related for context, or conscious of a acknowledged want. 
      • Ability to apply present ideas to new conditions, and to develop new ideas to generate workable options and new approaches. 
      • Knowledge of related ideas, conceptual fashions, and theories that may be helpful in addressing new conditions.
    • Knowledge Facilitation:
      • Ability to animate people and teams, internally and externally, and to design and facilitate actions, to share and alternate data, info and concepts. 
      • Knowledge of instruments and approaches to stimulate energetic participation, contribution, and alternate.
    • Advocacy Strategy and Implementation:             
      • Ability to create and implement advocacy methods which result in impactful change

     
    Required Skills and Experience
     
    Education:
    • Master’s diploma in Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Business Administration, Public Finances or one other related discipline is required. OR;
    • Bachelor’s diploma within the areas talked about above, together with a further two years of qualifying expertise shall be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.
    Experience:
    • Minimum of two years with Master’s diploma OR; 
    • Minimum 4 years with a Bachelor’s diploma of progressive expertise in managing and/or implementing coverage improvement programmes and/or coverage advisory in enterprise improvement and/or employment.

    Required Skills:

    • Experience in improvement help or associated work for a donor group, governmental establishment, or consulting firm.

    Desired Skills:

    • Professional expertise in coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating tasks with native improvement, employment, diaspora engagement and/or coverage advisory parts shall be thought of a robust asset.
    • Proven expertise in comparable positions in UN Agencies shall be thought of a bonus.

    Required Languages:

    • Fluency in oral and written English and Romanian is required. 
    • Knowledge of a number of minority languages related for Moldova, together with Russian, Romani, Gagauzian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian and signal language, is an asset.

    Professional Certificates:

    • Additional coaching and certification in Project Management could be a bonus.
    Disclaimer
     
    Applicant details about UNDP rosters 
     
    Note: UNDP reserves the proper to pick a number of candidates from this emptiness announcement.  We may additionally retain functions and think about candidates making use of to this submit for different comparable positions with UNDP on the identical grade degree and with comparable job description, expertise and academic necessities. 
     
    Non-discrimination
     
    UNDP has a zero-tolerance coverage in the direction of sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas.   
     
    UNDP is an equal alternative and inclusive employer that doesn’t discriminate primarily based on race, intercourse, gender identification, faith, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, incapacity, being pregnant, age, language, social origin or different standing.  
     
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