UNDP’s ‘Legal Identity for All’ project is part of UNDP’s contribution to the UN Legal Identity Agenda (UN LIA), jointly implemented by the UN departments and agencies active in the area of civil registration, vital statistics and identity management, under mandate from the Deputy-Secretary-General. UNDP is co-chair, along with UNICEF and UNDESA, of the UN Legal Identity Agenda Task Force, mandated by the DSG to assist in implementation of the UN LIA. In close cooperation with the World Bank and other identity providers, the goal of ‘Legal Identity for All’ is to assist UN Member States achieve SDG Target 16.9 – “Legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030.” UNDP’s project, as part of the larger UN LIA, encompasses both global, regional and country-level components. Legal Identity specialists are required to support regional and country level initiatives primarily under Outcome 3: Implementation of the UN Legal Identity Agenda at the country and regional levels is coordinated, financed and supported on a ‘One UN’ basis.

Legal Identity Specialists to be recruited for individual assignments through the GPN ExpRes roster will be responsible for provision of technical advice on various aspects of CRVS and identity management systems to Member States, in order to assist UNDP and other UN agencies, funds and programmes in the implementation of the UN Legal Identity Agenda at the country and regional level. The specialists will be working directly with national and/or regional project partners, including, for example, Ministries of the Interior, Health, Local Government, Justice, border management agencies, National Statistics Institutes and specialist CRVS and identity management authorities such as national registration bureaus/national identity authorities. Support may also be provided to regional organisations (and in particular those interested in developing common technical specifications for identity documents across borders in their respective regions), such as the African Union, the African Regional Economic Communities, etc.

Working under the direct supervision of the on-site UN project manager (e.g. UNDP Resident Representative, Country Director, Head of Governance, etc.), and with a secondary reporting line to the UNDP Policy Advisor for Legal Identity and/or UN agency HQ focal point for legal identity, the legal identity specialists will be responsible for timely implementation of the UN Legal Identity Agenda at the regional and country level, including:

• Upon request from national authorities, assess the CRVS/identity management system in Member States and make appropriate recommendations that can lead to the implementation of sustainable, holistic, comprehensive, birth-to-death legal identity systems, that are interoperable with other national functional registers ;
• Support national governments, UNDP COs, UN Resident Coordinators, and UN Country Teams to formulate new ‘One UN’ project documents that support implementation of the Legal Identity Agenda;
• Assist in the mobilisation of resources for said projects;
• Liaise with the World Bank country representatives, national and international civil society representatives, embassies and other national and international stakeholders on the proposed ‘One UN’ projects;
• Support Member States to draft a ‘National Identity Strategy’ or other such roadmap that proposed integration/rollout of CRVS and new/digitally upgraded identity management systems;
• Support Member States to reform national legal frameworks related to CRVS and identity management, taking account of complex policy issues such as protection of personal data, privacy, appropriate use of biometric technology, prevention of statelessness, etc

A Master’s degree level in political sciences, international relations, IT, law, social sciences, public administration, public management, statistics, health, procurement or in an equivalent area.

Experience:

Good command of basic computer programmes (MS- Office under Windows: Word, Excel); 
A minimum of 7 years of professional experience including 5 years of experience in the area of civil registration, vital statistics and/or identity management;
Strong experience in the provision of technical advice, at a senior level, to national and international stakeholders involved in the provision and delivery of CRVS and identity management systems;
Strong knowledge on legal frameworks related to CRVS and identity management;
Experience with digital innovations in CRVS and identity management, including with regards to biometric technologies;
Strong experience in coordinating various partners (especially UN agencies and national counterparts). Experience in managing UN Joint Programmes is an asset.
Experience in project management and in human resources management.

Core Competencies
•    Promoting ethics and integrity, creating organizational precedents;
•    Building support and political acumen; 
•    Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation; 
•    Building and promoting effective teams;
•    Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication;
•    Creating an emotionally intelligent organization;
•    Leveraging conflict in the interests of UNDP & setting standards; 
•    Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning; 
•    Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking.

Post level: International Consultant (details TBD on case-by-case basis and needs of individual assignments)

If you want to join the community of experts, send an email with your CV to gpnroster@undp.org and we will get back to you with more details.

(Based on the detailed instruction, application should contain the TWO following documents, ALL IN ONE FILE:

• DOCUMENT 1: Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate
• DOCUMENT 2: Brief description of why the individual considers her/himself suitable for the assignment. Please submit this information in the same file as Document 1.
• All the information requested above must be submitted in the same file. Candidates who fail to submit all the information requested above will be disqualified.
• Please do not include your financial proposal at this stage. Only successful candidates (technically qualified) will be invited to register onto the ExpRes roster platform and indicate a tentative daily fee.
• Once the successful candidates have been invited to join the GPN ExpRes and registered on the dedicated platform, they are considered vetted and may be proposed for assignments with UNDP offices for which specific ToRs will be developed.)

Due to the large number of applications we receive, we are able to inform only the successful candidates about the outcome or status of the selection process.

Review of technical criteria as evident in the submitted application:

• Criterion 1. Relevant professional experience: 35 points
• Criterion 2. Research and policy development experience on SDG Finance issues: 20 points
• Criterion 3. Field experience with UNDP or other development organizations: 30 points
• Criterion 4. Fluency in English with excellent drafting skills: 10 points
• Criterion 5. Written and spoken knowledge of an additional UN language is desirable: 5 points