GPN ExpRes Profile - Prevention of Violent Extremism
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United Nations Development Programme
Duty Station: Multiple
Successful applicants should:
• Have a Master's degree with a minimum of five years' experience in the respective field relevant to the ToR or possess seven years' experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Be prepared for potential deployment to crisis settings with short notice.
Additionally, specific preferences include:
• Proficiency in Arabic, French, or Spanish, with Russian and/or Portuguese considered advantageous.
• Encouragement is particularly extended to female applicants. In addition to candidates from the Global South.
Qualification:
An advanced university degree preferred in international affairs, conflict prevention, economics, political science, international development, international law, or a similar field.
WHAT IS THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM?
Against the backdrop of the world's compounding risks and uncertainties, UNDP's 2022 Crisis Offer presents a framework for breaking the cycle of fragility, helping countries to anticipate and prevent crises, as well as to respond and recover from them.
Meanwhile, UNDP's 2022–2025 Prevention Offer calls for a strong development lens to be applied to stabilizing and safeguarding development gains, mitigating risk of relapse and recurrence and building institutional and community resilience to sustain peaceful development pathways.
Radicalization and violent extremism are among the most pressing threats to peace and stability, with the potential to set development gains back by decades. Building on the successes of risk-informed development through prevention of violent extremism (PVE), UNDP supports innovative programming that addresses the causes and drivers of conflict, specifically violent extremism, through multidimensional and development-based approaches.
Accordingly, UNDP PVE's programming includes, but is not limited to the prevention of violent extremism through a 'whole-of-society' approach, including by supporting the development and implementation of PVE National Action Plans (NAPs) complemented by human rights-based interventions to address governance grievances.
Taking this approach ensures that international organizations, governments, private entities and civil society, including youth-led movements, religious leaders, women of faith and other individuals, are all engaged to achieve inclusivity in the design, implementation, provision and receiving of programming.
By adopting a consultative, multi-disciplinary and participatory approach, UNDP contributes to addressing the challenges of formal state structures that may perpetuate grievances, including those relating to real or perceived exclusion and marginalization.
At the same time, UNDP assists countries to set national priorities for addressing local drivers of violent extremism in order to ensure adequate investment in necessary areas by national and local governments and other stakeholders.
UNDP has also continued to invest in new capabilities to boost anticipation and prevention efforts through pioneering new frontiers for effective and evidence-based action through supporting return and reintegration (R&R) of former terrorist fighters and/or their families, deemed to have been associated with violent extremist groups (VEGs); and on addressing hate speech, digital harm and online radicalization.
In support of this, UNDP has applied innovative methods and tools, including behavioural insights in PVE as well as online data and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). These efforts fall within the PVE policy and programming efforts to assist local, national, regional and global partners in 41 countries across five regions (Africa, Arab States, Asia Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean) and beyond, as part of broader preventive responses across all development settings through inclusive programming that strengthens community resilience, empowers individuals and advances risk-informed, rights-based, gender-responsive and conflict-sensitive development.
Supported by evidence-driven data from flagship reports[1], UNDP in 2022 continued to anchor on the 'growth edges' of PVE activities through community-based initiatives in local, national, regional and global partnerships in order to contribute to the implementation of the UNDP Signature Solution on Resilience.
At the global level, UNDP Crisis Bureau's Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions (CPPRI) Global Programme worked to support the operationalization of the vision of the UN Sustaining Peace resolutions as well as Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16: "Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels".
The UNDP Crisis Bureau (CB) is responsible for UNDP's crisis-related work and drives UNDP's vision and priorities for peacebuilding and crisis prevention, response and recovery. The Prevention of Violent Extremism portfolio is placed within Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding team under the Global Programme Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions (CPPRI) at the UNDP Crisis Bureau.
UNDP designs and implements risk-informed, conflict sensitive and analysis-based development solutions for the prevention of violent extremism at the global, regional and country levels, to meet the priorities set out in the UN Secretary-General's Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism, UN Secretary-General's New Agenda for Peace, the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, and through participation in the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact.
UNDP country and regional-level PVE programmes are supported by the Regional Bureaux and Hubs operating in Africa, Arab States, Asia Pacific and Europe and Central Asia. Our work covers the interconnected thematic workstreams of Prevention of Violent Extremism, Conflict Prevention, and Addressing Hate Speech as they all relate to sustaining peace and security.
UNDP is updating its pool of experts to support PVE policy and programme development. The roster of experts will be utilized in 2023 but will be positioned for the next two to three years to provide a continued pool of expertise to countries for implementation of PVE-related policy and programming, focusing on supporting implementation of actions and delivering results on the ground.
The Experts Roster for Rapid Response (ExpRes) is a recruitment and deployment mechanism which maintains pre-vetted consultants on a roster and contracts them quickly for Country Office/regional bureau/HQ department support. The primary purpose of this roster has been to deploy technical experts to UNDP Country Offices/regional bureau/ HQ departments on short notice.
The ExpRes roster provides pre-selected and technically vetted consultants across 21 profiles and 79 sub-profiles to support the work of UNDP and other UNDP partner agencies in the area of crisis prevention and recovery.
[1]UNDP, Human Development Report 2021–22: Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World (New York, 2022); UNDP, New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene: Demanding Greater Solidarity (New York, 2022).
SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED WORK
• PVE policy development, advocacy, and strategic advisory roles
• Develop global, national, and sub-national gender responsive strategy/action plans and policy guidance through whole-of-society methodologies;
• Identify challenges, solutions, impact evaluation and monitoring for proposed policy and interventions;
• Undertake risk identification, (threat) assessments, index development and prevention/mitigation programming;
• Identify opportunities for advocacy and resource mobilization on global/regional/country levels;
• Support stocktaking and M&E to assess progress of implementation of national/regional/global policy documents;
• Provide strategic and technical advisory support in the area of PVE, integrating the human rights-based approach and gender mainstreaming strategies, principles and relevant toolkits.
2. Knowledge creation, research, and documentation
• Undertake primary/secondary research in the new areas of concern, including conflict analyses inclusive of violent extremism and/or dedicated violent extremism threat assessments;
• Develop research designs, research questions and scope of work for undertaking primary research in new areas;
• Provide regular strategic insights and analyses on new and emerging areas for programming in PVE;
• Document and manage lessons learned, good practices, case studies, innovations and pilot models for wider dissemination and sharing;
• Design and implement multi-stakeholder consultation processes for testing, validation, and advocacy;
• Develop literature on best practices and case studies by both UN agencies and stakeholders beyond the UN; and
• Contribute to (on- and offline activities of) PVE Communities of Practice.
3. Project design, formulation, implementation & other programme related technical support
• Provide for inclusive (needs) assessments and conflict sensitivity analysis of partners informing development of concept notes/project proposals; facilitate stakeholder consultations with a focus on (local) civil society partners;
• Prepare conceptual framework/concept notes on new areas of work/developmental challenges;
• Provide technical assistance in identification of developmental challenges, target areas, beneficiaries and partners and formulate implementation strategy for UNDP PVE programmatic and advisory support;
• Provide technical support and identify issues in development of new interventions/projects, including in implementation (operational plan, monitoring, and resource requirement), institutional and management arrangements;
• Conduct studies on project/programme highlights, activities and processes involved;
• Prepare and review project documents;
• Identify areas/beneficiaries and partners; timing, sequencing of activities; mobilization of finance;
• Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of global, regional, national and/or sub-national policies and (UNDP) programmes contributing to their implementation; and
• Prepare project proposals to ensure innovation in concepts, strategies, and incorporation of best practices
4. Capacity development/training
• Develop capacity assessments and plans to develop strategic interventions for institutional strengthening, achieve milestones identified and address the identified capacity gaps.
• Develop, conduct and/or coordinate target specific products (such as training curriculum, tools/toolkits, and manuals) and events/workshops based on training needs assessment for various stakeholders.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:
At UNDP, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UNDP recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNDP, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UNDP's policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UNDP personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference checks.
Requirements and skills
Global Call
• Prevention of Violent Extremism
This is how cinfo can support you in the application process for this specific position:
• Application preparation: Before you apply for this position: Improve your application documents by registering for a Job Application Support. Our coaches are here to help tailor your application to the requirements of the job (service provided at your own cost).
• Interview preparation: When invited to the interview: Prepare for the interview by registering for a Job Application Support.
• Additional services for Swiss nationals who get invited to the selection process (written test, interview, assessment centre, etc.):
• Let us know by writing to recruitment@cinfo.ch. We flag matching applications to HR partners and SDC/SECO for visibility.
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Sector: Nonprofit/Community/Social Services/International Cooperation
Role: Other
Working hours (%): 80-100%
Duty Station: Multiple
Successful applicants should:
• Have a Master's degree with a minimum of five years' experience in the respective field relevant to the ToR or possess seven years' experience with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Be prepared for potential deployment to crisis settings with short notice.
Additionally, specific preferences include:
• Proficiency in Arabic, French, or Spanish, with Russian and/or Portuguese considered advantageous.
• Encouragement is particularly extended to female applicants. In addition to candidates from the Global South.
Qualification:
An advanced university degree preferred in international affairs, conflict prevention, economics, political science, international development, international law, or a similar field.
WHAT IS THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM?
Against the backdrop of the world's compounding risks and uncertainties, UNDP's 2022 Crisis Offer presents a framework for breaking the cycle of fragility, helping countries to anticipate and prevent crises, as well as to respond and recover from them.
Meanwhile, UNDP's 2022–2025 Prevention Offer calls for a strong development lens to be applied to stabilizing and safeguarding development gains, mitigating risk of relapse and recurrence and building institutional and community resilience to sustain peaceful development pathways.
Radicalization and violent extremism are among the most pressing threats to peace and stability, with the potential to set development gains back by decades. Building on the successes of risk-informed development through prevention of violent extremism (PVE), UNDP supports innovative programming that addresses the causes and drivers of conflict, specifically violent extremism, through multidimensional and development-based approaches.
Accordingly, UNDP PVE's programming includes, but is not limited to the prevention of violent extremism through a 'whole-of-society' approach, including by supporting the development and implementation of PVE National Action Plans (NAPs) complemented by human rights-based interventions to address governance grievances.
Taking this approach ensures that international organizations, governments, private entities and civil society, including youth-led movements, religious leaders, women of faith and other individuals, are all engaged to achieve inclusivity in the design, implementation, provision and receiving of programming.
By adopting a consultative, multi-disciplinary and participatory approach, UNDP contributes to addressing the challenges of formal state structures that may perpetuate grievances, including those relating to real or perceived exclusion and marginalization.
At the same time, UNDP assists countries to set national priorities for addressing local drivers of violent extremism in order to ensure adequate investment in necessary areas by national and local governments and other stakeholders.
UNDP has also continued to invest in new capabilities to boost anticipation and prevention efforts through pioneering new frontiers for effective and evidence-based action through supporting return and reintegration (R&R) of former terrorist fighters and/or their families, deemed to have been associated with violent extremist groups (VEGs); and on addressing hate speech, digital harm and online radicalization.
In support of this, UNDP has applied innovative methods and tools, including behavioural insights in PVE as well as online data and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). These efforts fall within the PVE policy and programming efforts to assist local, national, regional and global partners in 41 countries across five regions (Africa, Arab States, Asia Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean) and beyond, as part of broader preventive responses across all development settings through inclusive programming that strengthens community resilience, empowers individuals and advances risk-informed, rights-based, gender-responsive and conflict-sensitive development.
Supported by evidence-driven data from flagship reports[1], UNDP in 2022 continued to anchor on the 'growth edges' of PVE activities through community-based initiatives in local, national, regional and global partnerships in order to contribute to the implementation of the UNDP Signature Solution on Resilience.
At the global level, UNDP Crisis Bureau's Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions (CPPRI) Global Programme worked to support the operationalization of the vision of the UN Sustaining Peace resolutions as well as Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16: "Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels".
The UNDP Crisis Bureau (CB) is responsible for UNDP's crisis-related work and drives UNDP's vision and priorities for peacebuilding and crisis prevention, response and recovery. The Prevention of Violent Extremism portfolio is placed within Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding team under the Global Programme Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Responsive Institutions (CPPRI) at the UNDP Crisis Bureau.
UNDP designs and implements risk-informed, conflict sensitive and analysis-based development solutions for the prevention of violent extremism at the global, regional and country levels, to meet the priorities set out in the UN Secretary-General's Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism, UN Secretary-General's New Agenda for Peace, the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, UN Security Council and General Assembly resolutions, and through participation in the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact.
UNDP country and regional-level PVE programmes are supported by the Regional Bureaux and Hubs operating in Africa, Arab States, Asia Pacific and Europe and Central Asia. Our work covers the interconnected thematic workstreams of Prevention of Violent Extremism, Conflict Prevention, and Addressing Hate Speech as they all relate to sustaining peace and security.
UNDP is updating its pool of experts to support PVE policy and programme development. The roster of experts will be utilized in 2023 but will be positioned for the next two to three years to provide a continued pool of expertise to countries for implementation of PVE-related policy and programming, focusing on supporting implementation of actions and delivering results on the ground.
The Experts Roster for Rapid Response (ExpRes) is a recruitment and deployment mechanism which maintains pre-vetted consultants on a roster and contracts them quickly for Country Office/regional bureau/HQ department support. The primary purpose of this roster has been to deploy technical experts to UNDP Country Offices/regional bureau/ HQ departments on short notice.
The ExpRes roster provides pre-selected and technically vetted consultants across 21 profiles and 79 sub-profiles to support the work of UNDP and other UNDP partner agencies in the area of crisis prevention and recovery.
[1]UNDP, Human Development Report 2021–22: Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives: Shaping our Future in a Transforming World (New York, 2022); UNDP, New Threats to Human Security in the Anthropocene: Demanding Greater Solidarity (New York, 2022).
SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED WORK
• PVE policy development, advocacy, and strategic advisory roles
• Develop global, national, and sub-national gender responsive strategy/action plans and policy guidance through whole-of-society methodologies;
• Identify challenges, solutions, impact evaluation and monitoring for proposed policy and interventions;
• Undertake risk identification, (threat) assessments, index development and prevention/mitigation programming;
• Identify opportunities for advocacy and resource mobilization on global/regional/country levels;
• Support stocktaking and M&E to assess progress of implementation of national/regional/global policy documents;
• Provide strategic and technical advisory support in the area of PVE, integrating the human rights-based approach and gender mainstreaming strategies, principles and relevant toolkits.
2. Knowledge creation, research, and documentation
• Undertake primary/secondary research in the new areas of concern, including conflict analyses inclusive of violent extremism and/or dedicated violent extremism threat assessments;
• Develop research designs, research questions and scope of work for undertaking primary research in new areas;
• Provide regular strategic insights and analyses on new and emerging areas for programming in PVE;
• Document and manage lessons learned, good practices, case studies, innovations and pilot models for wider dissemination and sharing;
• Design and implement multi-stakeholder consultation processes for testing, validation, and advocacy;
• Develop literature on best practices and case studies by both UN agencies and stakeholders beyond the UN; and
• Contribute to (on- and offline activities of) PVE Communities of Practice.
3. Project design, formulation, implementation & other programme related technical support
• Provide for inclusive (needs) assessments and conflict sensitivity analysis of partners informing development of concept notes/project proposals; facilitate stakeholder consultations with a focus on (local) civil society partners;
• Prepare conceptual framework/concept notes on new areas of work/developmental challenges;
• Provide technical assistance in identification of developmental challenges, target areas, beneficiaries and partners and formulate implementation strategy for UNDP PVE programmatic and advisory support;
• Provide technical support and identify issues in development of new interventions/projects, including in implementation (operational plan, monitoring, and resource requirement), institutional and management arrangements;
• Conduct studies on project/programme highlights, activities and processes involved;
• Prepare and review project documents;
• Identify areas/beneficiaries and partners; timing, sequencing of activities; mobilization of finance;
• Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of global, regional, national and/or sub-national policies and (UNDP) programmes contributing to their implementation; and
• Prepare project proposals to ensure innovation in concepts, strategies, and incorporation of best practices
4. Capacity development/training
• Develop capacity assessments and plans to develop strategic interventions for institutional strengthening, achieve milestones identified and address the identified capacity gaps.
• Develop, conduct and/or coordinate target specific products (such as training curriculum, tools/toolkits, and manuals) and events/workshops based on training needs assessment for various stakeholders.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:
At UNDP, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UNDP recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.
UNDP has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNDP, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UNDP's policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UNDP personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference checks.
Requirements and skills
Global Call
• Prevention of Violent Extremism
This is how cinfo can support you in the application process for this specific position:
• Application preparation: Before you apply for this position: Improve your application documents by registering for a Job Application Support. Our coaches are here to help tailor your application to the requirements of the job (service provided at your own cost).
• Interview preparation: When invited to the interview: Prepare for the interview by registering for a Job Application Support.
• Additional services for Swiss nationals who get invited to the selection process (written test, interview, assessment centre, etc.):
• Let us know by writing to recruitment@cinfo.ch. We flag matching applications to HR partners and SDC/SECO for visibility.
• Benefit from free interview/assessment preparation by registering here : Interview and Assessment Centre Preparation for Jobs in Multilateral Organisations. Our coaches stand ready to help prepare for upcoming interview/assessment centre.
Sector: Nonprofit/Community/Social Services/International Cooperation
Role: Other
Working hours (%): 80-100%
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