Job Description
UNDP is the UN’s world growth community and assists nations to construct and share options to the challenges of globalization and human growth. UNDP’s assist to nations on local weather change and catastrophe resilience is formed by three necessary world agreements: the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. UNDP works with nations to assist them scale back greenhouse gases and advance a long-term purpose of zero-carbon growth. At the identical time, we work along with companions to adapt to the impacts of local weather change, improve entry to scrub vitality, scale back the chance of disasters and, the place wanted, assist resilient catastrophe restoration. Taken all collectively, these efforts are the trail in the direction of sustainable growth that’s risk-informed, zero-carbon and resilient.
The Central Asia area has a protracted historical past of catastrophe impacts, which on common price $10 billion in estimated financial losses and have an effect on greater than 3 million individuals yearly. The area has a fancy danger profile, with rising impacts of local weather change, excessive environmental degradation, and air pollution, conflicts, in addition to new and rising safety dangers and threats. The inhabitants of the area, particularly in city areas, is very uncovered to the impacts of those hazards, and urbanization is outpacing danger discount and adaptation efforts of governments within the area.
The mission “Enhancing Urban Resilience to Disaster Risk and Climate Change in Central Asia” is funded by the Government of Japan and anticipated to be carried out by UNDP in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The general goal of the mission is to assist all 5 Central Asian nations in constructing local weather resilience, specializing in city areas. The mission will particularly deal with enhancing regional cooperation and partnership by way of the prevailing coordination platforms, whereas introducing modern approaches in city planning based mostly on sensible experiences from different nations, together with Japan.
New approaches to built-in local weather and catastrophe danger evaluation will rework city planning from resilience lenses, whereas contemplating future depth and magnitude of pure hazards because of the altering local weather. Knowledge base and capability constructing efforts might be institutionalized within the area to make sure sustainability of interventions past the mission cycle. The mission will promote a people-centered, gender delicate and local weather risk-informed holistic method to interrupt siloes in city planning efforts.
The Regional Project Manager (RPM) might be based mostly in Almaty (Kazakhstan). The incumbent is anticipated to journey on official enterprise outdoors the home nation for greater than one-third of the service interval.
The RPM’s prime duty might be to make sure that the mission produces the outcomes specified within the mission doc to the required commonplace of high quality and inside the specified constraints of time and value.
More particularly:
Coordinate general administration and implementation of the Project for the achievement of mission targets and outcomes:
- Liaises with the Project Board to guarantee the general route and integrity of the mission in step with the selections and proposals of the Project Board;
- Plans the actions of the mission in step with the permitted mission doc and displays progress towards the mission outcomes framework and the permitted annual workplan; evaluations and appraises detailed mission plans, together with the multi-year work plan and Quantum entries/stories overlaying exercise definition, up to date danger log and the monitoring schedule plan;
- Mobilizes personnel, items and providers to initiative actions, together with drafting phrases of reference and work specs, and overseeing all contractors’ work;
- Provides strategic steerage and administration oversight to the mission group, reviewing and clear frequently progress stories from companions, deliverables, disbursements and budgets to make sure implementation is on observe;
- Carries out common follow-up and monitoring of implementation actions in addition to common monitoring and reporting on dangers and mitigation measures;
- Coordinates preparation and supply technical inputs and seek the advice of work-plans for implementation of the mission in shut session with key companions incl. UNDP Country Offices and the nationwide governments concerned as per the Project Documents. Implements the mission monitoring plan/timetable, and replace the plan as required;
- Manages requests for the availability of economic sources by UNDP, by way of advance of funds, direct funds or reimbursement utilizing the fund authorization and certificates of expenditures;
- Monitors monetary sources and accounting to make sure the accuracy and reliability of economic stories;
- Is accountable for making ready and submitting monetary stories to UNDP on a quarterly foundation;
- Manages and displays the mission dangers initially recognized and submit new dangers to the mission board for consideration and choice on attainable actions if required; replace the standing of those dangers by sustaining the mission dangers log, whereas making certain UNDP’s Social and Environmental Screening Standards;
- Prepares the annual workplan for the next yr; and replace the required Quantum entries in addition to Project Management module, and others essential fields;
- Prepares the annual progress stories and submits the ultimate report back to the Project Board;
- Ensures the mid-term assessment course of is undertaken as per the UNDP steerage, and submits the ultimate MTR report back to the Project Board;
- Identifies follow-on actions and submit them for consideration to the Project Board;
- Ensures the terminal analysis course of is undertaken as per the UNDP steerage, and submits the ultimate TE report back to the Project Board;
- Ensures well timed and high quality implementation of safeguards administration measures, together with monitoring assessing and managing social and environmental dangers through the mission implementation;
- Addresses mission points as raised and/mentioned by the Project Board;
- Performs the monetary reporting and management mechanisms;
- Shares related info on the mission achievements with all events;
- Ensures that each one mission deliverables have been produced satisfactorily and in accordance with the permitted Annual Work Plan;
- Notifies operational completion of the mission to the Project Board;
- Upon finalization of a mission, ensures reimbursement of the remaining steadiness of funds deposited within the UNDP accounts for the mission actions to the Donor or re-programming in that case agreed with the Donor;
- Provides route and steerage to the mission group and the consultants;
- Secures any assist and recommendation required for the administration, planning and management of the mission;
- Identifies sustainability and follow-on actions and submits them for consideration to the Project Board.
Technical steerage for the general administration of the mission:
- Ensures a proportional method, cohesion and coordination between completely different elements of the mission;
- Provides high quality assurance of the technical work (stories) commissioned beneath the mission;
- Provide route and steerage to mission group(s)/ accountable occasion(ies);
- Identify and procure any assist, technical experience and recommendation required for the administration, planning and management of the mission;
- Supports the nationwide mission coordinators in managing supply of the mission outcomes;
- Ensures good coordination and collaboration with suppliers, beneficiaries and key stakeholders and companions.
Providing knowledgeable information to guide and contribute to the consolidation and positioning of outcomes and outputs of the mission:
- Lead growth and implementation of the mission’s communication and visibility measures/plan;
- Contribute related enter to UNDP publications, shows, web sites, newsletters, and different outreach merchandise as required;
- Organizes regional technical occasions and disseminates mission technical findings, outcomes whereas informing audiences about alternatives offered by the mission;
- Participate in nationwide and worldwide fora and disseminate classes discovered;
- Ensure consistency between the assorted mission parts and associated actions offered or funded by different donor organizations;
- Collect and analyze classes discovered and finest practices, and design replication methods inside the nations of labor.
Partnership constructing, strategic advocacy and information administration:
- Harness efficient partnerships for the implementation of the mission with nationwide, regional and worldwide institutional companions;
- Maintains common contact with companions and allows common coordination and alternate of data relating to mission progress, between nation workplaces and nationwide counterparts in respective nations;
- Builds partnerships with related on-going initiatives;
- Organizes and offers management to varied studying and information alternate beneath the mission;
- Ensures administration and administrative necessities (technical, monetary, communications, audits, evaluations, and many others.) of the completely different companions/donors are adhered to and coordinate preparation and submission of respective progress stories, as per necessities of the donors;
- Provides high quality assurance to mission’s deliverables and information administration merchandise; Effective communication, advocacy and dissemination of the mission outcomes and related information merchandise at worldwide and nationwide conferences and conferences, related fora and worldwide processes.
The incumbent performs different duties inside their practical profile as deemed essential for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organisation.
Institutional Arrangement
Project Management Unit (PMU) might be established and hosted by UNDP Country Office in Kazakhstan and co-located in Almaty to assist mission planning and implementation of actions on each day foundation. PMU might be led by a full time Regional Project Manager (RPM) reporting to the IRH Regional Programme Chief, with matrix reporting to the Climate and Disaster Resilience Team Leader in Istanbul, and might be supported by a Regional Project Assistant, and Chief Technical Advisor. The RPM will information National Coordinators (NPSAs) in all taking part nations, and can supervise Project Assistant (NPSA), and Technical Consultants (ICs) employed by the mission.
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Achieve Results:
- LEVEL 2: Scale up options and simplifies processes, balances velocity and accuracy in doing work.
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Think Innovatively:
- LEVEL 2: Offer new concepts/open to new approaches, exhibit systemic/built-in pondering.
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Learn Continuously:
- LEVEL 2: Go outdoors consolation zone, be taught from others and assist their studying.
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Adapt with Agility:
- LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new conditions, contain others in change course of.
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Act with Determination:
- LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and cope with a number of sources of stress concurrently.
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Engage and Partner:
- LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, carry individuals collectively, construct/keep coalitions/partnerships.
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Enable Diversity and Inclusion:
- LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge variations, considers in choice making.
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Project Management:
- Ability to plan, set up, priorities and management sources, procedures and protocols to attain particular targets.
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Partnerships Management:
- Build and keep partnerships with huge networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and personal sector companions, specialists and others in step with UNDP technique and insurance policies.
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Communication:
- Communicate in a transparent, concise and unambiguous method each by way of written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers.
- Ability to handle communications internally and externally, by way of media, social media and different acceptable channels.
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Climate:
- Climate change adaptation: city resilience.
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Effectiveness:
- Programmatic Risk Management and Analysis.
- Project Quality Assurance.
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Systems Thinking:
- Ability to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgement to know how interrelated parts coexist inside an general course of or system, and to think about how altering one ingredient can affect on different elements of the system.
- Master’s diploma in Economy, Governance, Natural Sciences, Business Administration, Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, Disaster Risk Reduction, Engineering or associated disciplines is required, OR;
- Bachelor’s diploma within the above talked about fields together with further two years of qualifying expertise might be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.
- Minimum 2 years (with Master’s diploma or equal) or 4 years (with Bachelor’s diploma) of related expertise in mission administration within the space of atmosphere, economic system, city resilience, catastrophe danger discount, local weather change, city/ environmental planning, land use and bodily planning.
Required Skills:
- Prior expertise in managing technical and administrative groups is required.
- Experience in creating partnerships with nationwide and worldwide companions is an asset.
Desired Skills:
- Project/programme administration expertise in atmosphere, pure sources administration, local weather change adaptation, city planning, city resilience or different related fields is an asset.
- Experience managing tasks of UN or different worldwide organisations is an asset.
- Experience working within the area of Europe and Central Asia is fascinating.
- Experience in creating stories/research within the areas of local weather change adaptation, resilience, catastrophe danger administration, city research resembling city resilience/planning, or different related fields is fascinating.
Required Languages:
- Fluency in English and Russian is required.
- Knowledge of one other Central Asian language might be thought-about as an asset.
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