Context Sensitivity Project Officer

undp - Damascus, Syria | 2025-01-26 21:12:30

Background

 
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UNDP Syria operates in a highly complex and challenging environment, shaped by over a decade of conflict, widespread displacement, economic instability, and recurrent natural disasters. The Assad regime has ended with extraordinary speed and having endured seemingly perpetual suffering loss and oppression, the Syrian people now face the prospect of a new future. Over the last 14 years Syrians have suffered catastrophic losses; the displacement of 14 million citizens from their homes; a collective grief for the half a million lives lost in conflict; despair for those who were detained or imprisoned for their political opposition. Syrians have lived through the severity of protracted crisis with no real signs of a political process or solution, existing within a complete lack of accountability for the suffering endured. 

For the first time in more than a decade the prospect of peace exists, albeit a precarious possibility that is complicated by the tolls and divisions endemic to protracted crisis conditions. The end of the Assad regime now presents the opportunity for a new Syria that Syrians themselves must be supported to determine. 

It is paramount that UNDP together with the wider UN family, supports the Syrian people on a path towards peace and stability. The gains made to counter risks of further dissolution and to safeguard basic services and civil space in the transitional period, will determine much for the prospects of a peaceful transition to a new government of the Syrian people’s own choosing. The actions of UNDP to identify and respond to these immediate and critical needs of the Syrian people, appropriate to the conditions on the ground, will offer a vital channel of support to the collective efforts of the UN to protect and uphold a route towards peace.

The UNDP Strategic Policy unit provides high-level guidance and ensures alignment of UNDP Syria’s programmes with corporate priorities, international frameworks, and the evolving needs of the Syrian context, focusing on resilience, recovery, and sustainable development.

The Context Sensitivity Project Officer will report directly to Context Sensitivity Specialist - SPU Team Leader. S/he will work closely with the Context Sensitivity Project Manager and the Context Analysis Project Analyst to provide high quality context sensitivity services to UNDP teams and UNDP partners. In close coordination with other UNDP portfolios and Area Offices, s/he will participate in analysis, advocacy, outreach and capacity building activities to ensure that key conflict sensitivity considerations inform programme design and implementation as well as strategic policy discussions at UNDP, HCT and donor levels. S/he will support joint area-based UN programming efforts, with a specific focus in accompanying UNDP and UNCT/HCT field teams.


 
Duties and Responsibilities

Facilitate and regularly conduct local conflict analyses of social and economic dynamics at the field level.
  • Support UNDP field offices in conducting and drafting conflict analyses of areas of operation, including by developing appropriate analytical tools and supporting field missions.
  • Facilitate conflict analyses of social and economic dynamics in priority areas of HCT operations together with AHCT field staff. 
  • Draft high-quality reports of conflict analysis findings and their implications for conflict sensitive operations in the targeted areas, with a focus on early recovery assistance. 
  • Support UNDP field offices in conducting and drafting conflict analyses of areas of operation, including by developing appropriate analytical tools and supporting field missions.

Collect and document evidence-based of conflict sensitive early recovery assistance. 

  • Support the Development of a MEAL system and data collection/learning approaches suitable to capture social change and evidence, and in line with existing systems, practices, and resources.
  • Support the documentation process of evidence of the implementation of conflict sensitive early recovery assistance, with a focus both on processes and outcomes on the ground.
  • Develop lessons learnt and case studies for the use of UNDP, HCT and donor partners to demonstrate the feasibility and impact of conflict-sensitive early recovery. These products should also help inform capacity building efforts of the Context Sensitivity Team at the UNDP and HCT level. 

Support conflict sensitivity capacity development of UNDP staff and partners.

  • Develop conflict sensitivity programme guidance for UNDP staff responsible for programme implementation in the field and in the Country Office, including on livelihoods and essential service rehabilitation programming across different sectors.
  • Strengthen conflict-sensitive practices across programming and operations, with a focus on integrated, area-based and participatory programming at the field level.
  • Design and support context sensitivity capacity building processes and workshops for international and local partners across the HCT.

Support advocacy and outreach at UNCT/HCT and policy level to promote conflict-sensitive programming in the Syrian transition phase.

  • Support the Context Sensitivity Team as well as UNDP Syria Senior Management in advocacy and outreach efforts related to conflict sensitive programming, both at the HCT and donor/ policy level.
  • Build networks with relevant partners – both within and outside the HCT -, and represent the Context Sensitivity Team in relevant HCT and UNCT coordination platforms and donor briefings.

 

Institutional Arrangement

The Context Sensitivity Programme Officer will report directly to the Context Sensitivity Specialist - SPU Team Leader in the Context Sensitivity and Research Unit.

 
Competencies
 

Core 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 and Technical Competencies :

Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions (Technical)

  • Crisis assessment: Ability to use methods, tools and regional analysis to determine impact of various elements for crisis and post crisis situations.
  • Conflict analysis and conflict sensitivity: Knowledge of conflict analysis and risk assessment concepts and the ability to apply to strategic and/or practical situations.

Business direction & Strategy (Cross-functional)           

  • Negotiation and influence: Ability to reach an understanding, persuade others, resolve points of difference, gain advantage in the outcome of dialogue, negotiates mutually acceptable solutions through compromise and creates win-win situations

Business development (Cross-functional)         

  • Knowledge generation Ability to capture, develop, share and effectively use information and knowledge
  • Knowledge facilitation: Ability to animate individuals and communities of contributors to participate and share, particularly externally
 
 
Required Skills and Experience

 
Education:
  • Advanced University Degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent) in political or social sciences, business/economics, environment, or any related field Or
  • A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s Degree) in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
  • Applicants with a master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are not required to have professional work experience. Applicants with a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of experience in the humanitarian and/or development fields, conflict prevention/conflict resolution, peacebuilding, social cohesion, MEAL, or any related field is required.

Required skills:

  • Experience in the use of computers and office software packages is required.
  • Willingness and ability to travel frequently to the field and the region, in accordance with programme priorities, is required.

Desired skills in addition to the competencies covered in the Competencies section:

  • Proven experience in producing high quality conflict sensitivity research and analysis products is highly desirable.
  • Experience in supporting multi-stakeholder processes and community engagement is highly desirable.
  • Proven experience in designing and delivering capacity building workshops is desirable.
  • Proven experience in the design, monitoring and evaluation of development, humanitarian and/or peacebuilding projects is highly desirable.
  • Prior experience with the United Nations is an asset.

Required Language(s) 

Excellent command of Arabic and English in both oral and written is required.

 

 

Disclaimer

 

 
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Non-discrimination

 
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and misconduct, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.  

 
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