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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

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.