PARTNERSHIPS OFFICER

Jakarta

Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
Location: Jakarta
Grade: Consultancy - SB-4 (SC8/SC9), Service Contract, Local Contractors Agreement
Occupational Groups:
- Operations and Administrations
- External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
- PARTNERSHIPS
Closing Date: Closed

Background

Global Pulse is an innovation initiative in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, harnessing today's new world of digital data and real-time analytics to gain a better understanding of changes in human well-being. Global Pulse hopes to contribute a future in which access to better information sooner makes it possible to keep international development on track, protect the world's most vulnerable populations, and strengthen resilience to global shocks. Global Pulse is being implemented as a global network of Pulse Labs, bringing together expertise from UN agencies, governments, academia, and the private sector to research, develop, test and share tools and approaches for harnessing real-time data for more effective and efficient policy action.

Pulse Lab Jakarta

Global Pulse established a Pulse Lab in Jakarta in 2012 in partnership with the Government of Indonesia. Pulse Lab Jakarta functions as an open innovation space where policy experts together with UN development practitioners and other partners can experiment with new types of data and emerging technologies and evaluate their potential to enhance both public policy decision-making and community resilience. Following the development of useful approaches, Pulse Lab Jakarta will support institutional adoption of these innovations into policy and practice.

As a lab, PLJ needs to continue to push the boundaries of experimentation with new data types and emerging technologies in relation to sustainable development and humanitarian action. This includes exploring new data sources for insights into salient development issues; combining new digital data sources with existing datasets to gain new insights; and exploring the nexus between advanced data analytics and human-centred approaches.

Under the guidance of the lab’s Senior Management, the Partnerships Officer’s main responsibility is to manage the outreach of PLJ to the private sector to encourage public-private partnerships in experimenting with new digital data sources, including ensuring that agreements to facilitate the partnerships are in place. The Partnerships Officer manages specific projects in one or more of the Lab’s practice area and contributes to the lab’s strategic planning while ensuring consistency of new partnerships with the Lab’s overall goals.

The Partnerships Officer contributes to identifying opportunities to expand Pulse Lab Jakarta’s portfolio across in new practice areas across the Asia Pacific region.

The Partnerships Officer reports to the Social Systems Lead (Partnerships Advisor) and works in close collaboration with the Lab’s Senior Management. The Partnerships Officer will work closely with a wide variety of stakeholders such as UN Agencies and Government officials, technical advisors and experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and civil society to successfully innovate with new digital data sources for development and humanitarian action in Indonesia.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Identify, establish and facilitate key partnerships for Pulse Lab Jakarta both in Indonesia and across the region focusing on the following key results:

•Identify and mobilise key strategic private sector partnerships to enhance impact and influence for Pulse Lab Jakarta’s strategic priorities.

•Maintain effective relationships with local counterparts in UN agencies, funds and programmes to promote and strengthen coordinated support for Pulse Lab Jakarta.

•Lead the establishment and achievement of specific private sector resource mobilization/partnership goals and objectives.

•Identifies opportunities to expand PLJ’s portfolio across the region.

•Ensure that collaborative research projects are implemented in accordance to the gender equality accountability framework and Gender equality Results Based management at programme level i.e. performance management, gender marker assignment in web based system ATLAS , reporting, etc

2. Support PLJ’s Social Systems and Data Science teams to ensure timely delivery high quality projects:

•Oversee the progress of selected joint projects undertaken with partners;

•Craft strategic reporting and information materials to communicate the project’s results to relevant stakeholders and partners;

•Share the results of PLJ’s work to a broader, relevant set of stakeholders and audience for increased impact.

•Contribute to PLJ’s internal capacity building efforts to facilitate appropriate management and timely delivery of outputs, including in integrating gender analysis and gender mainstreaming to collaborative research projects whenever possible

3. Provides support to the management team to enhance the outreach of PLJ’s activities:

•Keep management abreast of new developments and trends in private and other sectors to ensure PLJ remains relevant.

•Ensures PLJ’s objectives and activities are in line with GoI and UN Partnership Development Framework (UNPDF) priorities.

•Provide technical support to multi-stakeholder mechanisms, especially in regard to the Lab’s government/civil society partnership-building activities.

•Identify new sectors with available quality data that can be accessed and mined for potential projects.

4.. The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that

•Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;

•Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”;

•Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data analytics;

•Differentiated needs of women and men are considered;

•Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementation, enabling accessibility to address barriers resulting from disability, gender, or language whenever possible;

Competencies

Core Competencies:

•Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity;

•Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment;

•Self-development, initiative-taking;

•Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;

•Strong leadership and managerial skill with track records of management roles in a team of multi-diversity background;

•Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;

•Creating synergies through self-control;

•Managing conflict;

•Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others;

•Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member, including ability to transfer knowledge and motivate people and to build relationships with colleagues, partners, beneficiaries, government authorities, donor organizations and other stakeholders;

•Informed and transparent decision making

•Conflict resolution skills, including in managing issues on gender barriers and gender blind behaviors within the project and with partners

•Communication skills to exchange information, and key ideas in a manner that engages the audience and helps others to understand and retain messages, including about gender equality and parity

•Team and partnership building: Working in teams and empowering project staff to create an enabling environment for gender equality on non-hierarchical bases.

•Development and operational effectiveness: Effective leadership and process management for gender equality (team work, goal setting, time management, priority setting, meeting management, etc)

Functional Competencies:

Building Strategic Partnerships

Maintaining a network of contacts

•Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up‐to‐date on partnership related issues

•Analyses and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders

•Establishes and nurtures positive communication with partners

Client Orientation

Establishing effective client relationships

•Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion

•Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines

•Establishes, builds and sustains effective relationships within the work unit and with internal and external clients

•Actively supports the interests of the client by making choices and setting priorities to meet their needs

•Anticipates client needs and addresses them promptly

Innovation and Marketing New Approaches

Enhancing processes or products

•Generates new ideas and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things

•Documents and analyses innovative strategies/best practices/new approaches

•Documents bottlenecks, problems and issues, and proposes effective solutions

•Embraces new approaches

Advocacy/Advancing a Policy-Oriented Agenda

Preparing information for advocacy

•Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UNDP’s mandate

•Maintains a functioning network of contacts with a variety of stakeholders to promote a better understanding of UNDP’s mandate and to support advocacy efforts

•Advocacy skills to promote gender equality approaches, to achieve the UNDP Gender Equality agenda or national gender equality agenda with internal and external partners, whenever possible.

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing

Basic research and analysis

•Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things

•Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches

•Identifies and communicates opportunities to promote learning and knowledge sharing

•Develops awareness of the various internal/external learning and knowledge‐sharing resources

•Promoting organizational learning and knowledge sharing in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise

Fundamental knowledge of own discipline

•Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position

•Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks

•Identifies new and better approaches to work processes and incorporates the same in his/her work

•Analyses the requirements and synthesizes proposals

•Strives to keep job knowledge up‐to‐date through self‐directed study and other means of learning

•Demonstrates good knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments

•Demonstrates in‐depth understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments

•Theoretical and/or practical knowledge of gender equality and women’s empowerment in development programming

Required Skills and Experience

Education:*

Masters degree in a relevant field of study, or a Bachelor degree with augmented with substantive professional experience

Experience:*

A minimum 3 years of professional experience for candidates with a Masters degree, and a minimum of 7 years of professional experience for candidates with a Bachelor Degree

Language Requirements:

•Fluency in written and spoken English is an absolute necessity;

•Fluency in written and spoken Bahasa Indonesia is required.

Other Requirements:

•Excellent interpersonal communication skills, writing ability and administrative skills.

•Relevant experience in facilitating public-private partnerships for development and humanitarian purposes

•Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.

• Ability to engage and negotiate with high level personnel in governmental institutions, private institutions, external agencies, etc.

•Proven analytical skills and ability to conceptualize strategic intervention

•Ability to work flexibly and dynamically within a lab environment where change is the norm

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP Indonesia reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP Indonesia at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and education requirements