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You will coordinate project teams to ensure compliance with UNDP’s results-based management tools and quality control standards. Business Management Risk management Identify and organize action around reducing, mitigating and proactively managing risks Partnership Management Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms Partnership Management Strategic Engagement Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their.
Last checked: 1 hour ago
Closing date: Wednesday, 8 July 2026
Country: Egypt
Duty station: Cairo, Egypt
Contract type: National PSA- Regular
Grade: Not specified
Applicant eligibility: Local / national only
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Background
The Technical Specialist for Inclusive Growth and Digital Transformation at UNDP Egypt leads the strategic formulation and management of a high-impact portfolio. This role involves analyzing socio-economic trends to design innovative projects that leverage technology for sustainable development. You are responsible for ensuring that all digital initiatives promote inclusive growth and effectively reach marginalized communities across Egypt.
Interaction with project personnel focuses on providing technical guidance and overseeing the timely delivery of results. You will coordinate project teams to ensure compliance with UNDP’s results-based management tools and quality control standards. By mentoring staff and facilitating knowledge exchange, you foster a collaborative environment aimed at solving complex development challenges.
Scope of work
Under the overall guidance of the DRR and supervision of the Team Leader, Inclusive Growth and Digital Transformation (IGDT), the incumbent is entrusted contributing to the technical and strategic formulation and management of a high-impact portfolio. This role involves analyzing socio-economic trends to design innovative projects that leverage technology for sustainable development. The Technical Specialist, Inclusive Growth and Digital Transformation is responsible for ensuring that all digital initiatives promote inclusive growth and effectively reach marginalized communities across Egypt.
Interaction with project personnel focuses on providing technical guidance and overseeing the timely delivery of results. The incumbent will coordinate project teams to ensure compliance with UNDP’s results-based management tools and quality control standards. By mentoring staff and facilitating knowledge exchange, the Technical Specialist fosters a collaborative environment aimed at solving complex development challenges.
The Technical Specialist coordinates work with the NOC Team Leader through a structured reporting and advisory relationship. The incumbent acts as the primary operational link, providing the Team Leader with real-time data on project performance, risks, and financial delivery to support their higher-level strategic decision-making. Regular briefings ensure that the portfolio remains strictly aligned with the UNDP Egypt Country Programme Document (CPD) and broader UNDP Strategic Plan.
Operationally, the incumbent collaborates with the Team Leader to finalize Annual Work Plans (AWPs) and budget allocations, ensuring that all digital initiatives meet UNDP’s quality assurance and Results-Based Management (RBM) standards. As for resource mobilization, the Technical Specialist prepares technical briefs and impact reports for high-level meetings with government counterparts and donors. This partnership ensures that technical project outputs are translated into sustainable policy advice at the national level.
Duties and Responsibilities
Below are the key responsibilities and expected skill sets for this role:
1.Provide top quality technical advisory services:
2. Support effective implementation of programme/project activities aimed at inclusive growth and digital transformation:
3. Support strategic partnership building and resource mobilization:
4. Contribute to knowledge management and information sharing in the UNDP country office:
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary forthe efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional arrangements
The incumbent will work under the direct supervision of the Team Leader, Inclusive Growth and Digital Transformation and the overall guidance of the DRR.
Competencies
Core
Achieve Results:
LEVEL 3: Set and align challenging, achievable objectives for multiple projects, have lasting impact
Think Innovatively:
LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential risks, develop new ideas to solve complex problems
Learn Continuously
LEVEL 3: Create and act on opportunities to expand horizons, diversify experiences
Adapt with Agility
LEVEL 3: Proactively initiate and champion change, manage multiple competing demands Act with Determination LEVEL 3: Think beyond immediate task/barriers and take action to achieve greater results
Engage and Partner
LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate complex landscape, champion inter-agency collaboration
Enable Diversity and Inclusion
LEVEL 3: Appreciate benefits of diverse workforce and champion inclusivity
Cross-Functional & Technical 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 Collective Intelligence Design
Ability to bring together diverse groups of people, data, information, ideas, and technology to solve problems and design solutions or services.
Knowledge and understanding of Collective Intelligence Design principles, methodology and practices.
Business Management Project Management Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and control resources, procedures, and protocols to achieve specific goals. Business Management Risk management Identify and organize action around reducing, mitigating and proactively managing risks Partnership Management Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms Partnership Management Strategic Engagement Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their buy-in of high-level vision and objectives Digital Data governance Knowledge of data science, skills to develop data management tools, organize and maintain databases and operate data visualization technologies
Required Skills and Experience
Minimum academic requirements
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