UNDP Director Jobs 2023

UNDP Director Jobs 2023 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

UNDP Ethiopia programme looking for ” Director”.

Applicants with a Bachelor’s Degree may apply on or before November 16, 2023.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development. The UNDP emphasizes developing local capacity towards long-term self-sufficiency and prosperity. Based at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, it is the largest UN development aid agency, with offices in 177 countries. The UNDP is funded entirely by voluntary contributions from UN member states.

The UNDP has published a job vacancy announcement on 09th November, 2023 for qualified Ethiopiaese to fill in the vacant post of Director to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Recruiter	United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Position	Director – Peace Support Office
Location	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Country	Ethiopia
Total Vacant Post	N/A
Qualification	Bachelor’s Degree
Experience Required	Minimum Fifteen (15) year’s
Application Deadline	November 16, 2023

UNDP Job Vacancy 2023

Duties and Responsibilities:

Policy advisory support and management performance

Provides high quality and strategic policy and programmatic advice to the UNDP Country Office (CO), government and partners, informed by global experience and good practice.
Offers technical leadership in the development of a relevant, high impact and well- integrated stabilization/peace support programme portfolio, including formulation of high quality and results-based projects appropriate to the Ethiopian context.
Prepares policy documents, briefs and other strategic papers/materials under the direction of the CO for use in the development and presentation of a coherent perspective to help define strategies and implementation actions.
Oversees the Peace Support Office (PSO), ensuring that it operates in a cohesive, efficient, effective and transparent manner, upholding UN values and maintaining the highest standards of integrity.
Takes responsibility for ensuring that the PSO meets all relevant benchmarks of programmatic and operational benchmarks set corporately by UNDP as well as by the CO.
Plays a key role in developing and maintaining a skilled, professional, motivated and high performing team in the PSO, including overseeing the proper discharge of core human resources functions.
Develops and oversees the operating and programmatic budget of the PSO, ensuring adherence with all relevant UNDP financial and programme budgetary rules and regulations as well as procedures.
Maintains full adherence with UNDP procurement rules and regulations, including effective management of the procurement planning process.
Represents the programme in appropriate fora as authorized by the RR or her/his delegate.

Programme management, monitoring, oversight and learning

Develops and oversees integrated programme planning, management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems that comply with UNDP standards, as adapted to Ethiopia by the CO.
Establishes and oversees a robust, state-of-the-art, monitoring and verification system to ensure proper and accountable use of resources entrusted to UNDP by donors and government, maintaining detailed and accessible digital records that demonstrate proper targeting of beneficiaries and use of resources in full compliance with approved Annual Work Plans (AWPs).
Manages UNDP’s stabilisation/peace support efforts as a portfolio, applying necessary tools of portfolio management and ensuring measurable integration of cross-portfolio issues such as gender equality and empowerment, doing no harm, peace building, human rights and resilience.
Plans and executes a timely, inclusive and transparent annual work planning process for the PSP/F, manner, acting in close consultation and collaboration with the CO, and involving Afar, Amhara and Tigray regions as well as federal entities including UNDP’s coordinating body, the Ministry of Finance.
Leads on timely and adequate reporting against plans, including on-time, substantive and well-documented progress reports, and ensures regular assessments of programmes/projects to identify and synthesise good practices and lessons learned, update risks and risk mitigation, to inform future plans, CO and corporate learning and strategic communications.
Ensures that approaches to gender equality are integrated into all aspects of planning, budgeting, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation, subject to rigorous assessment of effectiveness.
Ensures that the PSO meets all relevant project quality and management as well as M&E and audit benchmarks and requirements, including timely and full implementation of annual and multi-year M&E plans, project audit plans (NIM and DIM, as appropriate), HACT assessments and spot checks, reporting on the gender marker, project quality assurance (PQA) and ESG standards, and substantive contributions to the CO’s annual Results-Oriented Annual Report (ROAR).
Brings key policy, programmatic and operational issues to the attention of the CO and troubleshoots collaboratively with the RR and other CO staff to resolve implementation bottlenecks to enable speedy, flexible and timely action.
Identifies risks and challenges to the ongoing operations of the projects and applies timely mitigation measures aligned to the CO risk management strategy and corporate Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) system, documenting lessons learnt while providing advice to the RR and other senior managers on mitigation strategies.

Position in Organization:

Director – Peace Support Office (PSO)
Job Identification: 14603
Locations: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Posting Date: 08/11/2023, 21:38
Apply Before: 16/11/2023, 10:29
Job Schedule: Full time
Agency: UNDP
Grade: P6
Vacancy Type: Temporary
Practice Area: Crisis management / Country Management Support
Bureau: Regional Bureau for Africa
Contract Duration: 364 days

Minimum Requirements:

Qualification:

Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in the social sciences, international relations, international law, public administration or related field is required.
A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in Public/ in the social sciences, international relations, international law, or public administration and/or related fields in combination with additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of advanced university degree.
Specializations in crisis management, stabilization, conflict resolution, and/or application of key tools such as RPBA and PDNA will be an advantage.

Experience:

At least 15 years (with Master’s degree) or 17 years (with Bachelor’s degree) of progressively higher levels of responsibility in international development (of which at least five years) in senior management positions is required.
Experience in conflict prevention and peacebuilding initiatives is required. Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially but not only in the Horn of Africa, will be an advantage.
Experience in managing large-scale projects with multiple sectoral teams is required)
Experience in coordinating multiple stakeholders and inter-agency programs is desired.
Record of interaction at higher levels of government, UN, and donor community is required.

Language Required:

Strong verbal and written communication skills in English. Knowledge of any local languages spoken in Northern Ethiopia will be an advantage.

How to Apply UNDP Director Jobs 2023

Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.

Then to Apply, go to https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/job/14603

The Closing Date: November 16, 2023.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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