Job Purpose and Organizational Context
Guinea-Bissau is a small country wedged between the sub-Saharan arid ecosystems and the Guinean moist forest ecoregion. The resulting combination creates majestic terrestrial landscapes and a patchy mosaic of dense and open forests, gallery forests and woodland savannah that are rich in significant plant and animal life and a refuge for many migratory species that move across the West-African savannahs. In addition, it is one of Africa’s richest countries in terms of natural resources endowment. Beyond having great biodiversity, its soil is fertile and hosts a multitude of minerals. Despite this obvious will and the constant efforts of the Government, the sustainable management of the environment, notably the destruction of biodiversity and poor management of natural resources, remain a major challenge. These challenges derive from various causes, including the impacts of climate change and weakness of environmental governance due to weak capacities of the State for the effective application of the international conventions and the national laws governing management of the environment and natural resources, risk management, and disaster prevention.
The rich natural endowment of the country is not yet benefiting the population, particularly at the local level. The recurrent structural fragility of the economy has left the population with few meaningful opportunities, especially in rural areas. The population continues to be poor and confined to subsistence activities and informal trade. This situation is a source of discontent amongst the population, a serious threat to the livelihood of households, especially in terms of food and social security, and particularly to women and youth, posing extra strain to an already precarious condition. To build the interest of the population in the affairs of the state, a first step is to restore its confidence through investments in local governance for local economic development to create conditions for the population to benefit from the local economic opportunities and natural resources endowment in a participatory and inclusive approach.
The UNDP Country Office (CO) in Guinea-Bissau, as key Government partners in the area of environment and sustainable development, sought to reposition itself strategically and realign its human resources to better respond to the Country Programme Document (CPD) 2021-2025 that will start to design soon and to ensure the completion of objectives and targets set for the CPD 2016-2020Â and the articulated need to work in a more integrated and collaborative manner to help Guinea-Bissau address interrelated development challenges and achieve sustainable development goals. In line with the UNDP Strategic Plan Signature solution 1: Keeping people out of poverty, the programme in Guinea-Bissau will continue flagship programmes including improving rural and urban livelihoods, strengthening gender equality, ensuring access to clean energy and strengthening financial inclusion, in order to help build resilience to economic, environmental or health shocks. It will also focus of interventions that assist with transitions and structural shifts including economic diversification, redressing widening inequalities including gender inequalities, technology and skills alignment, etc. The program will also continue in line with the Signature solution 3: Enhance national prevention and recovery capacities for resilient societies, with focus the issues of conflict prevention, peacebuilding, disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and mitigation and crisis response.
In this context and under the overall guidance and supervision by the Deputy Resident Representative-Programme, the Sustainable Development Portfolio Team Leader analyzes political, social and economic trends and leads formulation, management and evaluation of programme activities within his/her portfolio, provides policy advice services. S/he also works in close collaboration with his/her Unit and other Programme Units, Programme staff in other UN Agencies, UNDP HQ and Addis-Ababa Regional Hub staff, Government officials, technical advisors and experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and civil society to help implement the UNDP country programme in the area of sustainable. S/he provides quality technical advice to Government and partners in his or her work area.
Summary Key Functions:
1. As a member of the Programme management team, ensures the strategic direction and implementation of UNDP programme within the practice area focusing on achievement of the following results:
2. Manages Country Office assigned programme components thorough the programing cycle, focusing on achievement of the following results:
3. Establishes and maintains strategic partnerships and supports the resource mobilization focusing on achievement of the following results:
4. Ensures provision of top-quality advisory services and facilitation of knowledge building and management within he Practice Area, focusing on achievement of the following results:
IV. Competencies and Selection Criteria | Description of Competency at Level Required
(For more comprehensive descriptions please see the competency inventory) |
Core | |
Innovation
Ability to make new and useful ideas work |
Level 5: Creates new and relevant ideas and leads others to implement them |
Leadership
Ability to persuade others to follow |
Level 5: Plans and acts transparently, actively works to remove barriers |
People Management
Ability to improve performance and satisfaction |
Level 5: Models high professional standards and motivates excellence in others |
Communication
Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform |
Level 5: Gains trust of peers, partners, clients by presenting complex concepts in practical terms to others |
Delivery
Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement |
Level 5: Critically assesses value and relevance of existing policy / practice and contributes to enhanced delivery of products, services, and innovative solutions |
Technical/Functional | |
Primary | |
Trends and emerging areas analytics
Ability to scan the horizon and identify approaches and initiatives to bring into policy and programme design |
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise |
Results-Based Management
Ability to manage programmes and projects with a strategy aimed at improved performance and demonstrable results |
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise |
Partnerships
Ability to engage with other agencies, donors, and other development stakeholders and forge productive working relationships |
Level 5:Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise |
Project Management
Ability to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals t Management |
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise |
Knowledge Management
Ability to efficiently handle and share information and knowledge |
Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise |
Secondary | |
Resource Mobilization
Ability to identify and organize programmes and projects to implement solutions and generate resources (definition is unclear and not well linked to the stated competency) |
Level 3: Apply & Adapt (Recognized contributor with demonstrated ability) |
Education:
Experience:
Language Requirements:
Proficiency in oral and written English and Portuguese. Working knowledge of in French would be an asset.
Tagged as: Guinea Bissau, UNDP
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