Antecedentes

Under strategic guidance of the Country Director and direct supervision of Team Leader, Local Governance, the Recovery Specialist acts as an advisor to CO Management on all aspects of early recovery/ recovery in post-crisis (conflict or natural disaster) contexts. The Recovery Advisor leads UNDP’s involvement in the preparation and coordination of UNDP and UN-wide recovery strategies and relevant programme activities and, where appropriate, represents UNDP in Early Recovery Cluster activities at the country level. S/he also leads the development and management of the overall UNDP early recovery/recovery programme portfolio and facilitates mainstreaming of relevant policy advice and capacity building activities in UNDP’s programme portfolios in the area of the local governance (Pillar 1) and climate change and disaster risk reduction (Pillar 2) .

Deberes y responsabilidades

• Ensures strategic direction of UNDP’s response to early recovery/recovery needs 
• Leads UNDP’s involvement in and substantively contributes to joint needs assessments and development of UN recovery strategies
• Development of UNDP’s early recovery/recovery programme(s)
• Leads the development of strategic partnerships and resource mobilization for early recovery/recovery
  
• Provision of strategic policy advisory services to the Government and facilitation of knowledge and capacity building on recovery issues

• Identification of strategic opportunities and potential early recovery/ recovery programme areas of cooperation in the ceasefire areas including opportunities for joint programming with UN agencies and other development partners (IFIs, INGOs etc.);
• Development of UNDP’s early recovery/recovery programmes in collaboration with the national and sub-national stakeholders, development partners and UN Agencies as and when needs arise;
• Synergies, alignment and coordination of early recovery/recovery programmes with other UNDP programme activities in Myanmar, especially in the areas of local governance,  and disaster risk reduction as well as those of UN Agencies and capitalizes on synergies where possible;
• Mainstreaming of cross-cutting UN/UNDP priorities in recovery programmes, in particular capacity building, gender and human rights;
• Development of strategies to ensure effective programmatic and operational interface and complementarities between humanitarian, transitional and recovery interventions of the UN system, and where necessary, development or exit and hand-over strategies as part of the UN cluster approach.

Ensures effective programme formulation support:

• Design and formulation of early recovery/recovery programme(s), translating UNDP priorities into local interventions. Coordination of programme implementation with the executing agencies;
• Effective monitoring and evaluation, continuous analysis of the programme environment and timely readjustment of programmes;
• Aggregate reports are regularly prepared on activities, outputs and outcomes. Donor reports are prepared with emphasis on sustainability of results and value for money, and submitted within deadlines.

Establishes and maintains strategic partnerships and resource mobilization for early recovery/recovery programmes focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Development and implementation of partnerships and resources mobilization strategies to achieve early recovery/recovery programme outcomes;
• Creation and coordination of partnerships with UN Agencies, IFI’s, government institutions at national and subnational levels, bi-lateral and multi-lateral development partners, private sector, civil society etc.;
• Determination of programmatic areas of cooperation in line with national priorities and early recovery/recovery needs, strategic objectives of UNDP country programme and comparative advantages of UNDP, and towards establishing effective development partnerships;
• Analysis and research of information on development partners, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost-sharing.

Ensures provision of top quality and strategic advisory services, capacity building and facilitation of knowledge sharing focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Advocacy for and strengthening of national and sub-national capacity for planning and coordination of early recovery/recovery efforts;
• Provision of top quality policy and strategic advice to government institutions, including at the sub-national level, on development and implementation of recovery policies and strategies;
• Identification, sharing and application of international best practices and lessons on recovery-related issues relevant to the country’s recovery needs and goals;
• Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice;
• Capacity building of UNDP Myanmar staff, including the country office and area presences, in programme and operations and across programme pillars.

The key results have an impact on the overall success of UNDP’s recovery effort in support of national goals.

Competencias

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
  

• Promotes knowledge management in UNDP and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example
• Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills

• Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting
• Ability to lead formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes and projects, mobilize resources
• Ability to formulate and manage budgets, manage contributions and investments, manage transactions, conduct financial analysis, reporting and cost-recovery
• Good knowledge of the Results Management Guide and Toolkit
• Good ICT skills, knowledge of Atlas
• Ability to implement new systems and affect staff behavioral/ attitudinal change

Management and Leadership

• Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
• Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

• Master’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences or related field.

• At least 7 years field experience, preferably with a significant part in countries in special development situations. 
• Extensive experience at the national or international level in providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development, recovery and conflict prevention/peace building strategies programmes and projects and establishing inter-relationships among international organizations and national governments. Hands on experience on operationalizing recovery including knowledge of livelihoods, local governance and other cross cutting issues will be an added advantage. 
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web based management systems (e.g. Atlas).
• Knowledge and experience from disaster response operations, including missions in support of recovery planning.
• In conflict/post conflict situations: Experience with conflict prevention, peace building, reintegration and conflict sensitive development.

• Possess a comprehensive set of competencies enabling immediately taking on the challenging role of leading early recovery efforts – strategic, integrity, results orientation, teamwork, good inter-personal skills, well developed communication skills, sound judgment, analytical skills, flexibility, proactive engagement, innovation, risk management, gender and culturally sensitive, ability to work under pressure and demonstrates high tolerance for change, complexity and unpredictability.

• Fluency in the UN language of the duty station.