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UNDP Project Officer, Peacebuilding || Apply Now
The UNDP Project Officer will play a key role in supporting UNDP Kyrgyzstan’s implementation of its peacebuilding program portfolio. This entails providing strategic leadership, technical expertise, and operational support to UNDP initiatives aimed at fostering peace, stability, and sustainable development in the country.
Duties and Responsibilities of UNDP Project Officer
Project Management and Coordination:
- Coordinating and overseeing the number of UNDP projects aiming at strengthening social cohesion and peacebuilding including:
- Ferghana Valley Social and Economic Recovery Project in the Kyrgyz Republic
- Promoting Resilient Communities to Prevent Violent Extremism in Central Asia
- Economic empowerment of youth and developing sustainable solutions for youth’s entrepreneurship at the local level for fostering greater social cohesion and resilience.
- Develop relevant annual work plans and budget sand ensure that the proposed activities are aligned with overall project objectives, country programme and strategic plan.
- Coordinate execution of the workplans to achieve the targets, including guiding the teams to achieve the targets.
- Contribute to the preparation of Board meetings and ensure that recommendations made by the Project Board are addressed.
- Coordinate the project evaluation, audit, and spot-check as needed.
Managing relationships, partnerships, policy, and advocacy efforts:
- Contribute to seek and identify additional partnership and funding opportunities, and support development of concept notes, funding proposals, donor briefings and presentations in support of resource mobilization.
- Mobilize, foster and strengthen strategic partnerships with ley counterparts including government, civil society, academia, UN and development partners to advance and support relevant objectives.
- Establish strong ties with national programmes, and relevant sectoral strategies, priorities and plans.
- Lead the analytical and policy development work of the team.
Coordinating monitoring and evaluation activities of the projects/initiatives under his/her portfolio:
- Ensure close financial and procurement oversight and monitoring of all activities of the projects/initiatives.
- Set direction for monitoring and evaluation priorities in accordance with UNDP rules and regulations.
- Guide development of overall monitoring and evaluation systems for the projects/initiatives and put mechanisms in place for proper and timely reporting.
- Lead regular project reviews by monitoring the progress of project implementation, assessing results and identifying areas of weaknesses to ensure the projects achieve the planned results in accordance with relevant plans.
- Evaluate all key project deliverables, as well as final product to ensure traceability of requirements, high quality and client acceptance.
Facilitating knowledge management and sharing:
- Ensure regular assessment of strategic, implementation, action plans identifying areas of emphasis to guide project improvements and future plans.
- Use sound judgment in all project communication and ensure that project communication meets needs of different audiences.
- Participate in communication activities to inform stakeholders of progress and issues.
- Establish and maintain a friendly internal communication system to ensure smooth communication among and between the project partners.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of the programme knowledge networks and practices and development of knowledge products.
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Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Master’s degree or equivalent in social science (e.g. peacebuilding, conflict prevention, economics, sociology), law, international relations, public administration, political science, project management or related fields is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in combination with an additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Master’s degree.
Experience:
- Minimum 2 years (with Master´s degree) or 4 years (with Bachelor´s degree) of progressive working experience in the design, management and/or implementation of complex development projects in governance/conflict prevention/peacebuilding or other related fields is required.
Required Skills:
- Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.), and in handling web-based management systems such as ERP.
Desired Skills:
- Solid experience in project management (design, implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of development projects), in coordination with multi-stakeholders and in establishing relationships among partners.
- Experience in joint UN programme/project management, implementation and/or oversight and reporting is highly desirable.
- Solid experience in conflict prevention/peacebuilding is an asset.
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Specifications
| Type of Opportunity | Internships |
|---|---|
| Deadline | 07 September,2024 |
| Country | Kazakhstan |
| City | Bishkek |
| Organizer | UNDP |