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• Contribute to the identification of key issues for policy and
  advisory support addressing vulnerability, social cohesion, Prevention of
  violent extremism, Small arms and light weapons, mediation and conflict
  prevention, cross border for affected communities, youth and women, with a
  view to recommending appropriate strategic responses for UNDP and
  partners;
• Assist with the provision of substantive and methodological support
  to Team and IEG pillar and Country Office leadership in the design,
  formulation and implementation of research and analysis activities;
• Support Country Office leadership in positioning and activities in
  the Peace, security to promote and support sustenance of peace;
• Contribute to the conceptualization and formulation of
  policy-related discussion and positioning, policy proposals and concepts
  for internal discussion within UNDP and external discussions with partners
  and other stakeholders;
• Assist with the planning and coordination of advisory support to
  projects addressing social cohesion and peace sustenance. Lead
  implementation of advisory activities ensuring the highest technical
  standards. Ensure that activities in support of policy support are well
  designed and delivered in a timely manner. Review and quality control
  technical outputs such as reports and assessments;
• Support the coordination and implementation of the PSSR programme;
• Support the training of local community members on the role of
  elders, faith-based organizations and various peace platforms in conflict
  prevention, mediation and building social cohesion;
• Contribute to the identification of key policy-related issues and
  stimulate thinking processes within the Team, contribute to discussion on
  issues related to focus of the Team and IEG pillar;
• Support as required, representation of the Programme in coordination
  platforms including sector reviews.

• Support with advocacy for greater contextual awareness and
  understanding in the design of programmatic activities, to ensure that
  programmatic activities are appropriately targeted and take due
  consideration of the delivery environment to maximize applicability,
  timeliness, quality and impact of the interventions;
• With emphasis on risk mitigation and conflict-sensitivity, support
  promotion of the systematic consideration of risk and conflict in
  programme and project descriptive and technical documents;
• Provide methodological support for the design and implementation of
  knowledge capture, and the incorporation of lessons learnt and best
  practices into programmatic formulation;
• As required or beneficial, assist in the preparation of concept
  notes, positioning papers, project proposals, Terms of Reference, analyses
  and reports, ensuring the systematic consideration of risk, conflict-sensitivity,
  and identified lessons learnt and best practices;
• Contribute to the design and conduct capacity needs assessments for
  the conflict hot spots and conflict mapping;
• Support the establishment of systems, procedures, standards,
  benchmarks and guidelines for monitoring and evaluating capacity building
  prograrmmes in the field of peace and security;
• Support the assessment and evaluation of the capacities and skills
  of consultants to undertake various capacity building programmes,
  assessments;
• Contribute to the analysis and research to seek information on
  training and research institutions that could serve as centers of capacity
  building programmes;
• Support the conduct conflict analyses and develop briefing notes
  from time to time to inform the early warning and response system;
• Support the development of conflict sensitivity planning tools and
  help local governments to mainstream them in their regular development
  planning.

• Support to develop a comprehensive capacity building programmes and
  strategies through consultations with various partners;
• Contribute to the design and implement capacity building programmes
  to strengthen the skills and knowledge of key partners in peace and
  security on techniques of mediation & negotiation skills, and conflict
  sensitive development for sustainable peace and social cohesion;
• Jointly with the IEG team, support the implementation of
  comprehensive synergistic capacity building programmes as to enhance the
  skills and knowledge of key peace and security stakeholders;
• Contribute to the preparation of evaluation questionnaires and
  evaluate various training programmes undertaken and give feedback to the
  UNDP COs in areas of improvement;
• Support the Programme Manager in setting up technical criteria for
  appraisal and evaluation of capacity building and conflict prevention
  programmes;
• Contribute to the effective implementation of policy or capacity
  building recommendations from Stakeholders and Audit reviews;
• Support the preparation of technical briefs & perform analytical
  work on area of expertise for UNDP senior management.
• Assist in the preparation of grant reports and applications;
• Provide back-up support to other professionals in the team during
  periods of absence from the office.
• Contribute to the preparation of relevant capacity building
  reports   and documentation of
  lessons and best practices, concept notes and background documents for
  training programmes to ensure effective implementation of the various
  capacity building programmes.

• Support the technical advice and advocate for conflict sensitive and
  capacity development approaches to inform programming;
• With focus on the project activities of the peace and security team,
  particularly those relating to addressing vulnerability, social cohesion,
  Prevention of violent extremism, Small arms and light weapons, mediation
  and conflict prevention, conflict early warning, cross border for affected
  communities, youth and women, support ad hoc technical support to the
  project teams to resolve challenges to delivery that arise;
• Contribute to policy and substantive guidance to the programme teams
  for risk mitigation, to maximize potential for timely and effective
  delivery of project activities;
• Assist with substantive contribution and quality control for regular
  and ad-hoc programme communications and reporting.;
• Contribute to actively codify, share, and disseminate knowledge,
  including best practices and lessons learned, accumulated through the
  programme implementation;
• Support representation of the Progrmame in meetings and conferences
  to which the Project is invited to attend;
• Support strategic documentation of PSSR successes and lessons;
• Provide support to ensure that the Programme systematically builds
  capacities of implementing partners and other national partners so that
  they can independently take initiatives for national dialogues and
  reforms;
• Contribute to the initiation and/ or participate in UNDP knowledge
  and learning events and take advantage of best practices and lessons to
  position UNDP as the Thought Leader in the area of peace and security.

• The ideal applicant for the United Nations UNDP Programme Officer –
  Peace and Security job placement should hold a master’s degree or
  equivalent in one of the following, or related, fields: Master’s degree in
  Conflict Prevention and Peace Building, International Development,
  Political Science, Sociology, International Relations, Law, Public
  Administration or a related area.
• Five years of work experience which must combine policy, advisory
  and advocacy engagement with senior levels of government, United Nations
  or government, and design, formulation and delivery of international
  development assistance.
• Proven experience in peace and security Peace and security sector,
  in particular in civilian peacebuilding, conflict prevention and
  resolution including capacity-building, monitoring dialogue and
  information exchange, and preferably in at least two of the following
  areas: (1) conflict early warning/early response, (2) security sector
  reform (SSR); (3) transnational organized crime; (4) mediation,
  confidence-building and assisting peace processes through National peace
  infrastructures; (5) women, peace and security (UNSC RES 1325 and
  follow-up resolutions) in a governmental, multilateral or civil society
  organization.
• A proven track record in designing and managing politically
  sensitive projects involving national political actors.
• Experience in or understanding and managing projects/programmes with
  multiple donor partners;
• Knowledge of and experience of East Africa/ horn of Africa or Uganda
  context will be an advantage;
• Experience in mainstreaming gender equality, conflict sensitivity
  and human rights in designing and implementing related projects including
  monitoring and reporting on these cross-cutting themes and SDGs;
• Experience managing election related conflict, mediation and or a
  national dialogue processes will be distinct advantage.
• Knowledge of E systems for conflict prevention and management.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages,
  (MS Word, Excel, etc.)

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