UNDP Jobs - 63561- Programme Analyst

Programme Analyst

Location :

New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Type of Contract :

TA International

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

09-Feb-16 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

P-2

Duration of Initial Contract :

364 days.

Languages Required :

English French

Expected Duration of Assignment :

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. 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.

Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 170 countries and territories, working with governments and people on their own solutions to global and national development challenges to help empower lives and build resilient nations.

The Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas.

BPPS supports UNDP’s 2014-2017 Strategic Plan, focusing on 7 outcomes including strengthening institutions to progressively deliver universal access to basic services (outcome 3). The HIV, Health and Development Group (HHD), within BPPS, is helping to contribute towards this outcome.

HIV, Health and Development Approach:
UNDP is a founding cosponsor of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), a partner of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), and a co-sponsor of several other international health partnerships. UNDP’s work on HIV, health and development leverages the organization’s core strengths and mandates in human development, governance and capacity development to complement the efforts of specialist health-focused UN agencies. UNDP delivers three types of support to countries in HIV, health and development.

First, UNDP helps countries to mainstream attention to HIV and health into action on gender, poverty and the broader effort to achieve and sustain the Millennium Development Goals. Second, UNDP works with partners to address the interactions between governance, human rights and health responses. Third, as a trusted, long-term partner with extensive operational experience, UNDP supports countries in effective implementation of complex, multilateral and multisectoral health projects, while simultaneously investing in capacity development so that national and local partners can assume these responsibilities over time. The UNDP/Global Fund partnership is an important part of this work, facilitating access to resources for action on SDG 3 by countries that face constraints in directly receiving and managing such funding. UNDP partners with countries in crisis/post-crisis situations, those with weak institutional capacity or governance challenges, and countries under sanctions.

UNDP’s Partnership with the Global Fund:
As of October 2015, UNDP served as the interim Principal Recipient (PR) for 50 grants, covering 25 countries and two ulti-country regional programme, funded by the Global Fund. Given the importance of the partnership with the Global Fund, UNDP continues to provide high value-added services to Global Fund both in its role as the interim Principal Recipient, and, increasingly as a significant technical partner to governments and civil society organizations who implement Global Fund grants, including health procurement. Monitoring of the Global Fund portfolio aims primarily to provide early indications of the quality, quantity and timeliness of progress towards delivering intended results and is a critical function of Country Offices as interim PRs. UNDP engages with governments and civil society organizations to implement programme activities and an integral role of UNDP is to build their capacity to assume the PR role when the have the requisite capacity.

Under the overall guidance of the Senior Programme Advisor (New York), the Programme Analyst will assist the Senior Policy Advisor in supporting the start-up, grant-making, and implementation of UNDP-managed Global Fund programmes and UNDP country offices as a technical partner to governments and civil society organizations. A critical role of the Partnership Team is knowledge building and management focusing on communication and information sharing across COs and regions. The Programme Analyst will assist the Senior Programme Advisor in the development of policy guidance and tools related to risk management and key functional capacity areas as interim PR and coordination of key guidance materials (Operational Manuals) and maintenance of corporate platforms. The Progamme Analyst will also support the monitoring of programme performance and delivery and will also work in close collaboration with other Global Fund Partnership team staff.

Duties and Responsibilities

Supports effective management of Global fund programmes and provision of technical support to governments and civil society, focusing on quality control from formulation to implementation of programmes, including health procurement, with the following key responsibilities:

Support to effective application of Results Based Management (RBM) tools, establishment of management targets, and monitoring achievement of results;
Support to coordination of Global Fund programme development and implementation with Country Offices (COs) and Regional Service Centres (RSC), and technical partners;
Support to health procurement in Global Fund programme implementation with CO and RSCs and technical partners; and
Support to financial and substantive monitoring and evaluation of projects, identification of programme and operational constraints, and participation in the development of solutions.

Supports services to Country Offices and Regional Service Centers facilitation of knowledge building and management focusing on enhancing communication and information sharing through corporate platforms, with the following key responsibilities:

Support the achievement of the UNDP-Global Fund Partnership team work-plan with a particular focus on enhanced communication and information sharing in collaboration with HHD team through corporate platforms;
Support the Senior Programme Advisor in the development and maintenance of the corporate knowledge management platforms; and
Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learnt, and identification of sources of information related to UNDP’s partnership with the Global Fund and other health initiatives including health procurement.

Supports the development of policy guidance and tools and trainings of Country Offices and ensuring the inclusion of health procurement, focusing on the achievement of the following results:

Support to effective compilation, analysis and interpretation of relevant information on Global Fund policies and production into key guidance materials for use by stakeholders, COs and RSCs and regional bureaus (Operational Manuals);
Support the redevelopment and maintenance of the UNDP-Global Fund Partnership website and the interface with the CD Toolkit website;
Coordinate and develop guidance materials, tools and training for COs, specifically on functional capacity areas as interim PR; and
Support the development and standardizing of tools for risk management initiatives, including health procurement.

Monitoring of UNDP-Global Fund Partnership programme performance and delivery focusing on the achievement of the following results:

Support creating a repository of programme documents for UNDP Global Fund projects’ using corporate platforms;
Contribute in UNDP’s performance in the fulfillment of audit recommendation and implementation of action plans and the compilation of results;
Support creating evidence base of programme performance and achievement of programme objectives through conducting, survey, research, case study, crowd sourcing an online portals; and
Support the achievement of the UNDP-Global Fund Partnership team work plan with a particular focus on monitoring programme performance and delivery.

Other related duties, as required.

Competencies

Core competencies:

Innovation:

Ability to make new and useful ideas work.

Leadership:

Ability to persuade others to follow.

People Management:

Ability to improve performance and satisfaction.

Communication:

Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform.

Delivery:

Ability to get things done.

Technical/Functional

Primary

Results Based Management:

Ability to manage programmes and projects with a strategy aimed at improved performance and demonstrated results.

Respect for Diversity:

Knowledge of diversity issues, concepts, principles and policies and the ability to apply in strategic and/or practical situations.

Communications:

Ability to effectively communicate intentions and requirements to internal and external stakeholders.

Team Building:

Ability to work effectively with diverse groups of professionals towards common goals.

Partnership Building:

Ability to engage with other agencies, donors, and other development stakeholders and forge productive working relationships.

Secondary

Knowledge Management:

Ability to efficiently handle and share information and knowledge.

Organizational Development:

Knowledge of organizational development concepts, issues and principles and the ability to apply them to strategic and/or practical situations.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master’s Degree or equivalent in Public Health, International Development, Economics/Management, Development Studies or related field.

Experience:

A minimum of 2 years of progressive relevant professional experience;
Sound knowledge of Global Fund polices and processes and experience working on Global Fund programmes;
Work experience from a developing country highly desirable;
Strong familiarity with the UN/UNDP system;
Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages and web-based management systems.

Language:

Fluency in written and spoken English is required;
Fluency in written and spoken French is required.

Other:

Willingness to travel to UNDP Country Offices.