Project Specialist Open to Tier 1 - Tashkent, Tashkent

Job summary

The project is designed to address the gender-specific barriers faced by women entrepreneurs in Uzbekistan, with a focus on improving access to resources, capacity building, mentorship, and advocacy for systemic change. The project aims to significantly enhance the performance and growth of women-led SMEs by providing tailored business acceleration programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the project team, including national and/or international staff, and short-term consultants, in both substantive and operational issues ensuring optimization of human and financial resources and nurturing a culture of results with highest performance standards;
• Undertake day-to-day management of the project, including effective project implementation and document progress towards the achievement of project outputs; Manage the project budget and facilitate budget approvals and revisions as per UNDP policies and procedures;
• Ensure appropriate recording and accounting documentation as required by UNDP and prepare required financial reports. Facilitate transparent financial management of the project to comply with regular audits and evaluations;
• Ensure that the Project produces the results specified in the project document to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost, review and appraise detailed work plans, including the Quantum reports covering activity definition;
• Ensure that the project's targets and results are entered and updated in results management systems including Quantum project management module, and relevant documents are uploaded to transparency dashboards;
• Approve requisitions, and follow up on purchase orders and payment requests in UNDP Quantum and other relevant systems, and ensure monthly delivery of the project's programmatic outputs;
• Prepare work plans, produce timely reports – financial and programmatic progress reports – as required by UNDP and donor reporting systems;
• Ensure that UNDP rules and regulations concerning finance, procurement and human resources are adhered to;
• Facilitate an environment of continuous learning and knowledge sharing within the project;

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