Job Name: Recovery Advisor
Job ID: 20950
Location of Job: Farchana, Chad
Type of Job: Fixed Term Contract
Duration: Not Specified
Institution: UNDP
Starting Date: Between May- June 2025 for a 12-week
Application Deadline: 11 October 2024
The Recovery Advisor heads and supervises the PASRRC team and works in close collaboration with Government officials, other UN Agencies, UNDP HQ, technical advisors and experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and civil society to strategically position UNDP in the early recovery and to implement UNDP’s Recovery programme in the East.
Duties and Responsibilities
Provide strategic direction of UNDP Recovery Programme
As a senior member of the CO management team, ensures sound strategic direction of UNDP Recovery programme focusing on the following:
- Thorough analysis of the political, social and economic situation in the immediate response context, including a gender analysis and provision of strategic advice to CO Management
- Identification of strategic opportunities and potential recovery programme areas of cooperation, including opportunities for joint programming with UN agencies and other development partners (IFIs, INGOs etc.).
- Leads the development of UNDP’s Recovery Programme in collaboration with the main partners and other UN Agencies.
- Ensures alignment and coordination of recovery programme with other programme activities of the CO as well as those of UN Agencies and capitalizes on synergies where possible.
- Ensures mainstreaming of cross-cutting UN/UNDP priorities in recovery programmes, in particular environment, gender, human rights and disaster risk reduction.
- Ensure that women’s needs and priorities are integrated into the recovery assessment, strategies and results with attendant financial and human resources that can be tracked, monitored and reported upon.
- In conflict/post conflict situations: Ensuring that conflict prevention and peace building is mainstreamed into the UNDP Country Programme.
- Ensure that UNDP’s intervention is focused on areas where it is deemed global co-lead in the UN system as per the UN Secretary-General’s Seven Point Action Plan on gender-responsive planning results matrix and the UNDP Strategic Plan.
- Facilitate gender-responsive financial allocation of at least 15 per cent to GEWE and use the Gender Marker system to plan, monitor and report on this.
- Leads the development of relevant strategies to ensure the effective programmatic and operational interface and complementarities between humanitarian, transitional and recovery interventions.
Management of the Recovery Programme portfolio and supervision of the Recovery Programme team
Ensures effective management of the Recovery Programme portfolio and supervision of the Recovery Programme team focusing on quality control programming from formulation to implementation achieving the following results:
- Effective application of RBM tools, establishment of management targets (BSC) and monitoring achievement of results.
- Design and formulation of Recovery Programme, translating UNDP priorities into local interventions. Coordination of programme implementation with the executing agencies.
- Strategic oversight of planning, budgeting, implementing and monitoring of the Recovery Programme, tracking use of financial resources in accordance with UNDP rules and regulations.
- Effective monitoring and evaluation, continuous analysis of the programme environment and timely readjustment of programmes.
- Follow up on audit recommendations. All exceptions are timely reported.
- Aggregate reports are regularly prepared on activities, outputs and outcomes. Donor reports are prepared and submitted within deadlines.
- Organization of cost-recovery system for the services provided by the CO to projects in close collaboration with Operations Manager.
Strategic partnerships and resource mobilization for the Recovery Programme in cooperation with the Management Support and Business Development Team
Establishes and maintains strategic partnerships and resource mobilization for the Recovery Programme in cooperation with the Management Support and Business Development Team focusing on achievement of the following results:
- Development and implementation of partnerships and resources mobilization strategies to achieve recovery programme outcomes.
- Creation and coordination of partnerships with the UN Agencies, IFI’s, government institutions, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, civil society, women’s civil society groups and national women’s machineries, etc.
- Determination of programmatic areas of cooperation, based on strategic goals of UNDP, the country’s recovery needs and donors’ priorities.
- Analysis and research of information on donors, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost-sharing.
Top quality and strategic advisory services, capacity building and facilitation of knowledge sharing
Ensures provision of top quality and strategic advisory services, capacity building and results facilitation of knowledge sharing focusing on achievement of the following:
- Advocacy for and strengthening of national and local capacity for planning and coordination of the recovery effort.
- Provision of top-quality policy and strategic advice to Government on development and implementation of recovery policies and strategies.
- Identification, sharing and application of international best practices and lessons on recovery related issues relevant to the country’s recovery needs and goals.
- Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
- Promotion of the nexus approach by building bridge between the interventions in the humanitarian, development and peace sectors.
- Capacity building for country office staff (programme and operations).
The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Competencies
Core Competencies:
- Achieve Results: LEVEL 4: Prioritize team workflow, mobilize resources, drive scalable results/strategic impact.
- Think Innovatively: LEVEL 4: Easily navigate complexity, encourage/enable radical innovation, has foresight.
- Learn Continuously: LEVEL 4: Create systems and processes that enable learning and development for all.
- Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 4: Proactively initiate/lead organizational change, champion new systems/processes.
- Act with Determination: LEVEL 4: Able to make difficult decisions in challenging situations, inspire confidence.
- Engage and Partner: LEVEL 4: Construct strategic multi-partner alliances in high stake situations, foster co-creation.
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 4: Create ethical culture, identify/address barriers to inclusion.
Cross Functional and Technical Competencies:
- Business Development – Knowledge Generation: Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for content, or responsive to a stated need.
- Business Direction and Strategy – System Thinking: Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system.
- Business Development – Collective Intelligence Design: Ability to bringing together diverse groups of people, data, information or ideas, and technology to design services or solutions.
- Développement des affaires – Human-centered Design: Ability to develop solutions to problems be involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process.
- Partnership Management – Strategic Engagement: Ability to capture and sustain attention, interest and agreement of high-level, influential policy and decision makers and secure their buy-in of high-level vision and objectives.
- Business Direction and Strategy – Negotiation and Influence: Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates in-situations.
- Business Direction and Strategy – Portfolio Management: Ability to select, prioritise and control the organizationos programmes and projects, in line with its strategic objectives and capacity; ability to balance the implementation of change initiatives and the maintenance of business-as-usual, while optimising return on investment
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, or related field is required, OR
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years (with master’s degree) or 12 years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience at the national or international level in field experience.
- Extensive experience at the national or international level in providing management advisory services.
- In conflict/post conflict situations: Experience with conflict prevention, peace building, reintegration, and conflict sensitive development is desired.
- Experience in resource mobilization (JSB, AFBD, other donors) and partnerships is desired.
- Experience working on gender equality in a fragile setting is desirable.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
- Knowledge and experience from disaster response operations, including missions in support of recovery planning in at least two different regions is desirable.
- Experience in leading and supervising a team is desired.
- Experience in facilitation, consensus-building, dialogue processes, mediation, dispute resolution, social cohesion, and relevant conflict prevention and peacebuilding intervention areas highly desirable.
Language:
- Fluency in French and English is required for this position.
- Working knowledge of another UN language is desired.
Please note that continuance of appointment beyond the initial 12 months is contingent upon the successful completion of a probationary period.
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