Sudan: Project Manager
Feb 21, 2016
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UNEP
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Result of Service
Project Manager for NRM and Peacebuilding, including:
• Management of the overall project budget, schedule and logical framework
• Management of government relations for the project at local, state and federal level.
• Management of project national staff, consultants and partner organizations.
• UNEP project performance reporting.
• Regular liaison and communications with the donor in Khartoum.
• Participate in external missions as needed to oversee identification of project locations, project stakeholders, and implementation of project interventions.
• Convene and oversee project technical and advisory committees as needed.
• Prepare other reports as required by the project.
• Develop knowledge products and communications material based on good practices and lessons learned from the project.
• Analysis of technical issues and direct resolution, reporting and communication with key stakeholders including the Government of Sudan.
• Recruitment and supervision of specialists for subjects outside of incumbents skillset.
• Reviewing and checking on the technical quality of work delivered by partner organizations.
Develop new projects.
• Assess needs and gaps
• Design project activities and concepts
• Respond to donor enquiries
• Develop detailed project proposals
Support Management and Programming across other UNEP Sudan projects
• Provide technical inputs to UNEP Sudan programme portfolio such as: monitoring and evaluation; gender mainstreaming; green economy analysis; and conflict analysis.
• Support UNEP management of the Sudan office.
• Attend UNCT meetings and working groups as needed.
Work Location: Khartoum, Sudan
Duration: 12 months with (3 month probationary period) with possibility for additional 12 months.
Entry on duty: 1 April 2016
Duties and Responsibilities
1. Background:
UNEP has obtained EUR 3.4M from the EU to implement a project aimed at improving local and state capacity to resolve resource conflicts and to manage natural resources for peacebuilding and sustainable development. The project is being implemented in 5 project areas located in West and Central Darfur and West Kordofan. This 3-year project will run from June 2015 to June 2018 and will be delivered in partnership with two local NGOs, SOS Sahel Sudan and the Darfur Development and Reconstruction Agency, which have operational presence in the project areas.
This project aims to achieve the objective to reduce incidence of local conflict over natural resources by improving natural resource management and institutions for dispute resolution and strengthening relationships over natural resources between communities and between communities and government in West/Central Darfur and West Kordofan. The project is comprised of the following three main outputs:
• Output one will focus on mitigating the drivers of natural resource conflicts (scarcity, governance, livelihoods) by doing a combination of physical NRM and livelihood interventions and addressing key governance failings.
• Output two will focus on building conflict management capacity by improving the quality of social and institutional relationships and improving the institutional and livelihood response capacity to successfully mitigate escalating resource conflict before they become violent.
• Output three will track and monitor how this two-pronged approach can reduce conflicts over natural resources and be replicated in other peacebuilding and NRM programmes.
2. Description of the role
The role of the incumbent will be to implement the Natural Resources and Peacebuilding in Darfur and Kordofan project and undertake other closely related duties, with the duty station in Khartoum, Sudan. The role can be divided into 3 components as follows:
2.1 Project Management
The NRM and Peacebuilding project will already be initially mobilized by the date of appointment of the incumbent. The incumbent shall support the full mobilization of the project and takeover its project management. Project management tasks will amongst others comprise work planning, budget monitoring and reporting. This shall also include management of UNEP staff, consultants and agreements with partner organisations. This shall also extend to the design and completion of technical and contracting documents, review of draft outputs by partners and lead or joint authoring of technical papers for local distribution.
The incumbent, with the support of consultants and others as appropriate, shall also provide quality assurance for the technical outputs of the entire project.
2.2 New project development
The incumbent will be responsible for developing potential extensions to the UNEP Sudan programme portfolio. This work shall be undertaken in full coordination with the UNEP Sudan Country Programme Coordinator. The work shall extend to the reactive management of donor enquiries, project design and planning and concept note and proposal development and consultation.
2.3. UNEP programme management and representation
The incumbent will support the UNEP Sudan Country Programme Coordinator in participating in the UN joint planning and management processes in Sudan. This will entail representing UNEP in UN forums and with government of Sudan. The incumbent will also support technical inputs to other projects under the Sudan Country Programme. This may include monitoring and evaluation; gender mainstreaming; green economy analysis; and conflict analysis.
3. Remuneration
7,000 -9,000 USD per month depending on experience
Qualifications/special skills
Academic Qualifications: Masters degree in related field (Environment, peacebuilding, development, economics)
Experience: • At least 5 years of relevant work experience, of which at least 3 years working with governments and/or developing countries.
Experience with different aspects of project management including development, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and supervision of experts.
Language: Excellent written and spoken English, working knowledge of Arabic considered as an advantage.