• Country: New Dehli, India
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNDP
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-01-25

The International Project Manager, under the direct supervision of the UNDP India Deputy Resident Representative, and guided by the HSS Programme Specialist, is responsible for the overall coordination and implementation of project planning, ensuring adherence to the UNDP rules and regulations and quality implementation, and timely delivery of all Project activities, maintaining existing and building new partnerships, and ensuring strong operational effectiveness. The incumbent will oversee the overall management of the Project to ensure a high-performance culture, integrity, transparency, and a conducive work environment. S/He will be directly responsible for the achievement of results and impact and ensure coordination with national and international stakeholders. S/He will ensure efficient communications and visibility, overall monitoring and evaluation, and quality reporting to the donors and other stakeholders in accordance with agreed timelines.

Support Efficient and effective planning, management, coordination, implementation and monitoring of project results and activities:

• Update, manage and execute the Project work plan in collaboration with partners, and key stakeholders in accordance with Project objectives as set in the Project Document, partners’ expectations, and approved budget.
• Oversee the Project budget planning, oversee the financial performance.
• Ensure the compliant annual delivery of results, in line with the Project Document, UNDP rules, regulations, and standards of performance.
• Regularly review and update risk plans and manage risks, including political, social, environmental, financial, infrastructural, and any other risks.
• Liaise with the Government, regional and local authorities, financial institutions, private companies, and international partners to ensure a participatory approach to the development and implementation of Project activities.
• Identify and track needed resources to ensure proper management of funds, including financial control and audit procedures in line with UNDP rules, and regulations as well as the procurement of goods, works, and services in accordance with UNDP guidelines.
• Ensure efficient operation of the Project, assume full responsibility for and coordinate effectively and efficiently all activities and resources (human, financial, physical/material assets, etc.) under the Project to meet expected results on time and to ensure they comply with the Project requirements.
• Capture lessons learned and supervise and coordinate the technical documentation related to the implementation of interventions.
• Ensure regular high-quality project implementation reporting (narrative, financial, etc.) in line with the UNDP and the donor’s requirements.

Provision of top-quality policy advice and facilitation of knowledge building and management:

• Advise UNDP on all political, technical, and other issues relating to the Project implementation, strategies, and approaches.
• Provide strategic guidance and direction on Project implementation process, including the provision of advice on the UNDP activities.
• Manage the Communication Strategy in consultation with the UNDP Country Office Communication team to ensure adequate visibility of Project activities and systematically implement it.
• Ensure adequate information flow, discussions, and feedback among the various Project stakeholders communicate findings, progress, issues, and challenges within the Project team and respective UNDP Country Office teams.
• Develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation plan that allows periodic monitoring of the Project’s results, performance, achievements, risks, and challenges.
• Undertake regular field visits and prepare an assessment of interventions; propose corrective actions as required.

Building strategic partnerships:

• Engage, mobilize and coordinate partners at national and local levels, and ensure cooperation and coordination for the effective implementation of the Project.
• Maintain and nurture existing partnerships, enhance partnership building efforts to diversify co-financing sources.
• Network and develop new partnerships and relationships with the Project partners, including Government, financial institutions, private companies and donor community to ensure required co-financing resources are available to support the project implementation / contributions are provided within the agreed terms.
• Coordinate, and lead high-quality technical inputs into progress and other reports, annual and quarterly workplans to be submitted to the Project Board and UNDP

Management and supervision of the Project team

• Ensure that clear working arrangements are established for collaborating with the relevant  authorities on all management, financial, contracting, and procurement matters.
• Develop work packages among the Project staff and experts, and international and national consultants to ensure high performance of the Project team.
• Set high attitude and performance standards and lead by example, especially on the most complex activities and tasks.
• Lead and guide the Project team in achieving the Project objectives.
• Coach the team, and provide regular feedback and performance assessment and evaluation with to enhance the individual and collective capacities.
• Act as a collaborative and supportive team member, contributing to the overall effectiveness of the team and organization.

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