United Nations Development Programme Office in Ukraine is seeking proactive and energetic professional for the post of Programme Manager on Environment and Energy Efficiency to work in UNDP Ukraine Programme Section. Environment and Energy Efficiency is one of 6 UNDP Practice Areas and is paid special attention to by our organization. Application from those qualified for the position with detailed CV in English should be submitted urgently with reference “Programme Manager on Environment and Energy Efficiency”. Deadline for applications is 20 June 2002. UNDP will use a transparent and competitive screening process, though will only contact those applicants in whom there is further interest. Before sending application please visit our web-site for detailed information on the vacancy and information on our organization:www.un.kiev.ua

Fax: (044) 253-2607; e-mail: vegorov@un.kiev.ua

1. Promotion of UNDP Practice Area

• Act as a knowledge based advisory services provider within the assigned UNDP practice area of Environment and Energy Efficiency at the country level;
• Facilitate continuous dialogue with the Government and other key partners to provide knowledge based advisory services and to ensure proper integration and co-ordination of UNDP programmes with other related development efforts;
• Participate in designing project/programme documents and contribute to the UNDP pipe-line portfolio, generate and discuss new project ideas;
• Participate in the approval of the new projects, submission of the project concepts and documents to the LPACs for reviews;
• Increase the impact of the UNDP programme by expanding the outcomes and delivering the results;
• Organize workshops and consultations on practice area with governmental and non-governmental institutions and organizations, academia and think tanks, local leaders and governors;
• Organize cluster meetings with UNDP Teams to strategize on delivering of results within the practice area assigned;

2. Application of Millennium Development Goals in practice

• Set the MDG monitoring principles within the assigned practice area;
• Advocate, promote awareness and understanding of issues and responses related to the all important goals which Ukraine has committed to at the Millennium Summit and other global conferences;
• Contribute to the development of the UNDP strategic reports and analytical documents incorporating MDGs;

3. UNDP Support to the UN

• Provide assistance with the design and implementation of the joint UN Country Team programmes, initiatives and activities;
• Contribute to the promoting of the joint UN response to the issues of the UN Family concern as stated in the CCA and UNDAF.

4. Partnerships and Resource Mobilization

• Mobilize cost-sharing resources from the Government, donors and other partners to leverage UNDP resources;
• Facilitate implementation of joint formulation missions with potential donors to develop the sound partnership for the project designing stage;
• Maintain partnerships with EU, World Bank and private sector to ensure wide participation in development issues that UNDP is addressing;
• Organize donor visits to the project sites;
• Assure that the UNDP country office is linked to highest officials in the government, private sector, donor institutions, local authorities, mayors, municipalities and other stakeholders;
• Participate in the round tables, conferences and workshops organized by the partner organizations to promote UNDP vision, values and approaches;

5. Managing for Results

• Introduce and implement SRF oriented annual and quarter work-planning and progress reporting system to simplify project operations;
• Contribute to preparation of the ROAR and other RBMS tools on the programme portfolio assigned;
• Implement the office annual work-plans with specific targets;
• Introduce and implement performance and impact assessment indicators and database system in the projects and CO;
• Participate in the process of preparation of the result oriented documents to disseminate achievements of each programme within assigned programme portfolio;
• In a partnership with national project managers, oversee strategic planning and coordination of project activities to ensure that objectives are reached; extrapolate lessons learned from programme activities and ensure horizontal exchange of knowledge;
• Proactively disseminate lessons learned to media in partnership with the UNDP Communications Team;
• Organize quarterly reviews and annual review of the impact of the projects/programs, participates in the project evaluations, as well as in assessment missions;
• Participate in regular programme managers’ forums organized on a monthly basis, assuring that one-page reporting on key progress/issues is prepared on the assigned UNDP practice area;
• Monitor ongoing projects substantively; provide assessment and analysis on the achievement of objectives and results; guide and orients the efforts and contributions of consultants, project personnel, other donors and Government institutions towards the achievement of project objectives, monitor delivery of the project resources to meet the work-plans;

6. Knowledge Management and Sharing

• Participate in country level networks within the UNDP practice area assigned;
• Participate and contribute to the “global knowledge networks of UNDP” in the practice area assigned;
• Monitors/analyzes economic, social and political issues which affect sectoral or national development; through this process, identify development needs and potential solutions relevant to UNDP’s technical co-operation activities; compile and document assessments in key policy areas;
• Contribute to “knowledge retreats” with governors, mayors, think tanks, and other friends of UNDP;
• Participate in “consultative meetings” with government and donors in the practice area;
• Contribute to national development documents in the thematic/sectoral areas assigned; propose content of Strategic Results Framework (SRF) and Results Oriented Annual Report (ROAR)s in the sectoral and thematic areas managed;
• Promote coordination and integration of UNDP national projects with respective regional and global programmes and projects, including those based at the RBEC Regional Support Center in Bratislava (Slovakia) as well as UNDP RBEC SURF;
• Optimize the utilization of RBEC and BDP policy experts in HQs and SRC in Bratislava;

7. Advocacy and Communications

• Promote clarity and understanding on the role and issues of UNDP;
• Participate in development of comprehensive programme oriented UNDP web site;
• Participate in development of UNDP projects and programmes communication materials, papers, and other publications;
• Facilitate transformation of the UNDP and project staff into development communicators and government and other partners unto UNDP advocates and facilitators;
• Disseminate successful experience in the practice area globally through the SURF system and UNDP global web-site;
• Engage project staff in dissemination of the successful initiatives and services of UNDP;
• Assure development of the project web-sites as the specialized knowledge channels and link these to the main UNDP web-site;
• Represent UNDP accordingly at public events within the assigned practice area;

8. Other

• Perform a variety of functions related to the programme section mandate;

1. Mature judgment in the area of Environment and Energy Efficiency combined with a proactive, energetic approach to problem solving; excellent interpersonal and communication skills; strong organizational and time management skills; resourceful in finding solutions;

2. Strong ideals to support national development in Ukraine and serve as a catalyst for human development, poverty reduction with focus at environment and energy efficiency;

3. At least 5 years of practical managerial and/or business development experience in the area of environment and energy efficiency with practical applications in project area, including experience in policy formulation (references required);

4. Ability to work with a wide cross-section of partners: Government, NGO’s, communities, media and international donors;

5. Knowledge of Ukrainian legislative, policy and human resource issues as they apply to the development area of environment and energy efficiency;

6. Desire to make a positive change in Ukraine;

7. Upwards of a Master’s degree in a relevant to the position field (environment, ecology, etc.);

8. Knowledge of the management principles and organizational behavior;

9. Fluent Ukrainian, Russian, English;

10. Excellent communication and writing skills in all three languages (English, Ukrainian, Russian,) is a must;

11. Ability to think clearly and precisely articulate are essential;

12. Knowledge of and complete comfort with computer applications is essential (including organization of public presentations on PowerPoint).

13. Good contacts within the development area of environment, including contacts with donor organizations, NGOs, governmental institutions.

Applications in English language with the reference to this position are to be submitted:

to e-mail address : vegorov@un.kiev.ua, or fax (044) 253-26-07.

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UNDP will use a transparent and competitive screening process, though will only contact those applicants in whom there is further interest. Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.