Procurement and Compliance Analyst [2 Openings, Ds: Kyiv and Odesa]

Please note the appropriate Tier indicated in the vacancy title and ensure that you hold the applicable contract as defined below. _

• _Tier 0: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV IP staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments, whose posts will be abolished, or whose contracts will be terminated or not renewed during 2026 _
• _Tier 1: Other UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments _
• _Tier 2: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA), personnel on regular PSA contracts, and Expert and Specialist UN Volunteers _

Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine, through its Energy and Environment Portfolio, supports national and local authorities in restoring and transforming Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in line with the principles of sustainability, resilience, and transparency. Since the onset of the full-scale war, UNDP has prioritized assistance to ensure continuity of essential services and accelerate the green recovery of Ukraine’s public infrastructure.

Within this framework, UNDP is implementing the Technical Assistance to the Renewable Energy Solutions (RES) Programme, financed through the IKI Renewable Energy Investment Grant under the European Investment Bank (EIB) facility. The Action is delivered under the Direct Implementation Modality (DIM) and coordinated with the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine (MCTD), the EIB, and GIZ.

The project aims to support the large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies—including solar photovoltaic systems, biomass installations, and heat pumps—in public buildings such as schools, kindergartens, hospitals, and municipal facilities. This initiative is designed to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, enhance local energy resilience, and accelerate Ukraine’s alignment with EU Green Deal objectives.

The Action specifically contributes to:

• Strengthening local institutional capacity for project design, procurement, and implementation of renewable energy sub-projects;
• Ensuring technical quality, financial accountability, and environmental compliance during sub-project delivery;
• Supporting municipalities to obtain prosumer (active electricity consumer) status through the development of the net-billing mechanism;
• Enhancing transparency and governance through anticorruption and sanctions-screening systems;
• Promoting knowledge exchange, digital monitoring, and replication of successful models across Ukrainian communities.

UNDP’s Technical Assistance (TA) component serves as the enabling pillar of the RES Programme. It bridges investment, governance, and capacity development by providing:

• Institutional support and capacity building for Final Beneficiaries (municipalities, utilities, and communal institutions);
• Advisory and hands-on technical assistance for feasibility studies, technical designs, and environmental and social management plans;
• Procurement and contract management for goods, works, and services financed under the EIB-BMWK framework;
• Oversight, monitoring, and integrity assurance through red-flag tracking, sanctions screening, and compliance reviews;
• Technical assistance for operationalizing the net-billing system and helping municipalities become self-sufficient clean-energy producers; and
• Structured knowledge and digital platforms to enable real-time data tracking, reporting, and learning.

The project forms an integral part of UNDP’s Green Energy Recovery and Decarbonization Agenda and complements related EIB-financed frameworks.

Duties and Responsibilities

Procurement:

• Ensure full compliance of procurement activities with UN/UNDP and EIB rules, regulations, policies and strategies;
• Support the procurement processes related with implementation of projects funded under EIB loan facility to ensure that it is fair, competitive, transparent, ethical and provides best value for money;
• Ensure provision of capacity development to the relevant units and departments of oblast-, city
• and rayon-level administrations in project identification, preparation, implementation (integrated project preparation and implementation cycle) through trainings, seminars, information-sharing events, etc.;
• Develop and manage the rosters of suppliers, elaboration of supplier selection and evaluation, quality and performance measurement mechanisms;

• Organize and ensure efficient collaboration with relevant counterparts and their consultants under EIB authority in:

• Identifying unit costs and standard costs for typical and concrete sub-projects;

• Assessing for each sub-project any indicators of acquisition of sub-standard services and/or sub-standard equipment that could indicate mal-practices.

Reporting and oversight:

• Contribute to preparation of financial reports and forecast, including monthly and quarterly disbursement reports and financial reports for donors; ensure the reports are prepared in accurate manner;
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