Вакансія: Senior Expert/Head of Inter-ministerial Strategies Unit

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About Alinea International:
Alinea International is one of Canada’s leading international development firms, providing management and technical expertise to developing and transitional country partners on projects that promote sustainable growth and meaningful opportunities for people to improve their lives. Over the past 30 years, we have implemented over 370 projects in more than 65 countries.

Alinea International has two offices in Canada and 11 offices around the world, including an office in Ukraine. Over the almost thirteen-year of Alinea International presence in Ukraine, the team successfully implemented five international technical assistance projects.

About the project:
Alinea International implements a number of projects in Ukraine, including a five-year project Support to Ukraine’s Reforms for Governance (SURGe). SURGe is funded by Global Affairs Canada. SURGe’s Ultimate Outcome is to help the Government of Ukraine (GoU) to design and deliver governance and economic reforms that better respond to the needs of its citizens.

Reform initiative and position summary:
SURGe currently has six reform initiatives in its portfolio. Under one of these reform initiatives, the Enhanced national planning, SURGe provides technical assistance to multiple Ministries to increase their capacity in the development of policies/reforms, strategic planning and monitoring by using the Results-Based Management (RBM) methodology , enhanced with the citizen-oriented approach , and by using the ProjectUA IT system – all of which already embedded into Ukraine’s legislation.

One of the sub-streams of this work is to develop a framework (incl. governance processes, standards, IT system functionality, capacity building) to ensure that inter-ministerial (cross-ministerial) strategies are structured based on results-based principles and that their progress can be tracked using meaningful indicators and using the digital tool – new module(s) of the ProjectUA IT system.

SURGe Project is looking for а Senior Expert/Head of Inter-ministerial Strategies Unit who will be working towards the following results:

1. Framework (incl. governance processes, standards, IT system functionality, capacity building) for developing inter-ministerial strategies using RBM developed;
2. Relevant module(s) of the ProjectUA IT system developed;
3. One of inter-ministerial strategies inputted in ProjectUA, monitoring launched in digital format.

Level of effort: Full time, Monday-Friday. The expert will be based in Kyiv. The expert will be joining the larger existing team on national planning/governance, but will be responsible for launching and developing this unit on inter-ministerial strategies, and will work under direct supervision of SURGe Sector Lead.

The duration of the contract is 6 months with a possibility of extensions (subject of approval and implemented deliverables during a previous deployment).

For contracting (after the job offer is made), the selected candidate is expected to be registered as a Private Entrepreneur of the 3d group (consultancy services).

Indicative duties and responsibilities (scope of work):

● In coordination with the GoU and SURGe national planning/governance team, develop the framework (incl. governance processes, standards, IT system functionality, capacity building programs) for developing inter-ministerial strategies using RBM;
● Participate in collecting requirements and development of functionality for the module of the ProjectUA IT system inter-ministerial strategies;
● Ensure that one of inter-ministerial strategies (as a pilot) is inputted in ProjectUA, monitoring launched in digital format, stakeholders successfully use this tool, and that this experience can be scaled-up to other inter-ministerial strategies.

Preferred qualifications and skills:

Experience in governance:
● Minimum 5 years of advisory/project management experience at managerial positions in governance, including managerial experience in designing and implementing policies/reforms;
● Understanding of Results-Based Management (RBM), the governmental policy making cycle and the overall reform agenda in Ukraine;
● Proven experience in designing new processes, development of new systems, processes and legislation;
● Proven experience in negotiating with senior-level stakeholders;
● Experience in establishing and managing teams, supervising implementation using internationally recognized project management approaches, resolving obstacles;

Other experience and skills; citizenship:
● Understanding of software development lifecycle is a plus;
● Completed training/certification in project management is a plus;
● Strong ethics, well-balanced and mature personality, positive attitude to the job;
● Strong organizational skills, ability to work under tight deadlines;
● Excellent knowledge of Ukrainian, ability to speak and write clearly and correctly;
● Fluent English, excellent writing skills.
● Citizen of Ukraine.

To apply:
Submissions must be prepared in English and delivered electronically by 17:00 Kyiv time on February 23, 2022 to the following address: [email protected].

All submissions must include:
1) Applicant’s CV in English (max. 2 pages).
2) Applicant’s letter of interest (max. 500 words).

Please ensure to state Senior Expert/Head of Interministerial Strategies Unit in the e-mail subject line.

Applications received after the indicated deadline and/or without a letter of interest will not be reviewed and considered.

Please note, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for follow-up. We do not welcome unsolicited phone calls.