4 Job Positions at UNDP Rwanda: (Deadline 14,16, 21 November, 6 December 2022)
Planning & Development Capacity Analyst at UNDP Rwanda: (Deadline 14 November 2022)
Background |
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| The UN Secretary-General established the UN SDG Action Campaign to inspire people and organizations from all backgrounds and every part of the world to take actions to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, while holding decision-makers to account for progress society-wide. The UN SDG Action Campaign is hosted and supported by UNDP and is based in Bonn (Germany) with a lean team that marshals rapid support for new initiatives as opportunities arise and provides partners with on-demand strategic creative services that inspire local SDG action.
The UN SDG Action Campaign is working closely with cities and local governments to showcase how they are actively contributing to implement Agenda 2030, accelerating transformative action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals for all, and everywhere. Within this context, the UN SDG Action Campaign is seeking to recruit a Planning and Capacity Development Analyst to maximize UNDP efforts to support local and regional governments innovating SDG local action. Local and regional governments are already responsible of over 65% of the SDG targets, most of them linked to basic service provision from water, sanitation, mobility, climate action, health or education. Cities and territories are playing a big part on the implementation of SDGs, that are becoming a new tool for strategic planning and budgeting in the mid to long-term. The planning and capacity development analyst will support UNDP Country Office working with municipalities around the world to exchange experiences, generate knowledge about the latest local development trends and collect data about city innovation to upscale and replicate such innovations. The Analyst will also ensure that the experience generated by the Global Mayors Challenge is shared, upscaled and communicate worldwide. |
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The Planning and Capacity Development Analyst will provide support in the following areas:
Institutional Arrangement: The Planning and Capacity Development Analyst will report to the Operations and Quality Assurance Specialist, based in Bonn (Germany), working closely with UNDP Country Office in Rwanda. |
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Cross-Functional & Technical Competencies:
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The following documents shall be required from the participants:
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Programme Specialist- Africa and Agriculture Digitization Better Than Cash Alliance (BTCA) at UNDP Rwanda: (Deadline 21 November 2022)
Job Description
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is the UN’s capital investment agency for the world’s least developed countries (LDCs). It creates new opportunities for poor people and their communities by increasing access to inclusive finance and investment capital. Established by the General Assembly in 1966 and with headquarters in New York, UNCDF is an autonomous UN organization affiliated with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
With its Secretariat hosted by UNCDF, the Better Than Cash Alliance’s mission is to catalyze a global movement from cash to digital payments to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Specific benefits include efficiency, transparency, women’s economic participation and financial inclusion, helping build economies that are digital and inclusive.
The Alliance has 80 members, including national governments from Africa, Asia-Pacific and Latin America, companies and international organizations which have committed to digitizing payments.
The Secretariat works with the Alliance members on their journey to digitize payments by:
- Providing advisory services based on member priorities.
- Sharing action-oriented research and fostering peer learning.
- Conducting advocacy at national, regional and global level.
The Better Than Cash Alliance Team’s Core Values are the following:
- Achieving together;
- Striving for excellence;
- Service oriented;
- Results oriented.
The Better Than Cash Alliance is looking to hire a Program Specialist for Anglophone Africa who will lead on the delivery of member services to African anglophone members and who also lead the Alliance Agriculture workstream (Africa Regional Lead)
For more information about the Better Than Cash Alliance, please visit the website http://www.betterthancash.org
II. Position Purpose
The Programme Specialist will provide leadership in provision of advisory services to Alliance’s Africa Anglophone member countries, championing responsible digital payments, leading in establishing member relationship, advisory services, guide research and knowledge management, as well as provide global leadership on agriculture payments. The Program Specialist will report to the Deputy Managing Director.
III. Duties and Responsibilities
1.) Establish and Manage Member Relationships in Anglophone Member countries
- Lead the development and management of relationships with members: governments, corporates and international organizations in the Anglophone regional portfolio to accelerate their championing of responsible payment digitization.
- Develop the regional and country strategies to address the various needs of different members, assessing and prioritizing each country based on the Alliance’s prioritization matrix.
- Identify the current challenges for Alliance country members and seek opportunities to catalyze each member’s progress appropriately and in a timely manner within the scope of the services offered by the Alliance including for governments.
- In close partnership with the Africa Policy, Advocacy and Partnerships Specialist, understand the regional context – the knowledge, skills and activities of the regional and national players digitizing payments – and seek to make connections and create an active regional network, including of government, and business payment streams;
- Develop pipeline of government and corporate members to benefit from member services;
- In partnership with the Head of Private Sector Digital Payment Innovation manage in-country corporate relationships to drive responsible payments digitization in their value chain with employees, workers, small businesses as well as smallholder farmers;
- In consultation with the Better Than Cash Alliance Global Gender Lead, provide leadership in the region to ensure in-country work prioritizes women and accelerate women’s access and use of responsible digital payments
- Establish and manage complimentary and collaborative relationships, where necessary and possible, with international development organisations, including UNDP, RC and other UN country agencies.
- Liaise closely with the LATAM and Asia Regional teams to co-lead cross-regional learning.
2.) Lead the Region’s Advisory Services
- Lead the design and delivery of advisory services to catalyze priority regional member efforts to responsibly digitize payments, ensuring that they are efficiently implemented, managed, monitored and evaluated, meeting or exceeding all targets. Services may include: technical advisory support to specific member initiatives; carrying out digital payments ecosystem diagnostics; policy and strategies development; training workshops for key government officials or business executives with strategic responsibility for payments;
- Design Alliance Secretariat priority country strategies incorporating input from the Private Sector and the Africa Advocacy Policy and Partnership Specialist ensuring alignment to the overall Alliance African Regional Advocacy Strategy.
- Lead the implementation of priority countries strategies, including hiring, and supervision of in-country digital finance specialists (where necessary) ensuring all priority members receive high-quality services in their priority areas.
- Lead the dissemination and embedment of the UN Principles for Responsible Digital Payments in member initiatives and policies.
- Prepare and present recommendations to appropriate Member Services Subcommittee for award of grants and/or technical assistance to priority countries
- Liaise regularly with other regional leads to ensure cross-learning
- Develop and implement processes for managing delivery of all in-country work and ensuring members are applying learning and assessing member satisfaction;
- Lead the regional M&E, developing and managing quantitative and qualitative monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements for regional members, including keeping the Alliance team abreast of their status, achievements, challenges, opportunities and learnings.
- Prepare midyear and annual progress reports, achievements narrative as well as financial, and results achieved for the Executive Committee and donors
3.) Lead and Facilitate the Alliance’s Agriculture Payment Stream
- Provide leadership and facilitate the Alliance’s global agriculture payment stream design and implementation, ensuring responsible principles are built into digitizing agriculture payments across different value chains.
- In consultation with Private Sector and Regional Leads, lead in developing the Alliance’s strategy to scale responsible agriculture digitization of payments.
- In partnership with other Leads, lead the implementation and monitoring of the agriculture payment stream, ensuring different initiatives achieve scale.
- Facilitate member learning across the agriculture payment stream.
- Working with the Deputy Managing Director, develop and lead the fundraising efforts to support the agriculture payment stream across the regions.
4.) Guide In-Country Research and Knowledge Management
- Lead the design and implementation of the in-country members learning agenda, integrating knowledge sharing into all aspects of Member Advisory Services
- Develop knowledge products that support the capacity building of members in the anglophone Alliance countries and the wider digital payments sector including for companies and business payment streams;
- Design and implement a peer learning agenda and a dissemination strategy among regional Alliance members,
- Working with the Africa Advocacy and Partnerships Head, and in partnership with regional bodies/partners, scale in-country learnings to regional bodies, and other non-members in the region.
- Keep abreast of members information needs to identify future knowledge and research products that will fill in a gap and provide useful information for members in the region.
5.) Lead In-country Advocacy, Fundraising, Partnerships and Representation
- Provide leadership to the in-country advocacy, fundraising, partnership building and representation efforts for the Better Than Cash Alliance, ensuring members are adequately served, while building support to a range of stakeholders including policy makers and funders.
- Establish and manage relationships with government, corporate and international organization members and with technical partners both diplomatically and effectively;
- Identify potential partners for scale and liaise with to ensure achievements and learning from Alliance in-country initiatives reach scale thanks to partnership with regional and international stakeholders (World Bank, AFDB and bilateral donors);
- Lead the effort to rally stakeholders to support member initiatives as part of the scale of responsible payment digitization;
- Undertake speaking and representation engagements for the Better Than Cash Alliance;
- Working with the Deputy Managing Director, lead in-country fundraising effort by developing strategies and building partnerships to mobilize additional resources at country level to fully implement the in-country and annual work plans
- Work closely with the Private Sector Lead in advocacy to ensure a cohesive strategy and implementation of the work with corporate and international development organization members in the region.
- Backstop the senior management in engaging with high level government officials, donors and C-suite corporate leaders in the region
Core
Achieve Results:
LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact.
Think Innovatively:
LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems.
Learn Continuously
LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences.
Adapt with Agility
LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands.
Act with Determination
LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results.
Engage and Partner
LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration
Enable Diversity and Inclusion
LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity
People Management (Insert below standard sentence if the position has direct reports.)
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Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
Thematic Area Name Definition
Partnership management
Relationship management
- Ability to engage with wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding
Private sector engagement
- Ability to identify, conduct outreach, and manage relationships with the private sector
Public Sector Engagement
- Ability to engage and manage relationships with high level government and international organizations officials
- Ability to identify develop and manage partnerships that brings synergies and complementarity to programming.
Communications – Creative direction
- Ability to creatively communicate concepts in an engaging and simple way.
External Relations & Advocacy – Advocacy strategy and implementation
- Ability to create and implement advocacy strategy which lead to impactful change
Research and Knowledge Management – Knowledge Generation
- Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need.
- Ability to communicate technical issues to non technical people
Program Management – Project Management
- Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results.
People Management – Manage Performance and Ensure Accountability
- Ability to achieve high Return on Investment from country DFS experts.
- Ability to increase productivity, by creating a conducive environment for regional staff to maximise their potential.
V. Keywords
- Responsible Payment Digitization.
- Government relations.
- Partnership development.
- Gender equality.
Education:
- An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in economics, finance, international relations, public policy or business administration. A mix of a Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of experience can be accepted in lieu of a Masters degree.
Experience and skills
- Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible professional experience in the digital financial services field- required including a
- Minimum of 5 years working with governments across Africa at high-level, particularly in supporting governments execute their national agenda for digital payments and managing government relations for the digital payments agenda – required;
- Professional experience in private sector across Africa, particularly in in supporting corporates develop and execute their digital payments agenda – required;
- Experience working on digital financial services for poor people and understanding of key issues and international good practice relating to digital financial inclusion; Working knowledge of current developments in payment technologies, including innovative payment methods; – required.
- Strong knowledge on the challenges and opportunities in driving responsible digitization of payments in agriculture in Africa – required.
Additional Experiences regarded as additional merits
- Working knowledge of policy, legal and regulatory issues related to inclusive payment technologies;
- Experience in designing and managing advisory services to government members with evidence of goals achieved;
- Experience in working in and managing a global team spread across different geographies and time zones;
- Experience in managing global projects, corresponding budgets, as well as monitoring and evaluation plans required; experience within the UN system – desirable;
- Extensive networks of senior government officials, IO executives and regulators working in the DFS space in Africa – desirable;
- Experience in analysis of gender disaggregated data and using the analysis for programme planning and implementation – desirable;
- Fluency in spoken and written English is required;
- Fluency in another African language – advantage.
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Administration and Finance Assistant at UNDP Rwanda: (Deadline 16 November 2022)
- Full compliance of administrative and finance activities of the UN Clinic with UN/UNDP rules, regulations, policies and strategies;
- Input to the Clinic’s business processes mapping and elaboration of the content of internal Standard Operating Procedures in collaboration with the UN Physician.
2. Ensures an optimal cost-recovery system
- Ensures functioning of the optimal cost-recovery system focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Provision of inputs for preparation of cost-recovery bills in Atlas for the services provided by UNDP, follow up on cost recovery;
- Preparation of bills to Insurance companies for cost-recovery of services provided to clients, as well as follow up on cost recovery.
3. Ensure Effective Administrative Support and Logistical support, focusing on achievement of the following results
- Provide support to UN Physician in the preparation of the UN Clinic annual work plan, budget and procurement plans;
- Monitor the implementation of work plan and review the financial expenditure and presentation of the status on a quarterly basis;
- Manage the petty cash;
- Proper recording of clinic income and ensure regular deposits on the UN Clinic bank account;
- Support in the preparation of for the Clinic;
- Work with clinic technical team to elaborate timely orders of drugs, reagents, vaccines, medical material and office supplies based on the procurement plan;
- Assist the procurement team in the process of ordering the elaborated needs;
- Organize the reception of items ordered from suppliers and update the records stock;
- Conduct the physical count of drugs, vaccines, lab reagents on a monthly basis;
- Assist every quarter UNDP logistic team in the physical count of drugs, vaccines and medical consumables;
- Ensure a regular vehicles’ maintenance;
- Checking and recording of vehicles logbooks and fuel consumption;
- Plan and organize the support for the maintenance of lab, IT equipment;
- Maintenance of proper filing system for administrative, logistic and financial records;
- Assume other duties as assigned by the UN Physician.
4. Provides support to office maintenance and assets management, focusing on achievement of the following results
- Maintenance of records on assets management, preparation of reports;
- Maintenance of files and records relevant to office maintenance;
- Provision of support to maintenance of common premises and common services.
- 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
- Documents and records management: Overall document (hard or electronic) management; registry and retention policy including storing and archiving;
- Accounting (General): Knowledge of accounting concepts, principles, frameworks, standards, regulations, policies and trends, and ability to apply this to strategic and/or practical situation;
- Budget management: Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets;
- Inventory management: Each office to ensure sufficient inventory items are available for use as well as reporting for items which are beyond the corporate threshold of $5K and above;
- Vehicle management: Knowledge of policy and procedures on fleet management.
- Completion of Secondly Education with specialized certification in Accounting and Finance is required.
- University Degree in Finance, Business or Public Administration or related fields is desirable but not a requirement.
- Qualification in Accountancy from an Internationally recognized institute of accountancy is required or:
- Long-listed candidates may be required to undergo the UNDP Accountancy & Finance Test (AFT).
- Minimum 5 years with Secondary Education or 2 years with University Degree of relevant experience in administration or programme support service;
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.);
- Experience in handling of web-based management systems.
- Fluency in English and working knowledge of French.
UN Dispensary Physician at UNDP Rwanda: (Deadline 6 December 2022)
Job Description
Organizational Setting and Reporting Relationships: To be prepared by the CO. The incumbent is the Head of Service (HOS) and reports to the please add as per the reporting line at the DS for administrative matters and to the UN Medical Director, DHMOSH for technical matters.
Responsibilities: Within delegated authority, the Senior Medical Officer (HOS) will be responsible for the following duties:
Clinic Management:
- Oversees the delivery of high-quality occupational health services in the UN workplace, including employment clearances, travel medicine services and travel clearances
- Oversees the provision of workplace clinical services including first aid and emergency care, access to UN programmes such as PEP kits, and effective referral to local healthcare services.
- Oversees clinical practice in relation to in-person occupational health clinical reviews and examinations.
- Develops and oversees the delivery of occupational health and safety programs including workplace and home ergonomics programs and workplace safety and health risk assessments.
- Oversees and provides specialist guidance on workplace(reasonable) accommodation requests with a medical component in line with UN policies
- Oversees the delivery if effective workplace or general health promotion programs
- Develops, exercises, and provides a local emergency response / mass casualty capability integrated with local security plans.
- Advises on other aspects of health including public health relevant to the duty station, through liaison with host state/host nation health authorities.
- Ensures quality in services including the implementation of quality control mechanisms and procedures, the use of published UN clinical guidelines, and adherence to patient safety and adverse event reporting requirements.
- Oversees the delivery of high-quality primary care, including examination and treatment, referral and follow up with external clinical services
Medical Administration:
- Oversees the provision of recommendations or determinations related to medical entitlements
- Oversees the completion of sick leave, including where required liaison with individual staff members and their healthcare providers to ensure effective sick leave management
- Oversees the development and implementation of return-to-work programs
- Monitors sick leave usage in conjunction with human resources staff and prepares and finalizes disability summaries and reports for the Medical Director and UNJSPF
- Oversees medical evacuation and repatriation services where required
- Oversees the provision of advisory services to the Geneva based office of the ABCC.
- Undertakes mediation and informal dispute resolution related to medical entitlements, and where required represents the medical service in formal dispute resolution bodies such as medical boards or the UN Dispute Tribunal.
Supervisory:
- Manages the work and results of all staff working in the medical service, including where appropriate occupational safety staff or remote staff supervised by the medical service
- Ensures medical confidentiality and release of medical records/information is in accordance with UN policies and requirements.
- Manages access to the EarthMed medical record system
- Undertakes annual planning,
- Undertakes the planning and preparation of budgets and prepares reports on budget performance and results
- Ensures the development, generation and reporting of relevant key performance indicators documenting health support performance including responses to audit requests on health performance.
- Ensures timely recruiting and training of all new staff, and effective performance management.
- Ensures effective continuous professional development of staff and their career management.
Advisory, liaison and representation:
- Undertakes regular coordination with the Office of the Director, DHMOSH UNHQ.
- Oversees workplace health and medical service communication products, and liaison/outreach with external actors.
- Briefs and advises senior management on all healthcare matters relevant to the workplace, including health policies, business continuity, enterprise risk management, and representation at crisis response and related bodies.
- Represents the medical service on health and medical entitlements matters before the UN judicial system and UN investigative bodies.
- Ensures effective occupational health representation at the local occupational health and safety committee.
General:
- Performs other related duties as required.
Competencies:
Professionalism: Knowledge of clinical, occupational safety and health and tropical/travel medicine. Ability to manage a diverse and multicultural team and to operate efficiently under stressful circumstances. Good drafting ability in English and French. Shows pride in work and in achievements; demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter; is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results; is motivated by professional rather than personal concerns; shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; remains calm in stressful situations.
Accountability: Takes ownership of all responsibilities and honours commitments; delivers outputs for which one has responsibility within prescribed time, cost and quality standards; operates in compliance with organizational regulations and rules; supports subordinates; provides oversight and takes responsibility for delegated assignments; takes personal responsibility for his/her own shortcomings and those of the work unit, where applicable.
Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively; listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately; asks questions to clarify, and exhibits interest in having two-way communication; tailors’ language, tone, style and format to match audience; demonstrates openness in sharing information and keeping people informed
Managerial Competencies:
Leadership: Serves as a role model that other people want to follow empowers others to translate vision into results; is proactive in developing strategies to accomplish objectives; establishes and maintains relationships with a broad range of people to understand needs and gain support; anticipates and resolves conflicts by pursuing mutually agreeable solutions; drives for change and improvements; does not accept the status quo; shows the courage to take unpopular stands. Provides leadership and takes responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work; demonstrates knowledge of strategies and commitment to the goal of gender balance in staffing.
Judgement/Decision-making: Identifies the key issues in a complex situation, and
comes to the heart of the problem quickly; gathers relevant information before making a decision; considers positive and negative impacts of decisions prior to making them; takes decisions with an eye to the impact on others and on the Organization; proposes a course of action or makes a recommendation based on all available information; checks assumptions against facts; determines that the actions proposed will satisfy the expressed and underlying needs for the decision; makes tough decisions when necessary.
Qualifications:
Education: Doctorate (MD) or equivalent in medicine, including residency/internship in one of the medical specialties, preferably occupational medicine. Further certification in internal medicine or general practice is desirable.
Experience: A minimum of five years of progressively responsible clinical experience in one of the areas of medicine, including at least five years in the Occupational Health field, are required.
Two years of managerial experience in the medical field including budgeting, supervisory responsibilities and resource management are desirable.
Experience in an International Organizations with field deployments desirable. Experience in travel medicine related to Occupational Health is desirable. Experience with team and/or project management is desirable.
Language: English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in English and French in both languages is required. Knowledge of another UN official language is desirable.
Other: (To be determined and specified by Programme Manager, as required or desirable, at the time of building a specific vacancy announcement. Qualifications listed in this part should be of a technical nature and not related to education, experience and language as indicated above.)
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