Job Opportunity: Support Specialist Program needed

OIM – Program Support Specialist
Onsite
Cameroon : 12 months
1 assignment(s)

Fully funded

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General
Description of assignment title
Program Support Specialist

Assignment country
Cameroon

Expected start date
01/03/2023

Sustainable Development Goal
16. Peace, justice and strong institutions

Volunteer category
International UN Volunteer Specialist

DoA reserved for persons with disabilities
No

Host entity
OIM Cameroon

Type: Onsite

Duration: 12 months

Number of assignments: 1

Duty stations
Yaounde

Details
Mission and objectives
IOM Cameroon opened its office in Yaoundé in 2007 and supports the Government of Cameroon to effectively build community resilience, manage mobility and reinforce governance, as well as to address the mobility dimensions of crisis. Due to its extreme diversity in climate, culture and natural endowments, Cameroon has been known to be the ‘Africa in miniature’. It holds a strategic position with its neighboring countries for sustainable development, providing access to ports to landlocked Chad and CAR, being a destination for regional migration, as well as being a Lake Chad Basin country. With increasing levels of insecurity and conflict, Cameroon hosts a rising number of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs). Along with IOM’s main office in Yaoundé, it has 4 sub-offices in Buea, Douala, Maroua, and Bertoua.

IOM currently implements projects in various thematic areas in support of the government:
• Community Stabilization with Community Based Planning
• Peacebuilding with Conflict Management and Prevention
• Disengagement, Disassociation, Reintegration and Reconciliation
• Humanitarian Emergencies to crisis-affected populations, including displacement tracking, emergency shelter/NFI, MHPSS
• Migration Protection and Assistance, including Counter-Trafficking and Assisted Voluntary Return
• Legal Identity and Civil Registration Capacity Building
• Health Promotion and Assistance for Migrants, including Mental Health and Psycho-social support;

Background
Humanitarian needs in Cameroon remain high. According to the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) published in April 2022, approximately 3.9 million people (or one in six) are in need of emergency assistance as the country has three humanitarian fronts (Far North Region, North-West, South-West ( NWSW) Regions and East refugee crisis) to cope with, in addition to the socioeconomic fallout of a global health crisis, and the war in Ukraine which has impacted global food prices and pushed vulnerable communities into further poverty and hunger.

Since 2013, ongoing hostilities and violence in the Far North Region continue to trigger lower magnitude displacements and community shocks due to sporadic attacks by armed groups designated as terrorist organizations (AGDTO) such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province. Furthermore, intercommunity violence between different ethnic groups over lack of resources and periodically competing livelihoods is occurring more. At the same time in the North-WestSouth-West English speaking regions, a socio-political crisis that erupted in 2017 turned into an armed conflict between government defense forces and Non-State Armed Groups (NSAGs) triggering massive internal displacements.
In order to de-escalate conflicts with conditions conducive to social stability and peace, and support internally displaced populations (IDPs) with access to durable solutions, IOM leverages the humanitarian development peace nexus (HDPN) to support the government with developing models for legal identity solutions for IDPs, the development of processes and frameworks for the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) for ex-associates of armed groups, and the development of general projects that support bottom up community engagement for transitioning to sustainable development in post-conflict settings .

Within this assignment, due to tasks mostly focused on project policy support for legal identity, DDR and project/programme development, tasks will be based within the Yaounde and around Center region. This will include a strong support for peacebuilding and stabilization activities that are currently funded by the Government of Japan.

Task description
Under the direct supervision of IOM Chief of Mission, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:
1. Contributing to the writing of project proposals and concept notes related to peace-building, community resilience and social cohesion and in coordination with program staff .
2. Support IOM activities in Center region relating to coordinating with the local com-munes a new model for the provision of legal identity and the strengthening of the civil registration system for IDPs for accessing durable solutions to their displacement.
3. Support IOM activities to support the government of Cameroon in developing their capabilities for procedures for DDR.
4. Contributing to and supporting the coordination and writing of project reports to donors in partnership with project management staff.
5. Helping in the general knowledge management efforts of the mission, including in the regular updating of information management systems, reporting schedules and general project information.
6. Any other such requests that may be required

Eligibility criteria
Age
27 – 80

Additional eligibility criteria
This assignment is funded by Japan.
HRD assignments are considered as assignments without family.

Nationality
Candidate must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment.

Donor priorities
–

Requirements
Required experience
3 years of experience in • Project and Program development with focus on peacebuilding, community stabili-zation, social cohesion
• External relations and coordination with other organizations, including government counterparts, UN agencies and local partners
• Capacity building and workshop facilitation
• Peacebuilding, community stabilization, social cohesion
• Experience of knowledge of Legal identity and civil registration systems is an ad-vantage, but not expected.
• Experience or knowledge of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration process-es is an advantage, but not expected.

Area(s) of expertise
Communication, Development programs

Driving license

Languages
​​English, Level: Fluent, Required
French, Level: Fair, Desirable

Required education level
Master degree or equivalent in General Social Sciences, Conflict and Security, Economics and International Development

Competencies and values
Adaptability and Flexibility; Building Trust; Customer Orientation; Commitment and Motivation; Commitment to Continuous Learning; Communication; creativity; Ethics and Values; Integrity; Knowledge Sharing; Planning and Organizing; professionalism; Respect for Diversity; self-management; Technological Awareness; Vision; Working in Teams.

All applications must be submitted ONLINE at:  https://app.unv.org/opportunities/1709282645664000