Job Title: Senior Partnership Officer (UN Jobs)
Organisation: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Within the context outlined above, the role of the Senior Partnership Officer is to facilitate UNHCR’s engagement and cooperation with multiple stakeholders currently implementing or who have the potential to advocate for and/or implement medium term programmes assisting local communities and UNHCR’s population of concern and have the ability to positively influence the social and political environment.
It is anticipated that these programmes will grow in significance in future years due to the greater importance attached to addressing protracted displacement situations, including the expectations under the Agenda 2030. The role the Senior Partnership Officer will be pivotal to a) identifying opportunities for developing multiple stakeholder partnerships with International, Regional and State entities, municipalities, civil society, NGOs, development institutions, academia, the private sector, etc.; b) promoting UNHCR objectives and strategies with partners; c) ensuring that populations of concern are integrated within national policies and SDGs and that national actors are supported to do so; and, in doing so d) ensuring complementarity between UNHCR’s work and the objectives pursued by a variety of stakeholders.
For that reason, the Senior Partnership Officer will work under the overall supervision of the senior management to ensure that the UNHCR strategies are implemented through innovative partnerships, identifying the most effective partners, proactively engaging with and ensuring the involvement of partners in the strategy and supporting the field in all these aspects.
The Senior Partnership Officer reports to the Deputy Representative and covers a number of specific dossiers, which are linked to an overall role of facilitating UNHCR’s engagement and cooperation with multiple stakeholders currently implementing or who have the potential to advocate for and/or implement programmes toward Uganda’s sustainable programming approach in support of local communities and refugees. This includes supporting efforts so that refugees are integrated within national policies, the NDP, and SDGs, and supporting the localization strategy of UNHCR Uganda in doing so. The incumbent will advise and inform the senior management on partnership and stakeholder coherence in line with the overall UNHCR Uganda strategy. The incumbent must carry out his/her duties in close collaboration and coordination with many colleagues throughout the operation, including Development, Livelihoods, External Engagement, Operations, Protection and across the sub and field offices where s/he ensures a coherent, organized and streamlined approach on related issues across the operation.
The Senior Partnership Officer supervises Inter-Agency Coordination activities. This includes support to the planning and implementation of, as well as the communication and reporting on the UCRRP which requires extensive coordination with the Department of Refugees, Min of Local Gov’t, refugees, donors, and National and International non-governmental organizations as well as RLOs. The incumbent will also coordinate the compilation of RRPs for the DRC, Sudan and South Sudan situations, as well as working with donor relations colleagues on monitoring and the tracking of financial contributions. The Senior Partnership Officer leads the workplan development, monitoring, reporting and implementation under the 10 newly-developed Uganda-level Letters of Understanding with UN Agencies, as well as follow-up on the UN Common Pledge. The Senior Partnership Officer leads technical engagement on UNSDCF processes and convenes relevant technical staff in relation to this, which represents a significant workload, with UNHCR contributing to four UNSDCF pillars and co-chairing one of the UNSDCF Results Group pillars.
In light of the above, the incumbent will have extensive contacts with both internal and external counterparts and partners at senior and technical levels.
All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR’s core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.