Programme Associate

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The Democratic Governance, Economic Diversification, and Inclusive Growth is the biggest UNDP portfolio in Turkmenistan in terms of number of projects (currently 14 ongoing projects) and in terms of thematic areas (human rights and rule of law, public administration, digital governance, statistics, SDG implementation and financing, trade facilitation, banking, youth empowerment, social services, CSOs). The main funding of the portfolio is covered by the Government of Turkmenistan cost sharing. The portfolio works closely with such national partners as the Institute of State, Law, and Democracy, the Ombudsperson’s Office, the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Population, the State Statistics Committee, Civil Service Academy, Turkmenaragatnashyk Agency, the State Customs Service, the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, the State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs, as well as with local CSOs and NGOs. 

The Programme Unit works to support achievement of UNDP strategic objectives to create a world where people and planet thrive together, and to help the Country Office act with both ambition and scale to address urgent problems facing the country as well as global climate deteriorating conditions. Programme staff assist the Country Office in formulating and implementing programme strategies that go beyond solving immediate development challenges to create future smart and integrated systemic changes in resilience and capacity building within the country.

Duties and Responsibilities

•  Under the overall guidance of the Program Analyst, the Programme Associate ensures effective delivery of the CO programme by entering and managing data and supporting programme implementation consistent with UNDP rules and regulations.
• The Programme Associate may supervise support staff in the Programme Unit. The Programme Associate works in close collaboration with the Operations, Programme and projects’ staff in the CO and UNDP HQ, and UN Agencies to exchange information and resolve complex finance-related issues.
• UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.

Support formulation of programme strategies and implemnetation of Country Programme Documents (CPDs):

• Provide background information for preparation of CPDs and establishment of Baselines, Milestones and Targets (BMT). 
• Provide information/evidence to guide future programming and identify implementation arrangements. 

Provide effective support to management of the Country Office programme:

• Create project in ERP, prepare required budget revisions, revise project status, determine unutilized funds, and ensure operational and financial closure of a project.
• Provide day-to-day guidance to implementing partners on implementation of projects, and track use of financial resources. Contribute to managing digital technology solutions in programme implementation towards scalability and sustainability in line with UNDP’s digital standards.
• Contribute to the effective management of data in programme implementation, across the data lifecycle. Follow up on programme and project performance indicators/ success criteria, targets and milestones, preparation of reports, and implementation of corporate results-based management mechanisms and tools. 
• Identify programme related bottlenecks and propose solutions.
• Make preparations for external and internal programme/project audits, and support implementation of audit recommendations.
• Provide administrative support to the Programme unit by maintaining internal expenditure system and performing quality assurance review of technical reports and payments that includes following up with other units and taking timely corrective actions

Support implementation of the CO partnership and resource mobilization strategies:

• Analyze information on donors and prepare donor profiles. 
• Track and report on mobilized resources. 
• Review contributions agreements and manage contributions in ERP

Facilitate knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the Country Office:

In assigned programme areas:

• Organize and deliver programme related training for relevant programme and operations personnel.
• Compile lessons learned and best practices.
• Provide contributions to knowledge networks, communities of practice and digital knowledge platforms.

Education:

• Secondary education is required
• A university degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, or related field will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement. 

Experience:

• A minimum of 6 years (with high school diploma) or 3 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant progressively responsible administrative/management or programme experience is required at the national and/or international level.
• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), database packages, and web-based management systems such as ERP.
• Ability to review and edit documents, ability to produce meeting reports identifying key actions.

Language requirements:

• Fluency in English, Russian and Turkmen

Source: https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/job/19462

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