Team Leader, Governance and Public Institutions (GPI) – (Open to Liberia Nationals Only)

As the United Nations lead company on worldwide growth, UNDP works in 170 nations and territories to eradicate poverty and scale back inequality. We assist nations to develop insurance policies, management abilities, partnering skills, institutional capabilities, and to construct resilience to obtain the Sustainable Development Goals. Our work is concentrated in three focus areas: inclusive sustainable growth, democratic governance and peace constructing, and local weather change and catastrophe resilience.

UNDP connects nations to the information, assets, and networks they want to obtain growth breakthroughs. Our work is summed up in our six signature options, tailored to context and powered by three potent enablers for better affect. Responding in an built-in and coherent method, we’re decided to finish poverty and starvation, shield the planet from degradation, be sure that all folks have affluent lives, with development that happens in concord with nature, and to foster peaceable and inclusive societies. We are dedicated to mobilizing the means to implement the 2030 Agenda by means of a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, primarily based on a spirit of strengthened world solidarity. 

UNDP has supported the Government and folks of Liberia of their efforts to scale back poverty and inequality in a bid to attain sustainable growth since 1977. This has been achieved by amongst different issues strengthening and reforming governance establishments to be inclusive and participatory, growing the mandatory regulatory frameworks, upholding human rights, and supporting development of the personal sector and civil society. Our United Nations identification ensures neutrality and respect for folks’s selections. Transparency and accountability in operations makes us a trusted accomplice for nationwide and worldwide growth stakeholders. 

UNDP encourages and allows collective intelligence, collaboration, integration, vital considering and thought management. We mainstream innovation, digitalization alternatives, gender fairness and variety/inclusion rules in all facets of our work. Our employees persistently attempt for excellence, effectiveness, effectivity and inclusion throughout all areas of labor. 

In shut cooperation with the UNDP Programme groups and different Country Office items, the Operations workforce helps the UNDP Country Office and programme implementation by means of the supply of related and well timed procurement, finance, ICT and digital providers, General Administration providers, and Human Resources help. This features a concentrate on collaboration, innovation, velocity and administrative effectivity in addition to advisory providers for enhanced planning. The unit contributes to a collective engagement with different groups, companions and UN Agency purchasers to provide well timed, nicely-deliberate and environment friendly providers that meet the usual and necessities of UNDP insurance policies and procedures.

Broadly outlined, governance constitutes the mechanisms, processes, relations, and establishments by means of which residents and teams articulate their pursuits, train their rights, mediate their variations and construct consensus on shared pursuits, is a ‘work in progress’ in Liberia. A real and final measure of success will likely be achieved when residents notice their growth aspirations by means of state establishments that work; an optimally functioning civil service; an impartial judiciary; a capacitated Legislature enabled to train its oversight capabilities over the Executive, and a free media that empowers society, amongst others. Reforming the governance system in Liberia is on the core of efforts to consolidate peace and obtain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to its medium to long run nationwide priorities to i) to construct a succesful state, by means of enhanced public-sector efficiency, improved service supply, superior decentralization, elevated native financial development, and; ii) decreasing corruption, by means of simpler, accountable and clear efficiency by the Ministries, Agencies and Commissions (MACs); iii) assure rule of legislation, entry to justice, human rights and implement regulatory, authorized and electoral reforms for  a simply, participatory and inclusive society. 

In tackling governance reform, emphasis and discourse has been positioned on the kinds and buildings of nationwide establishments, and largely on the nationwide stage. This has resulted within the institution of all kinds of businesses, authorities, commissions and boards tasked with advisory and normative concerns (i.e. drafting legal guidelines and laws). Significant investments have been made in capability enhancement, overview of institutional capacities, buildings, capabilities, and staffing, in addition to public monetary administration; extension of state authority to the counties and strengthening of county administrations (decentralization); and bettering entry to public providers on the county stage by means of de-focus. 

Under its Governance and Public Institutions Pillar, UNDP has maintained help in implementing a few of the most difficult and delicate reforms, together with constitutional reform, decentralization, nationwide reconciliation, elections, integrity and institutional reforms aimed toward strengthening core authorities performance. Focus can also be on justice and safety sector to improve a restoration of entry to justice and the rule of legislation with particular consideration to the promotion of grassroots approaches to security and safety; have interaction with the formal and casual justice actors and processes to improve commentary of worldwide requirements, with a concentrate on gender and juvenile justice. On decentralization, focus stays to present sustained help to guarantee roll-out of a County Service Centers and the accompanying passage of the Local Government Act and roll-out of implementation of key provisions of the Act. On reconciliation, precedence is additional evaluation of battle drivers and triggers, constructing social cohesion, addressing the discrimination and limitations associated to financial class, gender, age and political affiliation. 

Under the present and future programme, UNDP will keep help to governance reform with a concentrate on inclusive governance with a technique that focuses investments in enhancing nationwide reconciliation, peace and social cohesion and improved service supply and accountability by means of decentralized and inclusive governance. These methods have gained particular relevance and urgency since UNMIL’s last withdrawal from Liberia in March 2018. Under justice and safety, UNDP will have interaction with formal and casual justice actors and processes to improve commentary of worldwide requirements, with a concentrate on gender and juvenile justice. For these reform efforts to be successfully superior and accelerated, UNDP is looking for to recruit a Team Leader and Manager of its Governance Portfolio. 

Under the general steering of the Resident Representative and direct supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative-Programme, the Team Leader, Governance and Public Institutions (GPI) Pillar acts as one of many advisers to Senior Management. In addition to the senior managerial capabilities, the incumbent is answerable for contributing to the general Country Programme with administration and supervision duties, strategic planning, proactive supply and efficient implementation of the governance portfolio. The incumbent will cowl your complete vary of capabilities within the programme cycle, from conceptualization and formulation to monitoring and analysis.  In liaison with DRR/P and different programme groups, he/she performs a lead function within the analyses of the governance panorama, social, financial and political context in Liberia and advises on responses to rising complicated challenges and potential areas for UNDP interventions throughout the Country Programme Document. In addition, he/she identifies and forges strategic partnerships with the federal government, UN Agencies underneath ONE UN Programme/UNSDCF, CSOs in addition to bi-laterals. 

As Team Leader, the incumbent heads the Programme workforce throughout the GPI Pillar working by means of and with the operations workforce within the CO, programme employees in different UN Agencies, UNDP HQs employees and Government officers, technical advisors and specialists, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and civil society to efficiently implement the UNDP programme. And as member of the CO Leadership Team, he/she might also advise on potential areas of coverage that might have an effect on the nation so far as governance reform is worried. On a day-to-day foundation, the incumbent supplies direct help to DRR/P in relation to coverage recommendation and steering to strengthen nationwide capability to speed up supply guaranteeing cross-programme and synergies and complementarities. 

UNDP adopts a portfolio strategy to accommodate altering enterprise wants and leverage linkages throughout interventions to obtain its strategic objectives. Therefore, UNDP personnel are anticipated to work throughout items, capabilities, groups, and initiatives in multidisciplinary groups so as to improve and allow horizontal collaboration.

• Advise and take part within the related pillars of the UNSDCF course of together with selling thematic and sectoral synergies and coordination of programme actions and execution; determine related areas the place UNDP can leverage on its technical and advisory assets;
• Advise the DRR/P and administration generally on rising points within the governance area that require UNDP’s consideration, the allocation of assets, coordinate pillar stage programme supply, figuring out bottlenecks that impede accelerated supply and escalating them as acceptable;
• Support inter-company collaboration and joint programming with different UN businesses according to UN system priorities established within the UNCT; act as focus for the related end result areas and pillars of each the UNSDCF and National Development Plan of the nation; 
• Advise the DRR/P on modern approaches and modalities of the UNDP programme to obtain growth targets specializing in these which facilitate partnership constructing, engagement of numerous stakeholders, and many others;
• Coordinate the GPI workforce in implementing and monitoring programme assurance actions associated to the implementation of the Country Programme and evaluation of nationwide capability in monetary administration and procurement of products and providers;
• Continuously assess the political and socio-financial state of affairs and tendencies within the nation to be sure that UNDP coverage help, programmes and providers are related and responsive to rising priorities and wants; 
• Ensure observe-up on thematic and program evaluations underneath GPI to guarantee steady enchancment on growth affect. Apply classes discovered from audit and analysis workout routines to new administration efforts and program growth;
• Promote information administration to guarantee entry to greatest accessible experience and facilitate organizational studying.
   

• Thorough evaluation of the political, social and financial state of affairs the nation and collaborative preparation/revision of Common Country Analysis (CCA), United Nations Sustainable Development Corporation (UNSDCF), Country Programme Document (CPD) and another planning devices;
• Identification of strategic and modern programme areas of cooperation enabling the attainment of the outcomes outlined within the CPD as aligned with the UNSDCF and the National Medium Term Development Plan;
• Support CO Leadership Team within the operationalization of UNSDCF/CPD and UNDP’s inputs into the UN One Programme;
• Document greatest practices, protecting ideas, methods and implementation approaches and help the SMT in streaming programmes insurance policies and practices;
• Working carefully with related Government departments and Implementing Partners (IPs )on associated areas of help, disseminating coverage selections and responding accordingly;
• Also works carefully with Senior Staff from IPs answerable for the execution of Government/UNDP programmes, in addition to with specialists and technical personnel, associated to democratic governance;
• Analysis and presentation of UNDP insurance policies and procedures and implications for the Country programme within the CO in addition to with companions;
• Provide help to Senior Management in enterprise workplace large actions, strategic inter company initiatives, information sharing methods, inside workplace critiques and evaluations.

Establish and keep strategic Country Office partnerships and help useful resource mobilization efforts to obtain programme outcomes

• Implement CO partnerships and useful resource mobilization methods;
• Develop partnerships with the UN Agencies, worldwide monetary establishments (IFIs), authorities establishments, donors, personal sector (if relevant to CO), and civil society in assigned programme/thematic areas;
• Determine strategic programmatic areas of cooperation, together with for joint programming, according to agreed world, regional and nationwide priorities;
• Analyze and analysis data on donors, put together substantive briefs on potential areas of cooperation, and guarantee due value restoration;
• Lead growth of Country workplace pipeline and portfolio that features designing Programme/Project paperwork, idea notes, proposals and cross-sectoral coordination to carry assets for initiatives.

Ensures efficient administration of the Democratic Governance Portfolio and associated joint UN programmes and help the DRR/P in high quality management of the complete cycle of the programming from design by means of to implementation, monitoring and reporting, attaining the next outcomes:

• Effective utility of Results Based Management instruments, institution of administration targets and monitoring achievement of outcomes;
• Preparation and revision of company programming and monitoring instruments, reminiscent of, IRRF/IWP, ROAR Scorecard, substantive evaluations, and many others. ;
• Strategic oversight of planning, budgeting, implementing and monitoring of the programmes, monitoring use of monetary assets in accordance with the relevant insurance policies and procedures; incumbent performs the operate of Manager Level 2 in QUANTUM;
• Effective monitoring and analysis, measuring the impacts of the CPD, democratic governance initiatives and associated joint UN programmes;
• Sustained monitoring and evaluation of the programme surroundings with potential well timed re-adjustment of the programmes;
• Organization of value-restoration system for the providers supplied by the CO to initiatives in shut collaboration with Operations Team;
• Promotion of teamwork for enhanced coordination of programme administration and implementation for outcomes.

Ensures provision of prime-high quality coverage recommendation providers to the Government and facilitation of information constructing and administration specializing in attaining the next outcomes, within the area of sustainability:

• Identification of sources of knowledge associated to coverage-pushed points, synthesis of greatest practices and classes learnt straight linked to democratic governance;
• Preparing and updating programme/initiatives briefs data for companions to help UNDP consciousness elevating actions together with by means of preparation of statements and different communication supplies for advocacy of UN rules and UNDP thematic areas;
• Lead and monitor the method of implementing coverage advisory providers, together with the group of workshop, seminars, coaching and supply of outputs (merchandise);
• Lead the analytical and coverage growth work of the workforce and guarantee top quality coverage merchandise. Contribute to the manufacturing of studies and publications and function peer reviewer as acceptable;
• Sound contribution to information networks and communities of follow, together with Team-works;
• Design and supply of focused trainings for the operations/ initiatives employees on programme;
• Provision of substantive inputs to authorities coverage formulation and programmes in compliance with worldwide conventions underneath the auspices of the UN(DP) and observe-up on the implementation of the Government’s commitments to these conventions; these embody implementation of the SDGs, particularly Goal 16 that seeks to promote peaceable and inclusive societies for sustainable growth;
• Develop nation-primarily based intelligence on nation state of affairs, pursuits and prospects protecting governments, UNDP and main growth stakeholders.

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: Supervision and administration of Governance Team.

UNDP People Management Competencies might be discovered within the devoted site. 

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Business Direction and Strategy: System Thinking              

• Ability to use goal drawback evaluation and judgement to perceive how interrelated components coexist inside an general course of or system, and to contemplate how altering one ingredient can affect on different components of the system.

Business Management: Portfolio Management    

• Ability to choose, prioritize and management the group’s programmes and initiatives according to its strategic goals and capability Ability to steadiness the implementation of change initiatives with common actions for optimum return on funding. Knowledge and understanding of key rules of challenge, programme, and portfolio administration

Partnership administration: Resource mobilization              

• Ability to determine funding sources, match funding wants (programmes/initiatives/initiatives) with funding alternatives, and set up a plan to meet funding necessities

Communications: Digital governance      

• Understanding of insurance policies, requirements and tips which govern efficient digital communications

Digital:  E-governance    

• Knowledge of the way it works, understanding of the alternatives and challenges for governments and society

2030 Agenda: Peace       Innovation         

• Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Portfolios

2030 Agenda: Peace       Governance       

• Local Action (Localization and Locally led portfolios)