Community Resilience Analyst at UNDP

Duties and Responsibilities

• As part of the implementation team, the Community Resilience Analyst will:
• Support coordinatization and alignment of global and regional projects
• Facilitate linkages between country-level activities in Jordan and Kenya and global/regional initiatives.
• Support alignment of of the food system resilience interventions with the OACPS project and ensures linkage with the CRRF.
• Organize and support events such as knowledge-sharing symposiums, workshops, and partnership roundtables.
• Develop knowledge products and advocacy materials and facilitate knowledge sharing
• Codify project lessons into reports, toolkits, and case studies for dissemination.
• Produce communication products emphasizing gender-responsive food systems resilience.
• Coordinate learning exchanges between stakeholders in the participating countries of the food systems and the OACPS project, and other regions.
• Strengthen partnerships and resource mobilization
• Support the development of background documents and analyses for strategic engagements of partners, including donors, private sector actors, and regional bodies.
• Work with the partnerships unit to support the organization of donor/partner roundtables, in order to scale up the project to a wider scope.
• Support gender-responsive programming
• Ensure all activities integrate gender equality considerations
• Support the development of gender-aggregated data
• Monitor and evaluate project progress
• Develop and maintain the projects’ monitoring and evaluation framework, ensuring gender-disaggregated data collection.
• Prepare progress reports highlighting achievements, challenges, and recommendations.
• Support the dissemination of project results, working with the communication team to maximise the reach of the project’s results
• Capacity Building and Technical Support
• Provide technical support for national and local partners on food systems resilience and risk governance capacities.
• Institutional Arrangement
• The Community Resilience Analyst will report to the DRT Regional Coordinator for Africa and work closely with the Project Manager of the EU-funded ‘Strengthening Disaster Risk Governance and Recovery Capacities project’, the FACS and DRT teams, Resilience Hub for Africa, and UNDP Country Offices.

Competencies

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements. 
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback.
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible. 
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident.
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships.
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.
• Cross-Functional & Technical competencies 
• Business Direction & Strategy: Systems 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: Knowledge Generation
• Ability to research information and to turn it into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need. 
• Ability to apply existing concepts to new situations, and to develop new concepts to generate workable solutions and new approaches. 
• Knowledge of relevant concepts, conceptual models, and theories that can be useful in addressing new situations.
• Business Management: Project Management
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
• Business Management: Partnerships Management
• Build and maintain partnerships with wide networks of stakeholders, Governments, civil society and private sector partners, experts and others in line with UNDP strategy and policies
• Business Management:  Results-based Management
• Ability to manage the implementation of strategies, programmes, and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results. 
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant theories, concepts, methodologies, instruments, and tools.
• Business Management: Monitoring & Evaluation
• Ability to systematically monitor results of strategies, programmes, and activities with a view to make sure that they are being implemented effectively; 
• Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback and reporting on the consistency or discrepancy between planned activities and programme management and results.
• 2030 Agenda: Planet: Climate
• Climate Change Adaptation: Fostering Food Security and resilient Agricultural systems

Required Skills and Experience

• Education:
• Master’s degree in earth sciences, agriculture, water engineering, international development, or a related field of studies. OR 
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned 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 2 years (with Bachelor’s degree) or 0 year (with Master’s degree) of relevant work experience on development coordination or project management, related to the areas of resilience building,  and disaster risk reduction.