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• Ensure the Programme is implemented
  under the Delivering as One modality, based on international standards
  related to human rights, gender equality and Environmental Sustainability
  – with special emphasis on eliminating extreme poverty and reducing
  inequalities – and focus on women, youth and other vulnerable groups;
• The incumbent will provide overall
  direction and leadership within UN SIED pillar Result Groups and UNDP’s
  SIED programmes while ensuring adequate coordination of activities and
  leveraging resources and synergies to accelerate and sustain progress
  towards the following global commitments:
• SDG 5: No Poverty;
• SDG7: Affordable and Clean Energy;
• SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic
  Growth;
• SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities;
• SDG 12: Responsible Consumption;
• SDG 13: Climate Action; and
• SDG 17: Partnership for the Goals.
• Work closely with relevant UN
  agencies and partners to strengthen/promote government’s ownership,
  leadership and investment in SIED-related sectors and optimize the use of
  aid and national resources through good planning and coordination of
  SIED-related activities by UN, donors, state and non-state actors;

• Ensure leadership, within UNDP and UNCT, over
  UNDAF SIED 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;
• Collaborate closely with the UNDP IG
  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.
• Work closely with the IG Coordinator in
  organizing trainings for the operations/projects staff on programme.

• Actively promote innovation through
  South-South and Triangular learning, strategic and context-tailored
  research and joint programme evaluations;
• Collaborate with the IG Coordinator in
  planning capacity building activities in UNDP CO to ensure smooth
  transition from micro-project implementation to strategic and
  context-appropriate upstream support to government and partners.

• Build and maintain strategic partnership and
  support GoU to access to resources for development, including: expertise,
  technology, know-how, South-South experiences and cooperation and
  catalytic financial means;  and
• Provide quality technical, operational and
  financial support to the processes of identifying relevant opportunities
  for South-South Cooperation, mission planning, documentation and provision
  of feedback to decision-makers and partners and follow-up of actions on
  recommendation.

• Actively promote and support coordination by
  GoU of data generation and use of system-generated data, including
  relevant and accessible Big Data, 
  in tracking progress towards SIED targets and goals.
• Work closely 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
  SIED programme with emphasis on clear establishment of linkages with and
  impact on other UN-supported programme (IG and HCD)
• Ensure quality, adequate depth and timeliness
  of SIED-related SDG progress reporting.

• The ideal applicant for the United Nations
  UNDP Coordinator of the Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Development
  Portfolio career placement should possess at 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 exposure and 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.

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s
  values and ethical standards
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic
  goals of UNDP
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race,
  nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
• Shows strong corporate commitment, works to
  achieve goals of UNDP as a whole and makes contributions to priorities led
  by other country offices, regional centres and bureau

• 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

• 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

• 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

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