• Country: New Delhi, India
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNDP
• Gender: Both 
• Deadline: 2024-01-03

Under the supervision of the Team Leader, Health System Strengthening (HSS),the Programme Analyst works in close collaboration with other policy/programme and operations teams to ensure coherent, timely, and appropriately prioritized support to effective implementation of the country programme. Cross-cutting coordination with Communications, Economist, Gender, Oversight and Compliance, and other relevant experts will be required to increase the impact of the development interventions. The Programme Analyst leads in policy development, strategic planning and partnerships for new programme areas, pipeline development and project design, effective monitoring in line with the country’s programme priorities. The Programme Analyst develops innovative solutions while ensuring quality assurance, programme oversight and compliance of the programme and project management.

The Programme Analyst ensures and supports effective oversight on programme/ portfolio management, accountability, and achievement of the CPD results withinthe assigned outcome,and supervises staffassigned within the unit. The incumbent works in close collaboration with Bangkok Regional Hub, UNDP HQ, staff from other UN Agencies and national partners from the Government, civil society,and donors through multilateral and/or bilateral arrangements. The position requires occasional travel within the country to conduct monitoring/field visits, as required by the nature of the projects.

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal

collaboration.

Substantive contribution towards effective management of the country programme, focusing on the area of Health System Strengthening:

• Support programme/ project design with development partners, UN Agencies and implementing partners for the portfolio, ensuring robust articulation of Theory of Change and results from framework linking inputs and activities to programme outputs and outcomes, supported with evidence to report on the Strategic Plan and CPD indicators.
• Contributes to the analysis of the political, social, and economic situation in the country and ensures collaborative and coordinated preparation/revision of CPD, annual business planning, Integrated Work Plan and results reporting, project documents, policy briefs, briefing notes and other programmatic documents.
• Identifies and analyze strategic programmatic areas of cooperation based on strategic goals of UNDP, country needs and donors’ priorities and operationalization of CPD with the Government and other partners of UNDP, with regard to health systems strengthening, including digital health, assistive technologies, HIV Programming, and programming in support of LGBTQI+ communities etc.
• Promotes and facilitates innovation and innovative approaches as well as identification of innovative development solutions to the delivery of results.
• Leverages innovative approaches, resources, and collaborative efforts to enhance programme and project impact.
• Ensures regular monitoring and analysis of the programme environment, timely adjustment of programme, measuring of the impact of the projects, and that results, and lessons learned to inform analysis, policy and programme, and project work.
• Ensures that women empowerment and gender mainstreaming aspects are integrated and applied in all programmes/projects from the design to implementation, including planning and budgeting, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, as well as reporting in line with and using the corporate gender equality commitments, tools and strategies.
• Ensures effective application of results-based management tools and high-quality reporting of results for internal and external audiences.
• Ensures the integration of women empowerment and gender equality into programming and budgeting/resource allocation and supports the CO efforts to uphold the Gender Equality Seal aspirations and requirements
• Participates and contributes to the CO and Inter-Agency (if applicable) thematic focal teams activelymaking sure that the responsible activities under the respective plans are delivered successfully.
• Facilitates robust monitoring of key performance indicators and risks of the portfolio and leads the direction and implementation of corrective strategies and management measures based on risk-informed analysis and trends.
• Ensures effective monitoring of pipeline management system, programme delivery and applies appropriate actions for delivery acceleration measures.
• Applies UNDP’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework in the assigned portfolio, including the application of the Social and Environmental Standards in each project and ensures adequate safeguards measures.
• Coordinates UNDP’s support to development institutions working towards addressing national development priorities in collaboration with the Government and other strategic partners.

Ensures accountability, quality control and effective oversight of the projects:

• Follow up on audit recommendations. All exceptions are timely reported.
• Supports the planningand implementation of the HealthSystem Strengthening activities including digital health, HIV Programming, support to the NCD Technical support unit, Rabies, assistive technologies, NTD and One Health initiatives, etc.
• Oversight the planning, implementation and reporting of the UBRAF Project in India as part of the Joint UN Team on HIV and AIDS in collaboration with concerned Ministries and civil society organisations.
• Provide oversightsupports and managesUNDP’s programmatic engagements with LGBTQI+ communities.
• Provides strategicplanning and oversightof the assigned portfolio of programmes/projects and ensures their compliance with programme and operations policies and procedures (POPP) and quality assurance standards.
• Ensures annual work planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of assigned portfolio in line with requirements (e.g., budget revisions, approval of CDRs, etc.).
• Facilitates and quality assures the project documentation prior to final approval by the Senior Management and ensures proper document management and update in the corporate systems and regional platforms (CPS, Quantum, Vital Signs, etc.)
• Implements Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfer (HACT) framework covering micro assessments, assurance plans and assurance activities, carries out programme/monitoring visits, ensuring appropriate remedial actions are implemented.
• Ensures the establishment of the tracking mechanism for cash transfers to Implementing Partners/Responsible Parties in accordance with UNDP Financial Rules and Regulations and HACT policies.
• Performs clearance measures (incl. tracking of NIM advances/reimbursements, liquidation of NIM advances, clearance of FACE forms, escalating and advising the CO Management on timely remedial actions required).
• Facilitates assessment of barriers and opportunities to enable private sector engagement and participation and quality assures all required capacity and risk assessments, including private sector due diligence.
• Provides strategicoversight of planning, budgeting, implementing and monitoring of the programme, tracking use of financial resources in accordance with UNDP rules and regulations.
• Ensures compliance with a cost-recovery system for the services provided in close collaboration with the operations colleagues.
• Provides quality assurance of theentire cycle ofprogramming and management of portfolios. Performs project assurance function in projects and serves as Quality Assessors.
• Ensures adherence to the UNDP Programme and Operations Policies and Procedures (POPP) as well as established CO business processes and internal controls, contributes to design of the Standard Operating Procedures on programme and project management.

Ensures establishment and maintenance of strategic partnerships and leads resourcesmobilization efforts in programme focus area:

• Consistently scanningthe landscape of issues and identifying entry points for integrated programming across social, political, economic, and environmental dimensions, and translating these into substantive inputs to UNDP programmatic instruments.
• Identifies strategic opportunities and leads engagement on potential joint programming with other UN Agencies and entities.
• Ensures development and implementation of CO partnerships and resource mobilization strategies to achieve country programmeoutcomes related to Health SystemStrengthening, including on HIV, and support of LGBTQI+ communities. Contributes to effective pipeline development in the Office.
• Coordinate with Central and State Governments, UN and bi-lateral partners, Donors, and other Stakeholders for the expansion of the HSS portfolio.
• Supports deployment of partnership strategies and related actions with a focus on programme portfolio development and the identification of sustainable and predictable funding mechanisms for the implementation of the country programme.
• Leads and maintains strongpartnerships with relevantdevelopment partners and government, UN Agencies, IFIs, government institutions, bilateral and multilateral donors, private sector, and civil society in the designated support areas.
• As part of the overall CO partnerships and communications strategy and action plans, develops new project concepts to ensure projectdocuments and financing agreements are developedwith high qualityand in line with UNDP corporate rules and procedures.
• Ensures the preparation of analysis and research of information on partners, donor profiles, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost-sharing and initiation of new projects, active contribution to the overall CO efforts in resource mobilization.
• Leads engagement, networking and mobilization of experts of the international development community, government partners, UN Agencies, and prominent think tanks.
• Leads development of strategies for government cost-sharing in the Health System Strengthening.
• Ensures qualityand timely donor reporting and adherence to the conditions and requirements of partnership agreements by programme teams and projects.

Leads provision of top-quality advisoryservices and facilitates effective knowledge management:

• Provide technical supportfor the quality implementation of the HSS interventions throughcapacity building, review meetings, Monitoring and Supervision, field visits, etc.
• Integrates evaluation findings,real-time monitoring data, and appliedlearning to adaptiveprogramme and project management and policy advisory work.
• Ensures capacity building of national counterparts for effective management and compliance with funding partner’s requirements within UNDP projects.
• Maintains effective networkwith development partnersand Government at the nationallevel and sub- national level and wherenecessary links up with the corporate GlobalPolicy Network of UNDP and other international development actors.
• Leads the implementation of awareness building and advocacy around UN/UNDP events and supports strategic communications work and knowledge management initiatives.
• Provides sound and proactive contributions to corporate, regional and CO events,knowledge networks and communities of practice.
• Managing the timely submission of analytical donor reports, in line with reporting requirements of donor agreements.
• Writes and communicates on best practicesand lessons learnedlinked to programme and policy goals.
• Facilitates knowledge building and management especially between the programme and projects and facilitates trainings for the UNDP staff and personnel and national counterparts on relevant programme issues.
• Contributes to development of training materials and organizes workshops, as required by the supervisor.

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