Education & Work Experience Master's Degree - 5 year(s) experience OR Bachelor's Degree - 7 year(s) experience
Job Description
Background
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work is carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, and forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan. Within the GPN, the Crisis Bureau guides UNDP’s corporate crisis-related strategies and vision for crisis prevention, response, and recovery. UNDP’s Crisis Bureau’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (DRT) for Building Resilience Team provides integrated policy and programme support on disaster risk reduction and recovery in the context of UNDP’s broader approach to resilience building. The Team specifically fosters the integration of risk reduction as a key element in sustainable development and recovery at national, sub-national and sectoral level. Whilst working in close collaboration with related fields such as climate change, governance, conflict prevention and livelihoods, the Team focuses its support on the following thematic areas:
Disaster and Climate Resilience Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Risk Governance Recovery Preparedness, Assessments, and Implementation Urban and Community Risk Management and Resilience
Position Purpose
The Programme Specialist, Resilience and Risk Informed Development is responsible for contributing substantive policy and programme advisory services to the Country Offices globally and applying the products and tools relevant to the thematic area of Risk Informed Development. S/he acts in response to requests from country offices and in collaboration with the integration and coordination team. Working to ensure the execution of quality and coherent policy and programme advisory services within their region and across other regions as well as alignment with the Strategic Plan, s/he advances the mission of UNDP and increases the credibility and recognition in this thematic area. S/he is responsible for performing and contributing to the following:
Programme Support and Policy Advice Policy Research and Development Policy Positioning and Representation Partnerships and Resource Mobilization Knowledge Management
UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. This is a recognition of interconnected nature of development risks & crises that the world is facing and that call for assembling of multidisciplinary teams for an integrated & systemic response. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across issues, units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
Programme Implementation and Policy Advice: Provides technical guidance and advisory services to UNDP Country and Regional Offices in designing and implementing risk informed development activities both internally and externally of UNDP. Provides advice and guidance UNDP Country Offices, on issues related to the strengthening of risk governance, risk management that fosters actions that anticipate and avoid creation of future risks, integrating risk management into development strategies and plans and promote portfolio approaches for building resilience. Execute programme initiatives to support key results, outcomes, and outputs of the UNDP Strategic Plan and RBAS’s Regional Programme Document. Advice country offices in developing and implementing strategic programmes, and projects such as those that strengthens capacities in risk governance, planning and coordination in GPN portfolio approaches that foster integrated programming. Coordinate the production of relevant analysis and guidance for programme support that responds to country office needs. Apply multi-disciplinary approaches, including through setting up, coordinating, and engaging with integrated GPN Teams to deliver advisory services and programming needs in line with emerging client needs and corporate standards, as well as maintaining and developing networks of experts in UNDP’s areas of work. Develop and implement solutions in crisis and conflict situations in response to requests coordinated by CB and ensure proper use of policy and tools in this context. Incorporate gender equality and human rights’-based approach in policy and programming work. Provide relevant contribution to UNDP SURGE.
Contribute to Policy Development:
Provide strategic advice to policy development and innovation through consolidation of relevant lessons from projects and programmes. Identify gaps and opportunities for development of new policies and guide the overall team priorities and workplans. Support in identifying risk financing solutions including enhancing application of integrated national financing frameworks, budget and expenditure analysis, public and private sector resource mobilization and risk informing investments. Advise and provide technical support on people centered and stakeholder driven policy making and implementation. Provide Quality Assurance to ensure alignment with global development policies, norms, and standards. Ensure cross-practice approach and cross-regional collaboration. Create methods for reviewing policy services in the thematic area and assess policy success, as well as communicate these methods to other country offices and regions. Conceptualize and recommend policy innovations in the thematic area to improve programme delivery.
Policy Positioning and Representation:
Under the guidance of the team leader, mobilize, foster, and strengthen strategic partnerships with UN entities and other relevant bodies at the regional level, and provide inputs to those partnerships in support of UNDP initiatives. Prepare briefing notes and speeches. Advocate the importance of the thematic area in various fora at the regional level, including academia and civil society, with a view to deepen related political commitment and related reforms, and to mobilize support for international frameworks. Support Team Leaders in engagement in UN interagency coordination in relevant policy areas by organizing and participating in regional meetings.
Building Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization
In collaboration with BERA, support the Team Leader to engage with regional partners and develop/implement resource mobilization plan under corporate guidelines, including to fulfill corporate and donor reporting, advocacy, and information-sharing requirements. * Provide substantive
