Strategic Planning Analyst - IPSA8 - Home-based

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This is a IPSA-8 contract. This kind of contract is known as International Personnel Services Agreement. It is normally internationally recruited only. It usually requires 1 years of experience, depending on education. More about IPSA-8 contracts.

Background

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The following documents shall be required from the applicants:

Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.

A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.

Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.

1. Organizational context

UNDP works with countries to expand people’s choices for a fairer, sustainable future. UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2022-25 aims to build a more agile, anticipatory UNDP that embraces complexity, actively manages risk, continually adapts and seeks to learn alongside delivering results. The Strategy and Futures (S&F) Team in the Executive Office supports the UNDP Administrator in building a more agile, anticipatory UNDP, alert to the trends and changes of an uncertain world and ready to respond to many different futures.

The S&F Team is responsible for two pillars of work: strategy and futures. Both pillars intersect and help inform each other. The strategy pillar is responsible for shepherding the Strategic Plan and for providing direction to the corporate systems that underpin our planning and reporting. This includes developing the organization’s strategic plans and driving the midterm review of the plans. The futures pillar’s focus is to connect, cohere and amplify the various futures efforts across UNDP, linking people and resources of knowledge and experience into and to establish a futures ecosystem, enabling UNDP to achieve stronger development impact.

Objectives of the unit

The Strategy & Futures team having oriented UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2022-25 around a vision of a more future-smart and anticipatory UNDP, will work closely with all bureaus, regional and country offices to connect and amplify the various foresight initiatives already underway across the organisation, building a coherent futures ecosystem. Its goal: to infuse a futures perspective throughout UNDP’s work that translates into a stronger decision-making and impact, as countries recognize the value of programmes that can anticipate and adapt to change, helping them to confidently navigate an uncertain future.

How the required services will contribute to the work of the unit

The Analyst will support advancing the strategic planning objectives of the Strategy and Futures Team – including stewardship of the strategic plan and the mid-term review.

Institutional Arrangement

The Strategic Planning Analyst will be part of the UNDP Executive Office Strategy & Futures Team and report to the Strategy Lead. She/he will be required to work closely with the S&F Team, other units in the Executive Office and the broader organization. This position will be home-based/remote.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

1. Support coordination of the Mid-Term Review of the Strategic Plan 2022-2025, including:

• Collaborate with the Strategy Lead to design, track, and implement the workplan for the mid-term review, ensuring timely progress.
• Anticipate challenges and advise the Strategy Lead on timely interventions for pending matters.
• Facilitate follow-up on inter-bureau task team meetings. This includes setting agendas, crafting concise meeting minutes, and ensuring action points are addressed.
• Support the planning and execution of workshops, roundtable discussions, and other collaborative sessions that enhance stakeholder engagement.
• Support dissemination of vital information, ensuring that all team members are informed and aligned.
• Support the development and monitoring of communications and engagement plans, including inter-agency and with the UNDP Executive Board.
• Actively engage in research to identify lessons learned and vital considerations, providing insights for the development of the subsequent Strategic Plan.

1. Undertakes research and prepares background and presentation materials, on an as-needed basis in the areas of work of the Strategy and Futures Team.
2. Support in recruitment processes, which includes working on and implementing recruitment strategies, arranging written assessments, arranging interviews, and compiling the required documentation to complete the process.
3. Support in administrative, budgetary and procurement processes, researching policies and procedures, and advising the team on an as-needed basis.
4. Other coordination or planning support.

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

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

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible

Act with Determination:

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

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

People Management (N/A)

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

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

HR- recruitment

Recruitment design and management

Knowledge of and ability to design and manage end to end recruitment processes.

Programme and Policy

Effectiveness

Performance analysis on programming

ROAR and the ARA

External relations

Event planning and execution

Ability to plan, manage and execute of public and private events to ensure that they support and amplify individual communications and advocacy initiatives, as well as UNDP’s overall brand and mandate.

Digital & Innovation

Tech literacy

Ability to apply new digital tools or adapting their original use to create new insights, fresh perspectives or develop solutions.

Understand the potential as well as limitations of certain technological developments.

Being able to identify how technology can add value when it’s used as a “means to an end”

Digital & Innovation

Design thinking

Strong empathy skills, being able to put yourself “in someone else’s shoes”, understands needs, abilities, preferences, motivations, experiences from different perspectives as well as their cultural, social, economical and political contexts. Being able to work with incomplete information, ambiguity and opposing views, needs and constraints and synthesise them into solutions that are viable, technically feasible and useful.

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Academic Requirements

Master’s degree in social sciences, such as public administration, economics, international relations, political science, futures studies, behavioural science, development studies or a related area.

Min. years of relevant Work experience

1. At least 1 year of working experience in the field of international development.
2. Experience providing programme, knowledge management and management support in UNDP is required.
3. Experience providing administrative and operational support (including HR, budget, and procurement) is required.
4. Experience working in a UNDP Country Office is an advantage.

Required skills

• Coordination
• Planning and organizational skills
• Knowledge management
• Recruitment
• Administrative and operational skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work in stressful environment.
• Can work autonomously with little supervision to complete projects.
• Fluency in English.

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

• Strategic planning
• International affairs or international development

Required Language(s)

Fluency in English. Written and spoken knowledge of an additional UN language is desirable.

Professional Certificates

N/A

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Added 6 months ago - Updated 5 months ago - Source: jobs.undp.org