Marta K. Gazideda

Experience

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  Institute of Directors

  Jun 1996 - Jun 2004

  Professional Standards Executive

  Worked at Director Development (formerly Centre for Director Development) in operations and administrations. Promoted to Programme Executive, with responsibility for quality assurance of training material and course-leader performance. Joined the marketing team, with responsibility for market research, copy writing, and new product development. Seconded to work on a business process engineering project covering 7 business units. Joined the Professional Standards team as Examinations Executive.Exceptional organisation; thoroughly enjoyed my time there. Show less

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  UNDP

  Jan 2004 - Jul 2009

  Project Manager

  Managing a capacity development project providing support to the government of Kosova. Managing/supervising over 30 experts per year.

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  Capacity Development (CDF) Project (KFOS-UNDP)

  Aug 2009 - Aug 2012

  Project Manager

  Managing a capacity development project with a budget of over 1 mil Euro per annum. Supervising over 60 experts placed with government counterparts.

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  UNDP

  Sept 2012 - Feb 2015

  Programme Analyst/Governance Portfolio Manager

  Responsible for direct oversight of the Anti-corruption, Public Administration Reform, and Parliamentary projects, as well we overall coordination/oversight of the Portfolio, comprising of the Security, Governance and RoL pillars. Total budget of USD 4.3 million and oversight of 19 programme and project team members.Specific duties and responsibilities:Identification of programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UNDP, country needs and donors’ priorities, including joint programming;Systematically engage project teams, beneficiaries and stakeholders to identify new areas of support and to incorporate the views of target groups in programme / project design;Programme oversight and management;Development of AWPs in concert with CO annual planning, including facilitating the day-to-day functioning of the Portfolio;Regular monitoring and analysis of the programme environment, timely readjustment of programme, and ensure that results and lessons learned feed into the analytical and project work;Regular review of progress against the results framework/ log-frame including implementing recommendations from periodic reviews;Ensure clarity and transparency in budgeting and reporting of expenditure;Quality assurance of project outputs.Facilitates strategic partnerships, representation and resource mobilization. Show less

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  UNDP Kosovo

  Sept 2012 - now

  Governance and Peacebuilding Portfolio Manager/Deputy Programme Coordinator

  1. Responsible for the management of UNDP's Governance and Peace-building portfolio, comprising of the Security, Governance, and RoL pillars, with a total budget of USD 6.5 million. Direct oversight of 8 project teams with 21 team members ;2. Quality assurance and ensuring efficient and effective programme interventions;3. Facilitate strategic partnerships with government and the international community;4. Resource mobilisation and representation;4. Corporate compliance.

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  UNDP Moldova

  Feb 2016 - Apr 2016

  Assistant Resident Representative – Programme (Detailed assignment)

  Act as advisor to Senior Management on all aspects of Country Office programme, lead strategic planning, and identify new programme areas while ensuring consistency with UNDAF/CPD priorities and creative responses to emerging challenges and opportunities.

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  UNDP RBEC

  May 2018 - Jun 2018

  County Office Liaison Team at RBEC HQ (Detail Assignment)
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  UNDP, Crisis Bureau

  Jun 2021 - Oct 2021

  Programme Specialist

  In close cooperation with the broader Joint UNDP-DPPA Programme team support ongoing processes including recruitment of National Peace and Development Advisors, provide quality assurance, review the iteration of the new Peace Infrastructure Portal, support the cadre of Peace and Development Advisors and Regional Programme Specialists on operational questions.