Overview
This role involves participating in the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes and projects related to sustainable development, public administration, digital transformation, and AI. The purpose is to strengthen public administration capacities to translate SDGs into institutional arrangements and strategies.
Tasks Summary
- Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of assigned programmes/projects.
- Monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation.
- Prepares relevant documents and reports.
- Identifies problems and issues and initiates corrective actions.
- Develops sustainable development and digital transformation databases.
- Drafts inputs for technical papers, concept notes, policy papers, analytical studies and reports.
- Formulates, identifies and analyses project proposals.
- Attends international, regional, and national meetings.
- Assists in the planning, organization, facilitating, and servicing of expert group meetings, seminars, workshops.
- Plans, researches/analyses, and prepares publications, policy briefings, speeches and other inputs.
- Participates in missions on sustainable development and digital transformation issues.
- Organizes training seminars/ workshops and capacity building activities.
- Monitors, backstops and assesses the implementation of capacity building projects.
- Liaises with counterparts in government, UN entities, regional organizations, academia and other stakeholders.
- Performs other duties as required, including administrative tasks.
- Undertakes on-the-job and other training activities.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, policy-oriented work in a broad range of sustainable development, public administration, and governance issues is required.
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in digital transformation and artificial intelligence within governance or sustainable development contexts, including demonstrated use of specific technologies and tools such as data analytics software, AI policy frameworks, e-government platforms, or digital identity systems, is required.
- Experience in the organization and substantive servicing of capacity-building workshops, expert group meetings, seminars, webinars etc. on sustainable development, public administration, and governance issues is required.
- Experience in contributing to research, inputs for reports to intergovernmental bodies, interagency or expert groups and evaluation of assigned programmes/projects related to sustainable development, public administration, and governance issues is required.
- Experience in preparing training courses and other capacity development tools is required.
Qualification Requirements
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in sustainable development, economics, public policy, public administration, governance, finance, business administration, natural resources management, engineering, law, social sciences, computer science, data science, information systems or related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
