UN Jobs – Coordinator – Integrated and Governance Portfolio at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Organization: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Post Level: P4
Reports to: Country Director (CD)
Job ID: 4316
About UNDP:
The
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nation’s global
development network. UNDP advocates for change and connects countries to
knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. The
UNDP provides expert advice, training, grant support to developing countries
including Uganda with increasing emphasis on assistance to the least developed
countries.
Job Summary: The Coordinator – Integrated and Governance
Portfolio acts as the technical manager of the Portfolio and advisor to Senior
Management on all aspects of Governance and related fields including the Rule
of Law and Constitutional Democracy, Institutional Effectiveness, and Peace,
Security and Systems Resilience. The primary responsibilities of the IG
Coordinator is to promote coherence in actions within UNDP and among partners
in the Governance sector through: (a) enhanced collaboration and institutional
linkages among key partners; (b) increased access, by government and partners,
to needed technical (expertise), technological and operational resources to
lead, plan, innovate and achieve sustainable transformational results; and (c)
improved availability of relevant data from programme monitoring systems,
research and evaluations to enable production of quality and timely reports on
progress towards (SDGs).  The IG
Coordinator technically leads the three Governance result areas (Rule of Law
& Constitutional Democracy; Institutional effectiveness; and Peace,
Security & Systems Resilience) in strategic planning and, identifies new
programme areas while ensuring consistency with UNDAF/CPD priorities and
creative responses to emerging challenges and opportunities.The Coordinator
technically supervises the Governance team and works in close collaboration
with the Management Support, Operations team in the CO, Programme staff in
other UN Agencies, UNDP HQs staff and Government officials, technical advisors
and experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and civil society to
successfully implement the UNDP IG programme.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
Ensuring strong Coherence
of the Integrated Governance programme towards creating enabling conditions for
accelerated and sustained progress towards NDP II and SDG targets and goals:
  • Ensure the Programme is implemented under the
    Delivering as One modality, based on international human rights standards
    and restorative justice, and contextualized as appropriate as possible to
    the Ugandan context;
  • The incumbent will provide overall direction
    and leadership to the Integrated Governance programme to ensure that UNDP
    and UNCT’s support contribute to building a strong foundation (rule of
    law, controlled corruption, effective, efficient and resilient national
    institutions, sustained peace and security) to accelerate and sustain
    progress towards the following global commitment:
    • SDG 11: Gender Equality;
    • SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong
      Institutions; and
    • SDG 17: Partnership for the Goals.
  • Work closely with relevant UN agencies and
    partners to promote overall governance programme coherence and support
    government’s efforts to optimize the use of aid and national resources
    through effective coordination of activities among UN, donors, state and
    non-state actors; and
  • Support the Country Office in the development
    of effective oversight and accountability mechanisms.
Building institutional
linkages among partners working in the governance sector to ensure adequate
complementarities, synergies and elimination of duplications:
  • Provide analysis and research of information
    on donors, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of
    cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost-sharing.
  • Actively promote the creation and
    coordination of partnership with the UN agencies, government institutions,
    bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, civil society, etc.
  • Ensure leadership, within UNDP and UNCT, over
    UNDAF Governance Pillar Programme planning, implementation, monitoring and
    evaluation, including preparation – in consultation with programme
    partners (GoU, Donors, CSOs and private sector) – of a joint work plan and
    related SDG-focused periodic progress reports;
  • Work collaboratively with UNDP SIED
    Coordinator and relevant UN agencies’ focal points to continuously promote,
    monitor coherence, complementarities and synergies between UNDAF/UNCT
    programmes on Inclusive Governance (IG), Human Capital Development (HCD)
    and Sustainable & Inclusive Economic Development (SIED) and their
    impact on acceleration of progress towards NDP II and SDG Targets.
Ensuring availability of
high-level Expertise within UNDP and implementing partners to drive innovations
and knowledge building:
  • Promote innovations through South-South and
    Triangular learning, strategic and context-tailored research and joint
    programme evaluations;
  • Oversee the planning and coordination of
    strategic planning and related capacity building activities in UNDP CO to
    ensure a smooth transition from micro-project implementation to strategic
    and context-appropriate upstream support to government and partners.
  • Ensuring Access by the government to required
    resources to lead, own and sustain efforts towards good governance;
  • Building, establishing and maintaining
    strategic partnership and facilitate government’s access to resources for
    development, including: technical, technological, know-how (South-South
    experiences and cooperation) and financial;
  • Ensuring technical, operational and financial
    support to the processes of identifying relevant opportunities for
    South-South Cooperation, mission planning, documentation, feedback to
    decision-makers and partners and follow-up of actions on recommendation.
Ensuring timely and
quality Reporting on progress towards programme goals and related SDGs:
  • Build on political commitment towards
    institutional effectiveness, transparency and accountability to promote
    and coordinate efforts towards establishment and functioning of high-level
    development research and evaluation functions in the government.
  • Promote and support coordination by GoU of
    data generation and use of system-generated data, including relevant and
    accessible Big Data, in development progress tracking.
  • Liaise with relevant Regional and HQ units to
    ensure timely technical inputs to data generation and progress reporting
    processes through sharing of relevant international best practices;
  • Lead and coordinate UNDP/UNCT reporting on
    governance programme with emphasis on clear establishment of linkages with
    and impact on other UN-supported programme (HCD and SIED);
  • Ensure quality, adequate depth and timeliness
    of SDG progress reporting
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal applicant for the United Nations
    UNDP Coordinator – Integrated and Governance Portfolio job placement
    should possess at least five to seven years of relevant experience at the
    national or international level in providing management and policy
    advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and
    evaluation of development projects and establishing inter-relationships
    among international organization and national governments, civil society
    and local communities.
  • Previous experience in coordinating and
    maintain synergy with development partners and the UN system. 
  • Significant experience in the usage of
    computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web
    based management systems.
Personal Competencies:
Functional Competencies:
Knowledge Management
and Learning
  • Ability to promote knowledge generation and
    management in UNDP and a learning environment in the office through
    leadership and personal example
  • Ability to continually facilitate the
    evaluation of learning, knowledge building and sharing, in the local and
    global communities including knowledge sharing, participates in knowledge
    reuse and provide feedback around community improvements
  • Ability to work towards continuing personal
    learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning
    plan and applies newly acquired skills
Development and
Operational Effectiveness
  • Ability to engage with high ranking UNDP Managers,
    Government Officials and International Donor Community and provide policy
  • Ability to lead strategic planning,
    results-based management and reporting; full project cycle mastery,
    excellent work/project planning skills, mastery of UNDP’s programmes
  • Ability to lead formulation, implementation,
    monitoring and evaluation of development programmes and projects, mobilize
    resources
  • Ability to formulate and mange budgets, mange
    contributions and investments, mange transactions, conduct financial
    analysis reporting and cost-recovery
  • 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;
  • Leads, mentors, coaches, encourages and
    motivates teams effectively, inspires confidence.
UNDP
is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality
and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons
with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be
treated with the strictest confidence.
How to Apply:
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates who so desire to join the United
Nations Development Programme, UNDP, in the aforementioned capacity should
endeavor to Apply Online by Clicking on the link below. Please further review
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Deadline: 24th June 2016
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