Project Analyst (UNDP)

Duties and Responsibilities

Leading the agriculture technical support

• Leading development of detailed workplan including quarterly and annual workplans for project agriculture activities that reflect targets, technical design, intervention description and relevant requirements with emphasis on specific actions and roles of stakeholders (UNDP, DARDs, districts, communities, local based organization etc.).
• Providing technical assistance and ground support to partners in 3 provinces to develop the quarterly and annual workplan of the agriculture activities, implement interventions of agriculture component, in line with approved planned, relating following aspects:
  • Climate resilient crop production: FFS, climate smart farming techniques, watering and cultivation, adaptation initiatives
  • Innovation: agriculture inputs supply/distribution to farmers for applying new techniques, climate information advisory, climate innovation initiatives planning and application
  • Credit and market and value chain: Primary producers, cooperative, value chain development, market and private sector linkages
  • Inclusiveness (ethnic minorities, gender) in all the agriculture intervention

Foster and contribute to KVPVP’s project management

• Provide support to project management and project team to undertake M&E requirements, workplans, annual reports etc. to ensure consistence management of targeted narrative and impacts indicators of changes, performance, beneficiaries, areas etc. and to ensure compliance of SES/safeguards (gender, ethnic minorities, stakeholders engagement).
• Support thematic coordination of cross-cutting activities, including baseline assessments, gender assessment, thematic planning (e.g.
• Gender action plan) - with various agriculture relevant indicators, promoting synergies and coherence among the project components and activities (resilient house, risks mapping etc.). Ensure synergies and coherence between KVPVP project in general and Outcome 2 in particular and on-going/future climate change adaptation, climate resilient agriculture and agribusiness initiatives to bring about larger benefits and impacts.
• Advise and provide substantive inputs to the project team and partners to enhance knowledge management to promote and experiment innovative approaches on sustainable agriculture development, climate resilience and community development.
• Actively participate and contribute of technical inputs and practical expertise to the relevant projects on the topics of climate responsive agriculture, value chain/agribusiness.

Effective contribution to CCEU/UNDP Viet Nam portfolio on climate agriculture

• Providing technical advisory support to enhance the agriculture portfolio of CCE Unit, specifically on agro-food system transformation, resilient agriculture, value chain, food and agricultural commodities systems, and agribusiness, food security, low carbon, circular economy in agriculture etc;
• Ensure synergies and coherence between KVPVP project and another ongoing project, such as GCF2-SACCR (GCF fund), VNCSCC (Canada fund), iLandscape (EU fund), Agrifood system transformation (UN SDG fund) projects and future climate agriculture, climate change initiatives to bring about larger benefits and impacts.
• Advise and provide substantive inputs to UNDP Viet Nam’s participation and contributions to national, regional and international forums on climate agriculture and agro-food system transformation, climate change.
• Promote and experiment innovative approaches on sustainable agriculture, in collaboration with global and national think tanks as well as with other team members and colleagues within UNDP and CCE unit in particular.
• Actively participate and contribute of technical inputs to the relevant projects, such as GCF2-SACCR, VNCSCC, ILandscape, Agrifood system transformation and others.

Competencies

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies:

Business Direction & Strategy

• System 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.

Business Management

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

• 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 UNDP strategy and policies.

• Monitoring: Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results.

• Evaluation: Ability to make an independent judgement based on set criteria and benchmarks; Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.

• 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

Administration & Operations

• Event Management: Support projects with event management including venue identification, accommodation, logistics, catering, transportation, and cash disbursements, etc.

Required Skills and Experience

 Education:

Experience: