• Private Sector Engagement through South-South Cooperation for the SDGs
• Private Sector Engagement in Digital Transformation and Skills Development
• SDG Financing and Private Sector Development
• Resilience and Crisis Response

Under its Crisis and Resilience portfolio, ICPSD supports sustainable and durable solutions for conflict and fragile affected contexts. The Center, together with its partners and relevant stakeholders, is working on identifying and promoting private sector led good practices in developing countries to be replicated and scaled up to address the major development challenges such as humanitarian crises, disaster risk reduction, climate change, conflict affected economies. As part of the work under the thematic area the Center designs and implements activities to support the Country Offices, partners and stakeholders from both public and private sector through awareness raising and capacity building programs, knowledge products and technical assistance services.

Under the guidance and direct supervision of the Center’s Deputy Director, the Policy Coordinator will lead and be responsible for the ongoing and planned activities through Crisis and Resilience including overall management and coordination of thematic areas’ workplan and activities. The Policy Coordinator will also be leading the design and implementation of knowledge management activities of ICPSD under Crisis and Resilience, such as research, toolkit and training development for initiatives of the Center, cooperation, donor mobilization and technical advisory/ assistance offered to other UNDP units, including Country Offices and Regional Bureaus. The Policy Coordinator will promote organization’s capacity as a reliable partner with national as well as international counterparts, ensure coordination of sectoral activities with broader country/regional/global programmes and advocate on behalf of organization’s goals.

Technical Support to UNDP Country Offices:

• Provide technical support to develop capacity-building strategies for programs addressed at strengthening resilience in vulnerable communities.
• Coordinate preparation of high-quality policy and programme guidance materials for thematic areas such as value chains, trade facilitation, solar energy, financial sector and private sector development.
• Facilitate designing programme strategy and policies to develop scalable models for crisis response and resilience, across sectors to align with national and UNDP objectives.

Managing Research Activities on Fragile and Conflict-affected Contexts:

• Provide oversight for high-quality publishable research reports from the project design, analysis, report writing and graphic design.
• Design research activities with methodological outlines, work plans, objectives, in addition to identifying research gaps and formulating research questions and engaging with academic and research institutions.
• Provide training to team of researchers in quantitative and qualitative analysis with a focus on building capacity in data collection and analysis for fragile and conflict-affected contexts.

Coordination of ICPSD Crisis and Resilience Portfolio Projects:

• Oversee the day-to-day management of crisis and resilience portfolio projects, ensuring timely and effective implementation in line with UNDP standards and donor requirements.
• Coordinate with project teams, partners, and stakeholders to facilitate operations and achieve project milestones.
• Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including government bodies, local and international NGOs, private sector partners, and community organizations.
• Foster an environment of innovation within the portfolio, encouraging the exploration of new approaches and technologies to enhance crisis response and resilience.

Facilitation of knowledge building and management focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Identify and synthetize lessons learnt and best practices in the area of work.
• Actively promote a knowledge sharing and learning culture.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Institutional Arrangement

The Policy Coordinator will work under the direct supervision of the ICPSD Deputy Director and in close collaboration with ICPSD units and UNDP Afghanistan team members. The Policy Coordinator will directly supervise personnel working in ICPSD’s Crisis and Resilience Portfolio, and these personnel will report to the Policy Coordinator.

• Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
• Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
• Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
• Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
• Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
• Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
• Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

• 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
• Results-based Management:
  • Ability to manage programmes and projects with a focus at improved performance and demonstrable results
• Project Management:
  • Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals
• 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
• Multi-stakeholder engagement and funding:
  • Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder funding platforms

• Master’s degree in international relations, public policy, finance, economics, or a related area is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in the above-mentioned field of study, in combination with an additional 2 years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the Master’s degree.