JOB DESCRIPTION: 
UNDP is currently soliciting applications for the position of Project Analyst (Coordinator) for the "Women in Politics, Public Administration and Civil Society" Project
RESPONSIBILITIES: 
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Daily Coordination of the Project:
- Under the leadership of the Gender Equality (GE) Portfolio Manager ensure that progress is made in achieving goals and objectives of the project;
- Ensure regular communication with national partners on planning and implementation of the programmatic components;
- Ensure synergy, coordination and collaboration with the Strategic Direction 2 of the project; ensure overall management and oversight over implementation of all three Strategic Directions of the projects; represent the project in external events;
- Monitoring and backstopping OxYGen Foundation in the programmatic activities;
- Supervise and support timely implementation of the Project activities;
- Provide oversight, technical backstopping and monitoring of the sub-components led by the partner civil society organizations; facilitate their synergetic and mutually enriching delivery of programmatic activities;
- Provide substantive technical inputs to the annual workplan and budget; work towards its timely implementation with project partners and beneficiaries; monitor budget implementation and make budget re-alignments/ revisions as necessary;
- Work towards safeguarding, monitoring and facilitating quality assurance of all the project activities as spelled out in the project document;
- Monitor progress of implementation of activities and finances using the results-based management tools;
- Ensure effective information flow and exchange within the team;
- Contribute to the selection of international and national consultants/ companies and preparation of procurements and contracting packages in line with the work plans and UNDP rules and guidelines;
- Organize and attend field missions and draft reports on monitoring missions;
- Draft and coordinate the call/ request for proposals, including the organization of technical review committees, and capacity assessment of partners;
- Identify capacity development needs of stakeholders;
- Keep updated a mapping of main stakeholders/ partners in the field in the Project target regions;
- Coordinate and organize advocacy campaigns, public events, capacity development activities, and knowledge products;
- Coordinate the development/ expansion of knowledge management strategies, methodologies, and products on women economic empowerment;
- Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned that are directly linked to the implementation of the Project and contribute to their dissemination;
- Provide substantive inputs to resource mobilization strategies, analyzing and maintaining information and databases on donors and developing database of project profiles for presentation to donors;
- Prepare relevant documentation such as project summaries, conference papers, speeches, donor profiles, and participating in donor meetings and public information events;
- Ensure proper maintenance of the databases, documentation and filing system;
- Manage the Project contracts outsourced to third parties to ensure timely and due quality of delivery of products and services;
- Perform financial certification function and provide oversight over the Project transactions;
- Confirm receipt of goods and services procured, authorize payments from the Project funds, monitor financial status of the Project;
- Provide support in identification and procurement of services and equipment;
- Acts as Project asset custodian․
To Provide Analysis and Strategic Advice:
- Support transfer of technical assistance and substantive advice to the working groups and beneficiary institutions in relevant sectors;
- Assess the situations and propose improvements based on best practice;
- Promote networking and experience sharing between the Project stakeholders and target groups;
- Contribute to raising awareness of the beneficiaries on gender equality during interviews, workshops, training events, and conferences;
- Advise the beneficiaries throughout the Project implementation period;
- Liaise and establish proper professional relationship with the authorities on national, regional and local level.
To Ensure Project Visibility through Preparation and Implementation of a Communication Strategy:
- Foster due coordination and linkages of the parallel UNDP projects on women with relevant programmes in Armenia, particularly with activities of other programmes funded by international organization, and other stakeholders;
- Ensure coordination with Project partners for timely and successful implementation of the planned interventions;
- Ensure due information and communication flows for all stakeholders, promote networking and experience sharing between Project stakeholders and target groups;
- In absence of GE Portfolio Manager represent the Project on behalf of UNDP and the UN Women as required, vis-à-vis the authorities, and other international and local organizations;
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as required.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 
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Education:
- Master's degree in Social Sciences, Gender/ Women Studies, International Law, Social Sciences, International Development, International Relations or other development-related fields;
- Bachelor's degree with 2 additional years of relevant experience will be given due consideration in lieu of master's degree.
Experience:
- At least 2 years (with master's degree) or 4 years (with bachelor's degree) of extensive working experience in development, project/ program coordination and monitoring, policy analysis. Focus on gender would be an advantage;
- Proven experience and knowledge of essentials on gender equality, women's empowerment and women's rights, gender mainstreaming in development programmes and projects, and related issues;
- Experience in liaising and co-operating with government officials, municipal authorities, academic institutions, NGOs and the private sector in the area of gender equality and women empowerment;
- Experience and record of drafting analysis/studies on gender equality and women empowerment issues will be considered as a strong asset;
- Experience in implementation of multi-stakeholder activities at national or international level will be an asset;
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems.
Languages:
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills in English and Armenian languages; knowledge of Russian language is an asset.
Competencies
Core Competencies:
- Achieve Results: Level 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work;
- Think Innovatively: Level 2: Offer new ideas/ open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/ integrated thinking;
- Learn Continuously: Level 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning;
- Adapt with Agility: Level 2: Adapt processes/ approaches to new situations, involve others in change process;
- Act with Determination: Level 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously;
- Engage and Partner: Level 2: Is facilitator/ integrator, bring people together, build/ maintain coalitions/ partnerships;
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Level 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making.
Cross-Functional and Technical Competencies:
- Business Development- Knowledge Generation: Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need;
- Business Development - 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;
- Business Management - Project Management: Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals;
- Business Management - Working with evidence and data: Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making;
- Business Management - Partnership 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 Management - 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.
Gender
- Gender mainstreaming;
- Gender Issues and Analysis.
Desired Additional Competencies:
- Gender: Women's Leadership (Political, Public Admin and Private Sector);
- Gender: UNDP's Gender Equality Seal Initiative.
APPLICATION PROCEDURES: 
Interested candidates may view the vacancy notice and apply via the following link:
https://tinyurl.com/4xwj2ztv.
Please clearly mention in your application letter that you learned of this announcement through Career Center and mention the URL of its website - www.careercenter.am. Thanks.
ADDITIONAL NOTES: 
- Contract Type: NPSA - National Personnel Service Agreement
- Position Level: NB4/NPSA9
ABOUT: 
UNDP partners with people at all levels of society to help build nations that can withstand crisis, and drive and sustain the kind of growth that improves the quality of life for everyone. For UNDP, creating equal opportunities for women and men is critical for equitable, sustainable development and poverty reduction. Hence, gender equality is in core of the UNDP mandate globally and nationally. UNDP Armenia, within the past decade, has continuously implemented projects on women empowerment, gender equality and youth leadership in Armenia.
UNDP Armenia has been continuously working in the area of the political empowerment of women, advancing leadership of women, supporting the local governments to engender local decision-making and development processes, enabling youth to get knowledge and skills on participatory governance, advancing their potential to raise their voice in policy-making at national and local levels. UNDP has considerably contributed to increasing representation of women at the local level, as well as formation of dynamic group and women and youth who not only benefit from projects' support, but also lead local initiatives on broad spectrum of aspects, including participatory governance, women empowerment, and other.
Currently, UNDP's Gender Equality Portfolio is comprised of several parallel projects working on political leadership of women, economic empowerment of women, innovative public services, youth leadership advancement, strengthening gender equality in the public administration system of Armenia and other. Projects are implemented in strong synergy and coordination with one another building on the ongoing activities, relying on the cadre of women and youth already capacitated from previous projects and joining forces to upscale number of support schemes countrywide. UNDP enjoys broad partnerships among national, regional and local governments, donor and international community, civil society organizations, media and other.
UNDP currently commences with implementation of the "Women in Politics, Public Administration and Civil Society" Project (hereinafter Project), funded by UK Good Governance Fund (UK GGF), which is logical continuation of the previous "Women in Politics" project (funded by UK GGF) and Gender Equality in Public Administration of Armenia" project (GEPPA, funded by UNDP). The project will build on the previous results and gender equality and women empowerment effort at national and local levels to further advance women’s right and opportunities in decision-making roles. The project will be implemented in partnership with the RA Ministry Territorial Administration and Infrastructure, the RA Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and OxYGen Foundation.
The project Theory of Change (see chart further below) suggests that: (i) when the women cadre is capacitated, motivated and advanced in leadership and enjoys opportunities and channels to voice and influence the decision-making; (ii) and if the national and local public institutions have systems and mechanisms for gender-sensitivity and responsiveness in place towards better gender balance; (iii) and the civil society is mobilized and capacitated as a collective intelligence and force for voice and action on gender equality, women’s rights and affairs; decision-making and governance processes in Armenia will be more inclusive, gender-balanced and gender-responsive at all levels. The project is designed based on the results and lessons learnt from the “Women in Politics” (WiP) project, as well as the successful practices in other UNDP WEGE projects.
The project includes programmatic work in three Strategic Directions:
- Advance women's leadership and political participation in local decision-making via public or civic roles;
- Strengthen the gender sensitivity and gender responsiveness of public administration system and gender mainstreaming in public institutions at national and local levels;
- Strengthen the role of civil society in setting agenda, contribution to decision-making and monitoring of governance processes on gender equality, women rights and women empowerment in Armenia.
Throughout implementation of its projects, the partners will combine conventional and innovative approaches, allowing room for experimentation and testing of new solutions with application of design thinking and user-centric approaches.
UNDP is currently soliciting applications for the position of Project Analyst who will directly manage Strategic Direction 1 and 3 of the Project, as well as ensure oversight and overall management of all three Strategic Directions of the Project. The incumbent will work under direction supervision of the Gender Equality Portfolio Manager and in close collaboration with the Technical Task Leader of Strategic Direction 2.