Summary of
key functions:
·
Provide
policy guidance, thought leadership and subject matter expertise;
·
Lead,
coordinate and manage portfolio;
·
Deliver
quality assurance and ensure value for money of programme interventions;
·
Facilitate
strategic partnerships and resource mobilization;
·
Lead
knowledge management and communication of results.
Ensure
provision of top quality policy advisory services and facilitation of
knowledge creation and management for portfolio
·
Provide
intellectual or substantive leadership in the subject area through
identification of key policy issues and formulation of best possible and
alternative policy options for UNDP. Stimulate strategic thinking in the
subject area and tap into opportunities.
This
will include, among others:
·
Identification
of sources of information related to policy-driven issues. Identification and
synthesis of best practices and lessons learned directly linked to programme
country policy goals;
·
Leadership
and monitoring of the process of implementing policy advisory services;
ensure highest UNDP standards in the provision of technical and advisory
inputs, organization of policy dialogues, etc;
·
Support upstream
policy advocacy in priority areas of work within the national development
context in Bangladesh and clarifying and establishing linkages across
portfolios;
·
Lead the
analytical and policy development work of the portfolio and ensure high
quality policy products. Contribute to the production of reports and
publications, and serve as peer reviewer;
·
Coordination
of development of policies and institutions that will address the country
problems and needs in collaboration with the Government and other strategic
partners. This includes supporting the management in leading the policy
and advocacy discourse towards toward unified frameworks for poverty
reduction, democratic governance and climate change, environmental
sustainability and resilience at policy and programming levels;
·
Provide
intellectual or substantive leadership in CO-wide efforts to ground
programmes on sound political economy analysis;
Lead,
coordinate and manage portfolio for effective and efficient delivery of
results:
·
Identification
of programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UNDP,
country needs and donors’ priorities;
·
Preparation
and operationalization of UNDAF / CPD in collaboration with the main partners
and other UN Agencies. Identification of possibilities for joint programming;
·
Systematically
engage project colleagues and citizen engagement specialist to incorporate
the views of target groups in programme / project design;
·
Design,
formulation, and coordination of the CO programme implementation with
development partners and implementing partners;
·
Planning,
budgeting, implementing and monitoring of the programme portfolios;
·
Programme
oversight and programme management;
·
Development
of AWPs in concert with CO annual planning, including facilitating the
day-to-day functioning of the Portfolio;
·
Development
of project documents within corporate standards;
·
Maintenance
of project and programme risk logs;
·
Conduct of
programme / project reviews and codification of lessons learned;
·
Effective
monitoring, measuring the impact of the CO programme and evaluation;
·
Tracking use
of financial resources;
·
Implementation
of NIM/NEX oversight measures (incl. oversight of NEX advances, documentation
of capacity assessments, etc.);
·
Constant
monitoring and analysis of the programme environment, timely readjustment of
programme, as well as measure the impact of the projects and ensure that
results and lessons learned feed into the analytical and project work (i.e.
results used to make decisions);
·
Leverage
innovative approaches, resources, and collaborative efforts to enhance
programme and project impact.
Delivers
quality assurance and ensures value for money of programme interventions:
·
Ensure that UNDP
Strategic Plan priorities and corporate programme quality standards are
integrated into the UNDP’s programme formulation;
·
Ensure robust
project design, including articulation of Theory of Change and a strong
results framework (identifying key costs, risks, opportunities and measurable
outcomes). Defining how the inputs, outputs and outcomes would add up to the
overall impact statement, including a thorough scrutiny of evidence;
·
Explore
alternative options for project delivery, and selection of the most appropriate
delivery route to achieve the expected results (including a detailed delivery
scheduling and VfM indicators at the outset);
·
Regular
review of progress against the results frameworks/ logframes and VfM
assessments (utilising the latest metrics), including implementing
recommendations from periodic reviews;
·
Ensure
clarity and transparency in budgeting and reporting of expenditure, including
understanding and managing of key cost drivers;
·
Work closely
with integrated service delivery team to improve cost consciousness; more
efficient procurement and timely recruitment;
·
Quality
assurance of project outputs.
Facilitates
strategic partnerships, representation and resource mobilization:
·
Creation and
coordination of partnerships with the UN Agencies, government institutions,
bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, civil society, etc.;
·
Analysis and
research of information on donors, preparation of substantive briefs on
possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for
cost-sharing;
·
Mobilize and
network with the experts of international development community, government partners,
UN Agencies and prominent think-tanks;
·
Mobilize
resources to support the achievement of programme outcomes;
·
Lead and
support the effective management of partnership coordination platforms, for
example, relevant Local Consultative Group (LCG) working groups, UNDAF
Pillar, and other appropriate mechanisms as they emerge.
Leads
knowledge management and communication of results for portfolio
·
Translate
evaluation findings, real-time monitoring data, and applied learning to
formulating adaptations in UNDP’s programme / project and policy advisory
work;
·
Sound and
proactive contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice;
·
Facilitation
of knowledge building and management especially between the programme and
projects;
·
Establishment
of advocacy networks at national level and linked to international networ.
Impact of
Results:
·
The key
results impacts on the overall success of the country programme and reaching
UNDAF/ CPD goals. In particular, the key results have an impact on the
design, operation and programming of activities, creation of strategic
partnerships as well as reaching resource mobilization targets.
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