United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Jobs: Information /Liaison Consultant

Closing date: 22 Oct 2009

Location: Kenya - Nairobi

Post Title:Information /liaison Consultant

Contract Type: Special Service Agreement

Direct Supervisor: DDR/AVR Project Manager

Duty station: Nairobi (UNDP Somalia) with possible travel to Somalia required

Duration: 6 months

Closing Date: 22nd October 2009

Organizational Context

The UNDP Somalia Rule of Law and Security Programme (ROLS) is comprised of 5 components that are programmatically and operationally linked. The project components are: judiciary, law enforcement, human rights and gender, Demobilization, Disarmament & reintegration (DDR) / Armed Violence Reduction (AVR) and mine action.

The DDR/AVR project in Somalia evolved from the DDR and small arms control project. It builds on lessons learned from countries such as Haiti, Colombia and El Salvador which demonstrated the interest of relying on communities and local authorities to address armed conflicts and reduce violence.

The project intends to build confidence, stability and security through the involvement of State actors in a partnership with the community in order to reduce and prevent armed violence, creating favourable conditions for recovery and development. This is supporting the outcome 3 of the UNTP: “Improved security and protection under the law for all in Somalia”.

With the dual purpose to establish a knowledge management mechanism amongst a community of practitioner for Somalia and, establishing and maintain a specialised network of local organisation in community safety, to support the implementation of the UNDP Armed Violence Project, UNDP seek to recruit an information/liaison officer.

Functions / Key Results Expected

Duties and Responsibilities:

Under the supervision of the DDR/AVR Project Manager, the information/liaison officer will undertake the following responsibilities:

• Development and execution of the of the knowledge management strategy for the project, in view of building up the capacity of the community safety working group.
• Develop and maintain the network of partners. Assess capacity and develop a capacity building work-plan.
• Increase information sharing among CS practitioners through the monitoring of a an interactive web-based platform;
• Improve communication and collaboration between project partners through web- based discussions;

Key Outputs:

• Six monthly updates on UNDP project activities,
• Two quarterly updates on community safety work-group;
• Two quarterly reports on UNDP project growth;
• Finalisation of two project specific articles per month to be posted on the UNDP Somalia website;
• Knowledge Management Strategy
• Expression of interest for UNDP ROLS programme
• Development of Community Safety Work Group website structure and function in collaboration with UNDP communication
• UNDP DDR/AVRP brochure
• Information and reporting training modules for UNDP staff and counterpart
• Mapping of community safety initiatives in Somalia and maintaining updates
• DDR/AVR Project technical document
• Mapping of AVR business process (i.e. establishment of the committee, by-laws, etc)
• Organise two two-days partners meetings and prepare meeting report
• Organise two quarterly workshops with Community Safety workgroup workshop report

Requirements

• Knowledge of community security and conflict management
• International experience in post-conflict settings
• Present full time during office hours
• Travel to Somalia and other locations outside of Kenya
• English as a native speaker

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards.
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP.
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
• Treats all people fairly without favouritism.

Functional Competencies:

• Ability to conceptualise web-based communication and information exchange tools;
• Excellent and effective communication (verbal and written) skills, including ability to prepare reports and conduct presentations;
• Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to establish and maintain effective working relations;
• Commands thorough theoretical and practical knowledge of broader security concepts, armed violence reduction, conflict management, victim assistance and security sector reform;
• Pragmatism, understanding of operational constraints in highly volatile and insecure contexts.

Requirements and qualifications

Education:

• University degree (Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent) in political or social sciences.

Language requirements:

• English

General requirements:

• Knowledge of community security and conflict management
• International experience in post-conflict settings
• Present full time during office hours
• Travel to Somalia and other locations outside of Kenya
• Facility with Microsoft Office, Publisher, Outlook, audio and visual editing tools, and web based information sharing.
• Knowledge of design tools and facility with visual communications

How to apply

Applicants are required to fill and sign a P11 Form and submit it together with Curriculum Vitae on the online application.

http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=12888

The P11 Form can be obtained from the link below:
http://sas.undp.org/Documents/P11_Personal_history_form.doc

Women & Somali Nationals are strongly encouraged to apply

UNDP will only be able to respond to those applications in which there is further interest.

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