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  • Posted: Feb 22, 2023
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    UNDP has been in Nigeria since the country became independent in 1960 providing capacity building and policy development support to the Federal Government of Nigeria in areas of Governance & Peace Building, Inclusive growth and Sustainable Development. UNDP continues to support, the government in the preparation of the second National Implementation P...
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    Livelihood Analyst (NOB)

    Under the direct supervision of the Conflict & Political Economy Specialist, the Livelihood Analyst will support implementation of livelihood interventions in peace and security contexts in the North West Region of Nigeria and other parts of the country including the South East, to:

    • Support the development of programme strategies and project activities with strong technical soundness to enhance livelihoods and local economic recovery.
    • Support the field office in implementing day-to-day activities on livelihoods, climate-smart agriculture and local economy recovery of the NW interventions, including monitoring the livelihood interventions
    • Provide technical inputs to the respective stakeholders for ensuring effective emergency income-earning support, livelihood enhancement and economic recovery.
    • Support knowledge management and information sharing, including M&E, Reporting and Communications around the livelihood interventions in the NW, and other regions including the SE

     

    Impact of Results

    The key results have an impact on the success of the NW programme and other livelihood and economic recovery projects to undertake effective crisis response and promote resilience in the communities to on-going crises in the NW Region of Nigeria through high-quality of design, operation and programming of activities with strong technical inputs.

     

    Duties and Responsibilities

    Support development and implementation of programme strategies focusing on achievement of enhancement of livelihoods and local economic recovery

    • Identify the appropriate modality of implementation and partnerships for various livelihoods interventions for the livelihood and integrated recovery projects, including short-term employment creation; entrepreneurship development; vocational training and other thematic-focused interventions (micro and small enterprise development; business development services, economic empowerment of women and youth, based on the assessment and facilitate the procurement and agreement process;
    • Design and formulate activity plans for livelihood support activities for the livelihood and economic recovery projects;
    • Maintain the quality assurance and the validation of livelihoods and economic recovery portfolio data (indicators, targets, results) in the established information management system for measuring the qualitative and quantitative impact, and report on the progress;
    • Conduct analysis of data, case evidence and research findings to distill relevant lessons from projects and programmes to support strategy and project development and innovation on livelihoods, and community economic revitalization;
    • Support implementation of livelihoods activities to ensure the quality delivery on time on the livelihood and economic recovery projects, including short-term employment creation (Cash for work, asset distribution); entrepreneurship and business development; Study different modalities of active labour market interventions and conduct assessments; and establish innovative programmes to target women, youth, and other vulnerable groups;
    • Oversee and monitor day-to-day project activities, providing technical support to ensure the project activities are implemented in line with the planned timeline and results. Promptly report to Conflict & Political Economy Specialist, Senior Management in UNDP, and relevant actors whenever the issues that require their attention arise.

    Provision technical inputs to the respective stakeholders for ensuring effective emergency income-earning support, livelihood enhancement and economic recovery. 

      • Identify the latest trends in local socio-political/economic market situations and other relevant areas that can have an impact on the delivery of the results of livelihood interventions;
      • Provide technical support and inputs to the relevant coordination mechanisms, such as Early Recovery and Livelihood Sector and Cash Working Group, to leverage UNDP’s stance and strategic policies and promote coordination with other partners;
      • Outreach and coordinate with UN agencies and other actors, such as the governments, the private sector, and NGOs/CSOs, to create synergies and collaboration for greater positive impacts of the UNDP interventions in the area of livelihood and economic recovery;
      • Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned directly linked to livelihood support projects.

    Ensures facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the area of livelihoods enhancement:

    • Disseminate analyses of the relevant data and research documents in a regular basis to relevant stakeholders;
    • In addition to regular reporting to the Sub Office, regularly contribute to donors’ reporting and briefings;
    • Facilitate and document human interest stories of beneficiaries and develop various communication materials linked to livelihood and economic recovery;
    • Make sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice in livelihoods.

    Support the field office in implementing day-to-day activities on livelihoods, climate-smart agriculture and local economy recovery of the NW interventions, including monitoring the livelihood interventions

    • Ensure that female-headed households are specifically targeted to participate in cash for work and other livelihood activities. These interventions should incorporate measures that address women’s additional needs such as childcare responsibilities, clean domestic energy and time poverty;
    • Identify and implement livelihood interventions specifically targeted to women, including increase of their access to and control over financial, social, human and political assets; strengthening of their ability to participate in community and leadership structures; and provision of resources to mitigate women’s disproportionate care-giving responsibilities;
    • Support regular monitoring of the implementation of the livelihood and economic recovery activities in UNDP’s project location.

    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

    Required Skills and Experience

    Education

    • Master's Degree in Economics, International Development/Relations, Economics, Business Management, Political Science, or other relevant fields.

    Experience, Knowledge and Skill

    • Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in economic development, livelihood enhancement, or poverty reduction;
    • Experience in post conflict environment with knowledge of socio-economic, culture, and community development issues in complex crisis situation is a strong advantage;
    • Strong knowledge on employment creation, emergency livelihoods interventions, cash-for-work activities, economic recovery;
    • Experience with diverse projects in complex environments, involving multi-disciplinary teams, broad ranges of stakeholders, and within volatile security situations is strongly preferred.
    • Previous working experience with UNDP and other UN agencies strongly preferred.

    Language

    • Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
    • Ability to communicate effectively in, Hausa, or any other local language spoken in the NW region is an asset.

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    Project Finance Associate

    With proper and accurate project financing, the incumbent, supports the design, planning and management of the Jubilee Fellowship.  In doing so, s/he works in close collaboration with project staff, other staff of the Unit, operations team, Programme and projects staff in the CO and UNDP HQs staff for resolving complex programme and operations-related issues, ensuring successful CO performance in Finance.

    Duties and Responsibilities

    Scope of Work

    The Project Finance Associate will be responsible for the following functions and tasks:

    Summary of Key Functions:

    • Support in project finance tracking and management.
    • Ensure effective information management and reporting.
    • Ensure proper financial tracking controls and risk management mechanisms.
    • Ensure implementation of operational and financial management strategies and adapts processes and procedure.

    Support in project finance tracking and management

    • Provide financial analyses and reporting for resources ensuring full compliance with UNDP rules, regulations, policies, and strategies;
    • Prepare cost estimates for different activities of the Jubilee Fellowship according to the needs of programme management;
    • Monitor the financial performance of Jubilee Fellowship project activities;
    • Support annual audits of the Principal Recipient (PR) and Sub-recipients (SRs) as required by UNDP and ensure that external auditors have all relevant information;
    • Ensure that advance payments and direct payments are properly reviewed and recorded in a timely manner into Atlas;
    • Follow up on the disbursement of funds to facilitate timely review of cash position to ensure sufficient funds on hand for disbursements.

    Ensure effective information management and reporting

    • Prepare regular analysis and reporting on the Jubilee Fellowship project funds and Country Office budget approvals, including on the delivery of programme activities;
    • Support the preparation of annual project workplans, agreements, and budgets;
    • Prepare forecasts necessary to support disbursements requests;
    • Conduct verification and posting of disbursement requests, expenditure reports, and supporting documentation;
    • Submit timely and accurate required financial reports to the donor, as relevant;
    • Maintain information flows between non-finance actors to effectively link programmatic results to work plan expenditure and budgets agreed with the donor;
    • Respond to HQ requests to resolve financial data issues or to provide information required.

    Ensure proper financial tracking controls and risk management mechanisms

    • Develop and support the PMSU to maintain risk management and mitigation approaches relating to finance;
    • Design and implement effective internal controls and financial resources management system;
    • Map, establish and maintain standard operating procedures in the project finance unit, implementing improvements where possible.

    Ensure implementation of operational and financial management strategies, and adapts processes and procedures

    • Full compliance of financial activities, financial recording/reporting system and audit follow up with UN/UNDP rules, regulations, policies and strategies; implementation of the effective internal control, proper design and functioning of the financial resources management system;
    • Continuous analysis and monitoring of the financial situation, presentation of forecasts for development and management projects;
    • Implementation of cost saving and reduction strategies in consultation with office management;
    • Routinely monitors financial exception reports for unusual activities, transactions, and investigates anomalies or unusual transactions. Informs supervisors and other UNDP staff at Headquarters of the results of the investigation when satisfactory answers are not obtained;
    • Preparation of cost-recovery bills in Atlas for the services provided by UNDP.

    Institutional Arrangement

    Under the direct supervision of the direct supervision of the Project Team Lead (Jubilee Fellows Programme) with matrix reporting to the Operations Manager, the Programme Finance Associate will support and work in close collaboration with the operations and programme teams within the Country Office and the field office in Lagos.

    Competencies

    Core Competencies

    • Achieve Result:  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: Operations Management

    • Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the Organization's business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner.

    • Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanisms.

    Business Management: Customer Satisfaction/Client Management

    • Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs.
    • Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy.

    • Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests.
    • Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.

    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 forward look like for UNDP.

    Business Direction & Strategy: Business Acumen

    • Ability to understand and deal with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
    • Knowledge and understanding of the operational frameworks in the organization  and ability to make good judgments and quick decisions within such frameworks.

    Business Direction & Strategy: Entrepreneurial Thinking

    • Ability to create clarity around UNDP value proposition to beneficiaries and partners and to develop service offers responding to client needs based on UNDP's organizational priorities and mandate.

    Business Development: Communication

    • Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
    • Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media,  social media and other appropriate channels.

    Business Development: Integration within the UN

    • Ability to identity, and integrate capacity and assets of the UN system, and engage in joint work.
    • Knowledge of the UN System and ability to apply this knowledge to strategic and/or practical situations. 

    Required Skills and Experience

    Education:

    • Completion of Secondary Education preferably with specialized certification is required or bachelor’s degree in Business or Public Administration, Economics, Political or Social Sciences and other relevant fields is desirable.

    Experience:

    • Minimum 7 years with Secondary Education or 4 years with Bachelor’s Degree of progressively responsible administrative or programme experience is required at the national or international level.

    Required skills:

    • Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems and ERP financials, preferably PeopleSoft;
    • Knowledge of UN/UNDP Financial Resource Management is desirable;
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
    • Working knowledge of UN principles, SDGs and international development in Africa;
    • Demonstrate the ability to showcase cross-disciplinary and cross-functional experience and expertise.

    Language:

    • Fluency in spoken and written English.

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