1. Provide Leadership on SECU Interaction with Stakeholders
   •     Provide leadership on strategic, political, and policy advice to SECU when interacting with its internal and external stakeholders with the aim of ensuring SECU maintains and promotes its independence, effectiveness, accessibility, transparency, and capacity to conduct independent social and environmental compliance investigations in line with applicable international best practices.
   •     Draw on professional experience to lead strategic considerations and approaches on certain cases that present unique and/or high-profile issues and often attract interest and scrutiny from internal and external stakeholders, including UNDP management, civil society organizations, complainants, affected communities, and peer IAMs
   •     Provide leadership and strategic advice on high level negotiations that take place between SECU and other IAMs, and between UNDP and other institutions related to social and environmental policies (e.g. vertical funds, project co-financiers, donor countries, etc).
2. Provide Leadership on SECU Case Activity
   •     Provide leadership and strategic advice to SECU team when determining the eligibility of requests for compliance reviews.
   •     Provide leadership and strategic guidance to compliance officers conducting SECU investigations to ensure high quality reports that are sufficiency of evidence that diligently apply UNDP’s social and environmental safeguard policies to specific factual scenarios the case team is investigating.
   •     Provide expert advice at each stage of the SECU process to ensure the efficiency, effectiveness, fairness, and comprehensiveness of SECU investigations and projects.
   •     Lead on SECU’s quality assurance function for all SECU reports, ensuring exceptional writing and editing and delivering specific expertise in crafting social and environmental investigation reports that focus on strategic impacts and outcomes to external stakeholders and institutional compliance with relevant safeguards.
   •     Provide superior expert advice in the planning and execution of field missions, including travel to UNDP project locations in often dynamic and challenging locations, as needed. Issues that may require the input of the Lead Compliance Officer include: Managing threats of retaliation, interactions with host government representatives, scoping of stakeholders and target witnesses, interacting with local and regional CSOs.
   * SECU field missions never run in locations determined prohibitively unsafe by the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS). SECU must obtain security clearance from UNDSS for all field missions.
3. Provide leadership in management of SECU Projects and Initiatives
   •     Provide leadership to case teams as they conduct their investigations related to compliance  with  Social  and  Environmental  policies.
   •     Engage with high level individuals and sensitive stakeholders within and outside of the organization to provide direction and leadership on UNDP’s social and environmental safeguards framework.
   •     Provide strategic advice and expert technical analysis on policy development within SECU/OAI
   •     Provide strategic advice on other SECU projects and initiatives, as needed
4.  The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

• Expertise in the purpose, design and use of accountability mechanisms.

• Experience in stakeholder engagement, including with local communities and CSOs, is highly desirable.
• Experience and Knowledge of UNDP’s Programming and Operations Policies and Procedures, as well as the UNDP Social and Environmental Standards is advantageous.
• Expertise in promoting, defending, and defining the basic characteristics of independent accountability mechanisms, including independence, accessibility, transparency, effectiveness, and being a source of learning for its parent institution.

Required Language(s) (at working level)

• Fluency in oral and written English is required.
• Fluency in French or Spanish is highly desirable.
• Fluency in another official UN languages is an advantage