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<p><strong>Tiered Approach</strong></p><br> <p>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:</p><br> <ul> <li><strong>Tier 0</strong>: 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.</li> <li><strong>Tier 1</strong>: Other UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments</li> <li><strong>Tier 2</strong>: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA), personnel on regular PSA contracts, and Expert and Specialist UN Volunteers</li> <li><strong>Tier 3 or no tier indicated</strong>: All other contract types from UNDP/UNCDF/UNV and other agencies, and other external candidates</li> </ul> <p>Please make note of the Tier(s) indicated in the vacancy title, if any, and ensure that you satisfy the eligibility to apply.</p><br> <p><strong>Background</strong></p><br> <p>The primary role of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to support country-led efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The work of UNDP in 170 countries around the world is anchored in diverse and effective partnerships, which are vital to our two critical roles at country level: (a) as an integrator across policy, programmatic and organizational silos; and (b) as an operational backbone for the United Nations and other partners.</p><br> <p>Saudi Arabia is witnessing economic prosperity and progress in all domains of socio-economic development which produced tangible improvement in all human development indicators such as standard of living, health and education services, environmental conditions as well as potentials of comprehensive development. In April 2016, the Government of Saudi Arabia announced its Saudi Vision 2030 – an ambitious long-term development programme.</p><br> <p>Saudi Vision 2030 represents an ambitious blueprint with long-term goals and expectations. It is expressed in three themes of a vibrant society: a thriving economy and an ambitious nation. A review of the three themes and their underlying issues of national concern reveal a holistic approach to development that encompasses the three dimensions of sustainable development: the social, the economic and the environment.</p><br> <p>The partnership between UNDP and Saudi Arabia is covering vital sectors and areas which contributes to address the needs of Saudi society, including enhancement of the local capacity of different government institutions and support to policy making and reporting. A wide set of under the scope of technical assistance is provided to assist the KSA departments in their reform processes.</p><br> <p>To support these activities, UNDP will provide technical advisory support to the KSA through the UNDP Country Office (CO) in Riyadh as well as provide support for overall project management activities. The Programme Associate is expected to provide technical expertise in overall project oversight, including project planning and coordination, monitoring and reporting.</p><br> <p>Under the guidance and direct supervision of the ARR and/or Programme Analyst, the Programme Associate provides leadership in execution of services in the CO Programme Unit and supports the design, planning and management of the country programme. The Programme Associate promotes a client-oriented approach consistent with UNDP rules and regulations.</p><br> <p>The Programme Associate may supervise and lead the support staff of the Programme Unit. The Programme Associate works in close collaboration with the Operations, Programme and project teams in the CO, UNDP staff in HQs and Regional Hubs, UN Agencies, government partners, and internal specialists to exchange information and resolve programme/complex finance-related issues.</p><br> <p>UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.</p><br> <p><strong>Duties and Responsibilities</strong></p><br> <p>1<strong>.) Ensure effective management and implementation of programme strategies and policies and adapt processes and procedures:</strong></p><br> <ul> <li>Operationalize corporate policies and CPD commitments: Coordinate the roll‑out of updated procedures in the CO, ensure work plans, IRRF indicators and UNSDCF/CPD linkages are reflected in Quantum, and keep unit checklists/templates current with policy changes.</li> <li>Strengthen process efficiency and compliance: Maintain and improve programme implementation workflows (e.g., partner agreements, risk registers, gender and safeguards screens), track adherence to SOPs, and recommend practical adjustments to close gaps identified during reviews or audits.</li> <li>Enable informed programme decision‑making: Compile evidence, analytics and lessons learned to inform portfolio adaptations; prepare guidance notes and briefings for project teams and management on policy updates and their implications for delivery.</li> </ul> <p><strong>2.) Provide effective support to management of the Country Office programme:</strong></p><br> <ul> <li>Support formulation of programme and projects, work plans, initiation of a project, entering project into ERP, and preparation of required budget revisions.</li> <li>Provide day-to-day guidance to implementing partners on implementation of projects, and track use of financial resources.Contribute to managing digital technology solutions in programme implementation towards scalability and sustainability in line with UNDP’s digital standards.</li> <li>Contribute to the effective management of data in programme implementation, across the data lifecycle. Follow up on programme and project performance indicators/ success criteria, targets and milestones, and preparation of reports. Implement corporate results-based management mechanisms and tools. </li> <li>Identify programme related bottlenecks and propose solutions.</li> <li>Make preparations for external and internal programme / project audits, and support implementation of audit recommendations.</li> <li>Provide support to the Programme unit by maintaining internal expenditure system and performing quality assurance review of financial reports and payments that includes following up with other units and taking timely corrective actions. </li> </ul> <p><strong>3.) Support implementation of Country Office partnerships and resource mobilization strategies:</strong></p><br> <ul> <li>Develop and maintain strategic partnership intelligence: Collect and analyze information on potential partners in the private sector, academia, and non-profit organizations; prepare profiles and maintain a dynamic partnership database to support engagement planning and outreach.</li> <li>Facilitate private sector engagement for co-financing and innovation: Coordinate with programme teams to identify opportunities for joint initiatives with Saudi corporations and business associations; draft concept notes and organize partnership dialogues to leverage corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability agendas.</li> <li>Strengthen collaboration with academia and civil society: Map universities, research centers, and non-profit entities aligned with UNDP priorities; support the design of knowledge-sharing platforms and partnership agreements to advance SDG-focused projects and policy research.</li> </ul> <p><strong>4.) Facilitate knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the Country Office:</strong></p><br> <p>In assigned programme areas:</p><br> <ul> <li>Organize and deliver programme related training for relevant programme and operations personnel.</li> <li>Compile lessons learned and best practices.</li> </ul> <p>Provide sound contributions and support to knowledge networks, communities of practice, and digital knowledge platforms.</p><br> <p>The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.</p><br> <p><strong>Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities: May supervise Programme and/or Project Assistant/s within the team.</strong></p><br> <p><strong>Competencies</strong></p><br> <p><i><strong>Core:</strong></i></p><br> <strong>Achieve Results</strong> LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work <br> <strong>Think Innovatively</strong> LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking <br> <strong>Learn Continuously</strong> LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning <br> <strong>Adapt with Agility </strong> LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process <br> <strong>Act with Determination </strong> LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously <br> <strong>Engage and Partner</strong> LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships <br> <strong>Enable Diversity and Inclusion</strong> LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making <br> <p><i><strong>Cross-Functional & Technical competencies :</strong></i></p><br> <i><strong>Thematic Area</strong></i> <i><strong>Name</strong></i> <i><strong>Definition</strong></i> <br> <i><strong>Business Management</strong></i> Customer Satisfaction/Client Management <ul> <li>Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs. </li> <li>Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy.</li> <li>Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests. </li> <li>Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns.</li> </ul> <br> <i><strong>Business Management</strong></i> Project Management <ul> <li>Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals</li> </ul> <br> <i><strong>Business Management</strong></i> Risk Management <ul> <li>Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks</li> </ul> <br> <p><i><strong>Business Management</strong></i></p><br> Results-based Management <ul> <li>Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus on improved performance and demonstrable results.</li> </ul> <br> <i><strong>Business Development</strong></i> Knowledge Generation <ul> <li>Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need.</li> </ul> <br> <i><strong>Procurement</strong></i> <p>Contract Management</p><br> <ul> <li>Knowledge of contract management concepts, principles and methods, and ability to apply this to strategic and/or practical situations.</li> </ul> <br> <i><strong>Finance</strong></i> <p>Budget Management </p><br> <ul> <li>Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets.</li> </ul> <br> <p><strong>Required Skills and Experience</strong></p><br> <i><strong>Education</strong></i> <br> <ul> <li>Secondary education is required </li> <li>A university degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, or related field will be given due consideration, but it is not a requirement.</li> </ul> <br> <i><strong> Experience, Knowledge, and Skills</strong></i> <br> <ul> <li>Minimum of 7 years (with high school diploma) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant progressively responsible administrative/management or programme experience is required at the national and/or international level. Experience in thematic area is desirable. </li> <li>Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), database packages, and web-based management systems such as ERP.</li> <li>experience and knowledge of project cycle management in the public or private sector or international organizations is desirable </li> <li>Work experience with the UN and international organizations is desirable </li> <li>Demonstrated experience in facilitating knowledge and capacity-building, as well as promoting knowledge sharing and advocacy, is desirable.</li> <li>Experience in analysis, research and interpretation of economic and statistical datais desirable</li> </ul> <br> <i><strong>Language Requirements</strong></i> <br> <ul> <li>Fluency in Arabic and English is required</li> </ul> <br> <p><strong>Equal opportunity</strong></p><br> <p>As an equal opportunity employer, UNDP values diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate and, as such, we encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in the organization. Our employment decisions are based on merit and suitability for the role, without discrimination. </p><br> <p>UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.</p><br> <p><strong>Sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse of authority</strong></p><br> <p>UNDP does not tolerate harassment, sexual harassment, exploitation, discrimination and abuse of authority. All selected candidates, therefore, undergo relevant checks and are expected to adhere to the respective standards and principles. </p><br> <p><strong>Probation</strong></p><br> <p>For all new UNDP fixed term appointments (FTA), including for staff members being transferred or seconded to UNDP under the Inter-Organization Agreement concerning Transfer, Secondment or Loan of Staff, on an appointment of more than one year, continuation of the appointment beyond the initial 12 months is contingent upon the successful completion of a probationary period.</p><br> <p><strong>Right to select multiple candidates</strong></p><br> <p>UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.</p><br> <p><strong>Use of AI by candidates</strong></p><br> <p>Applicants are invited to read UNDP’s guidance for candidates on using AI responsibly in UNDP recruitment and selection</p><br> <p><strong>Scam alert</strong></p><br> <p>UNDP does not charge a fee at any stage of its recruitment process. For further information, please see www.undp.org/scam-alert.</p><br> <p>#LI-DNI</p><br><br><br> </div><h2 data-automation-id="subHeaderPreferredCandidate" class="h5">
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<b>Overview</b><br><p>Oversees team on proactively acting as an advocate for and the voice of the customer/partner leveraging relevant insights. Supports and coaches team on innovating methods for proactively identifying and/or translating customer/partner problems into solutions. Mobilizes resources within the customer success unit (CSU) and across Microsoft to solve issues. Oversees team on anticipating, identifying, escalating, and mitigating blockers using appropriate tools. Holds team accountable for delivering solutions in line with company methodologies to prepare highly complex and/or impactful customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets. Drives team on proactively identifying, anticipating, and setting the foundation with the customer/partner for new cross-solution opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion at scale. Holds team accountable for driving operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record. Leads team on leveraging market insights and demand signals to partner with leadership in identifying relevant areas. Leads team on leading the direction that internal virtual team members and stakeholders take. Leads team on proactively identifying and anticipating gaps that drive changes and improvements to scale across customers. In addition, this role has people management responsibilities including driving employee growth and development, executing projects, and managing performance.</p><br><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br>Business Impact<br>Holds team accountable for driving operational excellence and proven practice standards throughout all sales stages/activities/tools of record (e.g., pipeline updates, time tracking). Drives team on orchestrating, collaborating, and influencing across Microsoft and customer/partner teams and leadership through on-strategy delivery to achieve customer/partner objectives and increase customer/partner satisfaction. Holds team accountable for anticipating and managing business and technical risks, adapting methodology and applying governance principles to identify, communicate, and minimize business and technical risks. Executes work in compliance with industry and Microsoft guidelines and procedures. Oversees continuous prioritization among competing demands in their work and identify where impact occurs with customers, ensuring alignment with business priorities and goals.<br><br>Drives team on proactively identifying, anticipating, and setting the foundation with the customer/partner for new cross-solution opportunities for Consumption, Usage & Unified expansion (especially Enhanced Solutions) at scale based on business value to customer/partner and clear understanding of the Microsoft value proposition for supported platforms to empower cloud success, foster and strengthen security and resiliency, and drive AI innovation. Defines the need for change management to ensure team members develop thorough understanding of customer's business and operations to advise on potential solutions. Drives team on acting as a role model for strategically consulting with, actively listening to and respectfully challenging customers/partners, building trust to then advocate for alternative architectures/solutions/approaches that shape and/or enhance customer requirements. Oversees team on driving the identification, anticipation, and evaluation of industry trends (e.g., customer industry verticals, information technology [IT] industry), gathering of customer/partner insights (e.g., feedback around technical preferences, environments, business needs, competitive landscape), and mapping of both existing and novel architecture and digital transformation solutions to customer/partner business outcomes. Holds teams accountable for capturing opportunities in appropriate systems, processes, and tools, working collaboratively across the organization to execute on opportunities.<br><br>Holds team accountable for delivering solutions in line with company methodologies (e.g., product offerings such as value-based deliverables [VBDs], advice, training, technical validation), ensuring proven practices and patterns are followed to prepare highly complex and/or impactful customers for operational readiness and achievement of their business goals and targets. Leveraging knowledge of change management proven practices and/or involving the change management team, proactively helps the customer deploy for long-term organizational adoption to increase customer satisfaction and drive consumption/usage. Oversees team on guiding highly complex and/or impactful customers/partners towards a well-architected (e.g., secure, resilient, artificial intelligence [AI]-enabled), and cost- and performance-optimized solution to increase retention and expansion opportunities. Provides expert guidance across teams on articulating the value of Unified and supports sellers, leading direct-to-customer engagements, and partnering with account teams to build consumption plans aligned with appropriate services. Holds teams accountable for providing feedback to Unified Delivery Team on VBDs to refine and further develop content.<br><br>Oversees team on anticipating, identifying, escalating, and mitigating blockers using appropriate tools and processes to accelerate solution deployment, value realization and usage/consumption for highly complex and/or impactful customers/scenarios. Holds team accountable for proactively applying expert business, technical, industry, and/or enterprise knowledge to architecture or support projects to meet business and information technology (IT) requirements and to quickly resolve identified constraints and blockers expected to have the most impact, leveraging scalable and/or repeatable fixes whenever feasible. Is accountable for mitigation of senior technical decision makers (TDM)-level escalations, defining and implementing recommendations to resolve issues.<br><br><br>Customer Centricity<br>Supports and coaches team on innovating methods for proactively identifying and/or translating customer/partner problems into solutions aligned with Microsoft product and platform strategy, creating or improving an existing business model, and explaining why and/or how they meet customer/partner outcomes and return on investment (ROI) goals (e.g., via proof of concept, minimally viable product [MVP], rapid prototype) relative to competitive offerings. Holds team accountable for influencing, empowering, and driving the customer/partner and its leadership to set their technical strategy and accelerate their adoption and use of Microsoft product/platform strategy-aligned (cross-solution area) solutions. Oversees team on building, fostering, and maintaining relationships with, and influencing technical decision makers (TDMs) up to the C-suite level, and liaising between TDMs and business decision makers (BDMs). Leads and elevates interactions as needed with customers/partners' Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and other C-level (CXO) roles to bridge understanding of security, compliance, operational and risk requirements and influence decision making across BDMs, TDMs, CIO and CISO teams, appropriately engaging additional subject matter experts when deeper expertise is required.<br><br>Oversees team on proactively acting as an advocate for and the voice of the customer/partner, sharing ideas, feedback, insights, success stories, and strategic/technical input with Engineering teams, Product Offerings teams, and internal communities across their organization, leveraging relevant insights from feedback tools and systems to influence teams to translate these insights into new or improved offerings for other customers/partners. Leads team on driving the identification of patterns across customers/partners/territories/industries and leveraging them with relevant industry perspective to develop strategic and actionable insights. Leads team on presenting compelling business cases and recommended architectures to program managers and leadership to advocate for and influence product roadmaps, decision making, bug fix prioritization, and own and drive initiatives as appropriate.<br><br>Mobilizes resources within the Customer Success Unit (CSU) and across Microsoft to solve issues. Drives team on acting as a role model for focusing on customer/partner experience through efficient delivery and ensuring a seamless and connected customer experience. Leads team on leveraging deep understanding of customer goals to advocate for and lead the definition of customer/partner conditions of success. Oversees team on anticipating and addressing customer/partner dissatisfaction and unmet needs, including leading customer confidence calls and creating and executing strategies to improve customer experience, value realization, and acceleration of transformation.<br><br><br>People Management<br>Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model: Live our culture. Embody our values. Practice our leadership principles. Coach: Define team objectives and outcomes. Enable success across boundaries. Help the team adapt and learn. Care: Attract and retain great people. Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations. Invest in the growth of others.<br><br><br>Technical Leadership<br>Leads team on leveraging market insights and demand signals to partner with leadership in identifying relevant areas in which to drive up-skilling and/or accreditations based on demand. Drives team on role modeling technical readiness, both depth-aligned to solution area priorities and breadth-aligned to Customer Success Unit (CSU)/corporate initiatives (e.g., security, resilience, AI), and influencing across teams to drive their own technical readiness. Oversees team on acting as a mentor, leading readiness and upskilling activities in the team/organization by educating colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts and sharing proven practices. Leads and drives a culture of learning and coaching in both the internal technical community and the broader organization alongside managers towards business objectives.<br><br>Leads team on proactively identifying and anticipating gaps through delivery, communicating those gaps to relevant team members and internal/external stakeholders, and connecting gaps and patterns across business and technology areas that drive changes and improvements to products, intellectual property (IP) (both existing and new), technologies, and/or processes/practices that enable solutions to scale across customers. Oversees team on leading the development of and modifications to Microsoft's structured frameworks and methodologies. Leads team on providing thought leadership and innovation to customers/partners and internal communities at the worldwide level.<br><br>Leads team on leading the direction that internal virtual team members (brought together around technologies and customer/partner challenges) and stakeholders take with customers/partners by sharing ideas, insights, and strategic, technical input across boundaries, using knowledge of Microsoft architectures and their context in the competitive landscape, and actively pursuing opportunities that grow impact and capabilities of the broader organization. Guides team on serving as an industry-leading expert and driving recognition for Microsoft solutions by initiating and driving presentations and engagements with external and internal audiences (e.g., Tech Connect, Build, Ignite) Oversees team on driving collaborative efforts for contributing to and/or developing intellectual property (IP) and proactively identifying patterns where no IP exists (e.g., CoPilot and AI scenarios) to help build scalable and repeatable models. Initiates and drives external technical and non-technical community events (e.g., conferences, seminars, technical meetups, webcasts, blogs, hackathons) that elevate the Microsoft brand, sharing learnings across internal teams and leading their team to do the same. Coaches team on building an external influencer network, supporting Microsoft’s strategy and represents Microsoft's technology vision at events<br><br><br><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br>Required/minimum qualificationsBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 10+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.<br>5+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, technical architect managers, and/or people managers.<br>Additional or preferred qualificationsBachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 15+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, information technology (IT) consulting/support, software development/support, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Liberal Arts, or related field AND 12+ years experience in cloud/infrastructure technologies, technology solutions, practice development, architecture, and/or consulting OR equivalent experience.<br>8+ years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external).<br>8+ years experience leading technical projects, teams, or functions.<br>Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications).<br>8+ years people management experience, including managing consultant practice managers, technical sales managers, technical architect managers, and/or people managers.<br><br><br> <br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><br><br><p>Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></p><br> </div><h2 data-automation-id="subHeaderPreferredCandidate" class="h5">
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Bachelor's degree / higher diploma </div>
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