Overview
The Governance Specialist will lead UNDP’s contribution to strengthening rule-of-law, widening access to justice, supporting human rights implementation, and advancing integrity and accountability systems. The Specialist will ensure that UNDP’s programme approach is grounded in national priorities, evidence and UN normative standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Thorough analysis of the governance and political situation of the country and collaborative preparation/revision of Country Assessment (CA), United Nations Sustainable Development Corporation Framework (UNSDCF), Country Programme Document (CPD), and other documents;
- Identification of strategic and innovative areas of cooperation;
- Operationalization of the Governance aspect of UNSDCF/CPD in collaboration with the main partners and other UN agencies;
- Analysis and presentation of UNDP policies and programmes and their implementation in the CO.;
- CO business processes mapping and establishment of internal standard Operating Procedures in Results Management, control of the workflows in the Governance Workstreams.
- Effective application of RBM tools, establishment of management targets and monitoring and achievement of results;
- Strategic oversight of planning, budgeting, implementing and monitoring of the programme, tracking use of fanatical resources in accordance with UNDP rules and regulations; Under delegated authority may perform the function of Manager Level 2 in Quantum for development projects transactions approval;
- Effective monitoring, measuring the impacts of Governance Programme and evaluation. Constant monitoring and analysis of the programme environment, timely adjustment of programme;
- Ensures effective follow up to Audit recommendations and findings;
- Ensures effective organization of cost recovery system for the services provided by the CO to Governance-area projects in close collaboration with Operations Manager.
- Support partners in the implementation of ongoing activities under the Country Programme;
- Provide quality assurance support during programme planning, implementation and progress monitoring and reporting;
- Provide timely and relevant technical and operational information in preparation of UNDP Country office’s (CO) participation in Results Groups and other development group focusing on issues of thematic and institutional linkages and coordination;
- Support the adoption and application of the 2030 agenda for development and the Sustainable Development Goals, Results Based Management (RBM), Gender Mainstreaming methods in project implementation and reporting;
- Contribution to continuous monitoring and assessment of the programme impact with special attention to potential perverse effects to political, social and economic governance including human rights, in order to inform strategy readjustments;
- Preparation of regular updates on programme component activities, outputs and outcomes as input to aggregate CO programme reports;
- Contribution to continuous risk assessment, analysis and management; identification of operational and financial problems; development of solutions and participation in programme audit planning, implementation and follow up; and
- Contribute to project closure processes for the concluding projects and transition to the new CP and projects;
- Contribute to the ongoing programming for the new CPD and projects through translating UNDP priorities, strategies and lessons learn to inform local interventions.
- Establish the framework for scanning donors’ environment to determine areas of priorities on governance with reference to institutional development and capacity strengthening (e.g., human rights and access to justice; parliamentary development; e-governance and decentralization). This is to determine country’s need, areas of cooperation and priority areas;
- Develop and implement partnerships for achieving effective resource mobilization to achieve programme outcomes;
- Establishment and coordination of partnerships with UN Agencies, international financial institutions, bilateral and multilateral donors, government institutions, organized private sector, civil society organizations and other stakeholder;
- Determination of programmatic areas of cooperation based on strategic goals of UNDP, country needs and donor priorities;
- Analysis and research of information on donors, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation and identification of opportunities for cost sharing.
- Identification of sources of information related to governance policy-driven issues;
- Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learned directly linked to governance programme and the country development goals;
- Development of policies and institutions that will address the country problems and needs in collaboration with the Government and other strategic partners;
- Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice;
- Provision of high quality periodic analytical reports on ongoing governance-related developments for CO and Headquarters consumption.
Required Experience
- Minimum 7 years (with master’s degree) or 9 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible relevant experience at the national or international level in Law, Public Sector Reform, Public Administration, Development Studies, or related field.
- Experience in governance, promoting institutional strengthening, public sector reform, gender and inclusion in line with UNDP Policies;
- Hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development projects;
- Experience with a proven track record in resource mobilisation and partnership engagement.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Law, Governance areas of Public Administration, Social Sciences or related field is required, or
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor's degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with additional 9 years of qualifying experience, will be given due consideration in lieu of Master´s degree.
