Programme Specialist SES
Pretoria
- Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
- Location: Pretoria
- Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
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Occupational Groups:
- Environment
- Aviation and Air traffic (planning/management/services)
- Project and Programme Management
- Closing Date: Closed
The Country Program Document (CPD) 2020-2025 was approved in June 2020 by the Executive Board and immediately initiated its implementation. The CPD aims to provide response to the most pressing development challenges of the country, with emphasis on unemployment, poverty and inequality. In other to operationalize these priorities, the country office intervenes through a range of projects covering the programmatic areas of Nature, Climate and Energy, Inclusive and Sustainable Growth, and Transformative Governance. With the new CPD, UNDP’s footprint in South Africa is expanding and hence, increasingly requires oversight, analysis and responsiveness for social and environmental safeguards, innovation and client-oriented solutions, particularly in the Nature, Climate and Energy portfolio, which is the largest in the country office. Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative, the Program Specialist will work in close collaboration with the Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist and coordination with the Program Portfolio Managers to ensure that the country office projects design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation are fully compliant with UNDP Social and Environmental Standards. UNDP’s Social and Environmental Standards (SES) underpin our support for sustainable development. The objectives of the standards are to:
The starting point to ensure these standards are applied is through UNDP’s project-level Social and Environmental Screening Procedure (SESP), which is a requirement for projects. The objectives of the SESP are to: (a) integrate the SES Overarching Principles (human rights, gender equality and environmental sustainability); (b) identify potential social and environmental risks and their significance; (c) determine the Project's SES risk category; and (d) determine the level of assessment and management required to address potential social and environmental risks and impacts. All guidance on UNDPs Social and Environmental Standards can be found in the SES Toolkit. |
The Programme Specialist will be responsible for first layer oversight (of the aforementioned portfolio), capacity building and knowledge management to strengthen SES implementation across the Country Office portfolio, from programme and project design through implementation. The Programme Specialist will not be responsible for the preparation and execution of SES instruments during NIM project implementation (as this is a project execution function under the Implementing Partner) but will rather quality assure project-level safeguards instruments prepared by the project teams, and monitor, advise and oversee the project teams in executing the relevant safeguard management measures.
- Ensure the Stakeholder Response Mechanism is established and operational at the CO level.
- Ensure project-level grievance mechanisms are established within the project governance structure and that relevant safeguard risks are monitored by Project Boards.
- Establish roster of national social and environmental safeguards consultants.
- Support and advise senior management in their engagement with partners and stakeholders (including affected people, implementing partners, donors) on issues related to the SES.
- Advise and support senior management on any SECU/SRM cases.
- Prepare communication materials and products that can be used to communicate the SES and UNDP’s Accountability Mechanism with partners and project affected people.
- Present on the SES and Accountability Mechanism at inception workshops and support on-boarding of project-level safeguards experts.
- Conduct an assessment of national capacities/safeguards to identify key gaps between the SES with guidance on how these gaps should be approached across the portfolio, as well as entry points for capacity building and use of national systems.
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2.) SES Capacity Building
Support regular SES capacity development, awareness raising, trainings and other learning opportunities for the CO team and implementing partners
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3.) SES Knowledge Management
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Core Competencies |
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Achieve Results LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline |
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Think Innovatively LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements |
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Learn Continuously LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback |
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Adapt with Agility LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible |
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Act with Determination LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident |
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Engage and Partner LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships |
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Enable Diversity and Inclusion LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination People Management: UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site. |
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Cross-Functional & Technical competencies
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Education |
Master’s degree in International Development, Environmental or Social Studies, or other relevant areas. |
Experience, Knowledge, and Skills |
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