Overview
The Chief Technical Advisor will manage three World Bank funded projects in Yemen, providing strategic advice and technical oversight to ensure high-quality outputs and results. The role involves coordinating project teams, engaging with Yemeni institutions, and integrating international best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead results-based project management, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
- Establish work plans, activities, targets, budgets, and standards for progress measurement.
- Ensure achievement of outputs through day-to-day planning and management of activities.
- Prepare regular and timely progress and impact reports for the World Bank.
- Manage and monitor project risks and issues.
- Plan and prioritize work activities to meet organizational goals.
- Ensure proper monitoring and evaluation procedures are instituted.
- Supervise and guide the Third-Party Monitoring Agent.
- Facilitate proper monitoring of project inventory, attendance records, and filing system.
- Ensure timely management and recruitment of project staff.
- Ensure projects are implemented according to UNDP and WB Safeguards standards and policies.
- Ensure grievances and incidents related to UNDP Safeguards standards and policies are followed up.
- Undertake any other duties as may be required.
- Ensure effective financial management and reporting.
- Manage and monitor requests for financial resources and ensure accuracy of financial reports.
- Supervise requisitions, purchase orders, and payments.
- Provide leadership in overseeing effective provision of services to counterparts.
- Liaise with Responsible Parties and other UNDP project staff on financial management.
- Ensure the integrity of financial system and oversee administrative, financial, and budgetary aspects.
- Ensure smooth audit of national partner institutions.
- Ensure integrity of financial systems and consistent application of UNDP Internal Control Framework.
- Promote Strategic Partnerships and Resources Mobilization.
- Engage in constructive dialogue with partners in Yemen, the World Bank, and other stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain dialogue with government counterparts, civil society, partners, donors, and communities.
- Promote linkages, synergistic relationships, networking, and teamwork.
- Create tools and communications materials to promote project objectives.
- Maintain relationships between the project and the WB.
- Provide top-level coordination support to World Bank Projects in Yemen.
- Provide support and advice to other portfolios managing World Bank projects.
- Advise senior management and all project managers on WB strategic issues.
- Ensure coherent and coordinated responses and messages to WB.
- Promote cross-unit teamwork between WB teams.
- Ensure Third Party Monitoring effectiveness across all WB projects.
- Supervise the UNDP call center and all grievance redress mechanisms.
- Lead Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and knowledge management and capacity building.
- Support gender mainstreaming throughout the project life cycle.
- Ensure coordination and partnership with national gender mechanisms.
- Support the institutional and technical capacity of the project team and stakeholders on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- Support the implementation and reporting of gender-responsive actions.
- Contribute to the country office communication and knowledge management system on gender equality.
- Identify capacity building needs and opportunities.
- Proactively identify and pursue opportunities for the documentation and communication of best practices.
- Actively participate in and make substantive contributions to external networks.
- Support establishment of knowledge platforms and innovative mechanisms for capturing and disseminating knowledge.
- The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary.
Required Experience
Minimum ten (10) years (with master´s degree) or seven (12) years (with bachelor´s degree) of experience working in managing large-scale projects in a conflict setting and complex operational environment, with emphasis on economic recovery, social protection, food security and support to conflict war-affected populations is required. Experience in planning and consensus building, strong analytical skills combined with good judgment, ability to handle planning and budgeting or multiple concurrent projects/activities is required. Experience in reasoning in dealing with sensitive matters; ability to independently solve complex and challenging problems is required. Strong project operational management experience, with demonstrated knowledge of UNDP project management procedures and policies, including experience with Quantum (Resource Management System), detailed working knowledge of human resources, procurement, ICT, financial management (for large-scale projects), asset management and logistics, and work planning is desired. Demonstrated experience in successful delivery and implementation of large-scale projects in fragile/crisis contexts is required. Experience applying UNDP Safeguards policies and standards and practical application in crisis contexts is desired; Experience in gender and conflict sensitivity mainstreaming in programming is required. Proven experience in partnership building and networking is required. Experience using computers and relevant software and other applications is required; Previous experience of working with World Bank projects is desired. Experience in remote management (including Third Party Monitoring is desired).
Qualifications
Advanced University degree (Master´s degree or equivalent) in relevant areas such as Economics, Social Protection/Development, Livelihoods, Food Security, Natural resource management, Business Administration or related Social Science fields 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.
