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Home-Based Opportunity: UNDP Is Hiring Senior Programme Advisor for 2024 – 2025. Apply Now!

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Home-Based Opportunity: UNDP Is Hiring Senior Programme Advisor for 2024 – 2025. Apply Now!

Position(s): Senior Programme Advisor
Organization: UNDP
Location: New York, United States
Job Identification: 21711
Vacancy Type: International Personnel Service Agreement
Deadline: Dec 11, 2024

Job description background

Senior Programme Advisor vacancy at UNDP. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: 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. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply.

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.

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Job Purpose and Organizational Context

The Joint SDG Fund supports countries as they accelerate their progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It operates through joint programmes (JPs) that provide the mechanism for transformative solutions implemented by governments and national stakeholders and supported by the UN Country Team led by Resident Coordinators (RCs). Strategic direction for the Fund is provided by the Strategic Advisory Group chaired by the Deputy Secretary-General as the chair of UN Sustainable Development Group.

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The Fund is managed by the Operational Steering Committee, comprised of representatives of UN entities, and with the support from the Secretariat of the Fund. The UN Development Coordination Office (DCO) hosts the Fund and provides for the alignment with the broader UN Development System reforms. The Administrative Agent of the Fund, in charge of financial management, is the Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office (MPTF-O). Official documents (e.g. Terms of Reference and Operational Guidance) of the Fund and information on funding can be found on the Gateway portal.

To advance the dual mandate of supercharging the UN Development System reform to be fit for purpose and, in turn, supporting the acceleration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Fund incentivizes coherent and coordinated joint UN action, anchored in the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks at country level under the leadership of Resident Coordinator (RC). Serving as the catalytic funding to piece together emerging policy priorities and financing strategies, the Fund aims to galvanize the UN Country Teams around integrated policies and identify the fiscal space to overcome the political and financial hurdles to scale and accelerate progress towards the SDGs.

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Duties

Lead design and implementation of High Impact Track (HIT) joint programmes;
Innovate and elevate the programme approach and provide strategic support to programmatic cross-fertilization of SDG transition;
Establish and strengthen strategic partnerships and communications from the programmatic perspective;
Lead knowledge and capacity building, knowledge sharing, and advocacy relative to the assigned thematic area(s) and UNDP;

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Requirements

Advanced University Degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in International Development, Political Science, International Relations, Economics, Social Sciences, Management Science or related field is required. OR
A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

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Work Experience

Minimum of 10 years (with master’s degree) or 12 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible experience in programme/project design and implementation, and portfolio management for international/regional organizations, with a minimum of 5 years of experience in joint programmes in the context of pooled funding and inter-agency collaboration for SDGs acceleration.