Overview
The Policy Specialist will lead monitoring work within the UNDP Effective Development Cooperation team and serve as an integral member of the OECD/UNDP Joint Support Team, providing strategic policy guidance and technical leadership to advance the GPEDC monitoring agenda.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead on all areas of GPEDC monitoring for the UNDP side of the Joint Support Team, including partner country engagement and roll out of GPEDC’s 5th monitoring round.
- Manage a sub-team of 2-6 colleagues across diverse locations to deliver on GPEDC monitoring-related activities.
- Develop and implement strategies for increased and deepened engagement of partner country governments and stakeholders.
- Lead efforts to renew the GPEDC monitoring framework and process.
- Liaise with relevant UN/DP offices to coordinate and encourage synergies between effectiveness-related workstreams.
- Lead and guide team members to provide technical support on all aspects of the GPEDC monitoring framework and process.
- Lead analysis of country-level actions taken in response to monitoring findings and translate lessons learned into policy guidance.
- Design tailored engagement strategies for partner countries to ensure a whole-of-society approach.
- Lead exploration of new and innovative ways to monitor effective development cooperation, including through use of AI.
- Support country-led effective development cooperation efforts, including strengthening accountability and trust among partners at country level.
- Lead processes to coordinate across the UN development system at headquarter level and country level to support programme country governments.
- Work directly with National Coordinators to successfully conduct the Global Partnership monitoring exercise.
- Lead global reporting efforts on effectiveness, including SDG indicator reporting, inputs to the FFD Forum, HLPF and other relevant UN fora and processes.
- Coordinate within the JST and with UNDP Country Offices and other partners to optimize support for countries engaged in the monitoring.
- Lead and guide team members to conduct ongoing scanning and undertake mapping and analysis of country experience.
- Identify, facilitate and synthesize knowledge-sharing and in-person / virtual learning events for partner country governments and stakeholders.
- Lead policy development and analysis on issues related to country-led effective development cooperation.
- Support preparation of partner country governments’ led knowledge pieces on effective development cooperation and stories of progress.
- Lead on substantive inputs, particularly related to monitoring and country-level efforts to promote development effectiveness policy change, and organizational support to Steering Committee meetings.
- Contribute to global policy dialogue relating to effective development cooperation.
- Support project management related functions, including preparation of programme/project documents, corporate monitoring and reporting, annual project reporting and donor reporting.
- Support the Team Lead with policy work, team management and partnership functions as needed.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 7 years (with master´s degree) or 9 years (with bachelor´s degree) of work experience in international development, with at least 2 years working on development cooperation issues at country level.
- Experience directly advising/supporting national governments in development cooperation, development partnerships and sustainable development efforts is required.
- Experience undertaking country-level analysis relating to effective development cooperation and sustainable development is required.
- Experience of supervising staff is required.
- Experience working in advising/supporting national governments in development cooperation, development partnerships and sustainable development efforts in or with countries in fragile contexts is an asset.
- Experience providing support to a multi-stakeholder initiative(s) is an asset.
- Familiarity with the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation is an asset.
- Experience leading the production of policy and programme guidance relating to effective development cooperation is an asset.
- Experience in multi-donor funded project management, including preparing background documentation and budgets for grant agreements and preparing donor reports is an asset.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Statistics, Economics, Public Policy or related disciplines is required.
- Or A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
