Programme Analyst United Nations at UNDP Tanzania

Programme Analyst
Dodoma, Tanzania
Job Identification 20294

Programme Analyst United Nations at UNDP November2024

JJob Info

• Job Identification 22339
• Locations Dodoma, Tanzania
• Agency UNCDF
• Grade NPSA-9
• Vacancy Type National Personnel Service Agreement
• Practice Area SDG Finance
• Bureau Regional Bureau for Africa 
• Job Schedule: Full-time
• Contract Duration 1 Year
• Education & Work Experience Master’s Degree – 2 year(s) experience OR Bachelor’s Degree – 4 year(s) experience
• Required Languages English and Kiswahili
• Vacancy Timeline 2 Weeks

Job Description
Background
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value
diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures
where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel
are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and
fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to
our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved
populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or
excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about
working at UNDP including our values and inspiring stories.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of
harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All
selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and
background checks.

UNCDF makes public and private finance work
for the poor in the world’s 47 least developed countries. With its
capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models
that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic
level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development. This
last mile is where available resources for development are scarcest;
where market failures are most pronounced; and where benefits from
national growth tend to leave people excluded.

UNCDF’s vision
is to help mobilize and catalyze an increase of capital flows for SDG
impactful investments to Member States, especially LDCs, to address the
most pressing development challenges facing vulnerable communities in
these countries and thereby contribute to sustainable economic growth
and equitable prosperity.

UNCDF’s mission is to support market
development by enabling access to finance in high-risk environments for
impactful investments by providing financial instruments, financial
mechanisms, and financial advisory. In partnership with United Nation
agencies and other Development Partners, UNCDF will use these tools with
speed and agility to deliver scalable blended finance solutions to pave
the way for commercial finance, drive systemic change and thereby
contribute to the SDGs.

In Tanzania, UNCDF’s Inclusive Digital
Economy (IDE) programming includes the ongoing Tanzania Inclusive
Digital Economy (TIDE) project, the Kigoma Joint Programme (KJP) Phase 2
and the newly approved Data for Digital Agricultural Transformation
(D4DAT) project.

The TIDE project, supports digital financial
innovation through the development of the fintech sector and innovation
ecosystem in Tanzania while also contributing to the building of
national digital financial infrastructure through its championing of
digital financial services and digitalization of financial service
providers.

The UN area-based Kigoma Joint Programme recently
launched its second phase wherein UNCDF continues to focus on
strengthening farmer groups and digitizing value chains to improve
agricultural livelihoods (with a focus on women and youth) in
partnership with other UN agencies and in cooperation with local
government authorities.

The recently launched Data for Digital
Agricultural Transformation (D4DAT) is a joint programme funded by the
SDG fund and in partnership with FAO and IFAD. It aims to enhance public
and private sector collaboration around access to and sharing of data
to improve agricultural efficiency and digital transformation in the
agricultural sector for smallholder farmers, leveraging
technology-driven agricultural solutions to address challenges in
productivity, access to finance, inputs, markets, and managing the
impacts of climate change.

The D4DAT project is designed to
foster digital transformation within Tanzania’s agricultural sector
aiming to enhance job creation, income generation, and livelihood
resilience of smallholder farmers, especially women and youth. The
program will support the refinement of regulatory frameworks related to
data governance, management, and interoperability, while enforcing
rigorous data security, protection standards, and privacy norms.

UNCDF
in Tanzania seeks a Tanzanian national with experience in access to
finance programming in rural settings, program management and excellent
government relationship building skills to provide support in the
implementation, coordination and monitoring of the Kigoma Joint
Programme 2 as well as the new Joint Programme on Data for Digital
Agricultural Transformation project.

Duties and Responsibilities
1. Ensure Effective Programme Management and Coordination:

• Ensure programme management, quality control and supervision;
• Contributes to programme delivery and achievement of objectives by working with and supporting implementing partners;
• Identifies areas of weak performance and works with the partners to find a solution;
• Ensures
  effective programme coordination between the implementing partners and
  joint programme partners, and ensures that all stakeholders are
  communicating with each other to enhance synergies;
• Supervise sub-contracted consultants (if any) in their work and ensures they have access to required resources and data;
• Facilitate effective transfer of knowledge from UNCDF team to consultants and partners;
• Contributes to the creation and sharing of lessons learned and good practices gleaned from the implementation of the projects;
• Participates actively in meetings and reviews;
• Guide
  the UNCDF team with programme-related tasks and missions related to the
  projects in Kigoma and Dodoma, including facilitating logistics.

2. Provision of Technical Support and Capacity Building:

• Provides technical assistance support to implementing partners when necessary;
• Facilitate in capacity building and refresher trainings for implementing partners;
• Provides informational sessions on the projects to stakeholders;
• Drafts case studies and briefs on project highlights.

3. Ensure Programme Monitoring & Evaluation:

• Guide
  partners and consultants in the scheduling of M&E activities and
  the collecting and analysis of key performance indicators;
• Ensures that partners are correctly and accurately collecting data based on UNCDF data needs and reporting as required;
• Measures
  project targets and activity progress, including social and gender
  dimensions and indicators of progress on a quarterly basis;
• Provides bi-weekly project progress updates to project team;
• Supports the collection and reporting of data to the RCO and the Prosperity Outcome group and UNSDCF;
• Facilitates M&E related missions.

4. Build Strategic Partnerships and Stakeholder Relationship:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships with public project
  stakeholders i.e. local government authorities, responsible parties in
  the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Communication and Information
  Technology, Ministry of Finance etc;
• Strengthens relationships with UN agencies working on the KJP but also UN agencies based in Dodoma;
• Identifies
  common areas of interest, leveraging tools and intelligence of the
  projects, to build and maintain technical and strategic partnerships and
  identify new opportunities for partenership aligned with UNCDF
  strategy;
• Identifies and attends project-relevant meetings with government, development partners and UN agencies.

5. Guide the Programme Team on Policy Advocacy & Resource Mobilization:

• Supports policy development in the area of access to finance, savings
  groups, women’s economic empowerment, digital finance, data governance
  and digital transformation drawing on the latest research and
  substantive dialogue with key practitioners and major international
  institutions;
• Contributes to regional debates and consultation processes related to UNCDF (and other UN Agencies where applicable);
• Organizes workshops for sharing of lessons and experiences;
• The
  incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as
  deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the
  Organization.

Institutional Arrangement
The Programme Analyst works with the UNCDF IDE team and reports to the UNCDF IDE Country Lead (Programme Specialist).
The
Programme Analyst will be based in Dodoma, Tanzania, reporting to the
UNCDF Programme Specialist based in Dar es Salaam, with punctual travel
to the Kigoma region and Dar es Salaam.

Competencies
Core

• 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
Project Management:

• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals.

Results-Based Management:

• Ability
  to manage the implementation of strategies, programmes, and projects
  with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results.
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant theories, concepts, methodologies, instruments, and tools.

Negotiation and Influence:

• Ability
  to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of
  difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates
  mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates win-win
  situations.

Integration within the UN:

• Ability
  to identify, 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.

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 UNCDF strategy and policies.
• 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.

Systems 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.

Required Skills and Experience
Education:

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Business
  Administration, Economics, International Relation or related field is
  required. Or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s
  degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with an additional two
  years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu
  of the advanced university degree.

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Experience:

• A minimum of 2 years ( with masters degree) or 4 years (with bachelors
  degree) of progressively responsible and relevant work experience in
  programme/project development and management with some field experience
  is required;
• Experience, understanding & knowledge of
  financial inclusion, rural, youth and women’s economic empowerment
  issues in Tanzania;
• Hands-on experience in working with local governments and grassroots organizations on improving access to finance;
• Solid record of managing complex and challenging partnerships with governments and international partners;
• Experience in working with a multi-disciplinary team and respectful relations with all UN partner agencies and staff;
• Experience working on agricultural value chains with smallholder farmers;
• Familiarity with digital financial services;
• Demonstrated
  ability to collect, organize and analyse data in excel and proficient
  with Microsoft Office Suite – including Excel and PowerPoint;
• Experience
  in overseeing timely project implementation and to provide necessary
  troubleshooting to keep project implementation on schedule;
• Proven track record of strong communication and writing skills;
• Demonstrated experience in organizing and leading workshops;
• Demonstrated ability to undertake results-based management and reporting;
• Strong expertise in programme support coordination, monitoring, donor reporting and capacity building
• At least two years working within or closely with the UN system;
• Experience in Monitoring and Evaluation;
• Familiarity with digital financial services;
• Experience in UN Coordination with UN Joint programmes.

Required Languages:
Fluency in English and Kiswahili is required.

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Posting Date 11/21/2024, 09:48 PM
Apply Before 12/06/2024, 07:59 AM