Programme Associate

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Overview

Support UNDP in promoting sustainable development and disability inclusion programs

You have:

• Minimum one year of experience (with BA degree) or three years (with secondary education) of professional work experience at the national and/or international levels in support project implementation.
• Experience on issues related to implementation of Sustainable Development Goals, disability inclusion and/or protection, gender equality is an asset.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills.
• Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and email/internet; familiarity with database management.
• Have affinity with or interest in Sustainable Development Goals, Disability Inclusion, and volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN System.

Contract

This is a UNV National Youth contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Youth contracts.

UNDP supports the country in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, including its core principle of Leaving No One Behind. As part of this effort, we mainstream inclusion and empowerment of people coming from vulnerable groups across all our interventions, from governance to livelihoods and climate and environmental actions. UNDP has adopted a Disability Inclusion Strategy building on the global UN Disability Inclusion strategy as well as a Youth Engagement Strategy.

Furthermore, we have Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as core principles: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind' approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations.

UNDP also partakes actively in inter-agency coordination mechanisms on disability inclusion at the country, regional and global levels, as well as in the design of both programmes and operations, including through the UN Partnership on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD), the Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network, the Inter-Agency Support Group for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), and other informal inter-agency networks such as the UN Interagency Group on Disability Inclusion and Gender Equality (IWDG).

The Programme Associate will directly contribute to the work described above, in close collaboration with other colleagues of the UNDP and UN Team.

People identifying as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply.

Under the direct supervisor of the Gender Analyst and overall guidance of the UNDP Resident Representative the Programme Associate will provide support to the policy advocacy work, programmes, and projects being implemented as well as UNDP’s communication work to ensure that awareness of the SDGs is raised and UNDP interventions are aligned to the achievement of the SDGs, in particular with a leaving no one behind lens.

The Programme Associate will also support the implementation of interventions to advance the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the workplace.

The Programme Associate will support the promotion and inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Leaving no one Behind agenda within the project/programmes. This role involves providing support, coordination, and advocacy to ensure that the project/programme activities are designed, implemented, and monitored with a strong focus on disability inclusion. The Programme Associate will work closely with programmatic and operational teams, other UN entities, and partners to mainstream disability inclusion across all aspects of the UN activities.

• Under the direct supervision of the Gender Analyst and overall guidance of the Resident Representative, the Programme Associate will provide support in the following areas: • Support the implementation of the Diversity Inclusion Strategy for Bosnia and Herzegovina • Advocacy and communication activities across projects • Collaborating with project teams to incorporate disability-inclusive strategies and activities into project design, implementation, and monitoring • Supporting the programme and project teams in conducting reviews of project documentation to ensure alignment with the projects' overarching goal of leaving no one behind • Developing inclusive indicators and mechanisms for tracking disability inclusion-related activities • Monitoring project progress and reporting from an SDG / leaving no one behind lens • Inter-agency coordination and representation on SDGs and Leave No One Behind agenda • Liaising with partners, the private sector, and organizations of persons with disabilities, to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing on disability inclusion. • Identifying opportunities for capacity building and strengthening knowledge on SDGs and Leave No One Behind agenda among project teams and UNDP partners • Strengthening knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism in supporting the SDG / 2030 Agenda • Documentation and dissemination of best practices and lessons learnt.

Core competences: • 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 relationships • Enable Diversity and Inclusion - Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-functional and Technical Competences:

• Business Direction & Strategy/Systems Thinking - Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system. • Business Management/ Communication - 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 channels. Partnership management/ Relationship management - Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding.

• Excellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting, formulation, reporting skills • Excellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners • Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and email/internet; familiarity with database management • Have affinity with or interest in Sustainable Development Goals, Disability Inclusion, and volunteerism as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN System • Minimum one year of experience (with BA degree) or three years (with secondary educations) of professional work experience at the national and/or international levels in support project implementation • Experience on issues related to implementation of Sustainable Development Goals, disability inclusion and/or protection, gender equality is an asset

The UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her housing and other living essentials.

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The complete UN Volunteer Conditions of Service is available at https://explore.unv.org/cos.

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