- Country: New Dehli, India
- No of vacancies: N/A
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: UNDP
- Gender: Both
- Deadline: 2024-01-26
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Regional Project Analyst will be responsible for management of state and district personnel as well as a core team of regional operations support staff in close collaboration with Operations Analyst.
UNDP India is recruiting six (6) qualified and experienced Indian professionals for the post of the Regional Project Analyst to support the activities of the project. The different six (6) duty stations in India are as follows: Guwahati-Assam, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata.
The specific duties and responsibilities during the assignment will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Provides technical input, coordination and support to the development and implementation of project objectives and activities, that directly relate to the needs of constituents.
- Provides readily available and context specific guidance and day to day technical leadership of the project’s regional teams, ensuring effective planning, coordination and quality assured implementation of project activities with implementing partners, at the regional, state and district levels.
- Collaborates closely with government, local health officials and implementing partners to understand on the ground realities and expectations, conducting regular horizon scanning to identify emerging trends and anticipate delivery needs, capacity gaps, as well as potential obstacles and opportunities.
- Plays a critical role in development, nurturing and expansion of UNDP’s partnerships within region, including supporting the development, processing and execution of agreements with implementing partners.
- Identify capacity building needs and support partners through technical assistance, training, and capacity development initiatives, as needed to foster responsive practices.
- Provides substantive input into project’s capacity development strategies and systematic capacity building initiatives including active participation and implementation in related activities at the regional/state/district levels.
- Act as UNDP focal person and regional project representative providing oversight, guidance, monitoring and quality assurance, within assigned region and as directed by Project leadership.
- Supports and provides relevant technical input to the project’s coordinated efforts at audit implementation, risk assessments monitoring, evaluation and reporting, data collection, analysis and maintenance of project’s related data base and files.
- Support and provide relevant input into the mechanisms and management of financial resources of the project including budgeting and budget revisions, and expenditure tracking and reporting based on regional activities.
- Provide support and day-to-day management and critical guidance at the regional level, contributing to the smooth operational running of the project by following established operational rules and procedures, including timely preparation and verification of supporting documentation for contracts and payments including consultants, subcontractors and other service providers.
- Confirms and clears travel arrangements and authorizations, mission requests, passport and visa requests and extensions, flight bookings and all other matters related to project activities within assigned region.
- Actively make field visits, collaborate with local counterparts and/or facilitate arrangements for joint monitoring visits to project sites as per the requirement of the project Perform other duties as assigned by the project and/or UNDP management.
- Contribute to communications materials and reporting highlighting UNDP’s work and the results achieved for people and the country through traditional and non-traditional media (e.g., news articles, blogs, photo stories, social media), in accordance with respective communication and branding guidelines.
- Provide substantive inputs to presentations, visibility activities, advocacy, and other project-related materials, etc.
Competencies:
Core competencies:
- Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work
- Think Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking
- Learn Continuously: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning
- Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process
- Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously
- Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making
Cross-Functional and Technical competencies:
Business Management
- Client Management: Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real client needs; Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests; Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns.
Cross-Functional Competencies
- Results-based Management: Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results.
- Partnerships Management: Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies.
- Innovation ecosystem curation: Ability to identify key players in an ecosystem, engage with them and mobilize them to build a community and over time a movement around a common mission that can bring about changes at the system level.
- Monitoring: Ability to provide managers and stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results
Partnership management
- Relationship Management: Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding.
Required Skills and Experience:
Education:
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Public Administration, Business Administration, or related field; or
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree
Experience:
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience with Master’s or four (4) years with Bachelor’s degree in: providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in project implementation; demonstrated skills in financial, HR and/or procurement management.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling web-based management systems
- Knowledge of data management and systems.
- Experience and knowledge of Atlas/Quantum is a strong asset.
- Excellent interpersonal, networking and team building and leading skills.
- Excellent analytical skills
- Experience working in the UN system.
- Experience collaborating with government agencies, international organizations, and community leaders.
- Knowledge of UN regulations, rules, and procedures
Required Languages:
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English and Hindi.
Remuneration:
- Remuneration starting at 1,995,954.56 INR (Annual) / 166,329.55 INR (Monthly) as per the scale depending on qualifications and experience. The remuneration is excluding 8.33% pension amount paid over and above the salary.
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