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- DEF : Entails the quality of being flexible in handling change, and adopt new ideas, approaches and ways of working, seamlessly adapting to working within new situations or contexts, with new people, and in different ways, and participating in, supporting, contributing to or drive meaningful change in UNDP. (UNDP Core Behavioural Competencies)
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- DEF : Design policy & procedure (POPP) for PP&E; support offices to manage assets globally; prepares financial statement
notes on PP&E; audit focal point on PP&E; maintains Asset Management Module in ATLAS, Asset Dashboard,
Develops supporting tools for assets certification and further enhancements for AM module; Designs and runs
training programs, seminars and training to Country Offices and HQ units on assets management and assets
recording; Run bi-annual PP&E certification exercise and review certification letters of 160+ Country Offices& HQ
units and issue clearance; run monthly AP-AM interface; performs AP-AM-GL reconciliation; analytical review of AM
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- DEF : Facilitate the renovation and upgrade of offices including review of complex engineering/architectural drawings;
Negotiate technical agreements to ensure fully operational building infrastructure and services; Design policy &
procedure (POPP) for premises and facilities including space standards; support offices in managing their premises
and facilities globally; manage HQ premises and facilities; validate financial statement notes on leasehold data;
audit focal point on premises and facilities; represent UNDP at interagency forums
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- CC : building-enabling-workplaces
- DEF : Entails the ability to create a working environment where people are engaged and want to do their best, empower and enable team members to perform and have a positive workplace experience, promote honestly, openness, trust and psychological safety and create opportunities to innovate and learn, and recruit and promote individuals based upon objective measures and meritocracy; acknowledge and utilise the talent of others Encourage collective action and integration. (UNDP People Management Competencies)
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- DEF : Ability to understand and deal with a business situation in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome. Knowledge and understanding of the operational frameworks in the organization and ability to make good judgments and quick decisions within such frameworks. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
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- DEF : 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. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
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- DEF : A consultant is a recognized authority or specialist in a specific field, engaged by the Organization in an advisory or consultative capacity. The functions of a consultant are results-oriented and normally involve analysing problems, directing seminars or training courses, preparing documents for conferences and meetings, or writing reports on matters within their area of expertise. (UNDP)
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- DEF : (a) A continuing appointment is an open-ended appointment.
(b) Staff members recruited in the Professional category upon successful completion of a competitive examination pursuant to staff rule 4.16 shall be granted a continuing appointment after two years on a fixed-term appointment, subject to satisfactory service.
(c) The Secretary-General shall prescribe the criteria determining staff members’ eligibility for consideration for continuing appointments.
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- CC : continuous-learning
- DEF : Entails actively pursuing opportunities for learning and self-development professionally and personally, keeping abreast of new developments in one’s professional area, proactively seeking feedback, demonstrating a desire to learn from others as well as from experiences, both positive and negative, and contributing to the learning of others. (UNDP Core Behavioural Competencies)
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- DEF : the ability to produce or develop original work, theories, techniques, or thoughts. A creative individual typically displays originality, imagination, and expressiveness.
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- DEF : A form of directed, problem-focused thinking in which the individual tests ideas or possible solutions for errors or drawbacks. It is essential to such activities as examining the validity of a hypothesis or interpreting the meaning of research results. (American Psychological Association)
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- CC : digital-awareness-and-literacy
- DEF : Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skilfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
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- DEF : Entails the ability to enable the wellbeing of the team(s), read a group’s emotional currents and power relationships, identifying influencers, networks, and organizational dynamics; adapt leadership styles at the appropriate times, and see the positive in people, situations, and events. (UNDP People Management Competencies)
- DEF : A type of intelligence that involves the ability to process emotional information and use it in reasoning and other cognitive activities, proposed by U.S. psychologists Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer. It comprises four abilities: to perceive and appraise emotions accurately; to access and evoke emotions when they facilitate cognition; to comprehend emotional language and make use of emotional information; and to regulate one’s own and others’ emotions to promote growth and well-being. (American Psychological Association)
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- CC : empathy
- DEF : The understanding a person from his or her frame of reference rather than one’s own, or vicariously experiencing that person’s feelings, perceptions, and thoughts. (American Psychological Association)
- DEF : Genuinely care about people; demonstrate empathy with joys and pains of others. (UNDP People Management Competencies)
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- DEF : Ability to create clarity around UNDP value proposition to beneficiaries and partners and to develop service offers responding to client needs based on UNDP’s organizational priorities and mandate. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
- BT : Business Direction and Strategy
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- DEF : Entails the quality of being authentic and transparent, act with integrity, being accessible and available to team members they lead, encouraging debate and discussion, creating a culture where people are comfortable to challenge senior leaders and feel listened too, and being modest, giving credit for success to others and admit own shortcomings. (UNDP People Management Competencies)
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- CC : lease-management
- DEF : Business case analysis to enter into an agreement with owners, governments and sister UN agencies globally for
UNDP and/or sister UN agencies, collect leasehold data for each location and maintain the global premises database;
administration of RFA; assist in updating POPP for premises globally including RFA properties.
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- DEF : Entails the ability to face up to organizational and people problems, not be afraid to take decision and action when and as needed, not hold back anything that needs to be said, respectfully and diplomatically, address conflict in a timely manner, not allow conflicts in teams linger, help others through emotional or tense situations, tactfully bringing disagreements into the open and finding solutions all can endorse. (People Management Competencies)
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- CC : service-contractor
- DEF : UNDP uses the service contract (SC) modality to hire development project personnel, where UNDP is requested by an executing entity or implementing partner or where UNDP itself serves as implementing partner of a development project. UNDP will also hire under the SC modality for non-core support services that would normally be outsourced to a company, such as for custodial, security and IT services.
The SC modality is a non-staff contractual modality which is used by UNDP country offices and regional centres outside of Headquarters only. Individuals hired under the SC modality are hired locally and must be nationals or otherwise legally authorised to work in the country.
UNDP’s Service Contractors are considered to be individual contractors and their conditions of service are set contractually. The conditions of service for service contractors are distinct from those offered to staff members but are competitive in the local market where the modality is used. (UNDP)
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- DEF : Entails the ability to create and communicate a compelling vision and purpose, align people and resources with organizational vision, strategy, objectives, and understand and proactively builds the team/organization culture. (UNDP People Management Competencies)
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- DEF : Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates ‘win-win’ situations. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
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- DEF : Ensures smooth off-boarding of personnel including necessary clearance forms for returning of office equipment,
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- DEF : 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. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
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- CC : p-card-program-management
- DEF : Design policy & procedure (POPP) for P-Card management; oversight of the P-card program within UNDP globally;
delinquency review and management; annual P-Card compliance review and reporting; audit focal point for P-card
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- DEF : Entails the ability to ensure regular conversations with people about work, provide positive and constructive feedback, discuss poor performance in a timely manner, and provide praise and recognition, as well as ensure accountability. (UNDP People Management Competencies)
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- DEF : Ability to select, prioritise and control the organization’s programmes and projects, in line with its strategic objectives and capacity; ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual, while optimising return on investment. . (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
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- DEF : Ability to allocate and use resources in a strategic or tactical way in line with principles of accountability and integrity. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
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- DEF : Ability to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with the objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
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- CC : system-thinking
- DEF : 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. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
- BT : Business Direction and Strategy
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Travel Contract Management
- CC : travel-contract-management
- DEF : Contract Management - oversight of the Long Term Agreement (LTA) with the Travel Management Services (TMS)
provider; UN airline agreement management covering all major and rail providers servicing HQ; support Country
Offices and Regionals Centres in contracting TMS providers and negotiating airline discounts.
- BT : Administration & Operations
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Travel Policy and Procedures
- CC : travel-policy-and-procedures
- DEF : Travel Policy and Procedures - Interprets travel policy, the Staff Rules, administrative circulars and financial
regulations and rules on travel-related matters; management and tracking of exception requests to the standard of
accommodation; reporting to UN.
- BT : Administration & Operations
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UN Agency Travel Support Services
- CC : un-agency-travel-support-services
- DEF : UN Agency Travel Support Services - delivers travel services to six UN agencies in New York including shipping,
entitlement travel lump sum calculation, endorsement of UN travel documents and certification of travel requests
and expenses. Development and execution of a ten component service level agreement generating $406K in
revenue.
- BT : Administration & Operations
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- CC : undp-representation
- DEF : Ability to represent UNDP and productively share UNDP knowledge and activities; advocate for UNDP, its values, mission and work with various constituencies. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
- BT : Business development
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Working with Evidence and Data
- CC : working-with-evidence-and-data
- DEF : Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making. (UNDP Cross-Functional Competencies)
- BT : Business Management
- TT : Competencies
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