Project Community Analyst- IPSA 9 (Home Based)

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UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels offers a spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in its Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in UNDP’s Strategic Plan.

Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages; represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora, including public-private, government and civil society dialogues; and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas.

UNDP’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan highlighting our continued commitment to eradicating poverty, accompanying countries in their pathways towards the SDGs and working towards the Paris Agreement. As part of the Global Policy Network in the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP’s Nature, Climate Change, Energy, and Waste (NCE&W) Hubs promote and scale up integrated whole-of-governance approaches and nature-based solutions that reduce poverty and inequalities, strengthen livelihoods and inclusive growth, mitigate conflict, forced migration and displacement, and promote more resilient governance systems that advance linked peace and security agendas.

BPPS’ Hubs on Nature, Climate, Energy and Waste works with governments, civil society, and private sector partners to integrate natural capital, environment and climate concerns into national and sector planning and inclusive growth policies; support country obligations under Multilateral Environmental Agreements; and implement the UN’s largest portfolio of in-country programming on environment, climate change, and energy. This multi-billion-dollar portfolio encompasses:

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services including forests;

Sustainable Land Management and Desertification including Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems (FACS);

Water and Ocean Governance including Small Island Developing States (SIDS);

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation;

Sustainable Energy;

Extractive Industries;

Chemicals and Waste Management;

Environmental Governance and Green/Circular Economy and Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) approaches.

This work advances crosscutting themes on innovative finance, digital transformation, capacity development, human rights, gender equality, health, technology, and South-South learning.

The UNDP’s Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems (FACS) Team works towards improving the national economic, social, and environmental performance of food systems and agricultural commodity sectors. The FACS Team works in countries of UNDP operation where it can have an impact on transforming systems, on improving the livelihood of farmers and their communities, and on protecting high conservation value forests and important vulnerable ecosystems.

The Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems Community of Practice (FACS Community), operated in a Digital Collaborative Platform, fulfills for the entire FACS Team a range of knowledge management functions that reach 650+ individual food systems practitioners and that service a growing number of global and regional programmes.

These programmes notably include the overarching Green Commodities Program (GCP) led by UNDP’s FACS team, the Food and Land Use Restoration Integrated Programme (FOLUR-IP) led by the World Bank, and the forthcoming Blue Green Islands Integrated Programme (BGI-IP) led by UNDP’s Inclusive Growth Team.

In support of these programmes, the FACS Community and its Digital Collaborative Platform host dedicated collaborative Digital Country Project Spaces (DCPS). These customizable DCPS are used to welcome, coordinate, support, and capacitate the country project teams and stakeholders of these programmes. Stakeholders include local leaders, local practitioners, and global change-makers from international organizations, government, business, and civil society.

More specifically, the services offered to country project teams and stakeholders through the DCPSsupport important programmatic functions such as programme coordination, needs assessment, technical support; access to guidance documents; learning and capacity building events; south-south knowledge exchanges, and knowledge management.

The FACS team is now recruiting a Project Community Analyst to fulfill these various project community functions.

Duties and Responsibilities
Part of the FACS Community Team (Pillar C), the Project Community Analyst will be assigned to the projects operated by the FACS Team. The incumbent will work with colleagues to shape, maintain, curate, and moderate a dedicated Digital Country Project Space (DCPS) for their assigned programme(s).

More specifically the incumbent will be responsible for the following:

1. Liaise with Hiverbrite (the overall digital platform solution provider) to understand new features and to develop the ability to make changes to the assigned programme’s DCPS and to respond to arising technical issues (bugs, errors, glitches) in the overall FACS Community’s digital platform as requested by the supervisor.
2. Improve the usability of the assigned programme’s DCPS by creating groups, forums, tabs, and nested sub-groups using relevant branding materials (banners, thumbnails, logos, etc.)
3. Curate, upload, and promote relevant content in the assigned programme’s DCPS(sectoral developments, guidance document, project and country news, posts, videos, resources) using the required formats.
4. Assist 150+ targeted prospective members with their registration in the assigned programme’s DCPS, facilitate connectivity and exchanges between them, maintain the assigned programme’s DCPS’ membership database, and gather data and relevant information for donor reporting (membership, events, and subscriptions).
5. Facilitate ongoing coordination between Global Project Coordination teams, global partners, and the Country Project teams of the assigned programme through the DCPS. This function is known as facilitating “country docking”.
6. Identify, convene, and facilitate synchronous and asynchronous virtual and in-person knowledge exchanges between the Country Project actors as well as capture, analyze, and share lessons learned and good practices in the assigned programme’s DCPS.
7. Identify, promote, and contribute to learning events and capacity development workshops proposed by the incumbent or organized by other colleagues for the assigned programme.

Institutional Arrangement

• The incumbent will work remotely from his/her home-base;
• The incumbent will work under the direct supervision and guidance of Programme & Knowledge Management Analyst.
• The incumbent will be given access to relevant information necessary for execution of the tasks under this assignment;
• The incumbent will be responsible for providing her/his own workstation (i.e. laptop, internet, phone, scanner/printer, etc.) and must have access to a reliable internet connection;
• Given the global consultations to be undertaken during this assignment, the incumbent is expected to be reasonably flexible with his/her availability for such consultations taking into consideration different time zones.

CompetenciesCoreAchieve ResultsLEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadlineThink InnovativelyLEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is a pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements Learn ContinuouslyLEVEL 1: Open-minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedbackAdapt 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, confidentEngage and PartnerLEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationshipsEnable Diversity and InclusionLEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-functional & Technical competencies

Thematic AreaNameDefinitionBusiness ManagementProject Management

• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and control resources, procedures, and protocols to achieve specific goals.

Partnership ManagementRelationship Management

• Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust, and mutual understanding.

Business ManagementCommunication

• 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 ManagementRisk Management

• Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks.

Business ManagementMonitoring

• Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results

Digital and Innovation Systems thinking & transformation

• Understand that complex problems need a non-reductionistic, holistic approach
• Ability to explore challenges from multiple perspectives by zooming in and out with a focus on relationships and flows rather than individual elements; understanding how certain dynamics and conditions are driving and influencing an issue.
• Ability to develop a collective understanding of mapping systems and their dynamics
• Being able to identify intervention points to leverage change and system transformation by setting out a coherent collection of multiple interventions to probe the system for desirable effects.
• Understand that change is not linear and unpredictable; being comfortable and able to work with emergence,

Business Direction and StrategySystem Thinking

• Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgment to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact other parts of the system

Required Skills and ExperienceMin. Academic Education

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Economics, Science, Humanities, Arts, Social or Political Sciences, Administration, Information and Communications Technology, or other related fields is required, or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the said fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience will be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Min. years of relevant Work experience

• Minimum 2 years (with Master’s degree) or 4 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of professional work experience in multi-stakeholder or community of practice-related projects.

Required skills

• Proven experience in organizing and supporting virtual events and workshops.
• Proven experience with digital tools & software (video conferencing, interactive presentations, visual collaboration).

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section

• Experience at the UN, or at similar international or bilateral organizations will be an advantage.
• Proven experience in liaising with different country stakeholders.
• Proven work experience in working with online/community platforms.
• Experience supporting complex and distributed global teams will be an advantage.

Required Language(s) (at working level)

• Fluency in English is required.
• Fluency in other UN Language is an advantage

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