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**Job Identification**
- 20752

**Locations**
- Bogota, Colombia**Posting Date**
- 09/18/2024, 08:31 AM
- 10/02/2024, 10:59 PM

**Job Schedule**
- Full time

**Agency**
- UNDP

**Grade**
- NOC

**Vacancy Type**
- Temporary

**Practice Area**
- Inclusive Growth

**Bureau**
- Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean

**Contract Duration**
- 1 Year

**Education & Work Experience**
- Master's Degree - 5 year(s) experience OR Bachelor's Degree - 7 year(s) experience

**Other Criteria**
- Degree in Social/Economic Sciences with 5 years of relevant experience (Master's Degree) or 7 years (Bachelor's Degree)

**Required Languages**
- Fluency in Spanish and English is required

**Vacancy Timeline**
- 2 Weeks

**Mobility required/no mobility**
- no mobility required

**Background**

**Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and **inspiring stories.**

The United Nations Development Program - UNDP works in more than 170 countries and territories, aiding with develop policies, leadership and association skills, institutional capacities, and resilience building, fostering development. The UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025 describes the future direction of UNDP,



continuing to work through its six signature solutions on poverty and inequality reduction, governance, resilience, environment, energy, and gender equality.

UNDP is part of the 26 United Nations Agencies, Funds and Programs in Colombia, contributing to the achievement of the United Nations Cooperation Framework for Sustainable Development. The UNDP Country Program Document 2021-2024 seeks to support the efforts of the Colombian government for the transition to peace and the consolidation of its position as a medium-high income country; with three work priorities: 1) Stabilization: “Peace with Legality”; 2) Migration as a development factor; and 3) Technical assistance as an accelerator of the achievement of the catalytic Sustainable Development Goals.

Within this framework, UNDP Colombia Office covering 28 departments in 319 municipalities, works in alliance with the Government - at the national and local levels - the private sector and social organizations in prioritizing actions that allow transforming living conditions of the most vulnerable populations.

At the programmatic level, the office in Colombia is organized into two Clusters that work in an articulated manner on different development initiatives: The Inclusive Sustainable Growth Cluster groups together the Sustainable Development and Productive Inclusion and Social Protection portfolios and the Cluster of Peace Development and Inclusive Governance that brings together the Inclusive Governance,



Peace Development and Recuperation and Crisis Response and Rule of Law Portfolios.

**Position Purpose**

Under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Resident Representative in matrix management with the Deputy Resident Representative, the Programme Specialist (PISP) is responsible for management of UNDP programme within the Productive Inclusion and Social Protection Portfolio. The Programme Specialist analyzes political, social, and economic trends and leads formulation, management, and monitoring ensuring issues-based approach and synergies with other areas of work within his/her portfolio and provides policy advice services. The program specialist will lead the consolidation of the productive inclusion portfolio and the development of the social protection portfolio, aligned with UNDP's vision as a comprehensive offering aimed at protecting and preventing, promoting capabilities, and transforming structures for a society with greater social justice.

The Programme Specialist (Productive Inclusion and Social Protection) contributes to strengthen UNDP's position to help address national challenges as part of its efforts to perform its mandate focusing its impact on vulnerable groups (indigenous, afro descendants and women) with a gender and human rights-based approach and conflict sensitivity.

Supervises and leads programme personnel, coordinates activities of the project's personnel; ensures coherent response as part of the Inclusive Sustainable Development Cluster, works in close collaboration with other programme and the operations teams, project coordinators, Government officials, civil society, private sector, programme personnel in other UN Agencies, UNDP HQs personnel and technical advisors/experts, multi-lateral and bi-late

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📌 Programme Specialist Pips (Productive Inclusion and (Bogotá)
🏢 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
📍 Bogotá