Delivery and Performance Specialist (Open to internal and external applicants), Bhutan

## Delivery and Performance Specialist (Open to internal and external applicants), Bhutan - Organization:UNDP - United Nations Development Programme 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: - Tier 0: 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. - 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 - Tier 3 or no tier indicated: All other contract types from UNDP/UNCDF/UNV and other agencies, and other external candidates Please make note of the Tier(s) indicated in the vacancy title, if any, and ensure that you satisfy the eligibility to apply. UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience, and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, working with national counterparts on solutions to global and national development challenges. In Bhutan, over the last 50 years, UNDP has been supporting the Royal Government to attain its national priorities. In 2024, UNDP started implementation of the Country Programme Document 2024-2028, aligning to the country's 13th Five Year Plan (13th FYP). In 2023, Bhutan graduated from the UN list of Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Over the past decades, the country has made remarkable progress in reducing income and multidimensional poverty, aligned with its commitment to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite the impressive progress, the country is grappling with critical socio-economic challenges such as large-scale emigration of the productive and skilled labor force, youth unemployment, declining fertility rate, increasing trade deficit, and shrinking fiscal space. These challenges take place amidst a slow post-pandemic economic recovery and against the broader backdrop of structural challenges, such as limited economic diversification, a still-nascent private sector, absence of robust regulatory and institutional framework. Bhutan's 13th FYP (2024-2029) sets out the ambitious target of doubling the size of the country's economy within the next five years and then doubling it again over the subsequent five years, reaching USD 10 billion by 2034, a target year that Bhutan plans to reach the high-income status. Recognizing the challenges and potential opportunities in Bhutan's 21st-century economy, the Royal Government of Bhutan aims to accelerate and foster a robust economic recovery and growth. It is in this context that the Royal Government of Bhutan requested UNDP's policy advisory assistance to support the Prime Minister's Office in a high-level consultation and the subsequent development of a development roadmap for the realization for the government's development vision as outlined above. In June 2025, the Royal Government endorsed the Bhutan 21st Century Economic Roadmap, which sets the ambitious target of growing Bhutan's economy tenfold (10X) by 2050 or earlier and transforming the country into a high-income, inclusive and sustainable economy. Recognising that achieving this 10X ambition requires a fundamentally different delivery architecture — one centred on performance, execution and accountability — the Royal Government established a dedicated Delivery Unit (DU) under the Prime Minister's Office, anchored within the Office of the Cabinet Affairs and Strategic Coordination (OCASC), to drive the implementation of the 21st Century Economic Roadmap and the 13th Five Year Plan. The Delivery Unit forms part of a wider 10X Implementation Governance Structure that comprises a National Steering Committee (NSC) chaired by the Hon'ble Prime Minister. The DU will serve as the secretariat to the NSC and report directly to the Hon'ble Prime Minister. It will be composed of a multidisciplinary team with expertise in planning, economic and financial analysis, project and performance management, data analytics, investment facilitation and public-private partnerships. The Delivery Unit's mandate spans the full delivery cycle: (i) designing and formulating detailed sectoral roadmaps with defined interventions, milestones, KPIs and implementation pathways in close coordination with lead agencies; (ii) developing investment frameworks and financing strategies, structuring bankable projects, and engaging investors and development partners in coordination with the Economic Development Board (EDB); (iii) facilitating and negotiating public-private partnerships and coordinating implementation across ministries and agencies; (iv) rigorously monitoring progress through dashboards, field reviews and structured delivery assessments, and providing regular updates to the NSC and the Hon'ble Prime Minister; and (v) conducting annual evaluations of agencies implementing projects under the 21st Century Economic Roadmap. In doing so, the DU will institutionalize the missing link between strategic ambition and on-the-ground delivery, embedding a culture of performance, foresight and accountability across government and accelerating Bhutan's journey towards high-income status by 2034. To support this initiative, UNDP seeks to recruit aDelivery and Performance Specialistto be embedded within the Delivery Unit. The Delivery and Performance Specialist will serve as the core engine of the Delivery Unit's performance management and analytical functions, translating the 10X ambition into measurable KPIs, real-time dashboards and structured delivery routines that enable evidence-based decision-making by the National Steering Committee. Duties and Responsibilities Under the overall guidance of the Director General, Office of the Cabinet Affairs and Strategic Coordination and Director, Office of the Prime Minister, and supervision of the Programme Analyst, Governance and Advocacy at UNDP CO, the Delivery and Performance Specialist will lead the design, operation and continuous improvement of the Delivery Unit's performance management system, data analytics and dashboards for priority projects identified in theBhutan 21st Century Economic Roadmap and other strategies and projects which are priority for the Delivery Unit. The Delivery and Performance Specialist will also support the Delivery Unit's work in tracking implementation progress, surfacing bottlenecks, and equipping the National Steering Committee, Technical Steering Committees and lead agencies with the data, evidence and insights required to course-correct in real time. Design and operationalize the Delivery Unit's performance management framework - Design and operationalize the Delivery Unit's performance management framework, including KPIs, milestones, trajectories and delivery scorecards for priority projects under the 21st Century Economic Roadmap. - Support the development of sectoral 10X project blueprints and contribute performance-management inputs to detailed sectoral roadmaps, KPIs and delivery plans. - Work closely with the Bhutan Innovation Lab (BIL) to support the transition of Entry Point Project (EPP) blueprints into implementation, translating strategic recommendations, delivery pathways, milestones and KPIs developed by BIL into operational delivery plans, performance monitoring frameworks and implementation tracking mechanisms. Develop and maintain dashboards, data pipelines and analytical tools - Build and maintain live dashboards and visualization tools, including Power BI, Tableau or other relevant platforms, to track progress of 10X priority projects, with regular reporting to the National Steering Committee, Technical Steering Committees and th