Public-Private Partnership Officer, NPSA-9, DS - Dnipro, Mykolaiv, or Kharkiv, National Position

Lessons from the past years informed the development of UNDP’s Country Programme Document (2025-2029) and the scale-up of the Area-Based Recovery (ABR) Framework. The Framework’s programmatic pillars of Reconstruction, Returns, Resilience, and Reforms are focused on ensuring community recovery and creating conditions for the return to a development pathway in Ukraine.

Addressing the country’s complex reconstruction and recovery requires a holistic, systems-based response that empowers all parts of society - including government, local authorities, the private sector, and citizens - with the capacity and resources to respond effectively. To ensure a whole-of-society approach, the framework offers an integrated, participatory, and inclusive methodology to advance recovery in communities most affected by the war.

In this context, the Public-Private Partnership Officer will lead the design and implementation of project interventions that promote inclusive economic recovery through the development of public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives and employment opportunities in target hromadas. Regular duty trips to partner hromadas throughout target oblasts will be required to ensure effective outreach, coordination, and monitoring of ABR economic recovery initiatives.

I.    Perform effective project planning and implementation
•    Perform rapid assessments of needs and development opportunities for local communities, businesses, and other stakeholders.
•    Provide technical advice for the preparation of public-private partnership (PPP) concepts, prefeasibility and feasibility studies, basic financial models, and risk allocation options to ensure support of the implementation of public-private projects and pilot initiatives in the target hromadas in line with the Law of Ukraine “On Public-Private Partnership”.
•    Support local authorities in target hromadas to identify, map, structure, and prioritize community-level investment projects suitable for PPP or private participation based on strategic fit, public need, bankability, and feasibility.
•    Provide technical and advisory support throughout the PPP project cycle, strengthen the capacity of local, national, and international stakeholders, and ensure that projects are bankable, sustainable, socially inclusive, and environmentally sound.
•    Develop and implement various capacity-building programs to empower business service providers, national, regional and local authorities, private sector, etc. on the utilization of PPP mechanisms and other business opportunities.
•    Ensure PPP initiatives integrate inclusive employment objectives, including opportunities for veterans, women, youth, and other war-affected groups.
•    Offer technical and thematic direction and supervise individual consultants and contracting companies responsible for conducting economic assessments, carrying out research, and developing knowledge and learning products ensuring methodological rigor, quality assurance, and timely delivery.
•    Coordinate implementation of UNDP low-value grant programs for NGOs and business service providers.
•    Ensure operational management of assigned tasks including through timely procurement of goods, services and/or infrastructure (as relevant), effective management of technical and financial resources, etc.
•    Develop project planning process and ensure the work plan and a fully costed budget are prepared based on sound capacity assessments and in accordance with UNDP POPP/PPM Guidelines. 
•    Coordinate / manage the day-to-day activities of the assigned portfolio and the overall implementation process, including planning and monitoring in order to optimize the use of resources and to ensure the successful achievement of project objectives and results specified in project document.
•    Provide subject matter technical advice and support and ensure outputs are delivered on time, within the set budget and specified constraints, and to high-quality standards.
•    Ensure implementation activities are in alignment with UNDP policy and programme management procedures and all project interventions integrate a gender equality perspective/gender equality mainstreaming to the extent local context allows.

II.    Establish partnerships and open channels of communication
•    Develop and maintain strong relationships and strategic linkages with implementing and development partners, government officials, local authorities, businesses, international stakeholders on the ground (including other UN agencies), NGOs, other national stakeholders, and beneficiaries to support key objectives and ensure alignment with national recovery priorities, donor-supported PPP frameworks, and EU-aligned approaches.
•    Develop and maintain stakeholder mapping and analysis to identify stakeholder needs and how best to leverage their participation and/or strengthen their engagement. Prepare substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation and opportunities for joint initiatives. Make recommendations to the management team on activities with potential for scale-up, replicability and synergies within the ABR framework.
•    Provide technical support to the implementing partners and act as a liaison between UNDP and the partners. 
•     Support resource mobilization efforts and project development.

III.    Monitor and report on progress in implementing project activities and achieving the targets set
•    Review the results framework and update the indicators, baselines, and targets of the assigned portfolio. Develop clear strategies and an effective system for data collection, means of verification, and information sharing and reporting. Provide inputs for ABR ActivityInfo platform.
•    Monitor implementation and progress in achieving goals and targets in accordance with the established quality criteria and UNDP rules, regulations, and standards. Identify, analyze, and take adequate measures to manage emerging issues, problems, and risks. Conduct field visits to project location sites.
•    Liaise with the Finance team to ensure administrative requirements, budgets and use of financial resources are managed and executed in a timely and appropriate manner and within UNDP and donor rules and regulations.
•    Prepare corporate, donor and government reports in line with the reporting schedule and UNDP and donor requirements.
•    Contribute to proper operational and financial closure of the project.

IV.    Facilitate knowledge and capacity building, knowledge sharing and advocacy relevant to the assigned thematic areas
•    Identify, synthesize and document best practices and lessons learned that are generated from the project and implementing partners.
•    Participate in and ensure sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice on project related issues.
•    Promote advocacy on development trends and opportunities to collaborate in coordination with the project partners, stakeholders, and UNDP communications staff.

V.    Ensure the mainstreaming of gender equality and women’s empowerment considerations in the field of expertise, and promote a safe, enabling environment free of discrimination and abusive behaviour in line with corporate standards
•    Assist with ensuring the Programme contributes to the promotion of gender equality by reaching, involving, and benefiting both women and men.
•    Use the principles of gender-responsive communications in line with the UNDP corporate standards.
•    Be aware of relevant gender issues and concerns in the field of expertise.
•    Support the promotion of team culture of gender equality and zero tolerance to any sexual misconduct in the team through leadership and personal example.
•    Assist with informing and briefing personnel and partners about corporate sexual harassment and sexual exploitation and abuse policies.

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

    Institutional Arrangement

The Public-Private Partnership Officer works under the direct supervision of the ABR Economic Recovery Specialist and the overall direction of the Head of Area-Based Recovery; may supervise ABR Programme’s support personnel.
 

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