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The UNDP fosters dialogues between the Armenian Government and the private sector to establish a shared understanding of financing and investments for the SDGs. It promotes innovative solutions through impact acceleration programs and operates the Armenian National SDG Lab as a platform for developing and piloting innovative public policy approaches. The UNDP’s Innovation and SDG finance portfolio offers innovative policy and program solutions, supports the creation of an innovation ecosystem, and develops evidence-based policies and frameworks aligned with the SDGs. Utilizing advanced tools for data collection, modeling, and forecasting, it transfers knowledge, behavioral insights, and innovation to pioneer new approaches to development.
The Tax for Sustainable Development Goals Initiative, or Tax for SDGs projects, supports the Republic of Armenia in augmenting domestic resource mobilization (DRM) and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Initiative sees taxation as both a tool for revenue collection and a policy instrument to encourage sustainable growth strategies and influence the behavior of economic actors towards desired outcomes related to climate, nature, well-being, and governance.
Duties and Responsibilities Support the projects team to ensure effective project planning and implementation.
Compile and summarize information and data for the formulation of project work plans, draft annual/quarterly budgets, proposals on implementation arrangements, and on other specific project-related topics or issues. Provide comprehensive support in all aspects of project implementation in accordance with the project documents, annual work plans, and other agreements between UNDP and responsible partners. Ensure quality of delivery by consultants, beneficiaries, and contracted companies; and communicate findings to the supervisor and projects coordinators. Ensure compliance of project business processes with UNDP Projects Operational Policies and Procedures (POPP) and UNDP Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). When necessary, guide project staff on business processes, administrative and other requirements, and procedures. Provide administrative and logistical support to ensure successful project delivery that includes organizing/coordinating project events and selecting appropriate venues, coordinating project procurement procedures, maintaining project records and files, recruiting project team members, and supporting contracting activities.Support partnerships and resource mobilization.
Establish and maintain contacts and cooperation with the relevant UN Agencies, government institutions, NGOs, tertiary institutions, partners, and other relevant stakeholders. Provide support in updating the database of the relevant public and development partners, and other stakeholders who are counterparts for the projects. Ensure regular communication and coordination with partners, project’ counterparts, stakeholders, and beneficiaries; and develop and maintain effective mechanisms for integrating and responding to their feedback and insight. Support the creation of high-quality information and visibility of the project’s activities among the stakeholders; and ensure careful selection of communication tools and tailoring the messages to take into account the overall socio-political and development context in host countries. Undertake horizon scanning and explore opportunities for resource mobilization in consultation with direct supervisor and project coordinators.Provide support to the effective monitoring, evaluation, and reporting on the progress of project implementation.
Support implementation of the projects’ monitoring system in alignment with their Monitoring and Evaluation framework to ensure effective information sharing, provision of feedback, and elaboration of high-quality progress reports. Collect, analyze, and present information for monitoring and evaluation of project implementation against project targets as well as for audit purposes. Identify gaps in implementation and provide support in bridging those gaps in consultation with supervisor and partners. Assist in the organization of field and study visits, missions, workshops, roundtables, and conferences within the projects. Assist in the implementation of effective risk management for the projects with a well-documented risk mitigation plan in place. Support monitoring of previously identified and emerging risks. Regularly monitor expenditures and commitments against the project budget and relevant plans and provide finance-related information to support project implementation. When necessary, recommend corrective actions and draft various correspondence concerning finance, operations, and budgetary issues. Prepare and consolidate required project reports on a timely basis and in line with monitoring and reporting guidelines and donor requirements.Support knowledge building, knowledge sharing, and capacity building relevant to the assigned projects.
Participate in training and organize briefings on internal procedures for the project staff. Provide support to other capacity-building activities, including the design and delivery of tools, materials for workshops, or platforms that tap into the collective intelligence of communities and mobilize action. Provide support in the dissemination and sharing of relevant data and lessons learned within the CO and regionally. Keep a pulse on emerging best practices nationally, regionally, and internationally that relate to the work of the assigned projects. Make sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice. Support compiling and systematizing project knowledge, products, and tools as well as their wide distribution to partners.The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization. Institutional Arrangement:
The Projects Associate works under the general supervision of the SDG Innovation Lab lead and collaborates closely with other team members.
Competencies
Core 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 a 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 the 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 (Working with Evidence and Data)
• Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making
Business Management (Digital Awareness and Literacy)
• Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skillfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed
Business Management (Customer Satisfaction/Client Management)
• Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfill and understand the real customers' needs. Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests. Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns.
Business Management (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.
Business Management (Monitoring)
• Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and program performance and results.
Technical - Finance (Budget management)
• Ability to support budgetary aspects of the work planning process, drawing, and management of team budgets
Technical – Procurement (Procurement management)
• The ability to acquire goods, services, or works from an external source
Required skills :
Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section:
Experience in the preparation of financial reports and overviews Knowledge of monitoring and evaluation tools Experience in project management processes Knowledge of procurement procedures of national/international organizationsRequired Language(s):
Fluency in English and Armenian. DisclaimerThis vacancy is archived.