Senior Development Officer at United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Duties
For positions in Country Operations only

•  Advise operations on practical research and analysis to interpret longterm political, economic and social trends that will enhance opportunities for solutions, resilience and inclusion for populations of concern to UNHCR as well as more sustainable approaches to refugee protection; 
•  Support the operation in planning for resilience and inclusion with a clear shared vision of longer term protection and solution outcomes for people of concern that takes account of host communities and leverages the roles, resources and capacities of development partners, including International Financial Institutions, Multilateral Development Banks, and Bilateral Development donors.
•  Support the development of comprehensive multiyear protection and solutions plans/strategies (incl. MultiYear MultiPartner Strategies) for Persons of Concern to UNHCR and/or facilitate the inclusion of populations of concern into national and local development planning and programming instruments.
•  Support and advise the operation in identifying, strategically articulating and capitalizing development and resilience opportunities, including through Government pledges and or pledges made by bilateral or multilateral development and/or peacebuilding partners.
•  Provide technical leadership and support for relationship building with development cooperation agencies and peace and statebuilding agendas through the different stages of policy and programme identification, preparation, implementation and review.
•  Develop partnerships and networks with development cooperation actors to influence the policy dialogue with governments on institutional arrangements related to sectors, locations and programme content of consequence to UNHCR and persons of concern. This would, in particular, focus on supporting the coordination of the incountry relationship with the World Bank and other multilateral development banks, especially where there is potential for specific funding directed towards UNHCR¿s persons of concern (e.g. WB IDA subwindow for refugees and host communities or the WB Global Concessional Financing Facility).
•  Cooperate with development partners to assist them in incorporating the concerns of refugees, returnees and others of concern to UNHCR into the design and implementation arrangements of projects and interventions in a manner that impacts positively on protection circumstances.
•  Identify, commission and/or contribute to studies and analytical activities that build the conceptual framework and evidence base for comprehensive, developmentoriented responses, including preparedness work, to forced displacement.
•  Ensure that development actors are provided relevant data to inform their planning, programming and advocacy around resilience for and inclusion of UNHCR persons of concern.
•  Engage with governments, development partners (both multilateral and bilateral), and with the private sector and civil society (as appropriate) to identify opportunities for UNHCR to contribute to the design and implementation of monitoring systems to track progress towards agreed outcomes.
•  Facilitate coordination and collaboration and the sharing of knowledge and experience sharing between UNHCR and development actors and across UNHCR operations globally by documenting and disseminating good practices and active participation in the Division of Resilience and Solutions¿, Development Partnerships Community of Practice; and,
•  Support training activities aimed at the capacity building of UNHCR and partner agency staff to achieve greater coordination, effectiveness and synergies between humanitarian and development interventions.

For positions in Regional Bureaux only

•  Provide support, as detailed in the above duties for a country SDO for countries without an SDO as specified in the operational context for this position.
•  Support the Regional Bureau and country operations in analysing from a development perspective the potential components of longerterm situational solutions strategies, identifying the protection/resilience/solutions challenges, and the means to address these and possible regional opportunities for engagement.
•  Support and advise the Regional Bureau and/or operations in identifying, articulating and capitalizing development and resilience opportunities, including through pledges made by regional partners, and regional development initiatives and programmes.
•  Aggregate, analyse and package available knowledge and data from country operations to feed into regional and HQ policy, programme and advocacy efforts.
•  Ensure support and coherence, where relevant, across operations in how they engage with development actors (e.g. messaging, policies, etc.).
•  Interpret longterm political, economic and social trends from a situational or regional perspective that will define the opportunities for inclusion for populations of concern to UNHCR as well as more sustainable approaches to refugee protection management.
•  Engage with regional bodies, such as IGAD, ECOWAS, etc. to identify and advocate for entry points for inclusion in developmentrelated fora; and,
•  Identify, commission and/or contribute to studies and analytical activities from a situational or regional perspective that build the conceptual framework and evidence base for comprehensive, developmentoriented responses, including preparedness work, to forced displacement.
•  Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Years of Experience / Degree Level

• For P4/NOD  9 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 8 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 7 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree

Field(s) of Education 

• Development Economics;   Development Studies;  Socioeconomic Development;
• International Relations;  Political Science;  Law or other relevant field.
• (Field(s) of Education marked with an asterisk are essential) 

Certificates and/or Licenses 

• Not specified.

Relevant Job Experience
Essential

• Six (6) years of direct work experience in a large international development institution in a relevant position and of which at least two (2) years in field operations. Preferably with knowledge of, or experience in, local or area based economic development, direct engagement in a technical sector such as education, WASH, social protection, health, energy. Practical experience working with and an understanding of the different aspects of economic growth, governance, fragility and conflict. Expertise related to the governance of specific multilateral development banks or bilateral development actors most relevant to the AoR.

Desirable

• Experience with forced displacement.  Experience in primary data collection, quantitative research methods and resultsbased management.

Functional Skills 

• MGPartnership Development
• IMKnowledge Management
• CLStrategy Development and Monitoring
• SOCritical Thinking and problem solving
• SONetworking
• UNPolicy Advocacy in UNHCR
• PGResultsBased Management
• COStrategic Communication
• CODrafting and Documentation
• PRRefugee Protection Principles and Framework
• (Functional Skills marked with an asterisk are essential) 

Language Requirements 

• For International Professional and Field Service jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.
• For National Professional jobs: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English and local language.
• For General Service jobs: Knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the duty station if not English.