The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a global organization with 18,000 staff working in approximately 170 offices globally. UNDP works in development and crisis settings with the aim to achieve the eradication of poverty, reduction of inequalities and exclusion, and sustained development results. Coming together under the new framework of the Global Policy Network (GPN), the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) and Crisis Bureau (CB) sit at the core of UNDP’s global policy, programming, and knowledge capacities.
The current revitalization of these functions aims to better capture UNDP’s knowledge, innovations, good practices and lessons learned from country, regional and global experience, drawing from a network of internal and external expertise, in order to address complex problems. To this end, UNDP has launched an online engagement platform, SparkBlue that brings together the internal Communities of Practice (CoPs) with the ability for UNDP to conduct external consultations. The platform offers UNDP staff and interagency colleagues to host online Consultations for networking and knowledge exchange and the opportunity for a broad audience to share solutions and work together on ideas and proposals and to vote on policy recommendations.
A key role under this initiative is the role of the technical engagement consultant. The Technical Engagement Specialist provides technical advice and acts as liaison between the project manager and the developers for SparkBlue and DataFutures Platform as well as the SDG Integration website. The Technical Engagement Specialist will report to the SDG Engagement Specialist.