Job Responsibilities

• Provide overall management and supervision of implementation of the programme in line with UNDP’s and local partners’ priorities and approved agreements, and as per UNDP operational policies and guidelines. This includes management and coordination of a larger team of project staff based in the Port Sudan and field deployments.
• Ensure technical coherence, quality and standard throughout the programme and its project components.
• Maintain close working relations with national and local partners to ensure optimum programme impact as well as participation and ownership by national stakeholders, including civil society.
• Lead and direct programme work planning in all its aspects, including forecasting of programme requirements timing and priorities, budgeting, work distribution and tasking to ensure satisfactory progress and timely completion of the overall portfolio programming and its constituent project components.
• Oversee the planning and coordination of, as well as participate in, Project Board meetings and other relevant coordination processes including producing relevant reporting.
• Supervise and manage the work of project staff in Port Sudan and field offices and conduct performance assessments as per agreed TORs and workplans. Promote and implement adaptive management practices in programme and project management.
• Adhere to UNDP’s rules and regulations and internal control mechanisms in the areas of contracting, assets, procurement, recruitment etc., as required. Serve as approval authority for financial transactions in the system up to designate level, as required. 
• Ensure the effective and efficient utilization of all financial and human resources with a view to maximizing programme performance and impact. Ensure operational and financial closure of projects with the operations team.
• Establish an effective monitoring and evaluation system and ensure quality and timely reporting according to country office and donor reporting schedules. This includes ensuring continuous data collection, including field level data collection and analysis. 
• Ensure timely and accurate input to the Country Office for compliance with programme-related UNDP and donor reporting obligations and requirements. This includes drafting of annual progress reports. Support/facilitate external evaluation, audits and donor assessments.
• Encourage and find opportunities for cross-pillar synergies, identify cross-cutting issues and work to advance enablers such as digital and innovation. 
• Ensure periodic collection of case studies, human interest stories, new partnerships and best practices for inclusion in donor reports, the UNDP newsletter and UNDP website.
• Advance communications and visibility of results in close collaboration with the Communications Team. 
• Develop, strengthen and maintain constructive working relations, networks and partnerships with relevant key counterparts at different levels, including government, civil society organizations, implementing partners, the private sector, other development partners, UN entities and the donor community.
• Advise and support the country office in strengthening partnership and donor relationship management including visibility and strategic engagement and advise senior management on resource mobilisation efforts.
• Lead the country office to meet resource mobilization targets including by leading development of donor proposals and maintaining a responsive partnership liaison system.
• Guide and oversee implementation of an effective communication strategy to promote and foster awareness about the projects among its multiple stakeholders and the public at large.
• Guide and support ongoing coordination efforts of the UN in Sudan’s Common Approach, UN-internal and external coordination structures and platforms.
• Work closely with Resident Coordinator’s Office, the Peace and Development Advisor, and the Office of the Special Envoy in the design and initiation of peace-promoting initiatives, including connecting local and national level conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts, as appropriate.
• Provide thorough analysis of the political, social and economic situation in Sudan and preparation of substantive inputs to strategic documents.
• Identify ideas and opportunities for the development of new interventions in the thematic area of Governance and Peacebuilding. 
• Facilitate the alignment of the Governance and Peacebuilding work with emerging priorities in the light of ongoing ceasefire negotiations and possible renewed political transition negotiations in Sudan.
• Identify capacity building needs and opportunities. Ensure appropriate trainings, workshops and other relevant activities are organized in a consultative manner, involving technical experts and stakeholders that may include the government, private sector, civil society, donors, and/or academia. 
• Facilitate knowledge and capacity building, knowledge sharing, and advocacy relevant to the assigned thematic areas. 
• Identify opportunities for bringing on board context-relevant global and regional experiences and best practice to the programme.
• Ensure programme reports capture results, lessons learned and good practices for possible wider application. Identify and synthesize best practices and lessons learned from the programme for organizational learning.
• Participate in and ensure sound contributions to knowledge management networks and communities of practice. Facilitate innovative mechanisms for dissemination of knowledge emerging from the projects.
• Provide leadership on Governance and Peacebuilding issues within the framework of various coordination structures and documents.
• Promote advocacy for UNDP’s work in addressing development challenges. Develop knowledge resources and products to share with programme partners.
• Provide strategic guidance and technical leadership to the Project Teams and the UN-CT in areas of governance and peacebuilding, with a thematic focus on:
• Conflict prevention and peacebuilding: enhancing national infrastructures for peace, trust, inclusion and social cohesion; supporting national dialogue processes; strengthening conflict analysis and prevention capacities including conflict mitigation and transformation mechanisms. 
• Inclusive political processes: promoting institutionalization of open and representative state-society negotiation and accountability processes, including participatory and inclusive constitution-drafting processes.
• Responsive and accountable institutions: strengthening government responsiveness for the delivery of social services and economic development at central and local levels and enhancing local governance and decentralization for state- and peacebuilding, democratic representation.
• Rule of Law, justice, security and human rights: supporting rule of law, accountability, and dealing with the past; enhancing legal empowerment and access to justice for all; fostering justice and security at national and local levels, including through work with formal and informal actors; promoting respect of human rights and gender justice including gender-based violence and CRSV. 
• Ensure the integration of cross-cutting issues, such as gender, a human rights-based approach to programming, and conflict sensitivity considerations into the overall design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects. 
• As required, represent the programme in national and international fora and discussions on governance and peacebuilding.
• Provide substantive inputs to the preparation of policy notes, briefings, statements, and events. 
• Proactively identifies risks and challenges to on-going operations of the Governance and Peacebuilding projects and provides mitigation strategies.
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
• The Programme Manager (Team Leader) supervises and manage a team composed of professional and general service staff both at portfolio and project level. S/he will be supported by an operations team including M&E and financial experts.