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Programme Analyst, RBM

Dakar

  • Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • Location: Dakar
  • Grade: Junior level - NO-B, National Professional Officer - Locally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Operations and Administrations
    • Human Resources
    • Project and Programme Management
  • Closing Date: 2024-12-18

Background

 
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UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
 
The UNV Regional Offices (RO) provide oversight and strategic guidance to the UNV Field Units in their respective geographical assignments and are mainly accountable for the placement of UN Volunteers mobilized for UN Agencies, Funds, and Programmes focused on peace, development and humanitarian needs. Furthermore, the Regional Offices represent, and strategically position, UNV and bring UNV’s services and solutions closer to its partners from governments, UN entities, civil society and private sector. The Regional Offices also lead in scoping and delivering UNV’s advisory service offer on volunteer infrastructure and support the promotion of volunteerism as per the UNV Strategic Framework.
 
Reporting to the Manager, Regional Office, and with the technical guidance and supervision of the Programme Specialist, Results Based Management (RBM) at headquarters, the Programme Analyst, RBM is responsible for providing technical support on evidence-based monitoring and planning. She/he contributes to the strategic planning process through qualitative and quantitative data analysis and integration for the purposes of UNV programming, planning, monitoring, and reporting. Moreover, she/he will contribute to providing analytical content to the achievements (or regression) of the UNV Strategic Framework through the assessment of regional input to the Integrated Results and Resources Framework and to corporate knowledge management through best practices and examples. She/he provides inputs to capacity development initiatives for strengthening the RBM functions in the region through its network of Field Units in alignment with UNV’s evolving role and new challenges.

 
Duties and Responsibilities
 

1. Technical support to UNV’s corporate planning and reporting

  • Collect, classify and analyze statistical information for the region through data identification and compilation from various relevant sources to contribute to corporate global and regional planning processes and the establishment of annual targets aligned to UNV’s Strategic Framework;  
  • In close consultation with the Regional Portfolio Managers and Specialists, and overall guidance from the Programme Specialist (RBM), propose critical parameters to facilitate the overall regional and country analysis and contribute to global and regional knowledge management, and the establishment of related planning and monitoring tools;    
  • Contribute to the regional planning exercise by ensuring adequate linkages of the region’s priorities with UNV’s Annual Business Plan and verifying they are duly reflected in applicable systems; 
  • Contribute to mid-term and annual review of unit work plan, monitor risk management and undertake analysis using enterprise risk framework, update RO workplan risk matrix, advise RO management on risk treatment measures. 
  • Under direct supervision and oversight of Regional Manager, working in close collaboration with RO Administrative Assistant contribute to preparation and monitoring of Regional Office/Field Unit budgets in line with the RO planned results. When applicable liaise with UNV HQ Finance and Budget Section (FBS) on budget planning and modification issues as necessary.  
  • May contribute to preparation of regular and on-demand budget balance reports aligned with the region’s achievements on SF Outcomes, based on the available (and any future) Power Bi reports on i) AWP monitoring (including financial monitoring) and ii) Project Budget Balance and Project Transaction Detail.  
  • Guide Field Units and portfolio holders in the proper utilization of RBM tools and technical support data integration and consolidation;  
  • Provide support to ensure that regional indicators are tracked and analyzed in a consolidated manner, and updates are provided regularly to the Programme Specialist (RBM) for effective programme and management decisions; 
  • Based on Field Units and portfolio holders’ needs and country portfolios, carry out basic research to facilitate proper planning, monitoring and reporting;  
  • Support the elaboration of the overall/regional results-oriented annual reports and other relevant materials, ensuring visibility of representative and consolidated substantive results aligned with the Strategic Framework outcomes and outputs.
2. Technical support to corporate monitoring  
  • Provide technical support to collect and report accurate, reliable and coherent data, achieving the right balance of qualitative and quantitative evidence, self-reported and independent data and support their interpretation and use to assess corporate results. Collaborate with the Programme Specialist (RBM) to improve quality, identify trends and prepare briefs to inform future decision-making processes; 
  • Provide technical guidance on evidence-based monitoring and evaluation plans using adequate and innovative data collection solutions, drawing from regional/national statistics data, and coordinating with other UN agency partners, in support to the relevant strategic plans;  
  • Provide technical support to the Field Units and portfolio holders in the region for country level reporting compliance and contribute to the maintenance of a regional data base
3. Develop capacity on evidence-based monitoring/RBM and support knowledge management 
  • Support the region in the formulation of a strategy for effective deployment of evidence-based functions across the countries assigned;  
  • Provide content for developing a plan to improve skills and capacity for basic results-based planning, data collection and survey methods;  
  • Contribute to developing and monitoring regional plans for proactive interventions and support to Regional Offices on RBM, including the linking and setting of indicators’ baselines, milestones and targets against the Strategic Framework; 
  • Provide regular analytical and prospective thinking to improve partnership, mobilization and efficiency based on regional data
  • Support the identification and documentation of key lessons derived from evidence monitoring and provide recommendations for risk identification and management;’ 
  • Where applicable, act as a back-up for e-procurement actions at RO level, including back-up function for e-requisition/T&E approval and budget availability certification to Regional Portfolio Specialist (primary role of the function); 
  • Contribute to UNV's digital transformation and ensure training of UNV RBM tools and instruments for each newcomer to regional office;
  • Participate in the facilitation of communities of practice and other knowledge management mechanisms to actively promote exchange of experiences and good practices. 
     
Competencies
 
Core Competencies

Achieve Results

  • Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline

Think Innovatively

  • Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements

Learn Continuously

  • Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback

Adapt with Agility

  • Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible

Act with Determination

  • Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident

Engage and Partner

  • Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationship

Enable Diversity and Inclusion

  • Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies  

Project Management 

  • Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals 

Portfolio management 

  • Ability to select, prioritize and control the organization’s programmes and projects, in line with its strategic objectives and capacity; 
  • Ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual, while optimizing return on investment 

Working with Evidence and Data  

  • Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making

L&D planning

  • Ability to identify organizational learning priorities aligned with the business strategy using key stakeholder involvement to ensure appropriate learning and optimal return-on-investment 

Developmental evaluation   

  • Learning and adaptation focused: ability to promote and facilitate ongoing reflection and adaptation; aimed at informing learning and portfolio related decision making.     
  • Being comfortable with unknown unknowns, uncertainty and understand the traits and value of working with emergence. Being able to give direction rather than destination: monitor and learn about how we understand the present and our direction towards something better (general intent) – not measuring progress and milestones towards a specific predefined goal    
  • Being able to carry out evaluation thinking in complex systems and adapting evaluation strategies to changing realities 
  • Being inclusive, collaborative and co-creative: being able to design and implement evaluation frameworks with the variety of stakeholders and beneficiaries involved.     
  • Being flexible and able to use of a mix of methods, having a high tolerance for ambiguity and can draw on a variety of qualitative and quantitative evidence, is open to unorthodox types of evidence
  • Ability to set up the structures, conditions, rituals to create a culture for curiosity, reflection and learning and promote evaluation results and insights from a learning perspective
  • Understand key principles of systems and complexity theory
Data collection
  • Being skilled in Data Sorting, Data Cleaning, Survey Administration, Presentation and Reporting including collection of Real-Time Data (e.g. mobile data, satellite data, sensor data)

Solutions mapping

  • Ability to engage and build rapport with vulnerable communities and get consent, facilitate participatory processes and navigate intricate power relations and cultural dynamics
  • Having the sensitivity and ability to identify grassroots solutions, capacities, assets, coping strategies that impacted communities have developed or used to address (emerging) development challenges.   Being able to understand these solutions from a people's perspective and learn about the conditions that enable or prevent communities from developing such grassroots solutions or coping mechanisms. Understand how solutions and needs are paired, and how grassroots solutions can be used as an entry point to identify unaddressed or unmet development challenges and how to use these insights to inform policy design
  • Ability to reverse engineer solutions, understanding what aspects (artefactual, principles, conditions, configuration) can be scaled and how, being able to assess their potential to be transferred to other domains, regions or contexts and build a case for that
  • Ability to appreciate and integrate various sources of knowledge (academic, experiential, observational, traditional, indigenous) in problem solving processes. Set up structures and processes to collect ideas, solutions and facilitate matchmaking between supply and demand of solutions
     
Required Skills and Experience
 
Education:
  • Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in social sciences, in economics, business administration, statistics, social sciences or related fields is required, or; 
  • A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree 
Experience:
  • Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in data analysis and monitoring, statistical methods, and programme management and implementation. 
  • Experience working in MS Office 365, Power BI and web management/CRM systems. 
  • Experience working with volunteers would be an asset. 
  • For Dakar position:  Fluency in English and French;  
  • Proficiency in another official UN language is desirable. 
Please note that continuance of appointment beyond the initial 12 months is contingent upon the successful completion of a probationary period. 
 
Disclaimer
  • Only short-listed applicants will be contacted;
  • The successful candidate will hold a UNDP letter of appointment;
  • This post is for local recruitment only. It is open to citizens of Senegal.
 
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UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.  

 
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