Antecedentes

Under the guidance and direct supervision of the UN Resident Coordinator (UN RC), the UN Coordination Specialist reinforces capacity of the UN Country Team to use the Common Country Assessment process (CCA) in a flexible and effective manner, to prepare high quality, focused and strategic United Nations Development Assistance Frameworks (UNDAFs), to respond to crisis and post-crisis contexts, to support the national strategies’ setting, to develop and implement the collaborative and joint programmes, to monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Global Conferences, to establish electronic and other systems for agencies without field representation to access national systems and processes, and for national counterparts to access the expertise of agencies without field representation.

The UN Coordination Specialist supervises and leads the staff of the UN Coordination Unit. The UN Coordination Specialist works in close collaboration with UN Country Team (UNCT) members, programme and operations teams of the Agencies, United Nations Development Group Office (UNDGO) staff and Government officials, technical advisors and experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and civil society ensuring successful and transparent coordination of UNCT activities.

Deberes y responsabilidades

Summary of Key Functions:

• Ensures effective support to UNCT in preparation and implementation of country programming processes and products, including CCA and UNDAF and UN programmes coordination
• Ensures preparation and implementation of the RC Work Plan
• Ensures effective advocacy of UN activities in close consultation with the concerned United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) and the UN Communications Group (UNCG) constituted of the information / communication focal points of the UN system
• Ensures creation of strategic partnerships and implementation of the resource mobilization strategy for UNDAF implementation
• Ensures facilitation of knowledge building and management
• Supports the UN RC in his/her capacity as Designated Official (DO) in close cooperation with the United Nations Department for Safety and Security (UNDSS) Security Adviser

1. Ensures effective support to the UNCT in preparation and implementation of country programming processes and products, including CCA and UNDAF and UN programmes coordination:

• Coordinate thorough analysis and research of the political, social and economic situation in the country including managing the support of the UNCT for establishing Development Information-Dev-Info (or local equivalent) in coordination with relevant national counterparts;
• Coordination on behalf of the UN RC of the CCA thematic group activities and draft CCA preparation;
• Provision of secretarial support to the UNDAF steering and other working groups, and ensuring full participation of UN Agencies, Government, civil society, multilateral and bilateral institutions and coordination of the draft UNDAF preparation;
• Establishment of effective mechanisms for monitoring UNDAF implementation based on the UNDAF Results Matrix and the UNDAF Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan in consultation with UN Agencies, Government, civil society, multilateral and bilateral institutions;
• Monitoring of the activities of the UN Theme Groups and other regular UNCT coordination groups;
• Identification of strengths and weaknesses from the point of view of coordination and coherence in UN Agencies programmes in the context of UNDAF, UN System reform and MDGs (and global goals post-2015). Provision of advice on adjusting strategies and implementation modalities, cost-effective and efficient implementation of joint UN programmes, common services and other UN functions;
• Development of strategies, policies and programmes in close consultation with UN Agencies aimed at reaching the MDGs (and post-2015 goals in due course) and establishment of the system for monitoring the progress towards the MDGs and Global Conferences.

2. Ensures preparation and implementation of the RC Work Plan:

• Coordination of the RC Work Plan, reports and proposals for funding preparation;
• Coordination of substantive preparations and support provided for UNCT retreat to review the annual workplan and other UNCT meetings;
• Monitoring of the Resident Coordinator system funding and other funds dedicated to UNCT activities. Approval of budgets and expenditures reports.

3. Ensures effective advocacy of UN activities in close consultation with the concerned United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) and the UN Communications Group (UNCG) constituted of the information / communication focal points of the UN system:

• Maintenance of the systematic information on RC system activities;
• Support to the implementation of the outreach strategy for partners of the UN system;
• Support to the UNCG management of media and communication strategies of the UNCT, in consultation with UNIC;
• Coordinate the preparation of speaker’s notes, talking points, and speeches for major advocacy events of the Resident Coordinator system, in close consultation with the UNCT, the UNCG and others concerned.

4. Ensures creation of strategic partnerships and implementation of the resource mobilization strategy for UNDAF implementation:

• Development of partnerships with International Financial Institutions (IFI), government institutions, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, civil society;
• Analysis and research of information on donors, preparation of substantive briefs on donor strategies and national development strategies, provision of advice to UN RC on ensuring synchronicity, alignment and complementarity between these strategies and UN activities;
• Coordination of the substantive preparations of the UNCT for Government-Donor Coordination Committee (GDCC), Cambodia Development Cooperation Forum (CDCF) and other key events in close consultation with appropriate counterparts in government, bilateral and multilateral partners.

5. Ensures facilitation of knowledge building and management:

• Identification of sources of information related to coordination. Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learnt directly linked to country policy goals;
• Identification of national policies and institutions that require strengthening to ensure effective UNDAF implementation and provision of advice in close consultation with UNCT;
• Establishment of electronic and other systems for agencies without field representation to access national institutions and processes and for national partners to access the expertise of agencies without field representation;
• Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice;
• Organization of trainings to UN staff on coordination issues.

6. Supports the UN RC in his/her capacity as Designated Official (DO) in close cooperation with the Field Security Officer:

• Full compliance with United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) requirements on security. Participation in the work of the UN Security Management Team.

Impact of Results

The key results have an impact on the success of the UN Country Team activities, strengthening of overall coordination capacity, implementation of the UN System reform. In particular, the key results have an impact on the design and operation of UN activities, creation of strategic partnerships for UNCT Programming including UNDAF implementation and support of national strategies and priorities.

Competencias

Core Competencies:

• Promoting ethics and integrity, creating organizational precedents
• Building staff competence,  creating an environment of creativity and innovation
• Building and promoting effective teams
• Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication
• Creating an emotionally intelligent organization
• Leveraging conflict in the interests of UN & setting standards
• Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning.   
• Fair and transparent  decision making; calculated risk-taking

Functional Competencies:  
 
Advocacy/Advancing a Policy-Oriented Agenda: Analysis and creation of messages and strategies

• Creates effective advocacy strategies
• Contributes to the elaboration of advocacy strategies by identifying and prioritizing audiences and communication means
• Performs analysis of political situations and scenarios, and contributes to the formulation of institutional responses

Results-Based Programme Development and Management: Achieving results through programme design and innovative resourcing strategies

• Identifies country needs and strategies using a fact-based approach
• Sets performance standards, monitors progress and intervenes at an early stage to ensure results are in accordance with agreed-upon quality and timeframes and reports on it
• Makes use of a variety of resources based on UN/UNCT priorities to achieve results, such as cross-functional teams, secondments and developmental assignments, and collaborative funding approaches
• Oversees and documents the process of strategy formulation for programmes at country level

 
Building Strategic Partnerships: Identifying and building partnerships

• Effectively networks with partners seizing opportunities to build strategic alliances relevant to UN/UNCT’s strategic agenda
• Sensitizes UN Partners, donors and other international organizations to the UN/UNCT’sstrategic agenda, identifying areas for joint efforts
• Develops positive ties with civil society to build/strengthen UN/UNCT’s mandate
• Identifies needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners
• Effectively attentive to programmatic synergies in inter-agency meetings

Innovation and Marketing New Approaches: Developing new approaches

• Seeks a broad range of perspectives in developing project proposals
• Generates for regional and innovative ideas and effective solutions to problems
• Looks at experience critically, drawing lessons, and building them into the design of new approaches
• Identifies new approaches and promotes their use in other situations
• Documents successes and uses them to project a positive image

Resource Mobilization: Building and maintaining donor relations; implementing resource mobilization strategy

• Develops detailed knowledge and understanding of key donors, their priorities and areas of interest and adapts content and approach of resource mobilization activities to their requirements
• Builds and maintains relationships with donors demonstrating professionalism in providing advice and information on UN activities and sensitivity to donor concerns

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing: Developing tools and mechanisms

• Makes the case for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approaches
• Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms

 Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise: In-depth knowledge of the subject-matter

• Understands more advanced aspects of primary area of specialization as well as the fundamental concepts of related disciplines
• Serves as internal consultant in the area of expertise and shares knowledge with staff
• Continues to seeks new and improved methods and systems for accomplishing the work of the unit
• Keeps abreast of new developments in area of professional discipline and job knowledge and seeks to develop him/herself professionally
• Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments
• Demonstrates comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments

Global Leadership and Advocacy for UN’s Goals: Analysis and creation of messages and strategies

• Performed analysis of country context, and contributes to the formulation of institutional responses as and when needed
• Uses the opportunity to bring forward and disseminate materials for global advocacy work and adapts it for use at country level

Client Orientation: Contributing to positive outcomes for the client

• Anticipates client needs
• Works towards creating an enabling environment for a smooth relationship between the clients and service provider
• Demonstrates understanding of client’s perspective

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

Education:

• Master’s Degree in Economics, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Sciences or related field.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of professional experience at the national or international level in providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and/or evaluation of development projects.
• Proven experiences in proposal development, reporting, budgeting and managing of donor funds would be an asset.
• Solid experience in providing technical support and strategic coordination with UN agencies, government, development partners and NGOs would be highly desirable.
• Experience in preparing speaker’s notes, talking points and speeches for major events would be desirable.
• Familiarity with procedure of UN and RC system and various donor agencies would be an asset.

"Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply."

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in Khmer and English (both spoken and written).