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The Stabilization Advisor, Team Leader, provides the overall vision and advises the UNDP management team in country on conflict transformation and stabilization. S/he is the lead advisor on political engagement towards stabilization objectives and engages with high level officials nationally and internationally, in the government, the embassies and the UN. S/he also ensures liaison with MONUSCO for the implementation of the joint programme on stabilization. S/he leads the development of strategic partnerships and the resource mobilization efforts to develop the portfolio for the pillar and the joint programme. S/he also engages at the global and regional level on sharing lessons learned and capitalization on the DRC stabilization and conflict transformation model.

Duties and Responsibilities of Stabilization Advisor

• Leads the strategic development of UNDP’s response to the stabilization and Resilience needs in line with the CPD outcome and outputs, ensuring that UNDP’s contribution to the achievement of the different outputs is relevant and effective, and respects conflict-sensitivity and gender-mainstreaming.
• Leads the development, finalization and execution of the “Joint UN programme on Peace and Stabilization” as one of the joint delivery mechanisms for the MONUSCO transition and the implementation of the PDDRCS; ensures close collaboration with the government, MONUSCO, participating UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes and donors in this regard.
• Leads the roll-out of UNDP Stabilization and Resilience offer in different geographies with focus on the priority provinces where MONUSCO transition takes place first;
• Coordinates the development of concept notes, project briefs, project documents and maintains close relationship with the government and the international community.
• Supervises the effective implementation of all the projects in the portfolio, meeting of their respective governance bodies and reporting requirements.
• Ensures monitoring and evaluation requirements are respected for all components of the programmatic portfolio.
• Ensures the effective management and oversight of UNDP’s stabilization and resilience unit and the supervision of the unit team.
• Leads the timely execution of the operational and programmatic processes to implement the programme and related projects in accordance with relevant UNDP rules and procedures.
• Ensures the existence, quality, regular update, validation and timely execution of the corporate strategic planning documents related to the unit programmatic portfolio and operations, including integrated work plan, recruitment plan, missions plan, procurement plan, risk register, communication plan, resource mobilization and partnership plan, monitoring and evaluation plan, delivery, reporting and meeting calendar.
• Ensures the quality of contributions of the Stabilization and Resilience Pillar to UNDP corporate processes (Integrated Work Plans (IWP) Results Oriented Annual Reporting (ROAR), relevant QUANTUM modules, etc);
• Supervises the recruitment, effective onboarding, regular coaching and personal development of the unit team members;
• Ensures that individual workplans and objectives are set for/with all team members and that performance evaluation are conducted regularly.
• Supervises the regular meetings Stabilization and Resilience Pillar governance bodies at the strategic (steering committee, technical support committees, etc) and managerial level (team meetings).
• Takes part in the strategic level programme and operations bodies of the UNDP country office.
• Approves QUANTUM transactions under written delegated authority from the Resident Representative. Has QUANTUM manager rights as delegated.
• Performs any other related task assigned by the supervisor.

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