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Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities:

Summary of Key Functions:

♦ Social Cohesion and Community resilience: Support social cohesion and local development projects’ design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; promote links between the various portfolios’ activities; map social cohesion actors; and contribute to developing their capacities.

♦ Context Analysis: Support the drafting and regular updating of analysis up to the local level; ensure a context sensitive approach by UNDP and partners.

♦ Community Based Approach: Support local initiatives, community mapping of threats and resources, project design and implementation by communities.

♦ Facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing.

Supports design of the Social Cohesion & local development Projects’ and implementation focusing on achievement of the following results: Any other tasks requested by the Area Manager and/or Social Cohesion Portfolio team.

♦ Collects, analyses and presents of background information for preparation of Project Documents.

♦ Researches and designs project ideas and implementation for the expansion of project portfolio; identification of stakeholders and negotiation of project strategies.

♦ Contributes to monitoring of the situation in local areas, such as through context analysis.

♦ Identifies and communicates with current/potential community partners.

♦ Assists with organization of programme activities.

♦ Monitors programme/project activities in the geographical area of responsibility.

♦ Oversees implementation of project field interventions programmatically and operationally ensuring achievement of results and following UNDP’s rules and regulations, policies and procedures;

♦ Develops partnerships with local partners to facilitate implementation in the target areas;

♦ Coordinates with the programme, projects and operations teams on operational matters including procurement, financial, logistical, and implementation support functions;

♦ Collect data and conduct research to support the analysis of the political, social and economic situation in the area of assignment and provides input that would feed into strategies, planning processes, reports, and other documents;

♦ Supports the development and update of a context analysis document of the sectors targeted by UNDP; identifies needs, monitor changes and progress, and supports the drafting of reports and position papers related to operational activities;

♦ Supports mapping of stakeholders and building partnerships with active partners, UN Agencies, private sector, NGOs/ CBOs and other local partners in area, depending on the specific thematic areas and strategic goals of UNDP and local priorities;

♦ Supports capacity assessment of partners and facilitates NGO capacity development activities in the field;

♦ Actively participates in liaising with NGOs, CBOs, local authorities, FBOs, communities’ representatives, and other active stakeholders as well as local municipal and local institutions in coordination with the area manager and as per the agreed upon area-based plan;

♦ Supports the communication strategy of UNDP, ensure their visibility, and develop success stories, lessons learnt, best practices…etc.

♦ Follows up on grant agreements signed with local partners and ensures proper delivery of results and financial disbursements according to plans, review progress reports and advises UNDP of any issue or concerns.

♦ Follows up and monitor the implementation of activities in the field in close coordination with the area manager, portfolio managers and project managers according to the approved work plans and ensures proper reporting on progress in line with the country office and donor reporting requirements.

♦ Supports technical/thematic officers in the field as required.

♦ Supports preparing TORs, evaluation of project proposals and documents, including project amendments, annual work plans, budgets…etc.

♦ Ensures proper monitoring and reporting of project activities in the area of responsibility including providing information for updating IMRP system;

♦ Organizes the logistics of workshops, training seminars and coordination meetings as required; 

♦ Perform the functions of security focal point as required/assigned;

♦ Applies UNDP RBM tools (integrated workplan, risk logs, Results Oriented Annual Reports).

Ensures facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the CO focusing on achievement of the following results:

♦ Organization of training for the projects staff and local communities on the SCCR programme

♦ Synthesis of lessons learnt and best practices in Social cohesion.

♦ Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.

♦ Support coordination efforts particularly in relation to humanitarian and economic and early recovery axis.