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Background
The ongoing Russian war on Ukraine has caused tremendous loss of life and livelihoods, mass internal and external displacement, widespread destruction of urban areas and damage to critical infrastructure The presence of landmines and other explosive ordnances (EO) is adversely impacting on civilians’ lives, restricting agriculture, inhibiting basic sustenance activities and disrupting essential infrastructure and services in many parts of Ukraine. According to the National Mine Action Authority (NMAA), an estimated 156,000 km2 of Ukraine’s territory (it’s about 30 % of country’s area) has been affected by conflict and may be contaminated with EO. OHCHR reports show that there were more than 1100 civilian casualties related to EO incidents since the February 2022.
Within the framework of the Energy and Environment Portfolio, UNDP is already engaged in a number of integrated mine action activities directly relevant to the work outlined in the request by the Government. A series of projects have been launched to ensure safe human mobility and access to essential goods and services for humanitarian support. One of the projects’ interventions is focused on release the land and damaged structures / buildings from EO applying all reasonable effort to identify, define, and remove all presence and suspicion of EO through non-technical survey, technical survey and clearance. The technical and management support that require mine action interventions is being provided by group of mine action specialists engaged under funds of UNDP Mine Action Project (MAP) in Ukraine.
In this context UNDP MAP now seeks to recruit a highly qualified and experienced national specialist in humanitarian mine action who will be able to mobilize, deploy and manage necessary resources to conduct efficiently land release tasks including EO survey and clearance of damaged structures / buildings as well as to organize relevant EO risk education (EORE) campaign and trainings.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Mine Action Field Operations Analyst will report to the Mine Action Technical Specialist and, within delegated authority, will be responsible for the following duties:
Under the overall guidance from, and the supervision of the UNDP Mine Action Technical Specialist, the Mine Action Field Operations Analyst will be responsible for facilitating a process aimed at ensuring the achievement of the above-mentioned duties. The incumbent will be managing EORE Officer and two Regional Liaison Officer and will be working in close partnership with the Mine Action Field Operations Specialist, Information Management Analyst, EOD Instructors and the project operations support staff.
Competencies
Core: | |
Achieve Results: | LEVEL 2: Delivers results with responsibility and accountability |
Think Innovatively: | LEVEL 2: Offers new ideas and updates to processes and tools, seeking continuous improvement |
Learn Continuously: | LEVEL 2: Seeks out opportunities to share own knowledge with others |
Adapt with Agility: | LEVEL 2: Remains effective even when faced with ambiguity |
Act with Determination: | LEVEL 2: Demonstrates composure when faced with adversity, ensuring deliverables are still achieved |
Engage and Partner: | LEVEL 2: Engages with others (e.g. local authorities, institutional partners) in order to build and maintain coalitions and supports partner creation |
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: | LEVEL 2: Facilitates conversations from an honest and tolerant stance, in a bid to bridge gaps and build trust with colleagues, partners and stakeholders |
People Management:
UNDP People Management Competencies can be found in the dedicated site. |
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies | ||
Thematic Area | Name | Definition |
Business Direction & Strategy | System Thinking
| Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system. |
Business Development | Knowledge Generation | Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for context, or responsive to a stated need. |
Business Management | Risk Management | Ability to identify and organize action around mitigating and proactively managing risks. |
Business Management | Customer Satisfaction/Client Management | Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers’ needs. |
Business Management | Operations Management | Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the Organization’s business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner. Knowledge of relevant concepts and mechanism. |
Partnership management | 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 |
Procurement | Contract Management | Knowledge of contract management concepts, principles and methods, and ability to apply this to strategic and/or practical situations |
Required Skills and Experience
Desired experience:
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