Background

The Crimea Integration and Development Programme is a joint initiative of the international donor community lead by the United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine and supported by international development agencies operating in this country. The current goal of the Programme is to provide assistance to republican and local authorities, representatives of territorial communities and their organizations in seeking and implementing long-term sustainable and effective solutions for social and economic problems at the grassroots and coping with the development issues faced by the multi-ethnic population of Crimea.
The UNDP Crimea Integration and Development Programme (CIDP) was established in 1995 in response to the complex challenges faced by Crimea as a result of the largely spontaneous mass return of more than 260,000 formerly deported people (mainly Crimean Tatars) since 1989 and the social and economic collapse following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Responding to the needs of an evolving situation in Crimea over the last 14 years, CIDP applied different approaches in different programme phases. Following an emergency response approach during the first two phases (1995 – 2000), the programme has been shifting to a social mobilization approach during its third phase (2001 – 2004), while during the fourth phase (2005 – 2007) CIDP complemented this with an integrated approach to regional development in Crimea that goes beyond the community level to intervene at the policy level
For its fifth phase (2009 to end 2011), the main goals of the Programme have been reviewed carefully. The Programme will not only consolidate its work but it will ensure that Crimea’s institutions, processes and partnerships are strong and sustainable to allow for the region’s sustainable socio-economic development, taking into account its ethnic and cultural diversity.
Four strategic directions will be adopted to fulfill this main goal:
1. To continue working on the disseminating the community mobilization approach that CIDP has implemented in Crimea’s rural territories since 2002 – community mobilization is considered as an essential first step towards territorial development
2. To develop effective models for increased rural livelihoods and improved social services – This covers the need to diversify economic opportunities of rural population, to create effective information spaces for remote villages and to further disseminate the principle of tolerance promoting whole school approaches in rural schools
3. To further develop sound democratic governance principles and help institutionalize them among stronger rural communities and more competent authorities – These principles are essential to achieve a participatory approach to local sustainable development.
4. To help develop, at Republican level, effective socio-economic monitoring and public dialogue on Crimea’s sustainable development issues. Such capabilities are important to form a clear strategic development vision for Crimea among republican parliamentary and administrative structures.
CIDP’s general analytical and monitoring work, as well as the more specific work that it conducts to fulfill strategic direction no 4, is carried out by an Analytical Group, headed by the International Programme Coordinator and comprising 4 staff: 2 senior analysts and 2 research assistants. The Group is organized in two units: a Situation Monitoring and Early Warning Unit whose work focuses on equipping the Republican authorities with quality monitoring tools for more effective (and fact based) regional development decisions. The Research and Internal Monitoring Unit’s work is focused on a) researching particular development issues, specific to Crimea, and, on the basis of these researches, producing relevant analytical reports, b) strengthening Crimea’s analytical capacities and c) monitoring the Programme’s outputs, outcomes and effectiveness and producing regular progress reports.
The present Terms of Reference relate to the position of senior analyst/Head of the Research and Internal Monitoring Unit (hereafter referred to as SMEWU).

Duties and Responsibilities

The Senior Analyst/Head of the SMEWU will work under the direct supervision of the Head of the Analytical Group/International Programme Coordinator. The incumbent will also work in close collaboration with other staff members as well as with relevant Government counterparts and analytical/research organizations to achieve the programme’s objectives. His/her main responsibility will be to manage the SMEWU and ensure that all its products/outputs are of high quality and timely and are disseminated to all relevant target groups. 

Detailed functional responsibilities:
Planning of the Unit’s work
• preparation of six monthly operational plans (to be agreed by Head of Group)
• preparation of monthly work plans
• weekly meetings with Head of Group (results feedback/planning adjustments)
Sociological work
• preparing ToRs for contractors
• designing the methodology of the sociological work (opinion polls, experts’ surveys), discussing it with peer and getting it approved by Group’s Head
• supervising and quality controlling the sociological reports produced
• getting peer’s feedback on reports produced
• finalising/supporting the finalization of the reports
• ensuring that analytical products are made available on CIDP’s site and promoted for download
Media and Events’ analysis
• preparing ToRs for contractors
• controlling the weekly and monthly reporting on media/events (weekly chronology of events and monthly analyses)
• implementing the CIDP designed events’ analysis methodology for early warning of conflicts’ risks
• supervising and quality controlling the events’ analytical reports produced
• getting peer’s feedback on reports produced
• ensuring that analytical products are made available on CIDP’s site and promoted for download
Quarterly monitoring reports
• supervising the collection of statistical data and their organization (in a coherent database)
• drafting reports
• preparing presentations of reports
• getting peer’s feedback on reports produced
• contributing reports’ findings to analytical briefs or other analytical/informational documents disseminated to Crimean or international partners
• ensuring that analytical products are made available on CIDP’s site and promoted for download
Annual monitoring reports
• supervising the collection of statistical data and their organization (in a coherent database)
• drafting the reports
• preparing presentations of reports
• getting peer’s feedback on reports produced
• contributing reports’ findings to analytical briefs or other analytical/informational documents disseminated to Crimean or international partners
• ensuring that analytical products are made available on CIDP’s site and promoted for download
Training of analytical organizations and HSC Secretariat on Situation Monitoring and early warning
• planning of training events (get plans approved by Head of Group)
• preparation of the training events (including drafting of budget, identification of participants, preparation of training curriculum, preparation of training materials)
• conducting the training events
• getting feedback on effectiveness of the training event and disseminate information
Unit’s Results reporting (internal monitoring)
• written contributions to quarterly and annual progress reports, as well as Donors’ specific reports 

Managerial duties
The incumbent will manage one staff (a research assistant) and in this context will be responsible for:
- designing clear ToRs for this staff,
- supervising the outputs of the staff (in terms of quality, accuracy and timeliness)
- ensuring for the constant development of the staff (through individual coaching and advice)
- assessing the staff’s work and providing concrete feedback on his/her performance.
In the context of his/her duties, the incumbent will also be called to supervising/coordinating the work of external contractors.
The Senior Analyst/Head of the SMEWU will be bearing the final responsibility for the quality of all outputs produced in his/her Unit. 

External contacts
The Senior Analyst/Head of the SMEWU will work with relevant international, Ukrainian or republican analytical organisations and experts, as well as with selected governmental structures (such as the Ukraine and Republican level Goskomstat).

Expected outcomes and results, measurable outputs of the work assignment:
The key results expected by the Senior Analyst/Head of the SMEWU are:
- timely, well written and unbiased annual and quarterly situation monitoring reports
- timely, well written and unbiased analytical reports (opinion polls, experts’ surveys, media/events analyses) produced by external contractors
- well written and unbiased analytical briefs/summaries
- timely and well written ToRs for external contractors/Unit’s staff
- coherent and well maintained database of key economic, social, human, political and ecological development indicators
- coherent operational plans practically used to control the implementation of the Unit’s work
- well designed and effectively delivered training sessions for selected target groups
- timely and well written contributions to the CIDP quarterly and annual report and to Donor’s specific reports
- staff under the supervision of the incumbent gradually developed to undertake sound analytical work

Reporting structure:
The incumbent will report to the Head of the Analytical Group on a weekly basis (minimum) and at the end of each month to review progress made on the Operational Plan’s implementation. In the absence of the Head of the Analytical Group, the incumbent will report to the Regional Development Advisor/Head of Programme Department.

Performance Indicators for evaluation of results:
a) Analytical skills
b) Writing skills;
a) Quality of work and timeliness of outputs;
b) Relations with colleagues and ability to be an effective team player;
c) Initiative;
d) Knowledge of required procedures;
e) Communication and listening skills;
f) Partnering and networking

Competencies

- Excellent organizational, analytical, managerial, writing, presentation, networking and communication skills, initiative and ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural team. A creative disposition and problem-solving abilities. 
- Good counselling and motivation skills, ability to relate to colleagues, partners, beneficiaries, government body representatives, donor agencies and other stakeholders. 
- Affinity with United Nations mandate and principles.

Required Skills and Experience

- Master’s degree / PhD in economics, social sciences, sociology, political science and related areas 
- At least 8 years of practical experience in managing/conducting research work and in designing and implementing projects’ monitoring systems (system of indicators, baselines, monitoring and reporting methodology) 
- Advanced computer skills, including word processing, spreadsheet, data analysis and statistical data processing applications. Experience with information management systems would be an asset. 
- Good command of Ukrainian, Russian and English languages.

This is a locally recruited position that does not entail expatriation benefits. Local staff salary and benefits will apply.
All interested candidates should complete the UN PERSONAL HISTORY FORM* (P-11) and attach it to the on-line application (instead of CV). Failure to disclose prior employment or making false representations on this form will be grounds for withdrawal of further consideration of his/her application or termination, where the appointment or contract has been issued. Two letters of recommendation will be requested from short-listed candidates.

Please mention the minimal salary level expected in your application/P11.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS 07/06/2009

UNDP will use a transparent and competitive screening process, though will only contact those applicants in whom there is further interest. Applications may only be submitted for specific vacancy. We regret that we will not be able to acknowledge all unsolicited general applications for employment.

Personal History Form can be downloaded from http://www.un.kiev.ua/bc/jobs/