Job Responsibilities

• Provide support to establishing and maintaining a strategic understanding of, and engagement with, the substantive technical issues, institutions, and processes within the region, including establishing contact with and developing strategic partnerships with other agencies, donors, NGOs, the private sector, scientific institutions and the like;  
• Contributing to identification, development and implementation of new strategic programming opportunities and partnerships in the area of sound chemicals and waste management, resource efficiency, circular economy, plastic reduction and recycling; 
• Participating in global work-planning meetings, regional strategic planning, pipeline management exercises, etc.;  
• Participating in cross-substantive area technical dialogue, common strategic visioning, mainstreaming, programming, and other collaboration within the regional team;  
• Mobilize, foster and strengthen strategic partnerships with UN entities and other relevant regional bodies and provide substantive inputs to those partnerships in support of UNDP initiatives;   
• Advocate policy and programme progress that UNDP is supporting in various fora including relevant global and regional meetings (e.g., regional meeting of BRS, GFC, network meeting of the Montreal Protocol, Mercury group meeting, Plastics, etc.) and in the relevant stakeholder consultation process including academia and civil society;   
• Assisting in keeping the Regional Team informed of trends and issues with respect to the substantive technical area. 
• Programming and Management (15%) 
• Supporting the development of strategic policy and guidance for strengthening UNDP Country Offices with chemicals and waste project design and implementation, including alignment with national priorities;  
• Assisting the development of and advocacy for specific policy analysis and development tools and guidance in support of programming and finance for sound chemicals and waste management; 
• Supporting the establishment of a trusted leadership role  within the region;  
• Sourcing of technical expertise and support, including assisting with the preparation of TORs, identification and evaluation of experts and reviewing reports; 
• Contributing to regional retreats, focal area retreats, regional strategic planning, pipeline management exercises, etc.; 
• Promoting gender equity/empowerment in programming opportunities; 
• Helping to ensure that strategies and projects are aligned to country outcomes and UNDP corporate environment results in internal UNDP project tracking systems (e.g. ERBM); 
• Maintaining quality and accuracy in data and project management systems (e.g. PIMS+), management of Quantum Risks logs, and portfolio delivery rates; 
• Monitoring to ensure expected quality standards are maintained in project implementation reviews;   
• Supporting the RCU to internalize lessons from evaluations in programming in the region.  
• Policy Advisory and Resource Mobilization (25%) 
• Track the international policy discussion and development under the Montreal Protocol and its Kigali Amendment, Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, Minamata Convention, recommend to UNDP Country Offices, and Hub Management new policy and strategic alignment options;  
• Provide trainings to the partners and stakeholders in the programme countries in the region on policies and progress of the Montreal Protocol, Stockholm Convention, Minamata Convention, GEF and MLF; 
• Contribute the crosscutting work of plastic governance in both chemicals & waste management and ocean protection into a coherent policy and programming framework; 
• Foster policy innovation in the specific thematic area to enhance programme delivery; 
• Assist in the provision of timely quality information and technical advice on the source of funds’ policies, priorities and activities; 
• Work with UNDP country offices and partners, draft, revise, finalize and help edit concepts and project documents for submission to donors; 
• Support the coordination of design, preparation, submission and approval of project proposals and requests for project development financing; 
• Support the liaison with potential (co)financing agencies and institutions; 
• Recruit technical expertise and support including assisting with the preparation of TORs, identification and evaluation of experts and reviewing reports.  
• Development Impact, Quality Assurance, and Risk Management (30%) 
• Assist with inception, contracting and start-up of projects, including establishment of indicators, benchmarks and work plans; 
• Support UNDP country offices in the supervision, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, troubleshooting and adaptive management of approved projects, including preparing and reviewing annual reports, work plans and budget, provide technical support on major procurement process in projects; timely completion of progress implementation report, project completion report, mid-term reviews and terminal evaluation; 
• Maintain project and portfolio information and corporate information systems; 
• Develop guidance and tools for country offices to utilize in operationalizing project inception, contracting and start-up of projects, including the establishment of indicators, benchmarks and work plans;  
• Maintain quality/accuracy of data and documents in UNDP project management systems; 
• Monitor the implementation of projects to ensure expected quality standards, gender mark, stakeholder consultation, compliance with safeguards requirements and other UNDP POPP requirements;  
• Monitor the delivery of the work plan and budget utilization, and provide support to improve the delivery;  
• Provide support to UNDP Country offices and execution partners to address significant implementation challenges, identify the projects at risk and facilitate the implementation of risk mitigation measures; 
• Engage with UNDP Country Support Team in regional hub on project progress, delivery and troubleshooting; 
• Supporting UNDP HQ, country offices and partners on the communication of the project result, innovation, experience and lessons learned.   
• Learning, Knowledge Management and Self Development (15%) 
• Evaluating, capturing, codifying, synthesizing lessons and stimulating the uptake of best practices and knowledge, including the development of resource kits and other knowledge materials; 
• Peer reviewing, commenting on, and seeking to improve, the technical quality of projects, policies, practices, guidelines, advisory notes, publications and the like;  
• Assisting with preparation of regional Community of Practice meetings;  
• Preparing and delivering training courses, as needed; 
• Contribute cross-regional exchange of knowledge by collaborating with policy teams in HQ to research, develop and share knowledge-based tools and guidance to help influence/advance policy dialogue in the thematic area and present such material at various fora;  
• Developing knowledge products of relevance to UNDP’s support to countries on sound chemicals and waste management;  
• Developing and carrying out a personal learning plan.