Governance Specialist- NPSA10 at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): (Deadline 13 January 2022)
In line with UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2018- 2021 which is anchored in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed to the principles of universality, equality and leaving no one behind, inclusive and effective democratic governance remains an important area of work for UNDP globally and UNDP Rwanda particularly as clearly set out in both the United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP) and the UNDP Country programme Document.
The current programming cycle is aligned to the Government of Rwanda’s National Strategy for Transformation (NST1) covering the period 2017-2024 and the United Nations Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP), covering the period 2018 -2023 which is currently under review to align the UN cooperation framework cycle with the National Strategy for transformation.
Given Rwanda’s progress in democratic governance as evidenced by the data from consecutive governance scorecards and other global reports, Rwanda has been one of the global pilots on SDG 16, as an elaborated system for data collection, including baselines and targets, was already in place to track progress in governance, rule of law and security. The 2019 Rwanda Voluntary National Review (VNR) offered a great opportunity for Rwanda to take stock of the implementation progress of the SDGs, reflect on the efforts still needed to be made as well as share experiences. The VNR report provided the country and the world with an update on the progress on the implementation of the 7 goals (SDG2,4, 8, 10, 13, 16 & 17) for which an in-depth analysis was conducted and of four additional goals (SDG 1,3,5, and 9) which were discussed in the report. Sustainable Development Goal 16 on promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels was also assessed in-depth.
The Transformational Governance Unit (TGU) is one of the two key programmatic units of UNDP Rwanda and leads the work in the governance area. In this regard, the UNDP TGU is implementing governance projects in partnership with national counterparts.
The following are the main programmes and projects that are currently being implemented under the Transformational Governance Portfolio:
- Deepening Democracy through Strengthening Citizen Participation and Accountable Governance
- Strengthening the Rule of Law in Rwanda: Justice, Peace and Security for the People
- Strengthening Civil Society Organizations for Responsive and Accountable Governance in Rwanda
- Promoting Gender Accountability in the Private sector in Rwanda.
- Strengthening the Capacities of the Rwanda Peace Academy
In line with the Governance portfolio objective, the Governance specialist provides strategic guidance and support to the implementation of the transformational governance portfolio of the country programme to achieve the expected results.
Scope of Work
The governance specialist will particularly assume the following key functions:
1. Provision of quality upstream advisory services to UNDP management, governance team and partners:
- Conduct research and analysis of the governance and political situation of the country; keeping abreast of emerging issues and identification of entry-points for UNDP governance programming;
- Provision of quality upstream advice to UNDP management and governance team;
- Identification of strategic and innovative areas of cooperation;
- Development of sound project and funding proposals for timely action by UNDP in Rwanda.
2. Provide technical support to the UNDP management and the governance team on the effective implementation of projects and programs:
- Strategic review and quality control of the full cycle of programming from formulation to implementation with due consideration of cross-cutting themes mainly gender equality, resilience, leave no one behind and human rights with the aim of informing the formulation and implementation of strategic and innovative initiatives;
- Analyze national governance context including policies, programs, laws, and strategies and apply program criticality principles to advise UNDP on the most essential interventions for the national recovery process;
- Provide quality technical and advisory support for effective planning, budgeting, implementation, and monitoring of the programme;
- Work closely with program managers to support effective monitoring, measuring the impacts of governance programme and evaluations as well as conducting constant monitoring and analysis of the programme environment and suggest timely adjustments;
- Contribute to program compliance to UNDP project and financial management rules and quality assurance.
3. Ensure effective contribution to the two NST governance sector working groups (justice, Reconciliation, Law and Order Sector, and Decentralisation and Governance Sector), the One UN result group on transformational governance, and the Delivering as One initiative as required:
- Provide quality technical and advisory support for UNDP contribution to the justice rule of law-and-order sector working group and support UNDP management in their role as sector co-chair;
- Ensure strategic contribution to the governance and decentralization sector working group and set performance targets towards enhancing transformational governance from the local to the central level;
- Effective contribution to the ‘Delivering as One initiative and provision of substantive inputs to the One UN transformational Governance Results Group;
- Regularly apply critical thinking to identify emerging challenges and opportunities requiring immediate attention including advocacy and strategic partnership.
4. Strengthen Strategic partnerships and support resource mobilization for the Transformational Governance Unit:
- Effective contribution to ongoing strategic thinking and planning exercise particularly in the four thematic areas related to transformational governance;
- Work closely with the transformational governance team to draft project proposals and implement resource mobilization activities;
- Contribution to UNDP’s strategic engagement with potential partners including development partners, philanthropic organizations, and private companies;
- Promote communication for development through the production of various communication materials;
- Ensure compliance with partnership requirements including donor reporting and visibility requirements.
4. Institutional Arrangement
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative, the Governance specialist is responsible for advising and providing technical assistance and leadership for the strategic direction, new initiatives and support to the management of the transformational governance portfolio.
- Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
- Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
- Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality.
Functional Competencies:
Strategic Policy Direction
- Be able to lead the strategic planning, formulation, and monitoring of programmatic issues;
- Ability to identify governance structural opportunities and challenges and provide policy advice based on best local and global experiences and practices;
- Demonstrates capacity to provide substantial advice in formulating policy options for Rwanda Government on transformational governance particularly within a national recovery context.
Development and Operational Effectiveness
- Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management, and reporting.
- Ability to lead formulation and implementation of strategies;
- Ability to formulation, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of development programmes/projects and mobilize resources;
- Ability to formulate and manage budgets, manage contributions and investments, manage transactions, conduct financial analysis, reporting and cost-recovery;
- Excellent knowledge of national planning, policy, and programming framework;
- Ability to implement new systems and affect staff behavioral/attitudinal change;
- Excellent IT skills.
Management and Leadership
- Focuses on impact and results for the client and responds positively to critical feedback;
- Encourages risk-taking in the pursuit of creativity and innovation;
- Leads teams effectively and shows conflict resolution skills;
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
- Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills;
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
- Builds strong relationships with clients and external actors.
- Master’s degree in Development Studies, Law, Political Science, International Relations, or other development-related fields with 5 years of experience.
- Minimum of five years of relevant experience at the national or international level in providing technical and advisory services, within international organizations and national institutions;
- Minimum of five years of experience in coordinating and providing technical and advisory support to governance programme portfolios within national, regional and international organizations;
- Experience in working, liaising, and collaborating with governments’ representatives, civil society organizations, and international organizations within the framework of establishing and implementing governance projects or developing policy and legislative frameworks;
- Experience in research and policy-level analysis;
- Hands-on experience in design, monitoring, and evaluation of development projects;
- Proven experience in managing multi-stakeholder projects;
- Demonstrated experience in building strategic partnerships and resource mobilization.
Desired additional skills and competencies:
- Innovation: Ability to make new and useful ideas work;
- Results-Based Programme Development and Management;
- Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing – Developing tools and mechanisms;
- Resource Mobilization – Implementing resource mobilization strategies;
- Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise – In-depth knowledge of the subject-matter.
Language:
- Fluency (both verbal and written) in English is required;
- knowledge of French will be an added value.
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