Background
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The Local Consultative Group (LCG) serves as a crucial platform for fostering dialogue and collaboration on development effectiveness between the government and development partners. It acts as a bridge, bringing together government officials, representatives from UN agencies, and international financial institutions. Through this platform, they can have open discussions on national development plans, identify and address challenges in implementation, and ultimately achieve shared goals.
The LCG’s effectiveness hinges on its working groups (WGs). These WGs function as dedicated focus groups, each tackling specific sectors or thematic development areas. They provide a valuable space for information exchange, fostering collaboration and driving policy discussions. Think of them as task forces, each with a specific area of expertise, working together to streamline and improve development efforts.
Recognizing the need for further optimization, the LCG underwent a recent restructuring. This involved streamlining the number of WGs to 14, ensuring better alignment with the current national development plan’s priorities. This strategic move aims to enhance the effectiveness of both the individual WGs and the LCG as a whole.
However, ensuring the success of the WGs requires a strong foundation of coordination. Effective communication and collaboration are essential between the government’s Economic Relations Division (ERD), development partners, and the WGs themselves. Regular monitoring and evaluation will also be crucial to assess the WGs’ performance. This allows for adjustments to be made, ensuring the WGs remain aligned with national priorities and continue to deliver impactful results.
To further strengthen the LCG mechanism, a dedicated secretariat is being established. This secretariat will function as a support system, working closely with the LCG leadership to improve coordination among all stakeholders. Additionally, a consultant will be brought on board to assist the secretariat in various tasks. Imagine this consultant as a highly skilled assistant, managing logistics like organizing events and meetings, drafting documents, and most importantly, evaluating the performance of the WGs. This comprehensive approach ensures the smooth operation of the LCG and its WGs, ultimately leading to a more efficient and impactful development process.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Local Consultative Group (LCG) seeks a highly motivated person to provide comprehensive support to the LCG Secretariat and the Development Cooperation Effectiveness Working Group (DCE WG) for a one-year period. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to improved communication, coordination, and knowledge management within the LCG framework.
The incumbent will be responsible for the following tasks:
Streamlining Communication:
- Organize various LCG events, including meetings and consultations.
- Act as a bridge between the LCG Secretariat and the leads of the LCG Working Groups.
- Ensure all stakeholders are kept informed and engaged.
Strengthening Coordination:
- Maintain clear and organized documentation for the LCG Secretariat.
- Manage day-to-day tasks and foster effective coordination with the lead ministry.
- Ensure a unified and efficient approach to development efforts.
Enhancing Knowledge Management:
- Leverage their expertise to provide technical and advisory support in developing various LCG communication materials.
- Develop advocacy materials, reports, knowledge products, and publications.
- Review and finalize content for the LCG website, ensuring accuracy and clarity for the audience.
Optimizing the LCG Website:
- Regularly publish news and updates about LCG activities, keeping the audience informed of the latest developments.
- Manage the e-newsletter section, ensuring timely delivery of relevant and engaging information to subscribers.
- Contribute to a user-friendly website design with easily accessible information, enhancing the overall user experience.
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Competencies
Core competencies:
- Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.
- 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 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident.
- 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.
Cross Functional & Technical competencies:
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.
- Communications: 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 channels.
- Project Management: Ability to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.
Communications
- Web and social media analytics: Ability to analyse and interpret data and statistics to measure web and social media performance.
- Media relations: Ability to develop media relations across all aspects of media work including relationships with media and preparing media materials such as messages.
Partnership management
- Strategic Engagement: Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their buy-in of high-level vision and objectives.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Advanced University Degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Development Studies/Marketing or related discipline is required, or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- Applicants with a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are not required to have professional work experience. Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in Marketing/partnership coordination and stakeholder engagements.
- Professional experience in managing working relationships with the ministries of Government of Bangladesh.
- Demonstrated experience in drafting/ writing content for press releases, policy briefs, website management/ social media in a clear and concise manner is essential.
- Understanding and proficiency in using digital tools and platforms for communication and outreach is mandatory.
- Experience in ability to track progress, assess effectiveness, and prepare reports based on findings and create actionable coordination intelligence based on primary and secondary research and data analysis is an asset.
- Previous experience working with local or international development organisations will be an asset.
- Familiarity with UN/UNDP policies, programme frameworks and procedure specifically related to external and internal communications and visibility will be an asset.
- Excellent organisation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to operate effectively across organizational boundaries.
Required Languages:
- Fluency in English and Bangla is required.
Disclaimer
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Non-discrimination
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.
UNDP is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer that does not discriminate based on race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
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