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The Programme Specialist, Resilience and Risk Informed Development is responsible for contributing substantive policy and programme advisory services to the Country Offices globally and applying the products and tools relevant to the thematic area of Risk Informed Development.

Key Duties and Responsibilities of Resilience and Risk

Programme Implementation and Policy Advice: 

• Provides technical guidance and advisory services to UNDP Country and Regional Offices in designing and implementing risk informed development activities both internally and externally of UNDP.
• Provides advice and guidance UNDP Country Offices, on issues related to the strengthening of risk governance, risk management that fosters actions that anticipate and avoid creation of future risks, integrating risk management into development strategies and plans and promote portfolio approaches for building resilience.
• Execute programme initiatives to support key results, outcomes, and outputs of the UNDP Strategic Plan and RBAS’s Regional Programme Document.
• Advice country offices in developing and implementing strategic programmes, and projects such as those that strengthens capacities in risk governance, planning and coordination in GPN portfolio approaches that foster integrated programming.
• Coordinate the production of relevant analysis and guidance for programme support that responds to country office needs.
• Apply multi-disciplinary approaches, including through setting up, coordinating, and engaging with integrated GPN Teams to deliver advisory services and programming needs in line with emerging client needs and corporate standards, as well as maintaining and developing networks of experts in UNDP’s areas of work.
• Develop and implement solutions in crisis and conflict situations in response to requests coordinated by CB and ensure proper use of policy and tools in this context.
• Incorporate gender equality and human rights’-based approach in policy and programming work.
• Provide relevant contribution to UNDP SURGE.

Contribute to Policy Development:

• Provide strategic advice to policy development and innovation through consolidation of relevant lessons from projects and programmes.
• Identify gaps and opportunities for development of new policies and guide the overall team priorities and workplans.
• Support in identifying risk financing solutions including enhancing application of integrated national financing frameworks, budget and expenditure analysis, public and private sector resource mobilization and risk informing investments.
• Advise and provide technical support on people centered and stakeholder driven policy making and implementation.
• Provide Quality Assurance to ensure alignment with global development policies, norms, and standards.
• Ensure cross-practice approach and cross-regional collaboration.
• Create methods for reviewing policy services in the thematic area and assess policy success, as well as communicate these methods to other country offices and regions.
• Conceptualize and recommend policy innovations in the thematic area to improve programme delivery.

Policy Positioning and Representation:

• Under the guidance of the team leader, mobilize, foster, and strengthen strategic partnerships with UN entities and other relevant bodies at the regional level, and provide inputs to those partnerships in support of UNDP initiatives.
• Prepare briefing notes and speeches.
• Advocate the importance of the thematic area in various fora at the regional level, including academia and civil society, with a view to deepen related political commitment and related reforms, and to mobilize support for international frameworks.
• Support Team Leaders in engagement in UN interagency coordination in relevant policy areas by organizing and participating in regional meetings.

Building Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilization

• In collaboration with BERA, support the Team Leader to engage with regional partners and develop/implement resource mobilization plan under corporate guidelines, including to fulfill corporate and donor reporting, advocacy, and information-sharing requirements.
• Provide substantive inputs related to regional external partnerships in the area of work.
• Support team leader in fostering strategic partnerships with UN and external regional partner institutions, regional development banks, regional cooperation bodies, Governments, private sector, academia, NGOs, and CSOs at regional and local level.
• Develop and maintain inter-institutional partnerships for disaster and climate risk assessments, damage, and loss accounting systems; provide leadership to collaborative efforts on developing international standards; supports advocacy efforts for effective application of climate and disaster risk assessments in country.

Facilitate Knowledge Management 

• Identifies and documents UNDP’s best practices and lessons learned in risk assessment; develops guidelines and tools for planning risk assessment, as well as relevant training materials; enhances the capacity of UNDP country office’s staff and UN country team for planning, implementing, and coordinating disaster and climate risk assessment.
• Coordinate team contributions and support to corporate KM activities, at region-specific level to help influence/advance policy dialogue in the thematic area in collaboration with policy teams at HQ and in Regional Hubs.
• Provide sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
• Coordinate and perform knowledge extraction, analysis, documentation, codification of results/lessons learned in the specific thematic area and verify that knowledge sharing, and content management is in line with guidelines and performed using corporate tools.
• Support the development of integrated capacity building programmes, which promote the mainstreaming of risk reduction into the national development agendas based on evidence of risk information.

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Required Skills and Experience 

Education:

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in economics, international affairs, governance, social/natural sciences, engineering, or related disciplines is required, OR
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master´s degree.

 Experience:

• Minimum 5 years (with Master´s degree) or 7 years (with Bachelor´s degree) of relevant professional work experience providing policy advice and programme support in the general area of Recovery/Crisis Response in different development contexts in Arab States Region.
• At least 3 years of experience working in developing country settings in the Arab States region is required and experience in crisis contexts is an asset.
• Understanding of the international and regional disaster risk reduction systems, networks and key stakeholders is required.

Language:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Fluency in any other UN language is highly desirable.

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