Historique
Devoirs et responsabilités
- Produce policy research on global and regional development issues and development framework studies
- Support to the specific global and regional initiatives and activities and Team’s daily housekeeping issues
- Support to identify policy options in the areas of development framework studies, such as Post-MDGs and global governance, and to enhance the policy impact of UNDP projects and programmes
- Collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data on China’s development in the area of global and regional development issues and development studies such as Post-MDGs studies and global governance.
- Analyze information on research institutes on global and regional development studies, prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for initiation of new projects.
- Prepare inputs for reports on global governance and development studies for external and internal purpose.
- Produce internal research notes on key issues in the area of global and regional development studies and draft speeches for UNDP Senior Management under this portfolio.
- Identification of sources of information related to global and regional development issues.
- Sound contribution to the development of UNDP’s research networks on global and regional development studies.
- Provide technical support to the preparation of the specific global and regional initiative and relevant events, such as collecting the background information, drafting background papers, contributing the programme of the initiatives, taking the notes of the events and generating the summary reports.
- Conduct background research pieces on global and regional initiatives, including the proposal of the specific global and regional initiatives
- Review and proofread the drafts of the research papers and/or speeches drafted internally and externally.
- Provide administrative support to the preparation of the global and regional initiatives and events, such as timely drafting and submitting the relevant donor-requested documents, and going through UNDP internal operational process of the event preparations.
- Provide the operational support to the Team’s daily housekeeping issues, such as contributing to the work plan and periodically reports.
- Provide support to the formulation and implementation of the country office’s global and regional cooperation programmes.
- Assist policy advocacy and programme advisory tasks such as preparing project briefs, speeches, presentations, and strategy papers related to regional cooperation, and brief visiting missions, donor agencies and national counterpart agencies.
- Report to the UNDP Headquarters and Regional Center on the project/programme implementation through UNDP reporting web-system and timely draft the review reports as requested.
- Maintain good partnership with the relevant UNDP internal units and national counterparts, as well as donors.
- Conduct the missions in China if needed.
Compétences
- Shares knowledge and experience and contributes to UNDP Practice Areas and actively works towards continuing personal learning and development
- Ability to provide top quality policy support services on global and regional development issues
- In-depth practical knowledge of inter-disciplinary development framework issues
- Ability to contribute to strategic planning, results-based management and reporting
- Ability to contribute to implementation of development programmes and projects
- Ability to apply global and regional development theory to the specific country context, carry out high-quality research
- Focuses on impact and result for internal and external clients and responds positively to critical feedback
- Encourages risk-taking in the pursuit of creativity and innovation
- Shows conflict resolution skills
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
- Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills
- Builds strong relationships with clients and external actors
- Identifies relevant information for advocacy for UNDP’s goals for a variety of audiences
- Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment
- Self-development, initiative-taking
- Self-motivated learning on UNDP rules and operational process on project implementation
- Acting as a team player and facilitating team work
- Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively
- Creating synergies through self-control
- Managing conflict
- Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member.
- Informed and transparent decision making
Qualifications et expériences requises
- Master’s Degree or equivalent in Political or Social Sciences, International Studies, Development Studies or related disciplines.
- 3 years of progressively responsible policy research and analysis experience is required at the national or international level.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Publisher, Excel, STATA, etc) and advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web based management systems.
- Fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese.