September 2012 - Current;

Programme Analyst

Description of your duties and related accomplishments:

Lead, coordinate and manage the Governance and Peacebuilding portfolio, with an average annual budget of USD 7 million, with key responsibility for:

Identification of programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UNDP, country needs and donors’ priorities, including joint programming;

Programme oversight and management through regular monitoring and analysis of the programme environment, timely readjustment of programme, and inclusion of results and lessons learned into the analytical and project work;

Systematically engage project teams, beneficiaries and stakeholders to identify new areas of support and to incorporate the views of target groups in programme / project design;

Development of AWPs in concert with CO annual planning, including facilitating the day-to-day functioning of the Portfolio.

Quality assurance and ensuring efficient and effective programme interventions:

Ensure that UNDP Strategic Plan priorities and corporate programme quality standards are integrated into the UNDP’s programme formulation;

Regular review of progress against the results framework/ log-frame and indicators, including implementing recommendations from periodic reviews;

Ensure transparency in budgeting and reporting of expenditure, including delivery scheduling, and use of financial resources;

Quality assurance of project outputs through review of AWP, reports, M&E, RfP, IC, procurement plans.

Facilitate strategic partnerships, representation, and resource mobilization:

Strengthen and identify partnerships with UN Agencies, government institutions, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, and civil society;

Mobilize and network with international development community, government partners, UN Agencies and think-tanks;

Mobilize resources to support the achievement of programme outcomes and sustainability of projects.

Key accomplishments:

Resource mobilisation:
i) between March and August 2020 developed three project proposals for the EU (all three approved, one is in response to the pandemic) with a total budget of EUR 9 million with an additional EUR 1.4 million from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports;

ii) developed 11 project proposals (approved), to the (approximate) value of USD 12.2 million, of which USD 750,000 government cost-sharing;

Corporate strategic focus:

i) Focal point and member of the technical working group on the Common Country Analysis and for the drafting of UNSDCF, including related/supporting documents;

ii) With other members of senior management, developed the CPD, the RRF, the Strategic Note, and accompanying documents.

Continued professional development:

Detailed assignment in RBEC (Country Office Support), responsible for Western Balkans and Turkey, May – June 2018;

Detailed assignment in Moldova CO, in the post of Head of Programme Unit/Assistant Resident Representative-Programme, February – April 2016;

Appointed Deputy Programme Coordinator in 2014.

Partnerships and cooperation:

Positioned UNDP as a valued partner for EU Office in Kosovo and for the EEAS through the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP);

Initiated and completed the Municipal Capacity Self-Assessment of all Kosovo municipalities, the only comprehensive assessment of its kind, in cooperation with the Ministry of Local Government Administration;

Ensured that the Government of Norway continues to be UNDP Kosovo’s key partner and donor;

Strengthened the partnership and cooperation with USAID through Public Pulse IV project.

Other activities:

Provide guidance and technical inputs to projects on operations/procurement/administrative matters;

Pro bono training for the civilian and uniformed personnel of the Ministry of Security Forces on Human Resource Management (on the invitation of the “Support to HRM and Building Integrity Project” funded by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).