Duties and Responsibilities

The Project Managerwill be responsible for strategically and adaptively leading project management, including planning, implementation, monitoring, generating expected outputs and outcomes in line with the approved Project Document, and evaluation. S/he will work closely with the component/output lead of the ISPAT project, UNDP operations unit, Programme cluster, Government officials, private sector, NGOs and civil society organizations. S/he will be responsible achieving the project’s outputs and outcomes.

Key Functions:

Result-based Project Management, including Planning, Implementation and Monitoring and Evaluation:

• Provide management oversight to ensure project implementation is on track.
• Management of project finances and achievement of quarterly and annual programme-finance delivery targets, with accountability to the National/Project Steering Committee/Project Board and UNDP.
• Ensure the preparation of annual work plan, budgeting, finance, procurement, audit, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, etc.
• Management of risks and issues, and execution of adaptive management in consultation with the Programme Analyst overseeing this project and the Assistant Resident Representative/UNDP Cluster Lead.
• Management of project team to ensure the team operates in a productive manner, through a clear division of labour, and setting of specific quarterly and annual goals and targets for all team members, including annual performance planning at the start of each year and performance evaluation at mid-year and at the end of each calendar year.
• Management of experts/specialists and service providers through planning, managing and monitoring the delivery of outputs, reports and knowledge products.
• Review and contribute to all outputs and deliverables required by the project.

• Supervision of the planning and organisation of events; capacity building activities including trainings; consultations; meetings of the National/Project Steering Committee, Technical Working Committee, Core Groups, etc; and technical, evaluation, corporate, development partner and other missions.
• Ensure that the project draws from and collaborates with other UNDP-supported projects, avoiding duplication and maximizing synergy.
• Completion of other relevant duties and tasks.

Partnership and Stakeholder Management, and Networking:

• Identification of stakeholders and implementation partners for the undertaking of various outputs and activities.
• Preparation and implementation of a stakeholder mapping and stakeholder engagement/partnership strategy, including civil society/non-government organisations with activities, targets and expected results.
• Liaison with NGOAB and government counterparts, as relevant, including focal persons assigned for the specific project outputs for effective and smooth project coordination.
• Coordinate with relevant partners/stakeholders/actors, the UNDP Country Office and its programmes/portfolios/projects at large, including to share information about trends, issues and results in the thematic area, to coordinate and utilize resources effectively and efficiently.
• Development of new partnerships with development partners/donors, government, civil society and/or non-government organizations, academia, local communities and private sector to deliver the project outputs, as needed.

Evidence-based Advocacy and Support for Policy Reforms:

• Analyze and consolidate project results/outputs, and provide results-based reporting of project progress at the outcome and impact levels.
• Development and implementation of capacity building activities aimed at government counterparts and other relevant stakeholders.

• Ensure highest UNDP standards in the provision of technical and advisory inputs, organization of workshops, seminars, training and delivery of product

Knowledge Management and Resources Mobilization:

• Manage and contribute to the development of knowledge products, involving UNDP Programme Analyst, Cluster Lead and other relevant colleagues, implementing partners, consultants/experts/specialists, etc.
• Manage and contribute to the design and publication of communication materials and knowledge products; as well as knowledge-sharing platforms, tools and mechanisms.
• Manage the synthesis and documentation of project results, lessons learned, good practices, case studies, etc., from the project.
• Preparation and update of project information, results and other material on UNDP, government and other websites, media, etc., on a quarterly basis.
• Sharing of knowledge and information between UNDP, project management and government counterparts in the process of project implementation.
• Assist the UNDP Country Office in resource mobilization through developing a business case model, pulling the lessons learnt from the project for wider demonstration.
• Navigate opportunities to engage other potential development partners/donors with a view to mobilize more resources for the project.

Competencies:

Core competencies:

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning.
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change processe.

• Act with Determination: LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making.

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

General (across the functions)

• Public relations: Ability to build and maintain an overall positive public image for the organisation, its mandate and its brand, while ensuring that individual campaigns and other communications and advocacy initiatives are supported in reaching the public

Partnership management

• Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding: Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms
• Resource mobilization: Ability to identify funding sources, match funding needs (programmes/projects/initiatives) with funding opportunities, and establish a plan to meet funding requirements

2030 Agenda: People

• Gender: Gender Mainstreaming

2030 Agenda: Prosperity

• Inclusive Growth: Poverty and Human Development

Business Direction & Strategy

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

Business Development

• Knowledge Generation: Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for content, or responsive to a stated need

Required Skills and Experience: 

Education:

• Advanced university degree (Master´s Degree or equivalent) in Social Science  Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, or any other relevant discipline is required OR
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor´s degree) in the above field in combination with an additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience at the national or international level in providing management advisory services, and/or hands-on experience in planning, designing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development projects or relevant related field is required.
• Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and web-based management systems, and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages.
• Knowledge and experience in relevant thematic area
• Proven professional skills to effectively interact with technical and non-technical end users in a pleasant, cooperative, and helpful manner.
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and work independently.
• Excellent skills and experience to manage team.
• Strong analytical, communicational and writing skills/experience.
• Knowledge and experience in relevant thematic area
• Proven networking skills with different levels.
• Proven experience of sharing knowledge, experience and learning to the stakeholders.
• Excellent writing (Bangla) skills to draft/review policy documents in Bangla.

Required Languages:

• Fluency in English and Bangla is required.