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The United Nations Development Program – UNDP works in more than 170 countries and territories, aiding with develop policies, leadership and association skills, institutional capacities, and resilience building, fostering development. The UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025 describes the future direction of UNDP, continuing to work through its six signature solutions on poverty and inequality reduction, governance, resilience, environment, energy, and gender equality.

These are where countries’ needs are greatest and where the capabilities and position of UNDP within the United Nations development system best equip the organization to work. Learning from the lessons of the last four years, the signature solutions will be adapted to better match countries’ evolving priorities. Collaborating across the strengthened United Nations system and beyond, UNDP will develop integrated approaches that apply combinations of solutions for greater impact. Powerful enablers – strategic innovation, digitalization, and development finance – will further accelerate and scale results.

UNDP is part of the 26 United Nations Agencies, Funds and Programs in Colombia, contributing to the achievement of the United Nations Cooperation Framework for Sustainable Development. The UNDP Country Program Document 2021-2024 seeks to support the efforts of the Colombian government for the transition to peace and the consolidation of its position as a medium-high income country; with three work priorities: 1) Stabilization: “Peace with Legality”; 2) Migration as a development factor; and 3) Technical assistance as an accelerator of the achievement of the catalytic Sustainable Development Goals.

Within this framework, UNDP Colombia Office covering 28 departments in 319 municipalities, works in alliance with the Government – at the national and local levels – the private sector and social organizations in prioritizing actions that allow transforming living conditions of the most vulnerable populations.

At the programmatic level, the office in Colombia is organized into two Clusters that work in an articulated manner on different development initiatives: The Inclusive Sustainable Growth Cluster groups together the Sustainable Development and Productive Inclusion and Social Protection portfolios and the Cluster of Peace Development and Inclusive Governance that brings together the Inclusive Governance, Peace Development and Recuperation and Crisis Response and Rule of Law Portfolios.

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Resident Representative in matrix management with the Deputy Resident Representative, the Programme Specialist (PISP) is responsible for management of UNDP programme within the Productive Inclusion and Social Protection Portfolio. The Programme Specialist analyzes political, social, and economic trends and leads formulation, management, and monitoring ensuring issues-based approach and synergies with other areas of work within his/her portfolio and provides policy advice services. The program specialist will lead the consolidation of the productive inclusion portfolio and the development of the social protection portfolio, aligned with UNDP’s vision as a comprehensive offering aimed at protecting and preventing, promoting capabilities, and transforming structures for a society with greater social justice.

The Programme Specialist (Productive Inclusion and Social Protection) contributes to strengthen UNDP`s position to help address national challenges as part of its efforts to perform its mandate focusing its impact on vulnerable groups (indigenous, afro descendants and women) with a gender and human rights-based approach and conflict sensitivity.

Supervises and leads programme personnel, coordinates activities of the project`s personnel; ensures coherent response as part of the Inclusive Sustainable Development Cluster, works in close collaboration with other programme and the operations teams, project coordinators, Government officials, civil society, private sector, programme personnel in other UN Agencies, UNDP HQs personnel and technical advisors/experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and ensuring successful UNDP programme implementation.

The Programme Specialist will perform a variety of programme and project duties and will be responsible but not limited to guide the identification, design, formulation, results oriented monitoring and management of evaluations of programmes/projects, ensuring that they are properly implemented and contribute to the expected UNDP Country Programme (CPD) outcomes as well guaranteeing UNDP´s core principles of transparency, efficiency and quality in general.

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages acrossinterventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions,teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.

1.) Coordination of Productive Inclusion and Social Protection Portfolio as part of the Inclusive Sustainable Development Cluster in close articulation with other areas of work focusing on achievement of the following results:

2.) Ensures the generation of top-quality policy advice on PISP issues for the government at national, regional, and local levels, as well as internally within UNDP.

3.) Ensures effective and relevant formulation, design and implementation of program strategies focusing on quality control and results:

4.) Creation of strategic partnerships and design and implementation of a resource mobilization strategy:

5.) Supervision of programme personnel and assurance of compliance to office strategic and operational requirements:

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities: Programme personnel

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Candidates selected pursuant to this vacancy may be subject to UNDP’s policy on Probation upon assignment.

Note: UNDP 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 at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

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