Background
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Duties and Responsibilities
Profile: Conflict Prevention and Recovery
Sub - Profiles:
National Cohesion/Reconciliation & Dialogue
Including analysis of conflict trends, including political, economic, social, and security factors, identification of relevant stakeholders and issues for multi-stakeholder dialogue processes and design and facilitation of multi-stakeholder dialogue process among relevant stakeholders;
Facilitator, Political Transitions
Including analysis of the political situation and conflict trends, and design and facilitation of multi-stakeholder dialogue processes;
Conflict Prevention Programme Design
Including provision of strategic analysis on issues relating to peace and development, supporting the design and formulation of concrete conflict prevention, social cohesion, and peace-building programmatic interventions and supporting conflict prevention programme development in specific technical areas such as Natural Resource Management, Social Cohesion, National & Local Reconciliation, Local Governance, and Confidence-Building;
Trainer, Conflict Analysis/Conflict Sensitivity
Including analysis of conflict trends, provision of strategic and organizational support to workshops for UN Country Teams, UNDP and relevant stakeholders on conflict analysis and/or conflict sensitive programming and supporting the integration of conflict sensitivity and ‘Do-no harm’ principles in the development and implementation of UN/UNDP assessments and programming frameworks;
Peace Building Advisor
Including conflict analysis, programme design, mainstreaming conflict sensitivity into post-conflict programme design and implementation and engaging with international and national organizations to promote a common approach towards supporting conflict prevention and peace building in the country.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Competencies
- Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity;
- Demonstrates and promotes the highest standard of integrity, impartiality, fairness and incorruptibility in all matters affecting his/her work and status.
- Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment understands the structure and hierarchy of UN/UNDP, process flows throughout the organization, products and services, their measures of effectiveness, and perceptions of clients;
- Excellent knowledge of development issues and internationally-agreed development goals;
- Knowledge of UNDP's approach to ICT for development and e-governance;
- Good knowledge of the socio-economic and political situation of the countries in the different regions.
- Self-development, initiative-taking;
- Takes appropriate risk in developing new or adapting existing methods and approaches to more effectively perform tasks or to solve problems in new and unique ways.
- Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
- Works collaboratively with colleagues inside UN/UNDP as well as its partners and other stakeholders to pursue common goals.
- Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
- Delivers verbal/written information in a timely, clear, organized and easily understood manner;
- Good knowledge of social networks and mobile technologies;
- Excellent oral and written skills to develop knowledge products in relevant areas;
- Excellent negotiation, communication and advocacy skills.
- Creating synergies through self-control tolerates conditions of stress, uncertainty or ambiguity and continues to maintain a positive outlook and to work productively.
- Managing conflict;
- Remains calm, composed and patient, regardless of his/her own state of mind in the face of conflict.
- Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others;
- Demonstrates commitment to ongoing professional development and keeps abreast of new developments in his/her professional field.
- Informed and transparent decision making;
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for the quality of the outcome of his/her decisions.
Required Skills and Experience
- Advanced university degree (MSc required, PhD an advantage) relevant to the thematic area.
- At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience in conflict prevention, including several years of relevant field experience, especially in crisis or post-conflict settings, in conflict prevention and dialogue work and in conflict-sensitive programming;
- Extensive technical knowledge relevant to the thematic area;
- Region specific experience as requested;
- Proven history of policy development and publication in the area of conflict prevention in crisis-affected and fragile countries;
- Proven intellectual and practical capacity to understand and interpret national development issues, particularly in crisis-affected, post-crisis and/or fragile settings;
- Theoretical and practical experience in drafting, implementing, monitoring and evaluating public policies, strategies or concepts relevant to the selected thematic area;
- Proven and recent experience with technical assistance for project development, implementation, management and/or evaluation;
- Excellent drafting and formulation skills; proven record of drafting official reports or papers/studies in the selected area;
- Experience working as a public official in the selected area or working/collaborating with the government is a plus;
- UN experience an asset;
- Experience with training and facilitation is an asset (required for the trainer positions).
- Fluency in spoken and written English is a must, knowledge of another UN language a plus.
- We are specifically looking for candidates with excellent French and Arabic language skills (fluent written and spoken).
- A current completed P11 form in English - a blank form can be downloaded from http://europeandcis.undp.org/files/hrforms/P11_modified_for_SCs_and_ICs.doc
- P11 form should, among other things, include names and contacts of at least three references and clearly indicate names of former and current supervisors (if applicable); in case of freelance consultants – list of partner institutions and contact details of projects supervisors. A file in .doc, .docx or .pdf format, containing the P11 form should be signed, scanned and uploaded into the system upon completion of the online application;
- Links to/examples of work, analytical reports, publications, online presence (e.g. blogs) in the subject matter that resulted from the consultant’s work should be included in the P11.
- Incomplete applications will not be considered. Please make sure you have provided all requested material.
Qualified women and members of minorities are encouraged to apply.