Job Description
Job Description
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
UNDP provides integrated programmatic, policy and financing solutions to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this context, UNDP has created a Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan. The Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) and the Crisis Bureau (CB) are the two anchor Bureau of the GPN.
In this context, the newly established Governance, Rule of Law, and Peacebuilding (GRP) Hub, a joint endeavour with the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), provides leadership and advisory services to enhance UNDP’s impact on governance and peacebuilding, ensuring the integration of democratic governance and human rights into crisis response and recovery. The Hub aims to build an integrated portfolio collaboratively between the CB and BPPS and establish partnerships with various stakeholders including the UN System, IFIs, civil society, and the private sector.
Through Local Action, the GRP Hub seeks to contribute to peace and development, achieving a visible impact on communities and improving lives by delivering integrated solutions that harness global expertise and partnerships.
The Local Action
Unit works closely with local and regional governments as key development players, highlighting their role as public service implementers, as drivers of innovation and the closest institution to people.
Local and regional governments are already responsible of over 65% of the SDG targets, most of them linked to basic service provision from water, sanitation, mobility, climate action, health or education. Cities and territories are playing a big part on the implementation of SDGs, that are becoming a new tool for strategic planning and budgeting in the mid to long-term. Since 2015, local governments and their associations have been increasingly active in promoting the SDGs through advocacy, working with their local population and partners in transposing the spirit of Agenda 2030 in cities and territories.
Local governments have also started to use SDGs as a strategic framework to deliver better and more innovative public services linked to SDG targets and indicators. As part of the SDG Local Action project, UNDP is one of the implementing partners of the Mayors Challenge, a global initiative to reimagine the most essential services that cities deliver to residents.
Within this context, the SDG Local Action project is seeking to recruit a Project Manager to support the implementation of the CONTRAConnect project in the City of Benin, Nigeria, one of the winners of the 2025 Mayors Challenge. The project, led by the Egor Local Government aims to expand women’s access to vital health care through neighborhood kiosks, community outreach, and digital referrals.
CONTRAconnect is a digital platform that facilitates access to dignified, youth friendly and free contraceptives and vital women´s health services through mobile kiosks and health facilities spread around the city of Benin. Thanks to the Mayors Challenge support, the platform is targeted to reach 250.000 women in two years. The platform encompasses a mobile app accessible to a network of community mobilizers able to refer beneficiaries to either mobile kiosks or renewed and redesigned health facilities.
Additionally, beneficiaries can also use WhatsApp and a web-based portal to access the city services. Unlike other programs that offer similar services, this model will be able to track the beneficiaries needs in real time. The project also contemplates the selection of 2.000 community ambassadors, ensuring peer to peer mobilization and project ownership among the local residents.
The Project Manager will oversee daily operations, coordinate between health facilities and mobile kiosks, manage the