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UNDP Kenya seeks a highly qualified Portfolio Specialist- Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding and P/CVE to lead UNDP work in this thematic area by ensuring a coherent approach, synergies across all projects in this thematic area including, but not limited to the Peace Building Fund supported project as well as the Refuge project to avoid duplication and demonstrated value for money as well as contribution to broader results in this thematic area.

Duties and Responsibilities of Portfolio Specialist

A. Strategic Direction and Leadership:

• Lead and manage the peacebuilding and conflict prevention thematic portfolio by setting strategic priorities, ensuring alignment with national and regional frameworks, and ensuring that all activities integrate gender, youth and human rights approaches.  Lead the design of adapted and context-driven programmatic interventions that enable the delivery of UNDP’s programmatic offer, while ensuring cross-sectoral cross-portfolio fertilization.

B. Partnerships building and Resource Mobilization:

• Cultivate and manage strategic partnerships with government bodies, civil society organizations (CSOs), regional organizations, and international partners to promote collaboration and resource mobilization for long-term peacebuilding outcomes.

C. Portfolio Management and Coordination:

• Ensure the effective management and implementation of all projects under this portfolio including the Regional Peacebuilding and PVE Project, including overseeing work plans, budgets, monitoring outputs, and ensuring gender-sensitive programming across the portfolio.
• Management and mentoring of portfolio team to ensure timely and quality delivery of portfolio results. Timely results reporting.

D. Knowledge Management and Visibility:

• Lead the creation and dissemination of high-quality knowledge products, policy analysis briefs/recommendations, and communication materials in collaboration with the CO and Regional team and key partners, ensuring the visibility and impact of UNDP’s work in this thematic area. Represent the CO at high-level and technical engagements/dialogues with donors, gov and other partners as requested.
• Participate in inter-agency meetings to better harmonize and inform the development and monitoring of joint initiatives and programmes in this area and contribute views and ideas and assess trends and development needs as per evaluation of the country’s overall programmatic performance and external trends.

E. Financial and Operational Oversight:

• Ensure financial integrity and compliance with UNDP rules and donor-specific regulations, overseeing portfolio’s procurement, administrative processes, and ensuring results are achieved by performance standards. Risks and compliance management including audits.

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Required Skills and Experience 

Required Skills:

• Advanced computer skills and knowledge of office software packages essential, experience handling web-based management systems;
• Sound knowledge and experience working with project teams and in all aspects of project cycle management.

Desired additional skills in addition to the competencies covered in the competencies section:

• Experience in conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and PVE, with a strong background in democratic governance preferred;
• Sound knowledge of project management, organizational management, asset management, information and communication technology, administration, financial and human resources management, preferably with an international development setting;
• Excellent analytical, communication, writing and presentation skills;
• Willingness to work extensive hours and under pressure.

Required Languages(s):

• Fluency in English and Kiswahili at working level.

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