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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

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Background
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UNDP has been working in India since 1951 in virtually all areas of human improvement. Along with the Authorities of India and improvement companions, we’ve got labored in direction of eradicating poverty, lowering inequalities, strengthening native governance, enhancing group resilience, defending the surroundings, supporting coverage initiatives and institutional reforms, and accelerating sustainable improvement for all.

With tasks and programmes in each state and union territory in India, UNDP works with nationwide and subnational authorities, and numerous improvement actors to ship people-centric outcomes, significantly for probably the most weak and marginalized communities. Because the integrator for collective motion on the Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDGs) throughout the UN system, we’re dedicated to supporting the Authorities of India’s nationwide improvement imaginative and prescient and priorities and accelerating the achievement of the SDGs for the individuals and the planet.

Our new Nation Programme (2023-2027) builds on our prior work and goals to offer an built-in strategy to improvement options in three strategic portfolios:

  • Sturdy, accountable and evidence-led establishments for accelerated achievement of the SDGs
  • Enhanced financial alternatives and social safety to scale back inequality, with a concentrate on the marginalized.
  • Local weather-smart options, sustainable ecosystems and resilient improvement for lowered vulnerability

South-South cooperation, gender equality and social inclusion are promoted throughout the pillars. The programme is supported by a framework of renewed partnerships and blended finance options, strategic innovation and accelerator labs, and information and digital structure.

You’re invited to affix a workforce of future-smart improvement professionals to assist India in attaining the nationwide and globally agreed targets. As a part of the UNDP workforce, your focus will probably be to work with numerous stakeholders to search out country-specific options that result in sustainable improvement and attain these furthest behind first.

The Motion for Local weather and Surroundings (ACE) Unit focuses on the interconnected challenges of local weather change, nature safety, catastrophe administration and round economic system and chemical substances administration. Underneath the ACE Unit, the Plastic Waste Administration Mission is designed to reduce detrimental impacts and dangers to surroundings and human well being in India. The purpose is to boost sustainable plastic waste administration (segregation/assortment/recycling) practices via a socio-technical mannequin according to Swachh Bharat Mission in India, whereas making certain compliance with laws and making certain improved use of assets. The mission targets institutionalization of waste pickers (safai sathis) via improved governance mechanisms, capability constructing and improved social situations. The mission additionally targets group engagement to boost accountable waste disposal behaviour, and cross-stakeholder engagements for improved motion on plastics.

To attain the mission goal and outcomes, the mission is structured in 4 parts.

  • Part 1 goals to develop, assist, and implement an economically sustainable mannequin (ESM) for packaging plastic waste administration.
  • Part 2 focuses on design and implementation of Pilots in Materials Restoration Services (Swachhta Kendras) for improved plastic waste administration in administrative wards of chosen cities.
  • Part 3 is directed primarily to design, maintain, and supply parts to institutionalize Swachhta Kendras in governance our bodies and to acquire improved socio-economic situations for waste pickers.
  • Part 4 goals in direction of creating information administration, monitoring and communication mechanisms based mostly on in-built adaptive suggestions system in the course of the mission length.

This place straight stories to Mission Analyst, Plastic Waste Administration and Total stories to Senior Advisor and Workforce Chief, Motion for Local weather and Surroundings

Duties and Tasks:

Most important Objective: The general goal of the proposed engagement is to assist the monitoring and analysis duties of the Motion for Local weather and Surroundings Unit with a concentrate on the Plastic Waste Administration Programme, together with the design of knowledge assortment and evaluation instruments, evaluation and reporting, documenting learnings from the varied tasks carried out underneath the programme and assist alignment of M&E actions with UNDP India Nation Workplace targets. The candidate will lead the conceptualization, planning, implementation of the general monitoring and analysis of mission actions underneath the Plastic Waste Administration tasks and different tasks within the Motion for Local weather and Surroundings unit. The place is predicated in New Delhi with journey throughout India.

  • Assist in creating and implementing the programme and mission’s M&E plans from results-based administration perspective together with indicators, targets, technique of verification and monitoring steps at output and exercise degree in multi-year work plans and annual work plans, and assist in creating and updating the mission’s dangers and points matrices according to UNDP tips.
  • Preserve MIS and actively monitor programme and tasks via discipline visits, distant monitoring instruments to evaluate progress, assist in figuring out bottlenecks and potential issues, and take well timed motion to resolve points and/or discuss with related colleagues within the Motion for Local weather and Surroundings workforce for well timed decision.
  • Take part in monitoring and analysis workout routines, programme & mission critiques and annual critiques, each inside and exterior, to evaluate progress and to find out required interventions to realize the outcomes.
  • Assist assortment and evaluation of knowledge for mission in accordance with timeframes set within the mission and monitor and preserve database, SOPs, Points Log and Threat Log for the mission.
  • Assist Mission Workforce and management in defining and implementing the important thing mission efficiency indicators (KPI) in addition to recommend methods to facilitate information assortment and the circulate of knowledge inside mission discipline groups.
  • Develop the Phrases of Reference and analysis design of top of the range according to UNDP’s programme and mission analysis insurance policies and tips. Assist in monitoring and making certain high quality of the sector work and information administration in the course of the implementation part, and the standard of the evaluation and ease of understanding in the course of the report writing part. Coordinate in disseminating analysis findings and proposals to the stakeholders.
  • Present suggestions to the Mission Analyst and discipline workforce on mission methods and actions for enhancing the effectivity and effectiveness of the mission by figuring out bottlenecks and creating plans to reduce or remove such bottlenecks. Contributing to institutional studying processes and preparation of greatest practices, information stories for integration within the mission.
  • Present inputs, data, and statistics within the improvement of the work plan and put together month-to-month, quarterly, half-yearly, annual progress stories in addition to different related stories and paperwork comparable to AWP, and many others.
  • Assist in organizing and conducting coaching for mission discipline workforce, mission companions and different stakeholders for the adoption of M&E instruments & practices, SOPs, compliances, audit associated train, and many others. Assist in liaising with UNDP, related authorities companies like MoHUA, MoEFCC, and many others., and all mission companions, together with donor organizations and implementing organizations for efficient coordination of all mission inputs.
  • Take part in annual mission critiques, planning workshops, audit train and help the Mission Analyst, Plastic Waste Administration in getting ready related stories together with midterm and finish time period analysis, danger evaluation, high quality assurance stories.
  • The incumbent performs different duties inside their purposeful profile as deemed needed for the environment friendly functioning of the Workplace and the Group.
Competencies:

Core competencies:

  • Obtain Outcomes:  LEVEL 1: Plans and displays personal work, pays consideration to particulars, delivers high quality work by deadline.
  • Suppose Innovatively LEVEL 1: Open to artistic concepts/recognized dangers, is pragmatic drawback solver, makes enhancements.
  • Study Repeatedly: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares information, learns from errors, asks for suggestions.
  • Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to alter, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is versatile.
  • Act with Dedication: LEVEL 1: Reveals drive and motivation, capable of ship calmly in face of adversity, assured.
  • Have interaction and Associate: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding in direction of others, types constructive relationships.
  • Allow Range and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Respect/respect variations, conscious of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.

Cross-Purposeful & Technical competencies

Enterprise Course & Technique

  • System Pondering: Potential to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated parts coexists inside an general course of or system, and to contemplate how altering one ingredient can impression different elements of the system.
  • Monitoring: Potential to offer managers and key stakeholders with common suggestions on the consistency or discrepancy between deliberate and precise actions and program efficiency and outcomes
  • Communication: Potential to speak in a transparent, concise, and unambiguous method each via written and verbal communication, to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers; Potential to handle communications internally and externally, via media, social media and different applicable channels.

Audit and Investigation

  • Assortment and evaluation of proof: Potential to extract and analyze all related varieties of proof and be capable of draw affordable inferences and conclusions.

Programme and Coverage

  • Rule of Regulation, Safety and Human Rights: Affect evaluation providers to nations on stigma, discrimination, gender and human rights considerations / inclusive and rights -based strategy to fundamental providers and livelihoods

2030 Agenda: Folks

  • Gender: Gender Points & Evaluation, Gender Mainstreaming
Required Abilities and Expertise:
Training:
  • Secondary training is required, or
  • College diploma in Statistics, Economics, Growth Research, or some other related Social Science self-discipline or equal discipline will probably be given due consideration, however it’s not a requirement.
Expertise:
  • A minimal of seven years (with highschool diploma) or 4 years (with bachelor’s diploma) of expertise in an M&E place, liable for implementing M&E actions of worldwide improvement tasks.
  • Laptop abilities, together with the flexibility to make use of trendy workplace know-how, spreadsheet, presentation, and associated software program required.
  • Demonstrated capability to do desk analysis, compile data and discover options is crucial.
  • Expertise and good information of programme implementation, monitoring and analysis methods and practices.
  • Expertise in robust documentation and writing abilities, significantly centered on the flexibility to supply prime quality written paperwork.
  • Demonstrated expertise in good moderation, facilitation, and coaching abilities.
  • Demonstrated expertise and information in gender mainstreaming.
  • Familiarity with impression evaluation
  • Expertise in designing, implementing, and working mission M&E methods from mission initiation to exit phases.
  • Expertise in designing and managing giant quantum of beneficiary monitoring and database methods.
  • Expertise in strategic planning and efficiency measurement, together with indicator choice, goal setting, reporting, database administration, and creating M&E and efficiency monitoring plans.
  • Expertise and information of the main analysis methodologies and information assortment and evaluation methodologies in addition to information high quality assessments and oversight.
  • Expertise in managing and offering coaching to companions and goal beneficiaries.
  • Expertise and deep understanding of the sensitivities of working with totally different sorts of stakeholders.
  • Expertise in waste sector

Required Languages:

  • English and Hindi.

Remuneration:

  • Remuneration beginning at INR Annual (12,38,819) INR Month-to-month (1,03,235) as per the size relying on {qualifications} and expertise. The remuneration is excluding 8.33% pension quantity paid over and above the wage.
Disclaimer
Underneath US immigration legislation, acceptance of a workers place with UNDP, a world group, might have vital implications for US Everlasting Residents. UNDP advises candidates for all skilled degree posts that they need to relinquish their US Everlasting Resident standing and settle for a G-4 visa, or have submitted a sound utility for US citizenship previous to graduation of employment.
UNDP just isn’t ready to offer recommendation or help on making use of for US citizenship and due to this fact candidates are suggested to hunt the recommendation of competent immigration attorneys concerning any functions.
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Non-discrimination
UNDP has a zero-tolerance coverage in direction of sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will probably be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules.
UNDP is an equal alternative and inclusive employer that doesn’t discriminate based mostly on race, intercourse, gender identification, faith, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, incapacity, being pregnant, age, language, social origin or different standing.
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