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UNDP has been working in India since 1951 in almost all areas of human development. Together with the Government of India and development partners, we have worked towards eradicating poverty, reducing inequalities, strengthening local governance, enhancing community resilience, protecting the environment, supporting policy initiatives and institutional reforms, and accelerating sustainable development for all.

With projects and programmes in every state and union territory in India, UNDP works with national and subnational government, and diverse development actors to deliver people-centric results, particularly for the most vulnerable and marginalized communities. As the integrator for collective action on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the UN system, we are committed to supporting the Government of India’s national development vision and priorities and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs for the people and the planet.

Our new Country Programme (2023-2027) builds on our prior work and aims to provide an integrated approach to development solutions in three strategic portfolios:

  • Strong, accountable and evidence-led institutions for accelerated achievement of the SDGs.
  • Enhanced economic opportunities and social protection to reduce inequality, with a focus on the marginalized.
  • Climate-smart solutions, sustainable ecosystems and resilient development for reduced vulnerability.

South-South cooperation, gender equality and social inclusion are promoted across the pillars. The programme is supported by a framework of renewed partnerships and blended finance solutions, strategic innovation and accelerator labs, and data and digital architecture.

You are invited to join a team of future-smart development professionals to support India in achieving the national and globally agreed goals. As part of the UNDP team, your focus will be to work with diverse stakeholders to find country-specific solutions that lead to sustainable development and reach those furthest behind first.

The Inclusive Growth portfolio is anchored in the national priority of ‘accelerated growth with inclusion and equity, employment generation, and skill India’, aligned to outcome 1 of the UNDP strategic plan. While the focus of outcome 2 is on decent work and economic growth (SDG 8) and reducing inequalities (SDG 10), the UNDP comparative advantage in the sector as a facilitator and knowledge leader is being leveraged to strengthen institutional linkages between enterprise and skills-training providers and to identify synergies between national programmes and missions to assist marginalized groups access to sustainable skills, jobs, livelihoods, and productive assets.

The focus of the portfolio has been primarily women and youth from the marginalized communities across the country. It takes into consideration that women face significant social and economic barriers in participating in India’s workforce. Under the portfolio, there are several projects being implemented, working towards increased awareness, career guidance and counselling, apprenticeships promotion (with industry clusters), micro-enterprise development, strengthening of the farm/non-farm and artisanal values chains, and developing second generations managers, enhancing employability and business skills capacity, facilitation of linkages, mentorship support and nurturing the innovation potential of youth and women of rural and urban areas.

UNDP in India is committed to support the efforts of the Government of India towards working with partners and key stakeholders to advocate for an environmentally sensitive response to COVID-19 that resets towards greener pathways for recovery. Focus is to not only to move towards a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient recovery, but also help to strengthen recovery by focusing on emerging and innovative green job opportunities. The COVID 19 global pandemic could potentially threaten to deepen inequalities and undo progress on the SDGs. We are already witnessing the detrimental impact of the pandemic on the economies and the populations especially poor and vulnerable populations. India is no exception to this challenge that can jeopardize India’s gains in reducing poverty, improving access to livelihoods and social protection.

Building on the experience and the partnership base of earlier projects and keeping in view the need for intense work on local livelihoods for green growth and expanding digital capacity and access to social security, PROmoting Inclusive GRowth through Enhanced Access to Local Livelihood Opportunities, Education to Work Transition and Social Protection Schemes (PROGRESS) programme has been initiated in partnership with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

The programme is being rolled out in close partnership with the Central and State Governments and aims to leverage partnerships with private sector actors, financial institutions, educational and vocational institutes, training partners, and the community to fill the gaps through innovative approaches and practices. Similarly, it will leverage flagship public schemes.

Duties and Responsibilities

The overall objective of the proposed engagement is to support the framework of Inclusive Growth’s programmes, including the design of data collection and analysis tools, analysis and reporting, documenting learnings from the various projects implemented under the programme and support alignment of M&E activities with UNDP India Country Office goals. S/he will also be an integral part of the Inclusive Growth team and contribute towards achievement of project results. S/he will be the main focal point for the Inclusive Growth unit when it comes to internal UNDP India reporting. S/he will work directly with project teams and the Communications Officer to ensure implementation is monitored, results are documented, reported and learnings disseminated appropriately. The position is based in New Delhi with travel across India.

Her/his specific responsibilities will include:
  • Develop and implement the programme and project’s M&E plans from results-based management perspective along with indicators, targets, means of verification and monitoring steps at output and activity level in multi-year work plans and annual work plans, and support in developing and updating the project’s risks and issues matrices in line with UNDP guidelines.
  • Coordinate with the Inclusive Growth team, partners and field staff for data collection, analysis and evidence gathering to feed into to programme and project performance monitoring.
  • Maintain MIS and actively monitor programme and projects through field visits, remote monitoring tools to assess progress, support in identifying bottlenecks and potential problems, and take timely action to resolve issues and/or refer to relevant colleagues in the Inclusive Growth team for timely resolution..
  • Participate in monitoring and evaluation exercises, programme & project reviews and annual reviews, both internal and external, to assess progress and to determine required interventions to achieve the results..
  • Develop the Terms of Reference and evaluation design of high quality in line with UNDP’s programme and project evaluation policies and guidelines. Support in monitoring and ensuring quality of the field work and data management during the implementation phase, and the quality of the analysis and ease of understanding during the report writing phase. Coordinate in disseminating evaluation findings and recommendations to the stakeholders.
  • Prepare project progress reports, such as quarterly reports, annual report, project results pathway, donor-specific reports, inputs to corporate reporting capturing in a comprehensive analytical manner project progress against the project Results Framework; including the documentation of success stories, achievements, lessons learned, risks and issues; corporate reporting requirement.
  • Identify and document lessons learned, best practices, and use knowledge gained to feed into the ongoing as well as future programming and for developing/managing knowledge products (knowledge management).
Competencies

Core Competencies

  • Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.
  • Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements.
  • Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback.
  • Adapt 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 face of adversity, confident.
  • Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships.
  • Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies

Business Management

  • Results- based Management: Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results.
  • Risk Management: Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks.
  • Working with Evidence and Data: Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making.
  • Monitoring: 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.
  • Evaluation: Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks. Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.

Digital & Innovation

  • Data analysis: Ability to extract, analyse and visualize data (including Real- Time Data) to form meaningful insights and aid effective decision making.
  • Data collection: Being skilled in Data Sorting, Data Cleaning, Survey Administration, Presentation and Reporting including collection of Real-Time Data (e.g. mobile data, satellite data, sensor data).
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
  • Bachelor’s OR Master’s degree in Social Science, Management or related fields will be given due consideration.
Experience:
  • Minimum 2 years with Bachelor’s degree of related experience in monitoring and evaluation, planning, and programming.
  • Ability to extract, analyse and visualize data (including Real-Time Data) to form meaningful insights and aid effective decision making.
  • Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills.
  • Should be able to prioritise tasks and maintain deadlines.
  • Well organized.
  • Experience of working with UNDP or another UN agency.
  • Additional years of relevant professional experience.
  • Proven experience in conducting M&E, analyzing data, and preparing high quality reports and evidence-based notes.
  • Demonstrated experience working on skilling, livelihoods, or related projects.

Language Requรrement:

  • Very good spoken and written Indonesian and English

Remuneration starting at INR 14,35,933 (Annual) / INR 1,19,661 (Monthly) as per the scale depending on qualifications and experience. The remuneration is excluding 8.33% pension amount paid over and above the salary.

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