Overview
The ISSP Portfolio Analyst plays a central role in programme management, analytical leadership, coordination and adaptive delivery, working closely with State Governments and other stakeholders to ensure portfolio coherence, delivery quality, evidence-based decision-making, and timely reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advanced analytical, programme management and coordination support for ISSP portfolios.
- Strengthen alignment between ISSP portfolios, State Development Plans, national reforms and UNDP corporate priorities.
- Support resource mobilization, partnerships development and investment pipeline preparation.
- Ensure delivery quality, results-based management, learning and adaptive implementation.
- Lead analytical support for the design, sequencing and integration of ISSP portfolios.
- Conduct continuous socio-economic, institutional, fiscal and sectoral analysis.
- Provide technical inputs to concept notes, programme documents, joint action plans, financing strategies and investment roadmaps.
- Support alignment of ISSP portfolios with State Development Plans & MTEFs, State and Local Government budgets and National policy frameworks and reforms.
- Strengthen coordination between UNDP, State Governments, Regional Development Commissions, and Local Government Authorities.
- Serve as a technical interface between UNDP’s Country Office, Regional Offices and sub-national counterparts.
- Support integrated programme implementation, tracking milestones, deliverables and cross-sector interdependencies.
- Coordinate delivery with State Portfolio Managers, Local Government Areas (LGAs), Regional Development Commissions, technical partners and service providers.
- Support preparation and execution of Delivery Labs, joint technical missions, investment forums and high-level engagements.
- Contribute to operational risk management, issue escalation and corrective action planning.
- Facilitate cross-state learning, replication of best practices and portfolio scaling.
- Lead portfolio-level monitoring and performance analysis using RBM principles.
- Prepare high-quality progress reports, dashboards, management briefs and donor updates.
- Track risks, implementation constraints and emerging opportunities; propose mitigation strategies.
- Support audits, evaluations, assurance processes and corporate compliance requirements.
- Promote adaptive management and continuous improvement across ISSP portfolios.
- Develop and curate portfolio knowledge products, lessons learned, case studies and policy briefs.
- Contribute to strategic communications, visibility products and stakeholder engagement materials.
- Support systematic stakeholder mapping.
- Provide technical inputs to partnership strategies, donor engagement, co-financing frameworks and investment proposals.
- Support identification, preparation and packaging of bankable projects for blended finance, PPPs and development financing.
Required Experience
- Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible relevant experience at the national or international level in programme management, development coordination, portfolio analysis or public sector reform is required;
- Strong analytical and research skills;
- Good writing and reporting abilities;
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines;
- Strong coordination and negotiation skills;
- Demonstrated experience engaging State Governments and sub-national institutions;
- Experience supporting multi-sector programmes and complex partnerships;
- Familiarity with Nigeria’s development and governance context is an advantage.
- Experience in resources mobilization
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in economics, development studies, public policy, public administration, social sciences or related field, or related field is required, or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above fields in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
