Overview
The Technical Analyst will support the day-to-day technical coordination, quality assurance, stakeholder engagement, adaptive learning, and reporting of assigned project components and related portfolio activities within the UNDP Innovation and SDG Finance Portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Support day-to-day technical coordination of assigned project components and related portfolio activities.
- Provide substantive technical support on urban innovation, green and digital transformation, systems portfolio practice and inclusive economic models.
- Support quality assurance of technical outputs, studies, tools, reports, guidance notes, MRV products, portfolio design materials, and partner deliverables.
- Support embedding of gender equality, inclusion, community ownership and sustainability principles in project design, implementation and learning.
- Contribute to annual and quarterly work plans, budget monitoring inputs, milestones and implementation schedules and task coordination arrangements.
- Support the delivery of project inputs, activities and outputs, including living labs, learning communities, municipal portfolio activities, workshops, technical studies, pilots, and partner-led assignments.
- Identify implementation bottlenecks, operational risks and emerging opportunities, and propose preventive, corrective or adaptive measures.
- Support delivery coordination for source separation, composting, anaerobic digestion feedstock logistics, cold chain pilots, MRV systems, circular economy replication and urban transformation portfolio activation.
- Support effective working relations with government counterparts, municipalities, regional administrations, civil society, private sector actors, academia, development partners and UNDP global/regional teams.
- Facilitate consultations, technical meetings, workshops, co-design processes, policy clinics, learning sprints, peer exchanges and field schools.
- Support preparation, follow-up and coordination of MoUs, lab charters, municipal learning communities, coalitions and agreed follow-up actions.
- Coordinate engagement with city authorities, community groups, economic actors and innovators involved in urban transformation portfolio design and experimentation.
- Contribute to narrative reports, donor reports, management updates, financial delivery updates, implementation summaries, evaluation processes, and management responses.
- Document results, lessons learned, risks, corrective actions, and emerging opportunities to support adaptive management.
- Support learning and replication across municipalities by capturing practical experience from circular bioeconomy pilots, urban portfolio prototypes, mechanisms and models of efficient AI diffusion and application, and partner-led implementation.
- Prepare technical inputs for budget revisions, expenditure planning and financial follow-up.
- Prepare technical specifications, Terms of Reference and substantive inputs to procurement, contracting, recruitment and service provider engagement processes.
- Support alignment of project activities with UNDP Procurement, Financial, Operations, HR, IT, M&E, communications and visibility policies and procedures.
- Support and contribute to policy dialogue and institutional uptake of project findings, recommendations, municipal service models, technical guidance, portfolio insights, and financing pathways.
- Contribute to communication materials, presentations, knowledge products, policy/case briefs, success stories and visibility updates.
- Support technical coordination of experts, consultants, service providers and partners engaged under both projects.
- Review and provide quality assurance inputs on expert and partner deliverables for supervisor clearance.
- Coordinate internal collaboration between programme, operations, communications, monitoring and technical functions.
- Promote practical innovation and adaptive problem-solving across project activities.
- Apply emerging tools, methods and partnerships to strengthen implementation quality, improve coordination, and enhance the relevance and sustainability of project results.
- Capture and share lessons learned, scalable practices and emerging opportunities to inform future programming, replication and continuous improvement.
- Perform other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Required Experience
- Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in project management in private sector innovation, institutional transformation, community/ institutional capacity development and policy analysis fields.
- Desired additional skills: Experience working with government institutions, municipalities, civil society organizations, private sector actors, academia and/or international organizations. Experience in coordinating or supporting the implementation of development projects, and/or multi-stakeholder initiatives. Experience in project implementation, stakeholder coordination, reporting and documentation. Experience in circular economy, climate action, municipal development, green/digital transformation, urban innovation or inclusive economic development. Experience with systems thinking, portfolio approaches, living labs, co-design, adaptive management, experimentation, MEL or results-based management. Experience with MRV systems, digital tools, data platforms, AI-enabled tools or innovation methods for public-sector transformation. Prior experience with the UN/UNDP or another international development organizations. Experience in the use of office software packages, including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint; experience with spreadsheets, databases and web-based management systems.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Political Studies, Economics, Business/Public Administration, Social Science, International Development, or a related field is required. A first level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with 2 (two) additional years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of master’s degree.
