Project Associate-pmu Coordination and Planning

**Job Identification**
- 21008

**Locations**
- India**Posting Date**
- 09/30/2024, 06:35 AM
- 10/14/2024, 10:59 AM

**Job Schedule**
- Full time

**Agency**
- UNDP

**Vacancy Type**
- National Personnel Service Agreement

**Practice Area**
- SDG Integration

**Bureau**
- Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific

**Contract Duration**
- 1 Year with Possibility for extension

**Education & Work Experience**
- Bachelor's Degree - 3 year(s) experience OR High School certificate
- 6 year(s) experience

**Other Criteria**
- NPSA- 6 Level

**Required Languages**
- Fluency in English and Hindi is required.

**Vacancy Timeline**
- 2 Weeks

**Background**

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**Office/Unit/Project Description**

Tribal Welfare Department, Government of Tripura is the nodal department for overall policy, planning and coordination of programmes for development of Scheduled Tribes (STs). The department has accorded high priority and adopted multifaceted development strategies to promote socio-economic growth of the STs. Specific interventions are being implemented including implementation of protective legislations such as the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. The programmes and schemes for tribal people are intended to support and supplement the efforts, primarily of other state departments to fill critical gaps within institutions and programmes, considering the situation of STs. These schemes comprising of economic, educational, and social development through institutional building, are administered by the line departments. Notwithstanding numerous developmental interventions, the STs continue to face developmental deficits with respect to health, education, livelihood, development infrastructure as well as other socio-economic indices, many of which are well below the national average.

Tribal Welfare Department, Government of Tripura is committed to providing equitable access to opportunity for the tribal communities, through participatory approach and adoption of innovative methods including e-governance and increasing use of technology to provide strategic inputs into the development process. To accelerate the implementation of the development agenda for the tribal communities and strengthen the institutional delivery systems at the State and district level, it is important to strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of the officials and stakeholders to deliver on the issues related to tribal empowerment and create robust systems for monitoring and implementation of the SC & ST schemes of the Central and State government.

The Department is working in collaboration with UNDP to fast-track development in difficult geographies inhabited by tribal populations, enhancing capacities of government functionaries and expanding opportunities for better livelihoods, health and education to vulnerable tribal communities.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

**Job Purpose and Scope of Work**

Main Purpose:
UNDP proposes to engage a Project Associate-PMU Coordination and Planning to support the PMU at Tribal Welfare Department, Government of Tripura to lead and provide strategic guidance to the PMU team in effective planning, monitoring and implementation of the tribal development programmes in the state of Tripura.

The Project Associate-PMU Coordination and Planning will be part of the Project Management Unit and will work under the overall guidance and supervision of the Programme Lead, Tribal Development, UNDP with functional support from the Regional Head-Northeast India and the project team members and day to day supervision on the implementation issues with the Government of Tripura. S/He will ensure engagement of all direct stakeholders and delivery of project objectives in coordination with the Government of Tripura.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
Provide technical support in strategic planning process for the project and ensure its implementation in accordance with the signed project document.

**Strategic Planning and Project Implementation**
- Prepare the Quarterly/ Annual Project Reports (progress against planned activities, update the Project Assurance team, Annual Work Plans (AWP), Annual Plans of Activities and Procurement Plans for the project’s implementation period.
- Ensure that the project produces the results specified in the project docu