UNDP Budget Management Associate – Sustainable Palm Oil Initiative (SPOI). 130 views

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity

• Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment

• Building and promoting effective teams, including working in teams and empowering project staff to create an enabling gender equality environment on non-hierarchical bases.

• Self-development, initiative-taking

• Acting as a team player and facilitating team work

• Strong leadership and managerial skill with track records of management roles in a team of multi-diversity background;

• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively

• Creating synergies through self-control

• Managing conflict

• Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others. Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member, including Ability to transfer knowledge and motivate people and to build relationships with colleagues, partners, beneficiaries, government authorities, donor organizations and other stakeholders.

• Informed and transparent decision making

• Communication skills to exchange information, and key ideas in a manner that engages the audience and helps others to understand and retain messages about gender equality and parity

Functional Competencies:

Advocacy/Advancing A Policy-Oriented Agenda

Preparing information for advocacy

• Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UNDP’s mandate

• Advocacy skills to promote gender equality approaches, to achieve the UNDP Gender Equality agenda or national gender equality agenda with internal and external partners

Results-Based Programme Development and Management

Contributes into results through primary research and analysis

• Assesses project performance to identify success factors and incorporates best practices into project work

• Researches linkages across programme activities to identify critical points of integration

• Monitors specific stages of projects/programme implementation

• Analyzes country situation to identify opportunities for project development

• Participates in the formulation of project proposals and ensures substantive rigor in the design and application of proven successful approaches and drafts proposals accordingly

• Excellent written communication and analytical skill to synergize project financial delivery and support internal capacity;

Building Strategic Partnerships

Maintaining a network of contacts

• Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues

• Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders

• Strategic thinking and building partnerships to promote Gender Equality

Innovation and Marketing New Approaches

Enhancing processes or products

• Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things

• Documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches

Resource Mobilization (Field Duty Stations)

Providing inputs to resource mobilization strategies

• Analyzes information/databases on potential and actual donors

• Develops a database of project profiles. Identifies opportunities for project proposals for presentation to donors

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing

Basic research and analysis

• Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things

• Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches

• Promotes knowledge management on gender equality issues

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise

Fundamental knowledge of own discipline

• Strong aptitude on public administration and management of development project in the public sector;

• Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position

• Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks

• Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning

• Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments

• Demonstrates in-depth understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments

• Ability to carry out gender-related economic, environmental, public research and analysis, to contribute to the formulation of policies, programme interventions, procedures, guidelines and tools.

Global Leadership and Advocacy for UNDP’s Goals

Preparing information for global advocacy

• Identifies and communicates relevant information for advocacy for UNDP’s goals for a variety of audiences

• Identifies and takes advantage of opportunities for advocating for UNDP’s mandate

Client Orientation

Establishing effective client relationships

• Maturity and confidence in dealing with senior and high ranking members of national and local institutions, government and non-government.

• Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion

• Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines

• Anticipates client needs and addresses them promptly