Project Officer – Community Stabilization Verified listing

The Project Officer – Community Stabilization will work under the supervision of the National Technical Specialist UNDP-DHL.

Under the overall supervision of the DHL Chief Technical Advisor and direct supervision of National Technical Specialist, the Project Officer – Community Stabilization is expected to provide services against the following list of activities while working in close collaboration with the project team members.

Provide implementation support to the UNDP’s community stabilization portfolio

• Support the National Technical Specialist in the strategic planning of community stabilization activities as well as the development of implementation modalities through close collaboration with field staff, government representatives at national and local levels, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Assist with the implementation of conflict transformation and rights-based/people-centered peacebuilding interventions for UNDP’s community stabilization portfolio.
• Create strategic partnerships and implementation modalities for the establishment of state society linkages for trust building, grievance reduction, and achievement of sustainable peace.
• Aid in integrating climate security and access to environmental justice in ongoing community stabilization project in Balochistan and design a strategy for scaleup work on climate security and access to environmental justice in Balochistan and other regions of Pakistan.
• Support in capacity building of human rights and environmental protection defenders on insider mediation and strengthen the national level network of defenders.
• Develop project concept notes, proposals, work plans, documents, and progress reports and facilitate research analysis in the field of stabilization or conflict transformation.
• Closely work with the National Technical Specialist and Project Officer – Rights Based Development to manage field operations for all the community stabilization projects to ensure timely, effective, and efficient programming delivery.
• Prepare detailed cost estimates, budget analyses, cost modifications, and projections as required to handle the financial operations of the project.
• Prepare terms of reference for individual contractors and firms including cost estimates and timelines for the implementation of the activities.
• Support that the projects are implemented by the UNDP and donor requirements, including those related to procurement, finance, and human resources, flagging issues and bottlenecks with senior management.
• Coordinate project-related activities including organization of roundtables, inception workshops, training, working meetings, and other events.
• Provide support to the implementation of UNDP’s country-wide human rights, gender justice, and environmental security initiatives.
• Prepare progress reports and necessary knowledge products while ensuring compliance with organizational and donor standards and timelines for reporting.
• Lead the training of psychologists on implementing a comprehensive psycho-social program with individuals as well as community leaders, teachers, and partners from academia and facilitate the subject expert in developing the MHPSS manual and tools as per international best practices.

Lead monitoring, evaluation and reporting of ongoing projects:

• Undertake monitoring, assessment, and evaluation of stabilization program implementation, highlight implementation challenges, and propose practical solutions to achieve maximum efficiency in program delivery.
• Provide strategic recommendations to enhance the theory of change guiding the implementation of UNDP stabilization and peacebuilding projects and future engagements.
• Develop baseline survey (pre-end line) tools and facilitate the assessment and final report as per the community stabilization model/methodology.
• Develop standardized M&E tool kit for the community stabilization projects and ensure accurate and reliable data collection and analysis which eventually results in dissemination promptly.
• Review the existing stabilization/peacebuilding tool kit and provide methodological recommendations on how to adapt the toolkit to enhance the interlinking between existing UNDP projects and global stabilization/peacebuilding indicators.
• Develop reporting templates for downstream partners to ensure collection of high-quality and timely quantitative and qualitative programmatic data.
• In coordination with the National Technical Specialist and Project Officer - Rights Based Development, conduct review and reflection sessions to generate learnings, and operationalize the learnings into new designs and practices.
• Lead donor reporting of community stabilization projects through the development of monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports and compliance with any other reporting requirements.

Provide support to prepare knowledge products, programming strategies, and guidance notes

• Support the National Technical Specialist and Project Officer – Rights Based Development in the identification of strategic program areas of cooperation.
• Maintain a knowledge database, comprising thematic training material, lessons learned and best practices narratives, contextual learnings, district profiles, strategy documents, and similar other resources.
• Closely work with the National Technical Specialist to develop community stabilization strategies, lessons learned, and good practices documents - integrating climate security and access to environmental justice.
• Ensure that new programs incorporate gender equality, human rights, and social inclusion at the design stages of the projects as per the UNDP’s global Gender Equality Strategy and Women Peace and Security Agenda.
• Prepare necessary knowledge products while ensuring compliance with organizational and donor standards and timelines for reporting.
• Develop a mechanism for regular monitoring and tracking of context-specific conflict and security risks to strengthen engagement efforts and promote coherence in programmatic and policy objectives towards peace consolidation by Federal and Provincial Governments, the UN, and development partners for sustainable peace in the region.

Coordinate the implementation of programs with stakeholders and counterparts

• Provide technical guidance and oversight of compliance to project partners, individual contractors, and implementing entities to ensure that all goals are achieved, and services are delivered.
• Conduct consultations, and develop and maintain working relationships, with government authorities, civil society partners, and other stakeholders.
• Support the National Technical Specialist to identify, promote, and foster strategic partnerships with key national and international actors and lead institutional development and preparation of substantive briefs on possible cooperation areas and identification of cost-sharing opportunities.
• Closely work with governmental and non-governmental partners to ensure measurable plans and concrete objectives for the implementation of community stabilization activities.
•  Identify and provide capacity-building support and opportunities to the partners in coordination with the Project Officer – Rights Based Development and subject experts.

The incumbent of the position will uphold the non-discriminatory behaviour and ensure that:

• Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;
• Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”;
• Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender are respected within all implementations including data production;
• Differentiated needs of women and men are considered;
• Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created;
• Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings, etc.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.