Peacebuilding Officer at United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

Host Entity: UNDP
Type: Onsite
Expected Start Date: 25/04/2022
Duration: 12 months (with possibility of extension)
Sustainable Development Goal: 16. Peace, justice and strong institutions
Volunteer Category: National UN Volunteer Specialist
Number of assignments: 1

Mission and Objectives

• UNDP is the United Nations largest agency with a mandate to eradicate poverty, through sustainable and inclusive human development. UNDP has been in Nigeria since the country became independent in 1960 providing capacity building and policy development support to the Federal Government of Nigeria in areas of Governance & Peace Building, Inclusive growth, and Sustainable Development.
• UNDP continues to support the government in the implementation of development interventions aimed at meeting medium to long term goals enshrined in National and Subnational development plans as well as the Sustainable Development Goals.
• The goal of UNDP is to improve the lives of the people of Nigeria, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, and to ensure a future that offers equality, dignity, and opportunity for all.
• UNDP works in partnership with the federal Government of Nigeria, development partners, UN agencies, civil society and local communities to help identify local solutions to meet global and national development challenges through a range of interventions that combine UNDP’s expertise and comparative advantage in the areas of Governance & Peace Building, Inclusive growth and Sustainable Development.

Context

• In order to address the need for continued and systematic analysis of contextual risks in Nigeria, the Country Office has developed the design of a Crisis Risk Dashboard (CRD) with the support of UNDP Crisis Bureau.
• The CRD is an online platform for data aggregation and visualization, aimed at facilitating the identification, tracking and analysis of contextual risks by the UNDP Country Office and potentially the wider UN Country Team.
• UNDP Crisis Bureau and the Country Office will work together on developing, maintaining and using the CRD.
• As a next step, the Country Office and Crisis Bureau are seeking to recruit an information management officer (IMO) who will lead on key aspects of the CRD design and finalization, especially related to data management and technical support.

Task Description

• Under the overall supervision of the Crises Prevention and Recovery Advisor, Governance, Peace and Security (GPS), and with day to day support of the Conflict and Political Economy Specialist, the Peace Building Officer will support the implementation of the PBF Project in Sokoto State.

Summary of Key Functions

• The Peace building specialist will work closely with the Project team to support in ensuring that results of this programme are well articulated, results are tracked and documented; and that both internal and external reports capture the actual changes that are happening with the programme interventions:
• Contributions to substantive peace building and conflict prevention support relevant to state institutions and aligned to the project ensuring facilitation of knowledge building and management focusing on achievement of the following results:
• Explore new opportunities for sustained peace building and conflict prevention including in the area of Youth, Peace and Security.
• Support in stakeholder mapping and Mobilisation, collaborative dialogues and peace mapping in the project locations
• Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learned directly linked to programme, institutional and country policy goals.
• Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
• Organisation of training for the operations/ projects staff on programme issues.

Ensures implementation of project activities focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Review workplans, activity reports, implement programme activities according to the technical, financial and administrative procedures prescribed in the programme document or by the Joint Steering Committee (JSC).
• Support the organization, preparation, collation and consolidation of annual work plans and budget administration for activities.
• Serve as secretary at PMU meetings, follow up on communication with all partners (Katsina State government and CSOs).
• Analysis and synthesis of proposals, draft terms of reference on the areas for support and interventions with respect to the project documents.
• Participates in effective management of the Programme Management Unit focusing on quality control from formulation to implementation of the programme achieving the following results:
• Implementation of project within the area of responsibility, translating priorities into local interventions.
• Coordination of the mandatory and budget re-phasing exercises, closure of projects through review.
• Provision of operational and technical support to Implementing Partners, Responsible Parties, and relevant Government institutions and Development Partners as assigned, including facilitating development of workplans and timely submission of reports.
• Support management of programme resources, supervise administration of accounts and follow up budgets and expenditures.
• Support financial and substantive monitoring and evaluation of the projects, identification of operational and financial problems, development of solutions.
• Participation in audit of project.
• Preparation of inputs for reporting, supervise collation, consolidation and review of quarterly, annual and other reports for donor reporting.

Requirements
Required Education Level:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in, Sociology, Social Sciences, Development Studies, Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding, Security Studies, Peace Studies, Law, Public Administration, International Relations or other related technical field with top tier grade.

Required Experience:

• 3 years of experience in Peace building and conflict prevention Programmes
• Conducting primary conflict research, particularly in crisis context.
• Coordinating key partnerships with stakeholders – including Government, Civil Society, Faith-Institutions and others.

Area(s) of Expertise:

• Crisis and emergency response, Development programmes, Community development

Languages:

• English, Level: Fluent, required.

Competencies and Values:

• Accountability
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Client Orientation
• Commitment and Motivation
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Professionalism
• Respect for Diversity
• Working in Teams

Eligibility Criteria:

• Age: 27 - 80
• Nationality: Candidate must be a national or legal resident of the country of assignment.