Programme Analyst

Tiered Approach

In line with the commitment to safeguard capacity and support personnel already in the Organization, a majority of UNDP UNCDF/UNV vacancies are advertised using a tiered application process whereby:

• Tier 0: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV IP staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments, whose posts will be abolished, or contracts will be terminated or not renewed during 2026.
• Tier 1: Other UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments
• Tier 2: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA), personnel on regular PSA contracts, and Expert and Specialist UN Volunteers
• Tier 3 or no tier indicated: All other contract types from UNDP/UNCDF/UNV and other agencies, and other external candidates

Please make note of the Tier(s) indicated in the vacancy title, if any, and ensure that you satisfy the eligibility to apply.

Background

Myanmar continues to face a complex operating environment characterized by protracted conflict, economic contraction, disrupted essential services, and heightened vulnerability across communities. Since 2021, the country has experienced sustained institutional and market disruptions, large-scale population displacement, and recurrent natural hazards, including the March 2025 earthquake, compounding existing fragilities.

In this context, UNDP’s programming prioritizes ‘community first’ that strengthens community resilience. Interventions are designed to remain responsive to evolving conditions, grounded in local realities, and sequenced to link immediate recovery with longer-term resilience. UNDP’s support spans community governance, local economic recovery and resilience, and climate resilience and natural resource management, with a consistent focus on reaching those most exposed to vulnerability, exclusion, and repeated shocks.

Position Purpose

The Programme Analyst supports UNDP’s commitment to accountable, risk-informed, and results-oriented programme delivery by strengthening quality assurance, compliance, monitoring, and learning across the programme portfolio. The role focuses on second-line assurance, complementing programme management and operations functions, and enabling senior management to make informed decisions based on timely evidence and risk analysis. The position also provides technical leadership and quality assurance for UNDP’s programming priorities in the areas of community governance, and local economic recovery and and resilience, ensuring coherence, technical soundness, and facilitating linkages within and across these priority areas.

The Programme Analyst reports to the Deputy Resident Representative and works in close collaboration with all programme teams, project management units, field offices, and operations units across the Country Office. The role supports a whole-of-office approach to programme quality, risk management, and performance, providing independent assurance while enabling teams to deliver effectively in a complex operating environment.

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.

UNDP Myanmar is committed to achieving 50/50 gender balance in its staff. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Ensure programme assurance, quality control, and risk-informed oversight of the UNDP programme, with a focus on assigned programme priorities and projects:

• Reviews programme and project design to ensure robust articulation of Theories of Change, results frameworks, and alignment between inputs, outputs, outcomes, and indicators.
• Provides independent quality assurance inputs to programme and project documents, including Integrated Work Plans, project documents, revisions, and results reporting.
• Reviews the integration of political, social, economic, climate, and risk analysis into programme documents, policy briefs, and planning instruments.
• Assesses the alignment of proposed programme and project interventions with UNDP strategic priorities, country needs, and donor requirements, from assurance, feasibility and positioning perspectives.
• Supports identification, tracking, and mitigation of programme and project-level risks, including fiduciary, delivery, partner, and reputational risks.
• Flags emerging risks, bottlenecks, or quality concerns to senior management and supports project teams in identifying corrective actions.
• Ensures that UNDP Enterprise Risk Management frameworks are applied across the assigned portfolio, and verifies compliance with Social and Environmental Standards and safeguard requirements
• Ensures that gender equality and women’s empowerment commitments are systematically integrated into programme and project design, results frameworks, budgets, risk analysis, and safeguards, in line with UNDP Gender Equality Strategy and corporate standards.
• Reviews all documentation prior to final approval by Senior Management to ensure completeness, quality and alignment with requirements.
• Contributes to preparing and conducting programme and project governance meetings, and management decision-making processes.

1. Support strategic positioning, partnerships, and resource mobilization with a focus on assigned programme priorities and projects:

• Provides ongoing analysis of contextual and programmatic signals related to assigned programme priorities to inform strategic positioning and decision-making.
• Maintains regular discussions with donors and partners to support alignment of priorities, and effective partnerships.
• Analyzes partnership and funding landscapes, including donor priorities, financing instruments, and implementation modalities, to identify emerging opportunities.
• Conducts horizon scanning on financing and partnership trends, identifying implications for programme quality, delivery risks, and future pipeline development.
• Provides independent assurance inputs to concept notes, project proposals, and financing agreements related to, assessing strategic fit, quality, risk mitigation measures, and implementation feasibility.
• Reviews partnership and pipeline development processes to assess readiness, credibility, and alignment with donor requirements and UNDP strategic priorities.
• Verifies the quality, consistency, and timeliness of donor reporting and compliance with partnership agreements, flagging risks that may affect institutional credibility, future funding, or strategic relationships.
• Assesses whether partnership arrangements, financing instruments, and pipeline proposals adequately reflect gender equality commitments and donor gender requirements.

1. Promote Integration, Communications and Facilitate Knowledge Management:

• Maximizes communication to ensure that stakeholders (development partners, bilateral and multilateral donors, private sector, civil society, UN agencies and Government agencies) have one consistent UNDP counterpart.
• Ensures internal communication and coordination across the programme and effective and proactive communication between relevant CO units and projects to maintain consistent approaches and messaging.
• Provides sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice relating to assigned programme priorities and project, including capturing lessons and good practices to inform programme assurance and adaptive management.
• Ensures that development results are effectively monitored, reported and communicated to meet internal and external M&E and reporting expectations and requirements.
• Facilitates coherent programme implementation by ensuring consistent information flow across CO units, field teams and projects and promote alignment across thematic workstreams.

4.Provides strategic, technical advice and capacity-development on Country Programme priorities

• Provides technical advice to programme and projects, to assess needs and identify appropriate strategies and interventions, with a particular focus on (but not limited to) community governance, and economic resilience and recovery, while ensuring alignment with UNDP programme assurance standards and quality requirements.
• Works closely with Project Managers, Project Management Units and Technical Specialists to provide advice and technical support as required including adherence to programming principles, safeguards, risk management, monitoring and evaluation, and assurance processes.
• Identifies capacity needs, and supports capacity development of UNDP personnel on programme assurance functions, including quality assurance processes, risk management, compliance with POPP and donor requirements, results-based management, and documentation standards across the project cycle.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:

The Programme Analyst works under the overall supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative and collaborates closely with Programme personnel, Project Managers and Project Management Units, Operations units, and Field Offices.

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements

Learn Continuously

LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback

Adapt with Agility

LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible Act with Determination LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident

Engage and Partner

LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion

LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies (insert up to 7 competencies)

Thematic Area Name Definition

Business Direction & Strategy

System Thinking 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

Business Development

UNDP Representation

Effectively represent and advocate for UNDP, its values, mission, work, and positions with various constituencies/audiences, shares UNDP knowledge and activities.

Business Management

Partnerships Management

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

Business

Management

Portfolio Management

Ability to select, prioritize and control the organization's programmes and projects in line with its strategic objectives and capacity Ability to

balance the implementation of change initiatives with regular activities for optimal return on investment. Knowledge and understanding of key

principles of project, programme, and portfolio management

Communications

Advocacy strategy and implementation

Ability to create and implement advocacy strategies which lead to impactful change

Business Direction & Strategy Negotiation and Influence

Reach a common understanding/agreement, persuade others, resolve points of difference through a dialogue, negotiate mutually acceptable

solutions and create ‘win-win’ situations.

2030 Agenda: Prosperity

Inclusive Growth

Development Planning

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Advanced University Degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Development Studies, Public Administration, Economics, Social Sciences, or a related field is required. Or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree

Experience, Knowledge, and Skills:

• Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degee) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant professional experience in programme management, programme assurance, monitoring and evaluation, compliance, risk management, or related areas within development, humanitarian, or public sector contexts.
• Demonstrated experience supporting quality assurance, results-based management, monitoring, and reporting of development programmes or projects is required.
• Experience working with UN agencies, international organizations, or donor-funded programmes is an asset.
• Technical experience in one oft he following areas is an advantage: Community mobilization and empowerment; gender equality; governance; livelihoods; economic recovery is desired.
• Experience and sound knowledge of results-based management, programme/project cycles, and quality assurance processes is desired.
• Familiarity with risk management, compliance, and internal control frameworks, including application of corporate policies and procedures is desired.
• Fluency in English and Burmese is required.

Equal opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in the organization. Our employment decisions are based on merit and suitability for the role, without discrimination.

UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.

Sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse of authority

UNDP does not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment, exploitation, discrimination and abuse of authority. All selected candidates, therefore, undergo relevant checks and are expected to adhere to the respective standards and principles.

Probation

For all new UNDP fixed term appointments (FTA), including for staff members being transferred or seconded to UNDP under the Inter-Organization Agreement concerning Transfer, Secondment or Loan of Staff, on an appointment of more than one year, continuation of the appointment beyond the initial 12 months is contingent upon the successful completion of a probationary period.

Right to select multiple candidates

UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.

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