United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life.
UNDP Climate Change and Environment Portfolio’s strategy is focusing on promoting change at scale through investing in national capacity to respond in addition to piloting and prototyping development solutions that have the potential to lead to transformational change. Also, a key element of the strategy is to apply the integrated ecosystem approach, to help establish mechanisms to value ecosystem services with a view to address the market failures to fully reflect the true value of ecosystem services.
The portfolio strategy requires the establishment of programmatic partnerships, as a cross-cutting area, ‘with different ministries, international organizations (inter alia UNEP, EU, UNIDO, WB, EBRD and FAO), universities and CSOs, collaboratively adding value to the ongoing work of these stakeholders in Turkey. The Climate Change and Environment (CCE) Portfolio focuses on three programmatic areas that complement each other: 1-Natural Resource Management contributing to sustainable environment management and conservation of natural resources in production landscapes, within the general framework of the ecosystems approach; 2- Climate Change and Disaster Resilience (including chemicals and waste) strengthening institutional capacities for analysis and risk management for resilience with a specific emphasis on climate change, and 3- Cooperation with relevant stakeholders to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy.
“Identification and Remediation of Contaminated Sites with POPs Project” under CCE Portfolio is funded by European Union under IPA Programme and will be executed by UNDP in partnership with Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, the General Directorate of Environmental Management in Turkey. The project aims to improve environmental protection and the quality of life of citizens by protecting human health and environment from adverse effects of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and other hazardous substances especially in contaminated sites through enhancing the implementation capacity of EU POPs Regulation and Soil Contamination Strategy. In order to achieve the project objective, and address the barriers, the project’s intervention has been organized into three components:
- Component 1 – Technical and institutional capacity strengthening for management of POPs contaminated sites,
- Component 2 – Identification and classification of contaminated sites with POPs and Pilot remediation activities,
- Component 3 – Increasing institutional experience for remediation of POPs contaminated sites.
In line with the project activities, the associate is expected to provide support during project implementation process, follow up project activities and work plan in order to successfully deliver the project results.
Duties and Responsibilities
The objective of the assignment is to provide management support to project team (TAT) in line with the project targets and work plan under the direct supervision of Chemicals and Waste Projects Coordinator. In the view of the above, Project Management Associate will be mobilized to provide administrative and logistical support for the necessary components of the “Identification and Remediation of Contaminated Sites with Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Project”:
- Providing support to projects implementation, ensuring quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
- Supporting planning, event management activities of the project, in articulation with the Chemicals and Waste Projects Coordinator and in close cooperation with the Project Assistant.
- Maintain high standards of service delivery, including adherence to deadline, quick response time, accuracy and completeness of information and sensitivity to client needs.
- Assist the project team, specifically Chemicals and Waste Projects Coordinator, in the administration and implementation of the daily project activities.
- Provide administrative and logistical support for the organization of events, workshops, meetings, trainings and conferences,
- Provide support in reviewing and editing of reports, and data analysis. Contribute to the effective delivery of the project outputs at the highest potential quality in a timely manner.
- Ensure proper communication among UNDP and key project partners.
- Provide soft assistance to the project team, specifically Chemicals and Waste Projects Coordinator, during procurement, contracting, financial and human resources processes as required and when necessary.
- Provide assistance to the project team, specifically Chemicals and Waste Projects Coordinator, in keeping related information, documentation and correspondences.
- Facilitate communication and project activities among the project partners as requested.
- Assist in keeping close contact with relevant consultants and experts.
- Perform any other administrative and logistical duties as requested by the Chemicals and Waste Projects Coordinator.
- If required by UNDP, the Project Management Associate may be requested to provide additional support services on topics related to her/his consultancies area.
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Unless otherwise noted;
- UNDP refers to United Nations Development Programme Country Office in Turkey,
- The Assignment refers to the present Assignment,
- CCE refers to Climate Change & Environment
- MoEU refers to Ministry of Environment and Urbanization
- TAT refers to Technical Assistant Team
- The Projects Coordinator refers to the Chemicals and Waste Projects Coordinator
Institutional Arrangement
UNDP will provide the Project Management Associate with all relevant background documents. Depending to the availability of physical facilities (e.g. working space, computer, printer, telephone lines, internet connection etc.) and at the discretion of the UNDP in consultation with MoEU, such facilities may be provided at the disposal. The Project Management Associate will work home-based but will be expected to conduct frequent visits to the MoEU Project Office, UNDP Office and other project sites within Turkey to attend the missions of the project. The costs of the travels outside Ankara will be covered by the project budget.
All document and data provided to the Project Management Associate are confidential and cannot be used for any other purposes or shared with a third party without any written approval from UNDP.
The title rights, copyrights and all other rights whatsoever their nature in any material produced under the provisions of this ToR will be vested exclusively in UNDP Turkey CO.
The Project Management Associate shall report to the Chemicals and Waste Projects Coordinator and work in close collaboration with the project staff, CCE Projects Implementation Administrator and CCE M&E Officer.
BAŞVURU İÇİN TIKLAYINIZ
Achieve Results
- Demonstrate focus on achieving quality results and impact
- Consistently strive to meet or exceed excellence standards
- Hold self and others accountable for results
- Efficiently establish appropriate plans and resources for self and others to accomplish goals
Think Innovatively
- Look beyond conventional approaches and established methods
- Propose new ideas, approaches and solutions to problems
- Seek patterns and clarity outside boxes and categories while resisting false certainty and simplistic binary choice
Learn Continuously
- Actively pursue opportunities for learning and self-development professionally and personally
- Keep abreast of new developments in one’s professional area
- Proactively seek feedback, demonstrates a desire to learn from others as well as from experiences, both positive and negative
- Contribute to the learning of others
Adapt with Agility
- Be flexible in handling change, and adopt new ideas, approaches and ways of working
- Seamlessly adapt to working within new situations or contexts, with new people, and in different ways
- Participate in, support, contribute to or drive meaningful change in UNDP
- Be comfortable with ambiguity and effectively managing multiple demands
Act with Determination
- Pursue everything with motivation and drive
- Not give up in the face of adversity and setbacks; demonstrate resilience and composure
- Demonstrate courage, self-motivation and initiative to act on opportunities without being prompted by others
- Be authentic and modest, get things done without unnecessary noise
Engage and Partner
- Act in a way that demonstrates empathy and emotional intelligence, showing consideration for the needs and feelings of others
- Demonstrate and encourage teamwork and co-creation internally and externally to achieve joint objectives and results
- Establish and develop networks that deliver powerful collaborations
- Encourage and respect the views of others; accept views and ideas other than one’s own
Enable Diversity and Inclusion
- Treat all individuals with respect, consider ethical implications and respond sensitively to all differences among people
- Fully accept and value all people, creating an inclusive environment
- Understand that inclusion is multi-faceted (e.g. race, gender, age, disability, culture, etc.)
- Understand and appreciate issues from the perspective of others
- Treat everyone fairly and equally
- Demonstrate honesty and transparency
Technical Competencies & Cross-functional Competencies
- Finance Budget management Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets
- Partnership management Strategic engagement Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their buy-in of high-level vision and objectives
- Ethics UN policy knowledge – ethics Knowledge and understanding of the UN Staff Regulations and Rules and other policies relating to ethics and integrity
Results-based Management
- Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results
Project Management
- Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
- Secondary Education.
- Bachelors Degree in social sciences, public administration, international relations, or any relevant field would be desired.
- 6 years of relevant experience.
- Alternatively, if in possession Bachelor’s degree, three (3) years of relevant experience would be required.
- Experience in project cycle management in public or private sector, NGOs or international organizations.
- Administrative and/or logistical work experience.
- Full computer literacy.
Asset:
- Working experience in at least 1 EU funded project.
Place of Work & Travel
- The Project Management Associate will work home-based but will be expected to conduct frequent visits to the MoEU Project Office, UNDP Office and other project sites within Turkey to attend the missions of the project. The costs of these travels will be covered by the project budget.
The following Documents shall be required from the Applicants:
a) Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.
b) A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.
c) Managers may ask (ad-hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.
