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JOB DESCRIPTION

Background

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Pakistan (COPAK) has developed Country Programme-III which is an integrated country programme approach that builds on the One-UN ethos, full support of the Government of Pakistan (GoP) and civil society and contribute to progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The threats of trafficking of illicit drugs and transnational organized crime, a fragile criminal justice system, international financial crimes, trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants, cybercrime, terrorism, and the public health crises posed by drug use disorders and HIV/AIDS, all pose a challenge to sustainable and equitable development in Pakistan.

Terrorism can more easily take root and flourish in societies where basic elements of human security are weak. UNODC's mandate to support the GoP and strengthen its ability to address the interconnected challenges of security, the rule of law, and health has resulted in a strong network of relationships and a reputation of providing needed expertise and evidence-based support to partners at multiple levels.

The objective of the Programme Officer for the National Fusion Center for Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA's) project is to provide overall coordination and leadership in the implementation of the project, ensuring that project activities are executed effectively and efficiently, stakeholder engagement is managed, project progress is monitored, and quality standards are maintained. The Programme Officer will work closely with the Project Manager and other stakeholders to ensure that the project is implemented in accordance with the project plan, budget, and established policies and procedures.

Payment Schedule and Rate

The Officer will be issued an SC contract in accordance with United Nations rules and procedures. Payment scale will be determined by UNDP recommended rates for service contract holders.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Programme Officer – Fusion Center will be required to work closely with the affiliated Government offices and national and international development partners under the overall supervision of the SP-I Programme Advisor/Officer-in-Charge and the Representative of UNODC Country Office Pakistan. The Programme Officer – Fusion Center will undertake the following substantive duties and responsibilities:

• The Programme Officer will be responsible for overall coordination and implementation of the Fusion Center for LEA's project.
• The Programme Officer will liaise and collaborate with various stakeholders including government agencies, law enforcement agencies, international partners, and other relevant organizations to facilitate smooth implementation of the project.
• The Programme Officer will develop detailed project work plans, monitor progress against work plans, and identify and address any issues or challenges that may arise during implementation.
• The Programme Officer will oversee the financial aspects of the project, including budget and expenditure tracking, and program and finance reporting.
• The Programme Officer will be responsible for developing and implementing capacity building initiatives for project staff and relevant stakeholders.
• The Programme Officer will develop and implement a robust monitoring and evaluation framework for the project, including developing relevant indicators, collecting and analyzing data, and preparing reports on project performance.
• The Programme Officer will prepare regular progress reports, project updates, and other relevant reports as required by senior management, donors, and other stakeholders.
• The Programme Officer will ensure that all project activities are implemented in accordance with established standards, guidelines, and best practices.
• The Programme Officer will identify and assess project risks and develop risk mitigation strategies.
• The Programme Officer will ensure proper documentation of all project activities, including maintaining project records, databases, and other relevant documentation.
• The Programme Officer will ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and policies, as well as ethical standards in all project activities.

Core Competencies:

Achieve Results: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline.

Think Innovatively: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements.

Learn Continuously: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback.

Adapt with Agility: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible.

Act with Determination: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident.

Engage and Partner: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships.

Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination.

Technical Competencies:

1.Co-creation:

• Ability to design and facilitate a process that enables a diverse group of stakeholders to solve a common problem, develop a practice, or create knowledge together.
• Ability to embrace diversity, work with a diverse group of stakeholders understand their interests, perspectives and views and tap into to them as a source for creativity.
• Ability to facilitate processes and create conditions that are open for diverse inputs, stimulate collaboration and sharing.

2. Creative Facilitation:

• Ability to design workshops that considers and addresses multiple interests, agendas, worldviews; set out clear objectives and engaging activities; select appropriate tools, materials, resources that are needed to enable or support the activities.
• Ability to facilitate inclusive conversations, ability to work with a diverse set of people with different backgrounds, seniority and expert levels, using different approaches tailored to fit the people in the room, drawing out the perspectives and ideas of each individual and making decisions through deliberation and discussion across a group.

3. Data Literacy:

Understand the potential as well as the limitations of using data driven innovation. Ability to use a mix of data sources (quantitative, qualitative or real-time techniques) to develop understanding, identify patterns to inform decision making or identify opportunities for further exploration.

4. Developmental Evaluation:

• Learning and adaptation focused: ability to promote and facilitate ongoing reflection and adaptation; aimed at informing learning and portfolio related decision making.
• Being able to carry out evaluation thinking in complex systems and adapting evaluation strategies to changing realities.
• Being inclusive, collaborative and co-creative: being able to design and implement evaluation frameworks with the variety of stakeholders and beneficiaries involved.
• Being flexible and able to use of a mix of methods, having a high tolerance for ambiguity and can draw on a variety of qualitative and quantitative evidence, is open to unorthodox types of evidence.
• Ability to set up the structures, conditions, rituals to create a culture for curiosity, reflection and learning and promote evaluation results and insights from a learning perspective.

5. Systems Thinking and transformation:

• Understand that complex problems need a non-reductionistic, holistic approach.
• Ability to explore challenges from multiple perspectives by zooming in and out, with a focus on relationships and flows rather than individual elements; understand how certain dynamics and conditions are driving and influencing an issue.
• Being able to identify intervention points to leverage change and system transformation by setting out a coherent collection of multiple interventions to probe the system for desirable effects.
• Understand that change is non-linear and unpredictable; being comfortable and able to work with emergence.

6. Tech Literacy:

• Ability to apply new digital tools or adapting their original use to create new insights, fresh perspectives or develop solutions.
• Understand the potential as well as the limitations of certain technological developments; being able to identify how technology can add value when it's used as a ""means to an end"".

7. Event Planning and Execution

Ability to plan, manage and execute of public and private events to ensure that they support and amplify individual communications and advocacy initiatives, as well as UNDP's overall brand and mandate.

8. Public Relations:

Ability to build and maintain an overall positive public image for the organization, its mandate and its brand, while ensuring that individual campaigns and other communications and advocacy initiatives are supported in reaching the public.

9. Relationship Management:

Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust and mutual understanding.

Cross-functional Competencies:

1. Communication:

• Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience.
• Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels.

2. Monitoring:

Ability to provide managers and key stakeholders with regular feedback on the consistency or discrepancy between planned and actual activities and programme performance and results.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master's degree in the field of Criminology, development studies, Project Management, social/public administration, political sciences, international relations, law and business administration is required.

Experience:

• 2 years of experience in managing large volume projects/programmes in an international organization.
• Experience working with law enforcement agencies with regard to criminal justice, border management or countering and preventing terrorism.
• Demonstrated experience to prepare and organize background papers, concept notes, working and position papers, presentations, briefing notes, training report, Tor's as well as regular documents such as correspondence with governments and mission reports.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Previous experience in project management, programme development or monitoring and evaluation.
• Knowledge and experience working with the Government of Pakistan.
• Ability to interact effectively with high level government counterparts, national and international consultants.
• Previous experience with UN agency is an asset.
• Previous experience working with the Criminal Justice System is desirable.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

Disclaimer

UNODC provides equal opportunity to all qualified female & male including the physically challenged candidates.

UN is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UN does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference and background checks.

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