Description
Please note the appropriate Tier indicated in the vacancy title and ensure that you are holding 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
Job Purpose and Organizational Context
UNDP Uruguay enters the 2026-2030 cycle with an expanded portfolio, and the country’s status as a Net Contributing Country (NCC) requires increasingly specialized, high-quality technical cooperation.
The UNDP Country Programme Document (CPD) 2026-2030 for Uruguay identifies persistent multidimensional inequalities, gaps in access to quality services, territorial disparities, gender inequalities and emerging social cohesion challenges. It aims to support sustainable, fair, inclusive, and resilient development, aligned with the 2030 Agenda and national priorities. Amid persistent social, economic, geographic, gender, and generational inequalities, the programme seeks to drive structural transformations that foster more equitable and environmentally sustainable growth. It aligns with the SDGs, UNDP’s global Strategic Plan 2026-2029, and national priorities. The programme adopts a gender-transformative and human rights-based approach, integrating an intersectional perspective that recognizes multiple and overlapping forms of discrimination and inequality. It aims at closing historical gaps and promoting the inclusion of diverse population groups, including women, Afro-descendants, persons with disabilities, youth, older persons, migrants, and other groups in situations of vulnerability.
Outcome 1 focuses on ensuring that people—particularly those in vulnerable situations—can access quality social protection, health, education, and care services, and benefit from more equitable opportunities across the country.
The Programme Analyst will support the design and implementation of integrated interventions that combine social policy, inclusion, territorial development, innovation, gender equality and data-informed decision-making, while providing support for social and economic analyses. This position contributes to SDG acceleration by strengthening social protection systems, advancing inclusive policies and generating evidence-based tools that help foster resilient and cohesive communities.
The Programme Unit works to support achievement of UNDP strategic objectives to create a world where people and planet thrive together, and to help the Country Office (CO) act with both ambition and scale to address urgent problems facing the country as well as global climate deteriorating conditions. Programme staff assist the CO in formulating and implementing programme strategies that go beyond solving immediate development challenges to create future smart and integrated systemic changes in resilience and capacity building within the country.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the guidance and direct supervision of the DRR, the Programme Analyst analyzes social, economic, and political trends and participates in the formulation, management and evaluation of programme activities within assigned portfolio and thematic area.
The Programme Analyst may supervise and lead programme support staff. The Programme Analyst works in close collaboration with the Programme and Operations teams in the CO, programme staff in other UN Agencies, UNDP staff in HQs and Regional Hubs, external specialists, and government partners to ensure successful implementation of the UNDP programme.
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 to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration.
Key Duties and Accountabilities
1.) Contribute to the formulation and implementation of programme strategies and policies.
- Provide inputs to thorough analysis of the social, economic, and political situation in the country; provides collaborative inputs to the UN Common Country Assessment and Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNCCA and UNSDCF) as well as to the preparation/revision of the Country Programme Document (CPD), Integrated Work Plan (IWP) and other strategic documents.
- Analysis on social protection systems, inclusion policies, economic and demographic trends and territorial inequalities relevant to Outcome 1.
- Provide inputs to operationalize UNSDCF/ CPD in collaboration with the main partners and other UN Agencies.
- Supports the implementation of integrated social protection and social inclusion strategies with na