Scope Of Work/Duties And Responsibilities
Summary of Key Functions:
- Lead the development and execution of the project plan, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives;
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth project execution;
- Provide regular reports detailing project status, challenges faced, and recommendations;
- Oversee the project budget, ensuring optimal allocation and utilization of resources;
- Analyze project data to identify trends, potential challenges, and areas of opportunity;
- Offer recommendations for project adjustments based on performance insights;
- Ensure compliance with UNDP guidelines and procedures during all project activities;
- Work closely with team members to align project activities with project milestones;
- Organize engagement events, workshops, and meetings to foster positive relationships with stakeholders;
- Train and mentor project team members, ensuring they have the necessary skills and knowledge to contribute effectively;
- Monthly Progress Reports, detailed reports highlighting the project's progress, challenges faced, and mitigation strategies implemented.
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Reporting
The position will be managed by the Head of the UNDP Innovation Center based in Lagos.
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
Business Management: Project Management
- Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.
Business Management: Partnerships Management
- Ability to build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies.
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 Direction & Strategy: Effective Decision Making
- Ability to take decisions in a timely and efficient manner in line with one's authority, area of expertise and resources.
Business Direction & Strategy: Strategic Thinking
- Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with UNDP's objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions.
- Ability to leverage learning from a variety of sources to anticipate and respond to future trends; to demonstrate foresight in order to model what future developments and possible ways look forward for UNDP.
Partnership Management: Relationship Management
- Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust, and mutual understanding
Minimum Qualifications
Min. Academic Education
- Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Project Management or related field is required, or
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above fields in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Min. Years Of Relevant Work Experience
- Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of progressively responsible experience at the national or international level in in project management roles.
Required Skills And Competencies
- Experience managing large-scale projects.
- Proven track record of leading projects to successful completion.
Desired Skills
- Experience in a developing country context is desired.
- Familiarity with UNDP guidelines and procedures is a plus.
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