Deadline: 03 December, 2020

Location: Kuajok, South Sudan

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Peace & Community Cohesion Officer.

UNDP works in nearly 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion.

Responsibilities

• Maintain regular communication and coordination with relevant partners, CSOs and local and national government counterparts to ensure timely implementation of project activities
• Facilitate and provide technical inputs for the implementation of peace and community-cohesion-related activities, enabling delivery of high quality outputs and activity results as per the PaCC project documents
• Strengthen synergies with/between PaCC activities and work of other UNDP projects/UN agencies/other relevant partners to ensure the achievement of integrated results
• Facilitate the strengthening of local peace infrastructure such as peace committees, council of Traditional Authorities and Leaders (COTAL) to encourage joint and inclusive and gender sensitive peace building approaches at the local level
• Monitor and provide technical inputs/advice to the CSOs implementing parts of the UNDP Peace and Community Cohesion work to ensure the achievement of result that are aligned to human rights
• Identify capacity needs of local peace partners/structures and support the design and implementation of capacity development initiatives
• Promote community-led participatory conflict and context analyses to inform project programming
• Monitor and assess activity progress against the project’s annual workplan targets and indicators
• Ensure the project lessons learnt and best practices are captured, documented and periodically shared
• Support identification of new entry points for PaCC activities that contribute to social cohesion and community security

Requirements

• Master’s degree or equivalent in Political or Social Sciences, International Development, Conflict Studies or other related fields
• Five years, minimum, of relevant professional experience at the national or international level in development work related to peace building and/or conflict transformation, preferably in post-conflict settings
• Experience in working with CSOs to promote peace and reconciliation especially at the grassroots level preferred
• Excellent understanding of the use of Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and spoken English is essential
• Knowledge of Arabic is a plus

To apply and for mire information, click here.

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