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National Project Coordinator

Ulan Bator, Mongolia

Job Info

Job Identification 23060

• Posting Date 12/24/2024, 09:06 AM
• Apply Before 01/08/2025, 04:59 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations Ulan Bator, Mongolia
• Agency UNDP
• Grade NPSA-10
• Vacancy Type National Personnel Service Agreement
• Practice Area SDG Finance
• Bureau Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
• Contract Duration 1 Year
• Education & Work Experience Master’s Degree – 5 12 months(s) expertise OR Bachelor’s Degree – 7 12 months(s) expertise
• Required Languages English and Mongolian
• Vacancy Timeline 2 Weeks

Job Description

Background

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core rules at UNDP: we worth range 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 ‘go away nobody behind’ method to our range 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 tales.

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

Guided by the worldwide UNDP Strategic Plan (2022 – 2025) and UNDP Country Programme for Mongolia (2023 – 2027), UNDP helps authorities and citizen efforts to speed up achievement of the Goals, leveraging the signature options and enablers in UNDP’s Strategic Plan. It will even work in the direction of the three instructions of change: structural transformation, go away nobody behind and construct resilience to answer uncertainty and dangers. Multidimensional initiatives might be consolidated into two portfolios, one addressing inclusive and inexperienced improvement, and the opposite a simply and accountable transition.

UNDP’s function as an integrator of the Goals will underpin the portfolios, whereas gender equality, innovation, digital transformation and improvement financing will function enablers. As part of the United Nations nation crew, UNDP will present proof, instruments, methodologies, coverage experience, technical management and modern options to speed up the achievement of UNSDCF outcomes. Three programme priorities have been recognized for UNDP interventions.

UNDP Mongolia, Inclusive and Green Economic Transition Programme focuses on the primary programme precedence: Diversified, inclusive and inexperienced financial transition. Strengthening capacities for sustainable livelihoods and employment. UNDP will assist the federal government at nationwide and subnational ranges in step with Vision 2050 to assist diversify the economic system and contribute to an inclusive, inexperienced transition. Eco-value chain improvement might be promoted in provinces with particular wants. Green enterprise capacity-building assist might be offered to small companies and entrepreneurs, together with employment expertise for youth, individuals with incapacity and girls. Support for Goals financing by means of an built-in nationwide financing framework will present an enabling atmosphere for a simply and inexperienced transition. This will happen by integrating local weather dangers, vulnerability assessments and sustainability necessities within the worth chains of livestock merchandise.

Promoting a low-carbon, climate-resilient economic system. UNDP contributes to strengthening the financing structure of the Goals by operationalizing the built-in nationwide financing framework and modern financing alternatives. UNDP promotes accountable funding in the private and non-private sectors that complies with world environmental, social and governance requirements and is gender responsive. UNDP promotes sustainable infrastructure improvement, with a give attention to local weather change adaptation and a low-carbon and net-zero-emissions economic system, creating employment alternatives and decreasing dependence on the extractive trade. The non-public sector might be supported to leverage entry to sustainable financing, together with devices resembling inexperienced loans and bonds, complementing interventions underneath final result 3 of the nation programme. It will even construct on management by the non-public sector to catalyse development in accountable, inclusive and inexperienced companies. UN Joint Programme “Acceleration of Just Energy Transition in Mongolia”: This UN Joint Programme on goals to speed up the simply, inexperienced, and equitable vitality transition in Mongolia by using seed funding from the Joint SDG Fund. The upcoming third-generation nationwide local weather plan-Nationally Determined Contributions 3.0, anticipated by early 2025 is required to extend 2030 targets, extending to 2035 will decide Mongolian safety towards worsening local weather impacts and affect the advantages of local weather motion, resembling job creation, financial development, decreased air pollution, improved well being, and clear vitality entry.

Thus, this UNJP’s built-in method will assist the federal government by means of knowledge and proof to tell NDC 3.0 and different nationwide sectoral insurance policies and plans, mobilize sources, leveraging for deployment of fit-for-purpose vitality services, capability enhancement, thus establishing the National Just Energy Transition (JET) framework, strengthen the financing structure, and catalyze strategic investments to make sure sustainable and inclusive vitality options and phasing out coal by switching to photo voltaic. The UNJP will contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) and SDG 13 (Climate Action), SDG 5: Gender equality and SDG 12: Sustainable consumption and manufacturing and SDG 17: Partnership. This proposal will promote gender equality and put together the workforce for the way forward for work within the vitality sector, making certain sustainable and inclusive improvement.

The UNJP builds on UNDP’s world and nationwide assist for integrating simply transition into local weather methods, UNDP’s renewable vitality pilot in Mongolia’s ger districts, which promotes financial advantages and gender equality by transitioning from coal to renewable vitality, supported by carbon credit. The UNJP will even construct on insights from ESCAP’s study, which addresses the complexities of transitioning the vitality sector, ESCAP’s National Expert SDG Tool for Energy Planning for enabling policymakers to align vitality insurance policies with SDG 7 and NDC targets. The UNJP will leverage the worldwide experience, expertise, and insights to additional inform and refine Mongolia’s vitality transition technique, aiming to speed up Mongolia’s simply, inexperienced, and equitable vitality transition, leveraging seed funding from the Joint SDG Fund.

To successfully combine simply transition rules into Mongolia’s Energy Transition Framework, which is able to assist the nation’s up to date NDC 3.0 and LT-LEDS, the UNJP outlines a complete change pathway as proven within the graph.

The improvement of a Just Energy Transition (JET) Framework might be designed to align with Mongolia’s new local weather commitments. The course of will conduct a radical evaluation of coverage coherence to make sure that NDC 3.0 targets are met whereas additionally contemplating the broader socio-economic impacts of the vitality transition. This consists of participating with nationwide stakeholders, particularly weak teams, to empower them in driving vitality priorities and addressing gender disparities. The framework will even give attention to growing regulatory and coverage methods for sustainable heating and coal phase-out, with an emphasis on increasing entry to wash and reasonably priced vitality within the Ger districts.

As the pathway progresses, the following step includes fostering nationwide dialogues among the many authorities, non-public sector, civil society, and different stakeholders to reinforce coverage coherence and attain a consensus on the vitality transition and a multi-stakeholder platform for the Just Energy Transition Framework, constructing on the prevailing collaboration of improvement companions within the vitality sector. Additionally, the UNJP will develop a financing framework to mobilize each private and non-private sources for the simply vitality transition.

In parallel, the UNJP will lengthen its impression by specializing in the well being and schooling sectors to make sure that the vitality transition advantages essentially the most weak populations. Research and knowledge assortment will inform the event of the nationwide JET Framework and a sectoral roadmap for a simply and inclusive vitality transition in these sectors, contributing to carbon neutrality, resilience, and circularity. Government officers in these social sectors might be skilled to combine vitality transition methods into their improvement plans and budgets, in addition to into the nationwide JET Framework. The UNJP will even promote citizen engagement, notably amongst ladies and younger individuals, by means of initiatives that improve participation in decision-making processes.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the general steerage and supervision of the Programme Analyst on Diversified, Inclusive and Green Economic Transition, the National Project Coordinator (NPC) is accountable for a day-to-day administration of the “UN Joint Programme Acceleration of Just Energy Transition in Mongolia” (JET) challenge, together with planning, implementation, coordination, reporting, monitoring and analysis; and for the substantive assist to the challenge, and can help in conceptualizing and implementing new tasks on modern financing together with on sustainable infrastructure. The National Project Manager is accountable to UNDP for the general administration of the tasks and for the supply of outcomes (outputs) specified within the challenge paperwork, to the required normal of high quality and throughout the specified constraints of time and value.

Summary of key features:

Management and coordination of challenge implementation.

• Coordination and Provision of technical and oversight assist to the administration.
• Implementation of reporting, monitoring and analysis insurance policies and methods.
• Liasion, partnerships and coordination with exterior and inside companions.
• Facilitate information constructing and administration.

Management and coordination of challenge implementation:

Be in control of day-to-day administration of challenge.

• Take a result in construct consensus among the many challenge stakeholders on key outcomes, anticipated outcomes and impression of the challenge.
• Prepare and submit Annual work plan and funds in a well timed method.
• Coordinate and handle the day-to-day implementation of the challenge and guarantee achievement of targets as outlined within the challenge doc and Annual work plan.
• Implement the challenge actions, provoke and handle project-related procurement actions, together with drafting of clear technical specs for the supply of products and providers underneath the challenge workplan.
• Ensure the well timed mobilization and utilization of challenge personnel, subcontracts, coaching, and gear inputs,
• Ensure the standard and timeliness of products, providers, and works delivered by sub-contractors, by means of shut supervision and pro-active threat mitigation methods.
• Provide technical steerage and assist to related substantive areas of the challenge implementation, the place wanted.
• Mainstream gender equality within the challenge actions, planning, monitoring, and reporting.
• Coordinate and create synergies of challenge parts, different related tasks and programmes and initiatives.
• Perform others coordinating duties as acceptable for the profitable implementation of the challenge in accordance with the challenge doc.

Coordination and provision of technical and oversight recommendation to the administration.

Coordinate the challenge stakeholders on outcomes, anticipated outcomes and impression of the challenge.

• Monitor progress, watch for plan deviations, and make course corrections when wanted inside challenge board-agreed tolerances to attain outcomes.
• Perform common progress reporting to the challenge board as agreed with the board, together with measures to handle challenges and alternatives.
• Coordinate the event of short-, medium- and long-term strategic plans of the challenge, together with well timed annual and quarterly work plans, while contemplating rising points. eidmPse BIpnb
• Coordinate the overview and appraisal of proposals and annual plans submitted by the implementing entities and guarantee provision of high quality suggestions and efficient feedback.
• Lead the preparation of quarterly, annual and monetary reviews and submission to contributors and different related stakeholders, with a particular view to capturing classes realized and greatest practices for bettering the efficiency of the ability portfolio.
• Coordinate drafting of TORs for consultancies / providers.
• Supervise consultancy works and overview and assess merchandise/providers offered by consultants and consultants counterparts and notify/advise the top of the secretariat on high quality and advocate acceptable actions to undertake for enchancment of outcomes.
• Establish hyperlinks between nation priorities, positions of the worldwide group and Project methods in inexperienced financial transition.

Implementation of reporting, monitoring and analysis insurance policies and methods.

Effective monitoring for making certain implementation of challenge actions.

• Assess the programmatic impression and oversee the appropriateness and the accuracy of strategies used to confirm progress and the outcomes.
• Manage and monitor the challenge dangers initially recognized, submit new dangers to the Project Steering Committee and Working Group for consideration and determination on attainable actions if required; replace the standing of those dangers by sustaining the Project Risks Log.
• Be accountable for managing points and requests for change by sustaining an Issues Log.
• Prepare the Project Progress Report (progress towards deliberate actions, replace on Risks and Issues, expenditures) and submit the report back to the Project Management Team.
• Ensure well timed submission of quarterly monetary and exercise progress reviews to UNDP in addition to enough monetary administration of allotted sources.
• Oversee well timed preparation of reviews for UNDP to donors and different stakeholders.
• Prepare shows to donor companions, authorities and different stakeholders as required

Liaison, partnerships and coordination with exterior and inside companions:

Create strategic partnerships with authorities, non-government, and personal sector stakeholders and beneficiaries.

• Actively assist the implementation of the useful resource mobilization technique and preserve shut relationships with donor companions.
• Closely liaise with the groups for programme outcomes to make sure coherence and synergy amongst all tasks of UNDP Mongolia;
• Build relationships with different UN businesses and construct upon frequent actions to make sure most impression of challenge actions particularly when focusing on weak teams resembling youngsters, youth and girls and,
• Advise crew members and administration on new developments concerning key companions and stakeholders.

Facilitate information constructing and administration:

Provide high quality advisory providers to the CO and Ips and facilitate information constructing and administration.

• Identify and synthesize greatest practices and classes realized.
• Make sound contributions to information networks and communities of observe together with company communications repositories; and,
• Contribute to the design and implementation of acceptable studying methods for stakeholders.

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

Competencies

Core competencies:

Achieve Results: LEVEL 3: Set and align difficult, achievable targets for a number of tasks, have lasting impression

• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential dangers, develop new concepts to unravel advanced issues
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3: Create and act on alternatives to broaden horizons, diversify experiences
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively provoke and champion change, handle a number of competing calls for
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 3: Think past speedy job/limitations and take motion to attain higher outcomes
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate advanced panorama, champion inter-agency collaboration
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate advantages of numerous workforce and champion inclusivity

People Management competencies:

UNDP People Management Competencies will be discovered within the devoted website.

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies: Partnership Management

Multi-stakeholder engagement: Knowledge and talent to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and take away any obstacles to useful resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms.

• Private sector useful resource mobilization: Ability to establish, develop and handle partnerships that leverage non-public sector technical experience and sources
• Emerging partnerships: Ability to have interaction with rising companions, develop and handle a technique and develop approaches to growing and managing these new strategic partnerships

Business Management

Project Management: Ability to plan, set up, prioritize and management sources, procedures and protocols to attain particular targets.

Monitoring and Evaluation: Ability to systematically monitor outcomes of methods, programmes, and actions with a view to guarantee that they’re being applied successfully; Ability to supply managers and key stakeholders with common suggestions and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between deliberate actions and programme administration and outcomes. Ability to make impartial judgment of the administration and outcomes of methods, programmes and actions primarily based on set standards and benchmark, holding in thoughts the wants and issues of consumer, present and upcoming. Knowledge and understanding of monitoring and analysis frameworks, ideas, methodologies, programs, processes, and instruments. Ability to make an impartial judgement primarily based on set standards and benchmarks. Ability to anticipate consumer’s upcoming wants and issues.

Business Direction & Strategy

Systems Thinking: Ability to make use of goal downside evaluation and judgement to know how interrelated parts coexist inside an total course of or system, and to contemplate how altering one ingredient can impression on different elements of the system

2030 Agenda: Partnerships

Sustainable Energy Hub: Energy: vitality effectivity

Required Skills and Experience

Education

Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Energy, Public Policy, Economics, Finance, Environmental Science or related scientific self-discipline is required, or

A primary-level college diploma (bachelor’s diploma) within the areas talked about above together with a further two years of qualifying expertise might be given due consideration in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Experience

Minimum 5 years (with grasp’s diploma) or 7 years (with bachelor’s diploma) of related expertise on the nationwide or worldwide stage in vitality sector coverage, related challenge/program coordination, coverage improvement and/or evaluation is required.

• Innovation, Communication, Delivery, People Management.
• Extensive expertise in mobilizing sources for vitality sector improvement.
• Proven expertise in offering coverage and technical recommendation to authorities officers, particularly in vitality sector reform.
• Proven expertise and information in Development Effectiveness and cooperation, gender equality and its associated points.
• Experience working within the subject of renewable vitality and vitality coverage.

Required Languages

Fluency in English and Mongolian languages is required.

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