Job Description
| Organization | United Nations Development Programme |
| Job Identification | 4004 |
| Locations | Khartoum, Sudan |
| Posting Date | 05/31/2022, 01:51 PM |
| Apply Before | 06/08/2022, 05:59 AM |
| Degree Level | Advanced/Postgraduate Degree |
| Job Schedule | Full time |
| Agency | UNDP |
| Vacancy Type | National Personnel Service Agreement |
| Bureau | Regional Bureau for Arab States |
| Contract Duration | 1 Year |
| Education & Work Experience | Master’s Degree |
| Other Criteria | Master’s Degree with 3 years of relevant working experience |
| Required Languages | Fluency in English and Arabic. |
| Vacancy Timeline | 1 Week |
| Mobility required/no mobility | no mobility required |
Background
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
The Integrated Community Stabilization Programme (ICSP) aims to sustain peace and pave the way for longer-term recovery and development, address emergencies, and support basic service provision and durable solutions for stability and effective recovery at the community level. Therefore, UNDP has embraced this integrated community stabilization approach which will allow UNDP and its partners to support UNITAMS’ mandate and deliver a range of basic services and areas of support, building on multi-agency collaboration and working in a holistic way, ensuring complementarities that will maximize and sustain community-level impact and provide value for money. The ICSP builds on several major components as entry points to boost collective impact on the community stabilization in an aligned, harmonized and coordinated way. In so doing, the programme would ensure that immediate and intermediate outcomes of each of the components represent a building block towards sustainable peace, security and stabilization and hence, pave the way for a sustainable transition and development of the Republic of Sudan.
The Programme Officer is responsible for the implementation of the programme within the thematic/sectoral areas assigned. The Programme Officer analyzes political, social and economic trends and contributes to the formulation, management and evaluation of the programme activities within his/her portfolio, also providing policy advice and operational services.The Programme officer provides substantive inputs to programme design, formulation, implementation and evaluation. The Programme Officer contributes to and facilitates the delivery of Peace and Stabilization projects by monitoring results achieved during implementation and ensuring appropriate application of systems and procedures and developing enhancements if necessary. The Programme Officer works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team, Government officials, multi and bi-lateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UNDP programme implementation.
Duties and Responsibilities
Coordination of the design and administration of ICSP activities as well as their oversight:
- Coordinate design and administration of the overall approach and delivery of the activities planned within the Project in line the UNDP Programme and Operations Policies and Procedures (POPP), best project implementation practices, standards and approaches;
- In cooperation with the ICSP Programme Manager, design and steer the delivery of the comprehensive expert, technical and capacity development activities aiming to strengthen community stabilization and resilience;
- Provide expert advice, guidance, support and oversight through the process of provision of technical assistance and advice, organization of knowledge-transfer events, extensive consultative process and intensive coordination at national and international levels;
- Review results and monitor performance of the ICSP goals, as per the M&E plan and logical framework;
- Provide the ICSP Programme Manager with substantive data inputs based on project experiences and monitoring of progress against set targets;
- Encourage and support knowledge sharing, exchanges of experience and partnership building across the designated area of responsibility through thematic networking events and other activities;
- Support sharing and scaling-up successful approaches in the broader UNDP Team.
Provision of advisory, operational and reporting assistance to the ICSP Programme Manager and P&S Portfolio throughout programme implementation;
- Operationally coordinate activities relevant to expert, technical and capacity-building assistance to all stakeholders in support of the overall objective of the ICSP;
- Analytically captures lessons-learnt and contributes to the preparation of reports based on the project experiences and monitoring of progress against set targets, including from the gender equality perspective;
- Prepare relevant ad-hoc and periodic thematic reports;
- Capture and ensure wide promotion and visibility of Project achievements, particularly with regard to developments in the area of Community Stabilization;
- Encourage multi-level cooperation across the programme area;
- Ensure regular communication and coordination with programme counterparts and develop and maintain effective mechanisms for integrating and responding to their feedback and insights;
- Encourage active participation of all project stakeholders through regular organization of project board meetings in order to promote their ownership of the activities and results achieved.
Competencies
| Core | |
| Achieve Results: | LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work |
| Think Innovatively: | LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking |
| Learn Continuously: | LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning |
| Adapt with Agility: | LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process |
| Act with Determination: | LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously |
| Engage and Partner: | LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships |
| Enable Diversity and Inclusion: | LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making |
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Cross-Functional & Technical competencies (insert up to 7 competencies)
| Thematic Area | Name | Definition |
| Effectiveness | RBM standards and practices for programming | Ability to promote effective application of RBM tools in programme and project cycle management; establishment of management targets and monitoring achievement of results |
| Effectiveness | Organisational Development | Knowledge of organizational development concepts, issues and principles and the ability to apply them to strategic and/or practical situations |
| Business Direction & Strategy | System thinking | Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgment to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system. |
| People Management | Build capacity | Identify and develop talent in individuals, providing positive support to enable them to achieve their potential. Foster learning or development of others by giving feedback, guidance, and support; support career development of others. Have willingness and ability to delegate to help people learn, including from failure. |
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
Master’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences or related field.
Experience:
3 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development projects.
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