Consultoría individual para la elaboración del Análisis de País - República Dominicana
Organizational Context
The United Nations (UN) System in the Dominican Republic is implementing its Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (2023-2027). To inform the next cycle, the UN requires enhanced analytical capacity to develop a comprehensive Country Analysis (CA). This role supports the UN Country Team in Santo Domingo, contributing to strategic decision-making and continuous analytical functions.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this role is to conduct a comprehensive Country Analysis (CA) for the Dominican Republic, serving as a foundational document for the next UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework. This analysis will provide an integrated understanding of sustainable development trajectories, structural drivers, inequalities, and normative commitments. It will identify emerging trends, risks, opportunities, potential actors, capacities, and partnerships, alongside the development financing landscape. The CA aims to be a dynamic instrument, facilitating continuous analysis rather than a one-off diagnosis, and will be a public document informing strategic prioritization and design.
Responsibilities
The consultant will conduct an integrated and prospective analysis of the Dominican Republic's sustainable development trajectories, critically evaluating available evidence to identify structural drivers, trends, interrelations, challenges, and opportunities. This includes documenting information gaps and building a robust analytical base. The role involves analyzing how development dynamics differentially affect populations, integrating human rights, gender equality, and the 'leave no one behind' principle to identify gaps, inequalities, and structural barriers. Furthermore, the consultant will examine actors, institutional capacities, relationships, interests, collaboration mechanisms, and financing conditions influencing development dynamics, identifying opportunities and constraints for strategic alliances and resource mobilization. The process will incorporate systems thinking, strategic foresight, and risk analysis to identify transformative pathways and leverage points for sustainable development.
Work Experience
Requires at least 7 years of demonstrated experience in sustainable development analysis, strategic planning, public policy, or UN system processes. Experience in producing high-level strategic and analytical reports, facilitating multi-stakeholder processes, and working with vulnerable groups is essential. Experience in systems analysis, strategic foresight, and the Dominican Republic context is highly desirable.
Skills
• Sustainable Development Analysis • Strategic Planning • Public Policy Analysis • UN System Processes • High-Level Report Writing • Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence Synthesis • Multi-stakeholder Facilitation • Systems Analysis • Strategic Foresight • Risk Analysis • Development Financing • Spanish (Advanced Technical Writing) • English (Intermediate)