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Mission and objectives
UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System. It serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a continuous spectrum of in-depth local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UN Guiding Principles) is widely recognized as the most authoritative, normative framework guiding efforts to reduce or eliminate the adverse impact of business operations on human rights. Experts have described it as the single most important innovation in promoting sustainable business practices in the last 25 years – a role that is reinforced by its inclusion as one of the Means of Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda).
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UN Guiding Principles) is widely recognized as the most authoritative, normative framework guiding efforts to reduce or eliminate the adverse impact of business operations on human rights. Experts have described it as the single most important innovation in promoting sustainable business practices in the last 25 years – a role that is reinforced by its inclusion as one of the Means of Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda).
Context
The Peace Support Facility (PSF) is a Government of Ethiopia endorsed UNDP mechanism that supports stabilization and early recovery in conflict-affected areas of Tigray, Amhara, and Afar. It was established to help bridge the gap between humanitarian response and longer-term reconstruction by enabling local authorities to restore essential services, re-establish governance, and create the conditions for sustainable peace.
Rather than acting as an implementing project, the PSF functions as a facilitator and learning platform. It strengthens national and regional systems, supports local administrations to plan and deliver integrated recovery interventions, and documents practical lessons that inform policy and programming. Its area-based, stabilization-first approach has proven effective in re-building trust, accelerating returns, and preventing renewed conflict.
Through the Integrated Woreda Action Plan (iWAP) process, the PSF works with woreda administrations and communities to identify priorities and design short, sequenced packages of interventions that deliver visible results within 12–14 months. These typically include the rehabilitation of local governance and justice offices, health and education facilities, and water schemes; the re-activation of community peace and dialogue platforms; and support for income-generating activities—particularly for women, youth, and displaced households. The Facility’s focus on joint planning, technical accompaniment, and participatory monitoring ensures that recovery efforts are locally owned and aligned with regional and national frameworks.
Since its establishment, the PSF has supported over twenty woredas, helping restore 248 government institutions, rehabilitate 65 water schemes, 64 schools, and 22 health facilities, and enable more than 11,000 people to restart income-generating activities. It has also provided psychosocial support to nearly 9,000 individuals and trained over 3,500 peace and justice actors. Several of the woredas and justice offices supported through the PSF have since received national awards for innovation and performance—recognition of a model that combines speed, quality, and local leadership.
The Facility operates through the National Implementation Modality, under the leadership of the Ministry of Finance and the Regional Recovery and Reconstruction Offices (RROs). These structures ensure government ownership and coordination across sectors, while the PSF provides technical support, quality assurance, and adaptive management tools, including a GIS-based monitoring system and micro-survey mechanisms.
As Ethiopia’s only dedicated stabilization platform, the PSF demonstrates that targeted, well-sequenced investments can deliver measurable peace dividends. It strengthens the legitimacy of local institutions, promotes social cohesion, and enables displaced families to rebuild their lives. The next programme cycle will expand the Facility’s reach to new woredas and consolidate its role as a trusted mechanism for government-led stabilization and learning.
Rather than acting as an implementing project, the PSF functions as a facilitator and learning platform. It strengthens national and regional systems, supports local administrations to plan and deliver integrated recovery interventions, and documents practical lessons that inform policy and programming. Its area-based, stabilization-first approach has proven effective in re-building trust, accelerating returns, and preventing renewed conflict.
Through the Integrated Woreda Action Plan (iWAP) process, the PSF works with woreda administrations and communities to identify priorities and design short, sequenced packages of interventions that deliver visible results within 12–14 months. These typically include the rehabilitation of local governance and justice offices, health and education facilities, and water schemes; the re-activation of community peace and dialogue platforms; and support for income-generating activities—particularly for women, youth, and displaced households. The Facility’s focus on joint planning, technical accompaniment, and participatory monitoring ensures that recovery efforts are locally owned and aligned with regional and national frameworks.
Since its establishment, the PSF has supported over twenty woredas, helping restore 248 government institutions, rehabilitate 65 water schemes, 64 schools, and 22 health facilities, and enable more than 11,000 people to restart income-generating activities. It has also provided psychosocial support to nearly 9,000 individuals and trained over 3,500 peace and justice actors. Several of the woredas and justice offices supported through the PSF have since received national awards for innovation and performance—recognition of a model that combines speed, quality, and local leadership.
The Facility operates through the National Implementation Modality, under the leadership of the Ministry of Finance and the Regional Recovery and Reconstruction Offices (RROs). These structures ensure government ownership and coordination across sectors, while the PSF provides technical support, quality assurance, and adaptive management tools, including a GIS-based monitoring system and micro-survey mechanisms.
As Ethiopia’s only dedicated stabilization platform, the PSF demonstrates that targeted, well-sequenced investments can deliver measurable peace dividends. It strengthens the legitimacy of local institutions, promotes social cohesion, and enables displaced families to rebuild their lives. The next programme cycle will expand the Facility’s reach to new woredas and consolidate its role as a trusted mechanism for government-led stabilization and learning.
Task description
The Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus Specialist works under the direct supervision of the Head of the Peace Support Facility to support the integrated delivery of PSF programmes across humanitarian, development, and peace pillars.
The role is primarily a coordination, integration, and support function. The Specialist facilitates collaboration across PSF field teams and thematic areas, promotes information sharing and joint working practices, and supports the identification of synergies across interventions. The role helps ensure that PSF operates as a coherent nexus platform in practice, with aligned planning, implementation, learning, and external engagement.
The Specialist supports outreach and partnership-building with humanitarian, development, peace, and private sector actors at federal, regional, and field levels, working closely with PSF teams to strengthen nexus-oriented coordination and collaboration.
The role also supports the Head of PSF and the broader team on knowledge management, data consolidation, reporting, conflict sensitivity, and learning. In addition, the Specialist provides analytical and technical support to resource mobilization and partnership efforts led by the Head of PSF.
This position does not carry line management authority. It requires strong facilitation, synthesis, and communication skills, and the ability to work across teams and sectors in a dynamic stabilization and recovery environment.
Area 1: Internal Integration and HDP Nexus Coordination
Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Peace Support Facility, the HDP Nexus Specialist supports internal coordination and promotes integrated delivery across all PSF pillars.
Duties and Tasks
• Support the Head of PSF in ensuring that PSF programmes are designed and implemented in an integrated manner across humanitarian, development, and peace dimensions.
• Facilitate structured information sharing across PSF thematic leads and field teams to promote alignment, complementarity, and joint problem-solving.
• Encourage and support joint planning, sequencing, and coordination across field teams in convergence areas to strengthen synergies between governance, basic services, livelihoods, peacebuilding, and social cohesion interventions.
• Consolidate inputs from field teams and thematic areas to identify overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for stronger integration within iWAPs, AWPs, and implementation processes.
• Support the organization and documentation of internal coordination meetings, technical review sessions, and cross-pillar planning discussions.
• Track follow-up actions arising from internal coordination processes and support timely communication across teams.
• Promote practical application of the HDP nexus approach by supporting teams to translate strategic principles into concrete operational linkages at field level.
• Support field teams in identifying entry points for collaboration with humanitarian, development, and peace actors in convergence areas, in coordination with regional counterparts.
• Maintain an overview of cross-pillar progress and emerging operational issues to inform the Head of PSF and support adaptive management.
Area 2: External Outreach and HDP Nexus Partnerships
Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Peace Support Facility, the HDP Nexus Specialist supports structured outreach and partnership engagement to strengthen PSF’s positioning as an integrated humanitarian–development–peace platform.
Duties and Tasks
• Support the Head of PSF in mapping and engaging key humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, and private sector stakeholders at federal and regional levels.
• Contribute to strengthening PSF’s relationships with UN agencies, government counterparts, development partners, civil society organizations, and private sector actors working across the HDP spectrum.
• Support the preparation and follow-up of coordination meetings, bilateral engagements, dialogue platforms, and partner consultations at Addis and regional levels.
• Encourage and support PSF field teams in conducting nexus-oriented outreach and coordination with relevant actors in convergence areas, including participation in regional coordination platforms where appropriate.
• Facilitate information exchange between PSF and external stakeholders to promote alignment, avoid duplication, and identify opportunities for joint action.
• Support the identification of strategic partnership opportunities that enhance integrated recovery outcomes and strengthen institutional sustainability.
• Contribute to preparing briefing notes, talking points, background analyses, and stakeholder mapping tools to inform leadership engagement and partnership development.
• Support the consolidation of partnership tracking information, including follow-up actions and agreed areas of collaboration.
• Promote consistent external messaging that reflects PSF’s integrated stabilization and nexus approach.
Area 3: Knowledge Management, Reporting, and Conflict Sensitivity Support
Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Peace Support Facility, the HDP Nexus Specialist supports evidence generation, structured learning, and coherent reporting across PSF pillars.
Duties and Tasks
• Support the consolidation of programme data across PSF thematic areas and field teams to ensure consistent, accurate, and timely information for internal decision-making and external reporting.
• Contribute to maintaining and updating PSF monitoring and tracking tools, including structured data inputs related to convergence areas, institutional strengthening, social cohesion, and recovery outcomes.
• Support the preparation of integrated progress reports, briefing notes, analytical summaries, and internal updates that reflect cross-pillar achievements and challenges.
• Assist in drafting sections of donor reports, presentations, and strategic documents, ensuring that HDP nexus linkages and integrated results are clearly articulated.
• Support the systematic documentation of lessons learned, operational insights, and emerging good practices from field implementation.
• Contribute to the preparation of knowledge products, including thematic briefs, short analytical notes, and internal reflection papers that strengthen adaptive management.
• Support the integration of conflict sensitivity and “do no harm” principles across PSF interventions by assisting teams with practical tools, checklists, and review inputs.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of a structured repository of reports, analyses, coordination notes, and learning products.
• Provide analytical support to the Head of PSF by synthesizing field information, identifying cross-cutting trends, and highlighting risks and opportunities relevant to strategic steering.
Area 4: Resource Mobilization and Strategic Support to the Head of PSF
The HDP Nexus Specialist provides analytical, coordination, and drafting support to resource mobilization and strategic partnership efforts.
Duties and Tasks
• Support the Head of PSF in identifying and tracking funding and partnership opportunities aligned with PSF’s stabilization and HDP nexus priorities.
• Contribute technical and analytical inputs to the preparation of concept notes, proposals, briefing materials, and presentations for development partners and other stakeholders.
• Support the consolidation and packaging of PSF results, lessons learned, and value proposition to inform donor engagement and strategic communications.
• Assist in preparing briefing notes, talking points, and background analyses for meetings and engagements led by the Head of PSF.
• Support follow-up on agreed actions with partners and internal teams related to resource mobilization and strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to maintaining an overview of ongoing and prospective partnerships, including tracking timelines, deliverables, and coordination needs.
• Support internal coordination between PSF teams to ensure timely provision of inputs required for proposals, donor reporting, and partnership discussions.
• Provide flexible, ad hoc analytical and coordination support to the Head of PSF in response to emerging strategic priorities.
The role is primarily a coordination, integration, and support function. The Specialist facilitates collaboration across PSF field teams and thematic areas, promotes information sharing and joint working practices, and supports the identification of synergies across interventions. The role helps ensure that PSF operates as a coherent nexus platform in practice, with aligned planning, implementation, learning, and external engagement.
The Specialist supports outreach and partnership-building with humanitarian, development, peace, and private sector actors at federal, regional, and field levels, working closely with PSF teams to strengthen nexus-oriented coordination and collaboration.
The role also supports the Head of PSF and the broader team on knowledge management, data consolidation, reporting, conflict sensitivity, and learning. In addition, the Specialist provides analytical and technical support to resource mobilization and partnership efforts led by the Head of PSF.
This position does not carry line management authority. It requires strong facilitation, synthesis, and communication skills, and the ability to work across teams and sectors in a dynamic stabilization and recovery environment.
Area 1: Internal Integration and HDP Nexus Coordination
Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Peace Support Facility, the HDP Nexus Specialist supports internal coordination and promotes integrated delivery across all PSF pillars.
Duties and Tasks
• Support the Head of PSF in ensuring that PSF programmes are designed and implemented in an integrated manner across humanitarian, development, and peace dimensions.
• Facilitate structured information sharing across PSF thematic leads and field teams to promote alignment, complementarity, and joint problem-solving.
• Encourage and support joint planning, sequencing, and coordination across field teams in convergence areas to strengthen synergies between governance, basic services, livelihoods, peacebuilding, and social cohesion interventions.
• Consolidate inputs from field teams and thematic areas to identify overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for stronger integration within iWAPs, AWPs, and implementation processes.
• Support the organization and documentation of internal coordination meetings, technical review sessions, and cross-pillar planning discussions.
• Track follow-up actions arising from internal coordination processes and support timely communication across teams.
• Promote practical application of the HDP nexus approach by supporting teams to translate strategic principles into concrete operational linkages at field level.
• Support field teams in identifying entry points for collaboration with humanitarian, development, and peace actors in convergence areas, in coordination with regional counterparts.
• Maintain an overview of cross-pillar progress and emerging operational issues to inform the Head of PSF and support adaptive management.
Area 2: External Outreach and HDP Nexus Partnerships
Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Peace Support Facility, the HDP Nexus Specialist supports structured outreach and partnership engagement to strengthen PSF’s positioning as an integrated humanitarian–development–peace platform.
Duties and Tasks
• Support the Head of PSF in mapping and engaging key humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, and private sector stakeholders at federal and regional levels.
• Contribute to strengthening PSF’s relationships with UN agencies, government counterparts, development partners, civil society organizations, and private sector actors working across the HDP spectrum.
• Support the preparation and follow-up of coordination meetings, bilateral engagements, dialogue platforms, and partner consultations at Addis and regional levels.
• Encourage and support PSF field teams in conducting nexus-oriented outreach and coordination with relevant actors in convergence areas, including participation in regional coordination platforms where appropriate.
• Facilitate information exchange between PSF and external stakeholders to promote alignment, avoid duplication, and identify opportunities for joint action.
• Support the identification of strategic partnership opportunities that enhance integrated recovery outcomes and strengthen institutional sustainability.
• Contribute to preparing briefing notes, talking points, background analyses, and stakeholder mapping tools to inform leadership engagement and partnership development.
• Support the consolidation of partnership tracking information, including follow-up actions and agreed areas of collaboration.
• Promote consistent external messaging that reflects PSF’s integrated stabilization and nexus approach.
Area 3: Knowledge Management, Reporting, and Conflict Sensitivity Support
Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Peace Support Facility, the HDP Nexus Specialist supports evidence generation, structured learning, and coherent reporting across PSF pillars.
Duties and Tasks
• Support the consolidation of programme data across PSF thematic areas and field teams to ensure consistent, accurate, and timely information for internal decision-making and external reporting.
• Contribute to maintaining and updating PSF monitoring and tracking tools, including structured data inputs related to convergence areas, institutional strengthening, social cohesion, and recovery outcomes.
• Support the preparation of integrated progress reports, briefing notes, analytical summaries, and internal updates that reflect cross-pillar achievements and challenges.
• Assist in drafting sections of donor reports, presentations, and strategic documents, ensuring that HDP nexus linkages and integrated results are clearly articulated.
• Support the systematic documentation of lessons learned, operational insights, and emerging good practices from field implementation.
• Contribute to the preparation of knowledge products, including thematic briefs, short analytical notes, and internal reflection papers that strengthen adaptive management.
• Support the integration of conflict sensitivity and “do no harm” principles across PSF interventions by assisting teams with practical tools, checklists, and review inputs.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of a structured repository of reports, analyses, coordination notes, and learning products.
• Provide analytical support to the Head of PSF by synthesizing field information, identifying cross-cutting trends, and highlighting risks and opportunities relevant to strategic steering.
Area 4: Resource Mobilization and Strategic Support to the Head of PSF
The HDP Nexus Specialist provides analytical, coordination, and drafting support to resource mobilization and strategic partnership efforts.
Duties and Tasks
• Support the Head of PSF in identifying and tracking funding and partnership opportunities aligned with PSF’s stabilization and HDP nexus priorities.
• Contribute technical and analytical inputs to the preparation of concept notes, proposals, briefing materials, and presentations for development partners and other stakeholders.
• Support the consolidation and packaging of PSF results, lessons learned, and value proposition to inform donor engagement and strategic communications.
• Assist in preparing briefing notes, talking points, and background analyses for meetings and engagements led by the Head of PSF.
• Support follow-up on agreed actions with partners and internal teams related to resource mobilization and strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to maintaining an overview of ongoing and prospective partnerships, including tracking timelines, deliverables, and coordination needs.
• Support internal coordination between PSF teams to ensure timely provision of inputs required for proposals, donor reporting, and partnership discussions.
• Provide flexible, ad hoc analytical and coordination support to the Head of PSF in response to emerging strategic priorities.
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