Overview
The Programme Analyst supports UNDP's commitment to accountable, risk-informed, and results-oriented programme delivery by strengthening quality assurance, compliance, monitoring, and learning across the programme portfolio. The role focuses on second-line assurance and provides technical leadership for UNDP’s programming priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviews programme and project design to ensure robust articulation of Theories of Change, results frameworks, and alignment between inputs, outputs, outcomes, and indicators.
- Provides independent quality assurance inputs to programme and project documents, including Integrated Work Plans, project documents, revisions, and results reporting.
- Reviews the integration of political, social, economic, climate, and risk analysis into programme documents, policy briefs, and planning instruments.
- Assesses the alignment of proposed programme and project interventions with UNDP strategic priorities, country needs, and donor requirements.
- Supports identification, tracking, and mitigation of programme and project-level risks.
- Ensures that UNDP Enterprise Risk Management frameworks are applied across the assigned portfolio, and verifies compliance with Social and Environmental Standards and safeguard requirements.
- Ensures that gender equality and women’s empowerment commitments are systematically integrated into programme and project design, results frameworks, budgets, risk analysis, and safeguards.
- Reviews all documentation prior to final approval by Senior Management to ensure completeness, quality and alignment with requirements.
- Contributes to preparing and conducting programme and project governance meetings, and management decision-making processes.
- Provides ongoing analysis of contextual and programmatic signals related to assigned programme priorities to inform strategic positioning and decision-making.
- Maintains regular discussions with donors and partners to support alignment of priorities, and effective partnerships.
- Analyzes partnership and funding landscapes, including donor priorities, financing instruments, and implementation modalities, to identify emerging opportunities.
- Conducts horizon scanning on financing and partnership trends, identifying implications for programme quality, delivery risks, and future pipeline development.
- Provides independent assurance inputs to concept notes, project proposals, and financing agreements.
- Reviews partnership and pipeline development processes to assess readiness, credibility, and alignment with donor requirements and UNDP strategic priorities.
- Verifies the quality, consistency, and timeliness of donor reporting and compliance with partnership agreements.
- Assesses whether partnership arrangements, financing instruments, and pipeline proposals adequately reflect gender equality commitments and donor gender requirements.
- Maximizes communication to ensure that stakeholders have one consistent UNDP counterpart.
- Ensures internal communication and coordination across the programme and effective and proactive communication between relevant CO units and projects.
- Provides sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice relating to assigned programme priorities and project, including capturing lessons and good practices.
- Ensures that development results are effectively monitored, reported and communicated to meet internal and external M&E and reporting expectations and requirements.
- Facilitates coherent programme implementation by ensuring consistent information flow across CO units, field teams and projects and promote alignment across thematic workstreams.
- Provides technical advice to programme and projects, to assess needs and identify appropriate strategies and interventions, with a particular focus on community governance, and economic resilience and recovery.
- Works closely with Project Managers, Project Management Units and Technical Specialists to provide advice and technical support as required.
- Identifies capacity needs, and supports capacity development of UNDP personnel on programme assurance functions.
- Performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Required Experience
Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience in programme management, programme assurance, monitoring and evaluation, compliance, risk management, or related areas within development, humanitarian, or public sector contexts. Demonstrated experience supporting quality assurance, results-based management, monitoring, and reporting of development programmes or projects is required. Experience working with UN agencies, international organizations, or donor-funded programmes is an asset. Technical experience in one of the following areas is an advantage: Community mobilization and empowerment; gender equality; governance; livelihoods; economic recovery is desired. Experience and sound knowledge of results-based management, programme/project cycles, and quality assurance processes is desired. Familiarity with risk management, compliance, and internal control frameworks, including application of corporate policies and procedures is desired.
Qualifications
Advanced University Degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Development Studies, Public Administration, Economics, Social Sciences, or a related field 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.
