South-South Coordination and Project Support Analyst

South-South Coordination and Project Support Analyst


  • Job Identification
    22259
  • Posting Date
    2024-11-19, 09:13 a.m.
  • Apply Before
    2024-12-04, 07:59 a.m.
  • Job Schedule
    Full time
  • Locations





    Bangkok, Thailand





  • Agency
    UNDP
  • Grade
    IPSA-8
  • Vacancy Type
    International Personnel Service Agreement
  • Practice Area
    Nature, Climate and Energy
  • Bureau
    Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
  • Contract Duration
    1 Year with Possibility for extension
  • Education & Work Experience
    Master’s Degree
  • Other Criteria
    Bachelor’s Degree together with further 2 years of qualifying expertise will probably be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s Degree
  • Required Languages
    English
  • Vacancy Timeline
    2 Weeks

  • Job Description

    Background
     
    Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core rules at UNDP:  we worth variety as an expression of the multiplicity of countries and cultures the place we function, we foster inclusion as a means 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 establish 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 form of harassment, together with sexual harassment, and discrimination. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks.

    UNDP is the frontier group for sustainable growth within the UN Development System and serves because the integrator for actions at regional, nationwide and native ranges to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Across Asia and the Pacific, UNDP helps international locations formulate and implement their very own options to handle pressing growth challenges. It implements the UNDP Strategic Plan (2022-2025) within the area via the Bangkok Regional Hub (BRH), numerous Country Offices (COs) and the Global Policy Network (GPN) which supplies coverage and programme recommendation to make sure alignment of nation programmes with regional and international and company priorities. Several built-in options are recognized within the Strategic Plan which embrace the next:

    • Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Building Resilience
    • Environment and Energy
    • Poverty and Inequality

    In the ambit of the above signature options, UNDP launched a USD $37.53 million venture, authorized for funding by the Government of Japan in February 2023. It will help 4 Pacific Island Countries (Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu) with a ‘Green Transformation’ of their economies that can cut back reliance on fossil fuels, drive sustainable financial development and assist them address the impacts of local weather change. The two-year venture, titled Promoting Green Transformation within the Pacific Region in direction of Net-Zero Emissions and Climate-Resilient Development will help investments in clear vitality, extra environment friendly administration of pure assets and strengthened coping capability within the face of maximum climate occasions linked to local weather change. UNDP’s multi-country implementation modality will probably be adopted for this venture. BRH, along with the 4 Country Offices within the Pacific area, lead the implementation of the venture with robust engagement of the Environment group throughout the GPN based mostly in BRH.

    UNDP’s Environment group throughout the GPNs main the implementation of the venture. The Environment group works with governments, civil society, and non-public sector companions to combine pure capital, atmosphere, and local weather issues into nationwide and sector planning and inclusive development insurance policies; help nation obligations underneath Multilateral Environmental Agreements; and implement the UN’s largest portfolio of in-country programming on the atmosphere, local weather change, and vitality. This intensive physique of labor advances crosscutting themes on modern finance, digital transformation, capability growth, human rights, gender equality, well being, know-how, and South-South studying. The Environment group assists accomplice creating international locations to develop and implement tasks that mix and sequence assets from a variety of world atmosphere and local weather funds and from bilateral funding home windows.

    BRH is searching for the help of a South-South Coordination (SSC) and Project Support Analyst to advertise efficient and significant south-south cooperation among the many 4 collaborating international locations in addition to between the collaborating international locations and different international locations that fosters sharing of fine practices, helpful classes realized and accrued data and experiences associated to inexperienced transformation.  
     

    Duties and Responsibilities
     
    The SSC and Project Support Analyst will work underneath the direct supervision of the Project Manager, Pacific Green Transformation Multi Country Project underneath the Nature, Climate, Energy and Waste Team on the UNDP Bangkok Regional Hub and work intently with different members of the Regioal Project Management Unit, 4 nation places of work, and all related stakeholders for well timed procurement. 

    Under the supervision of the Regional Project Manager, in shut collaboration with the Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist, Energy Policy Specialist and Strategic Partnerships Specialist, the SSC and Project Support Analyst is anticipated to establish efficient SSC alternatives, and matters to be mentioned, develop idea notes for SSC occasions, establish appropriate audio system and different key substantive in addition to logistical particulars required to arrange profitable SSC occasions, guarantee high quality outputs from them, and improve the communication, advocacy and data administration impacts from the south-south cooperation occasions supported by the venture.  The SSC and Project Support Analyst is anticipated to coordinate intently with Procurement Specialist of the venture, 4 nation places of work, and all related stakeholders for well timed procurement required to hold out SSC actions led or supported by the venture efficiently. As to venture help, the SSC and Project Support Analyst helps the Regional Project Manager in coordination with the 4 nation places of work and nationwide PMUs, day by day oversight of the regional venture actions and help nation places of work as required, together with drafting complicated TORs for procurement wants, high quality assurance of venture studies, interval updates to the donor, and supporting the communications for the visibility of the venture.  

    The following detailed capabilities have to be finished by the SSC and Project Support Analyst.

    Promoting South-South Cooperation 

    • Support the designing, planning and implementation of south-south exchanges, map and analyze the nice practices and options to inexperienced trnasformation within the Pacific. 
    • Support the Identification of strategic regional and international occasions to advertise UNDP’s ongoing interventions round inexperienced transformation and the Climate Promise, and work with Nature, Climate, Energy and Waste (NCW+E) and GPN groups to design and help UNDP’s efficient participation with a give attention to South-South Cooperation and modern options to avance inexperienced transformation, particularly simply and inexperienced vitality transition, within the Pacific. 
    • Coordinate the event of flagship occasions to extend consciousness of the venture to leverage and nurture companions each within the area and globally to help UNDP’s work on inexperienced transformation and the broader Climate Promise Offer.
    • Support the capturing and sharing of classes and stimulating the uptake of greatest practices and data, resulting in the event of information supplies.
    • Co-create and help the Communication group to provide venture communication items successfully showcasing impacts of inexperienced transitions within the 4 international locations
    • Undertaking digital and/or bodily missions (if required) to seize outcomes of the venture within the 4 international locations, and help in making certain managing high quality assurance of all communications associated to the venture.

    Project Implementation Support

    • Provide help to the venture groups to make sure that targets and deadlines are met, and work intently with the Regional Project Manager and different members of the Regional Project Management Unit to help the 4 international locations within the well timed implementation of the venture actions. 
    • Support the event of mandatory phrases of references (TORs) for the tasks’ specialists/ consultants, together with procurement of products, as wanted for conducting the venture actions.
    • Support the Project Manager and the nation groups on well timed donor reporting and the general dissemination of the progress via totally different communications channels
    • Support in addressing venture queries, progress, impacts and classes.
    • Peer reviewing, commenting on, and searching for to enhance the technical high quality of venture paperwork and greatest practices. 
    • Support the 4 international locations and regional groups, making certain the nation workplace venture groups’ understanding of technical and operational features of South to South/triangular cooperation

    Implementation of related data administration actions

    • Work proactively with the venture group, NCW & E group and GPN to make sure common trade of knowledge on the outcomes and classes realized from the venture are fed into the South-South Exchanges via UNDP’s regional and international networks.  
    • Develop and preserve the calendar of occasions to make sure data circulate to main regional and international occasions, and work with the venture communications specialist to co-create data content material for wider dissemination. 
    • Work intently with the regional group to make sure optimum visibility of the venture actions by selling the venture actions via numerous South-South communications channels and selling the venture on high-level occasions concentrating on the accomplice governments and donors.

    Provision of help to partnership administration for the venture

    • Support and doc of conferences with the donor and/or UNDP senior administration along with venture (together with getting ready briefing notes, shows, and different related paperwork)
    • Support the event and implementation of venture’s donor recognition and visibility; produce and contribute to visibility supplies as wanted (factsheets, human-interest tales, e-newsletter, briefs, social media publications, studies, brochures, multimedia belongings) and guarantee dissemination to focus on impression of venture within the 4 international locations. 
    Competencies
     
    Core competencies:
    • 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/identified 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, in a position to 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 discrimination 

    Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

    Business Development    

    • Knowledge Generation. Ability to analysis and flip data into helpful data, related for context, or aware of a said want

    Business Direction & Strategy    

    • System Thinking. Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to know how interrelated components coexist inside an general course of or system, and to contemplate how altering one aspect can impression on different elements of the system 

    Business Management    

    • Working with Evidence and Data. Ability to examine, cleanse, rework and mannequin knowledge with the aim of discovering helpful data, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making
    • Communication. Ability to speak in a transparent, concise and unambiguous method each via written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers. Ability to handle communications internally and externally, via media, social media and different acceptable channels
    • Customer Satisfaction/Client Management. Ability to reply well timed and appropriately with a way of urgency, present constant options, and ship well timed and high quality outcomes and/or options to fulfil and perceive the true prospects’ wants.  Provide inputs to the event of 
      customer support technique. Look for tactics so as to add worth past purchasers’ rapid requests. Ability to anticipate shopper’s upcoming wants and issues.

    Communications    

    • Writing and enhancing. Ability to create and/or edit written content material in numerous UN languages.

    Partnership administration    

    • Strategic Engagement. Ability to seize and maintain consideration, curiosity and settlement of high-level, influential coverage and resolution makers and safe their buy-in of high-level imaginative and prescient and targets
       
    Required Skills and Experience
     
    Education:
    • Advanced college diploma (Master’s diploma or equal) in growth research, pure useful resource administration, economics, worldwide relations, or different intently associated area is required.
    • A primary-level college diploma (Bachelor’s diploma) in growth research, pure useful resource administration, economics, worldwide relations, or different intently associated area in together with two years of qualifying work expertise will probably be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.
       
    Experience:
    • Applicants with a Master’s diploma (or equal) in a related area of research aren’t required to have skilled work expertise.  Applicants with a Bachelor’s diploma (or equal) are required to have a minimal of two years of expertise engaged on growth points, growth program administration, or different intently associated fields.
    • Experience engaged on growth points associated to Small Island Development States is an asset.
    • Demonstrated skilled expertise in efficiently designing, planning and managing the implementation of cross-country data trade actions, research excursions and workshops involving a number of international locations;
    • Proven expertise main or facilitating SSC initiatives, with a monitor report of profitable exchanges, partnerships, and knowledge-sharing actions.
    • Experience in planning, coordinating and executing high-profile occasions, workshops, and boards at each nation and regional ranges.
    • Experience working throughout the Asia and/or Pacific area is required.
    • Experience engaged on tasks in SIDS international locations, coordinating with a number of groups and stakeholders will probably be extremely fascinating 
    • Working expertise in a world group is a bonus, as is data of UNDP insurance policies, procedures, and practices 
    • Professional expertise in designing, planning and coordinating south-south cooperation actions in and amongst international locations in Asia and the Pacific area particularly with the Pacific island international locations is a robust benefit;
    • Familiarity with and analysis and/or working expertise on points associated to vitality transition is an asset;
    • Demonstrated expertise in coordinating and implementation of tasks in geographically difficult setting (ideally in SIDs international locations), and working with SIDS authorities artners and non-public sector companions is an asset. 
       

    Required languages:

    • Excellent oral and written communication expertise within the English language.

    Travel:

    • UNDP will cowl the price of journey of the person to the responsibility station and their return to their home upon completion of their providers. Travel prices are coated provided that the perform will probably be undertaken bodily within the responsibility station and excludes working from home preparations.
    • The Project will present full help regarding logistics, IT, and required providers (together with journey, workshops, and so forth.) to make sure the Project’s profitable implementation. Office area will probably be offered
    Disclaimer

     

     
    Under US immigration legislation, acceptance of a employees place with UNDP, a world group, could have important implications for US Permanent Residents. UNDP advises candidates for all skilled degree posts that they have to relinquish their US Permanent Resident standing and settle for a G-4 visa, or have submitted a legitimate utility for US citizenship previous to graduation of employment. 

     
    UNDP is just not ready to supply recommendation or help on making use of for US citizenship and subsequently candidates are suggested to hunt the recommendation of competent immigration legal professionals concerning any purposes.

     
    Applicant details about UNDP rosters

     
    Note: UNDP reserves the appropriate to pick a number of candidates from this emptiness announcement.  We might also retain purposes and contemplate candidates making use of to this submit for different comparable positions with UNDP on the similar grade degree and with comparable job description, expertise and academic necessities.

     
    Non-discrimination

     
    UNDP has a zero-tolerance coverage in direction of sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules.  

     
    UNDP is an equal alternative and inclusive employer that doesn’t discriminate based mostly 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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