Myanmar/ Private Sector Partnership Project Title MSME & Entrepreneur Coordinator

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Background

UNDP, as the United Nations lead agency on international development, works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities, and to build resilience to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

After a decade of strong economic growth, political setbacks coupled with the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, threaten Myanmar’s chances of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Building resilience among the most vulnerable to future shocks—economic, health, conflict and climate induced—while addressing immediate needs is at the heart of the humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach that underpins the new UNDP strategy in Myanmar.

To address the multiple forms of vulnerability that local communities in Myanmar are currently facing, UNDP has developed an integrated Community First Programme (CFP) portfolio. As economic, public health and political crises converge in Myanmar, the country stands to lose over a decade’s worth of development gains. The economic contraction would be one of the deepest in the country’s history, with a long period of recovery. Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) constitute about 80 percent of Myanmar’s economy and they have been hardest hit. The Private Sector Partnership Project is one of the cross-cutting project under CFP and it support the private sector in Myanmar to engage in responsible business conduct and practices and to promote private sector investment in sustainable development and promote entrepreneur.

UNDP, as the United Nations lead agency on international development, works in 170 countries and territories to eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities, and to build resilience to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

After a decade of strong economic growth, political setbacks coupled with the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, threaten Myanmar’s chances of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Building resilience among the most vulnerable to future shocks—economic, health, conflict and climate induced—while addressing immediate needs is at the heart of the humanitarian-development-peace nexus approach that underpins the new UNDP strategy in Myanmar.

To address the multiple forms of vulnerability that local communities in Myanmar are currently facing, UNDP has developed an integrated Community First Programme (CFP) portfolio. As economic, public health and political crises converge in Myanmar, the country stands to lose over a decade’s worth of development gains. The economic contraction would be one of the deepest in the country’s history, with a long period of recovery. Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) constitute about 80 percent of Myanmar’s economy and they have been hardest hit. The Private Sector Partnership Project is one of the cross-cutting project under CFP and it support the private sector in Myanmar to engage in responsible business conduct and practices and to promote private sector investment in sustainable development and promote entrepreneur.

Institutional Arrangement

Under the overall supervision and guidance of the Team Leader,the MSME & Entrepreneur Coordinator is responsible for effective implementation of the project. In addition to planning, administration and reporting, s/he work closely with the implementing partners.

Duties and Responsibilities

Support setting up and coordination of the UNDP MSME Fund

• Support for setting up MSME StabilizationFund for business transformation support, access to working capital, and growth financing
• Serve as a coordinator for working closely with the private sectors, institutions, entities and partners
• Support to scale up the business partnership model to provide sustainable employment opportunities

Monitoring, reporting and risk management of all MSME related work

• Maintains regular contact with project and programme counterparts in order to ensure monitoring of projects progress, monitoring of unit work plans, programme effectiveness and achievement of results.
• Prepare the Project Progress Report (progress against planned activities, update on Risks and Issues, expenditures) and submit the report to the Project Management Team.
• Ensure timely submission of financial and activity progress reports to donors and other stakeholders as relevant.
• Develop annual project M&E plan for monitoring of indicator progress and M&E activities plan , including budget, timeline to ensure that the project progress is on track.
• Risk Management through monitoring the project risks initially identified, identify new risks if required and update the status of these risks by maintaining the Project Risks Log

Liasion, partnerships and coordination with external and internal partners

• Work closely with CO team and other UN Agencies.
• Coordinate with other UN agencies to ensure that expected outputs are delivered in timey manner
• Closely liaise with the teams for programme results to ensure coherence and synergy
• Build relationships with other UN agencies and build upon common activities to ensure maximum impact of project activities

Operational support for project implementation

• Ensure project is implemented in compliance with UNDP Human Resources Guidelines, Procurement Guideline and financial requirements.
• Ensure that project is executed according to work plans and within established budgets
• Regularly review budget and delivery and revise budget as required.
• Manage requests for the provision of financial resources by UNDP, using advance of funds, direct payments, or reimbursement using the FACE (Fund Authorization and Certificate of Expenditures) form

Knowledge building and management

• Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned and ensures that lessons learned from projects are captured and recorded into the CO knowledge networks
• Make sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice including corporate communications repositories
• Coordinates and ensures integration in project design the development of policies, institutions and advocacy that will address the country problems and needs in collaboration with the other strategic partners;

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making

People Management

UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site.

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies (insert up to 7 competencies)

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business Direction & Strategy

Effective Decision Making

• Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one’s authority, area of expertise and resources

Business Direction & Strategy

Negotiation and Influence

• Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates ‘win-win’ situations

Business Management

Partnerships Management

• Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts, and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies

Business Management

Risk Management

• Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks

Business Management

Communication

• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience
• Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media, and other appropriate channel.

Business Direction & Strategy

Business Acumen

• Ability to understand and deal with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome
• Knowledge and understanding of the operational frameworks in the organization and ability to make good judgments and quick decisions within such frameworks

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Education requirements

• Master’s or Bachelor Degree in Development Studies, Political Science, Economics, Environmental Science, Social Sciences, PublicAdministration, or related fields.

Min. years of relevant work experience

• Minimum of 2 years with Master’s degree or 4 years with Bachelor degree of progressively responsible experience in programme/project management in international development organizations, bilateral development agencies and/or international NGOs.
• Proven ability to work effectively in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams.
• Proven programme management including coordination, financial management, Risk management.
• Strong interpersonal and written and oral communication skills.

Required skills

• Computer literacy – MS office applications, web-based management information systems.

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section

• Excellent knowledge of project management principles and best practices.
• Experience of working with UNDP or another UN agency would be an asset.

Required Language(s)

• Proficiency in English, both written and oral.
• Working knowledge of other UN language is desirable

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