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UNDP first signed its agreement of cooperation with Ethiopia, the Standard Basic Assistance Agreement (SBAA) in February 1981.
UNDP’s work in Ethiopia is aligned fully with the national plans and aims to support Ethiopia reach its priorities and targets. UNDP focuses on supporting a successful transition to democratic governance, address drivers of conflict to consolidate and build peace, foster enabling conditions for expanded job creation by the private sector (especially SMEs) and accelerate the transition to a green economy resilient to climate change. Gender equality and women’s empowerment is embedded across all areas of work. Across its priorities, UNDP applies principles drawn from the human-rights based approach that are strongly embedded in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
UNDP Ethiopia is committed to maintaining a strategic, relevant approach to forging new partnerships at the national, regional, and global levels, while also attracting the necessary funding to support its initiatives. UNDP views partnership and resource mobilization as a careful cultivation of enduring relationships with donors as partners, necessitating ongoing engagement, effective communication, continuous dialogue, and operational support. Adapting to changes in donor resources, interests, priorities, and preferences requires UNDP to innovate in its approach to securing funding for development programs. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands that UNDP maintains a strong commitment to forming partnerships with a diverse array of stakeholders. Partnership is essential for positioning UNDP within the development landscape and successfully implementing its Country Programme Document (CPD). The Country Office views partnership and resource mobilization as a deliberate and methodical process of cultivating strong relationships with individuals, institutions, and entities that share common goals and values related to supporting Ethiopia. These partnerships encompass a wide range of activities aimed at achieving development outcomes.
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.
Position PurposeUnder the overall supervision of the Resident Representative (RR), Deputy Resident Representative - Prograammes (DRR-P) and direct supervision of the Team Leader-Partnerships Development and Results Management Hub (PDRM), the Partnerships Analyst supports PDRM hub in the overall effort to build partnerships and resource mobilization efforts. The position also supports the design, planning and management of national networks by managing data and facilitating implementation. The Partnership Analyst promotes a client-oriented approach consistent with UNDP rules and regulations. The Partnerships Analyst works in close collaboration with operations, communication and programme teams in the CO and UNDP HQs for resolving partnerships and programme-related issues and information delivery.
UNDP has a plan to strategically engage with multiple donors and broaden its partnership base in the coming five years as part of its next country programme strategy. Given the complexity of involving with several partners, establishment and maintenance of effective donor relations is indispensable for successful implementation of the CO programme and projects. 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. To this end, UNDP Ethiopia is seeking to recruit a qualified expert to identify, establish, and promote partnership with development partners and promote resource mobilization for the office.
Duties and Responsibilities2) Actively support Senior Management in ensuring compliance with donor agreements, periodic reports and requirements focusing on the following:
Support Senior Management in UNDP Ethiopia and the Programme Team to meet the requirements of donors, especially those relating to earmarking or special conditions outlined in agreements; Facilitate partnership agreement/formalization process with existing partners as well as new potential partners to determine concrete areas and modality for the partnerships (e.g., financial, in-kind contribution, information sharing, technical cooperation); Facilitate management of donor agreements in collaboration with the respective teams (e.g., Programme, Finance, Communication) to ensure compliance with donor agreements, including the contribution deposit schedule, fund earmarking/restrictions, and due diligence/validation exercise; Support the Programme Team for preparation and organization of donor site visits; Organize, compile and process information from donors and programme team, as inputs to various databases and documents; Develop partner profiles and donor briefs for each of the main donors in Ethiopia; Provide regular data, briefings and updates on partnership and resource mobilization.3) Facilitate reporting and communications with development partners focusing on the following:
Provide advice to Programme and Project Staff on different donor reporting requirements; monitoring of financial and narrative reports to be submitted to donors; Follow up to ensure timely preparation of reports and timely submissions; Oversee donor-specific and corporate reporting, ensuring reporting is in line with donor agreements and corporate standards; Harmonize communications and reporting products in collaboration with M&E Officers, and Communication Team; Ensure linkage and synergy between public outreach with donor/partner outreach and communication needs in collaboration with Communication Team.4) Support Senior Management in the formulation and implementation of partnership strategies as well as engagement with donors and resource mobilization focusing on the following:
Support development of the CO Partnerships and Communication Action Plan (PCAP) and other strategies to achieve resource mobilization targets; Support in drafting proposals to current or potential donors in line with the donor’s interests and requirements; Develop materials, strategies, and other communications or products to support resource mobilization with donors; Support engagement with regional donors and with the host-country government to contribute resources to UNDP; Ensure the government and donor visibility, including organization of the donor visibility occasions and issuing the public announcement on the partnerships (e.g., press release) in close collaboration with Communication Team; Support Senior Management meetings with high-level officials or donor meetings; Support content development for presentations, briefing notes, or other documentation required for Senior Management donor engagement and meetings; Support senior management outreach to regional donors and host national government to communicate developments, the strategy of the Country Program Document, and priorities.5) Ensures facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing, guidance to all stakeholders on partnerships and programme matters:
Monitor cost-sharing contributions, update and monitoring of the projects pipeline and provide regular update on pipeline data to UNDP senior management; Advice to Project staff on UNDP administrative and project reporting, in particular, on donor reporting; Organization of training for the operations/programme/projects staff on Programme Management, Partnerships and Resource Mobilization; Synthesis of lessons learned and best practices in partnerships, programme and project implementation. Sound contributions to UNDP knowledge networks.The Partnership Analyst is expected to identify, establish, and promote partnership with development partners and promote resource mobilization for the country office.
CompetenciesCore Competencies
Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work. Think Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking. Learn Continuously: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning. Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process. Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously. Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build and/or /maintain coalitions/partnership. Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making.Functional/Technical competencies
Business Management: Communication
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
Partnerships Management: Build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies.Business Direction & Strategy
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.Business Management: Portfolio Management
Ability to select, prioritize and control the organization’s programmes and projects, in line with its strategic objectives and capacity; Ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual, while optimizing return on investment.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 fulfil 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.Partnership management
Emerging partnerships: Ability to engage with emerging partners, develop and manage a strategy and develop approaches to developing and managing these new strategic partnerships.Partnership management
Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding: Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms. Required Skills and Experience