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Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.
A cover letter (maximum length: 1 page) indicating why the candidate considers him-/herself to be suitable for the position.
Managers may ask (ad hoc) for any other materials relevant to pre-assessing the relevance of their experience, such as reports, presentations, publications, campaigns or other materials.
Office Description / Background
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN development system and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work is carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, and forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan. The GPN also aims to provide rapid and integrated support to UNDP country offices, combining policy advice, technical expertise, financial resources, agile tools and procedures, and partnerships. The Global Policy Network (GPN) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan (2018-2021).
Within the GPN, the Crisis Bureau guides UNDP’s corporate crisis-related strategies and vision for crisis prevention, response and recovery. The UNDP’s Crisis Bureau supports emergency and crisis response and ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP’s development programmes. The Crisis Bureau assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results-based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. The CB supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts. The CB’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas.
The Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery for Building Resilience Team provides integrated policy and programme support on disaster risk reduction and recovery in the context of UNDP’s broader approach to resilience building. The Team specifically fosters the integration of risk reduction as a key element in sustainable development and recovery at national, sub-national and sectoral level to strengthen resilience. It is also the responsibility of the team to support the regional hubs in their efforts to strengthen national capacities on disaster resilience and disaster risk reduction. The team provides high quality advice and programmatic support in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programmes. The team leads the development and coordination of policy in disaster risk reduction (DRR), and disaster recovery with a focus on resilience building and integrated approaches with climate adaptation.
UNDP is seeking to recruit a Project Management IPSA to manage the inception phase for the UNDP-UNDRR “Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance and Recovery Capacities” Project, which is a component of the Intra-ACP Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Programme funded under the 11th European Development Fund (EDF) ACP-EU Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Programme. The project has the overarching goal to prevent new/reduce existing risk and help ACP countries and communities recover from and enhance their resilience to disasters, according to the priorities set out in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. It builds on the UNDP legacy of long-term sustainable approaches to development, anchored in natural resource management, resilience building and governance with a transformative disaster/climate risk lens to reduce risks across entire systems. Through four outputs that are aligned to three of the four priorities of the Sendai Framework, this Project will strengthen disaster risk reduction capacities of ACP regional institutions, build risk governance capacity in ACP countries, and enhance recovery processes and community level action in order to save lives. The approach will contribute to the achievement of many goals highlighted in international agendas such as the Sendai Framework, Paris Agreement, Agenda for Humanity, New Urban Agenda, and not last the Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, it will pursue a holistic, conflict sensitive, whole-of-government/society, gender transformative, and leave no one behind approach.
Institutional Arrangement
The Project Management IPSA will perform duties under the direct supervision of UNDP’s DRT Partnership Advisor based in Geneva, with a matrixed reporting to the Crisis Bureau Programme Specialist outposted at the UNDP Representation Office in Brussels.