UNDP - Peace and Development Specialist 
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Agency: UNDP
Title: Peace & Development Specialist (PDA)
Duty Station: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Education & Work Experience: Master's Level Degree - 7 years experience
Languages: English, French required
Contract Duration: 1 Year with possibility for extension
Background
Peace and Development Specialists (hereafter PDA) work with national stakeholders to build, strengthen, and sustain nationally owned and driven efforts to prevent violent conflict and build just and peaceful societies. The range of countries to which PDAs are deployed vary considerably, with some deployed to countries emerging from conflict, others where violence is escalating, and others to countries where there is no violent conflict but underlying structural causes of conflict are present. PDAs are also deployed in countries where political and developmental challenges exist around issues related to elections and constitutional processes, exclusion and inequality, environment, climate change and natural resource management.
PDAs are deployed through a partnership between the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), under the Joint UNDP-DPPA Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention. PDAs support Resident Coordinators (RC) and UN Country Teams (UNCTs) in their efforts to work with national partners on conflict prevention and sustaining peace. They support early warning and risk management measures, and ensure that UN assessments, frameworks (mainly UN Cooperation Frameworks), strategies and programmes are conflict-sensitive, including gender and human rights perspectives, and informed by high quality analysis. They are located in the Resident Coordinators’ office (RCO), with a direct and first reporting line to the RC, and a secondary reporting line to the UNDP Resident Representative and DPPA-DPO regional division.
Duties and Responsibilities
There are three broad functions of the position:
COMPETENCIES
Innovation: Ability to make new and useful ideas work
Leadership: Ability to persuade others to follow
People Management: Ability to improve performance and satisfaction
Communication: Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform
Delivery: Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement
Technical/Functional
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree) in conflict resolution, peace studies, political science, human rights, sociology, international relations, economics, law, public administration, or other related social sciences.
Experience:
Language Requirements:
Qualified female candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
Title: Peace & Development Specialist (PDA)
Duty Station: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Education & Work Experience: Master's Level Degree - 7 years experience
Languages: English, French required
Contract Duration: 1 Year with possibility for extension
Background
Peace and Development Specialists (hereafter PDA) work with national stakeholders to build, strengthen, and sustain nationally owned and driven efforts to prevent violent conflict and build just and peaceful societies. The range of countries to which PDAs are deployed vary considerably, with some deployed to countries emerging from conflict, others where violence is escalating, and others to countries where there is no violent conflict but underlying structural causes of conflict are present. PDAs are also deployed in countries where political and developmental challenges exist around issues related to elections and constitutional processes, exclusion and inequality, environment, climate change and natural resource management.
PDAs are deployed through a partnership between the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), under the Joint UNDP-DPPA Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention. PDAs support Resident Coordinators (RC) and UN Country Teams (UNCTs) in their efforts to work with national partners on conflict prevention and sustaining peace. They support early warning and risk management measures, and ensure that UN assessments, frameworks (mainly UN Cooperation Frameworks), strategies and programmes are conflict-sensitive, including gender and human rights perspectives, and informed by high quality analysis. They are located in the Resident Coordinators’ office (RCO), with a direct and first reporting line to the RC, and a secondary reporting line to the UNDP Resident Representative and DPPA-DPO regional division.
Duties and Responsibilities
There are three broad functions of the position:
- Provide conflict analysis and early warning, ensuring contribution of other UN entities including on gender and human rights aspects, and provide strategic advice to the Resident Coordinator in his/her engagement with high-level government officials, academia, civil society including youth and women’s networks, UN Country Teams, HQ, and other relevant stakeholders. Discuss and submit analysis and reports to the RC, UNDP RR and DPPA-DPO Wester Africa Division, which will then be shared with the UNCT.
- Identify opportunities to build national capacities for conflict prevention, including areas of strategic, programmatic and policy engagement with national stakeholders, with a view to supporting, the RC and the UNCT action in areas of conflict prevention, peacebuilding, human rights, humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus, Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) among others.
- Establish and strengthen strategic partnerships with key national stakeholders, regional and international actors and development partners on issues related to Sustaining Peace and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
COMPETENCIES
Innovation: Ability to make new and useful ideas work
Leadership: Ability to persuade others to follow
People Management: Ability to improve performance and satisfaction
Communication: Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform
Delivery: Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement
Technical/Functional
- Social Cohesion: Knowledge of methods and experience of supporting communities to achieve greater inclusiveness, more civic participation and creating opportunities for upward mobility
- Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: Ability to support peace processes to facilitate recovery and development
- Conflict-Sensitive Programming: Ability to use methods and tools to monitor conflict triggers and determine impact of various dynamics in conflict-prone situations
- Conflict and Political Economy Analysis: Knowledge of the interaction of political, social and economic processes in a society; including distribution of power and wealth between groups and individuals, and the processes that create, sustain and transform these relationships over time, and how these dynamics both affect, and are affected by, UN's development support
- Knowledge Management: Ability to efficiently handle and share information and knowledge
- Relationship Management: Ability to engage with other parties and forge productive working relationships
- Gender: Knowledge of gender issues and the ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situations, including analysis of projects from a gender perspective
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree) in conflict resolution, peace studies, political science, human rights, sociology, international relations, economics, law, public administration, or other related social sciences.
Experience:
- Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in conflict analysis, strategy development, risk informed/conflict sensitive development and/or conflict prevention and sustaining peace in a governmental, multilateral or civil society organization;
- Proven policy, advisory and advocacy experience and track record of engagement with senior officials, such as in the United Nations, government and external partners;
- Experience in programming and project management, such as programme design and results monitoring, in areas related to conflict prevention, peacebuilding and/or development;
- Experience in national and community level conflict prevention and peacebuilding initiatives and programming; with experience in gendered dimensions of peacebuilding being an asset.
- Experience working within a UN Agency/Fund/Programme or Department and field experience would be a major asset.
- Proven experience in working on the West Africa subregion would be a major asset.
Language Requirements:
- Fluent written and spoken English and French is required.
- Knowledge of another UN language is an advantage.
Qualified female candidates are especially encouraged to apply.
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