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

System 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.

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.

Behavioral Insights:

• Knowing when it is appropriate to use behavioral insights, having theoretical knowledge and basic understanding of principles of human behavior; being aware of both the benefits and limitations of behavioral insights and adhere to ethical standards and guides when using them.
• Being able to define specific behavioral goals (what to change), explore and understand barriers and contextual factors to desired behaviors, use principles from behavioral science to generate ideas for nudges and interventions, use experimental methods to improve ideas (prototyping) or evaluate impact (trials). Use these results to develop a scaling strategy for interventions that work or inform policy design.

Ethics Education and Training:

• Ability to provide education and training on ethics, values, and standards and promote staff awareness of ethical behavior and ethical decision making.

Risk Management:

• Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks.

Change Management:

• Ability to prepare, support, and help individuals and teams in designing and implementing organizational change.

Communication:

• 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.

• Advanced University Degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Political Science, Economics, Public Administration, Management, Education, Policy, International Relations, Law or other related field is required. Or
• A first level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in above-mentioned fields with an additional 2 years of relevant experience will be given due consideration in lieu of advanced university degree.

• Up to two (2) years (with master’s degree) or two (2) years (with bachelor’s degree) of professional working experience in relevant fields related to finance and economic sector;
• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), and web-based management systems, and up-to-date, advanced knowledge of data management tools and database packages.

Desirable skills:

• Professional working experience at Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP) of South Sudan or as Special Skills Expert (SSE) under UNDP contract;
• Demonstrated Mentoring, Coaching and Training skills;
• Prior work experience in the UN.

Required Language(s):

• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.