Following almost two years of intense conflict, an Agreement for Lasting Peace through a Permanent Cessation of Hostilities was signed between the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (GoE) and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in Pretoria on 2^nd November 2022.  The agreement paves the way for the restoration of peace, security, and stability in the Tigray Region and other conflict impacted areas of Afar and Amhara regions.

In February 2022, an assessment and planning process for rehabilitation, recovery and reconstruction (RRR) in conflict-impacted areas was launched under the technical coordination of the World Bank (WB) and leadership of the Ministry of Finance (MoF).  As a result of this process, the Government has prepared a USD 20 billion Resilient Recovery and Reconstruction Framework (3RF) mostly addressing conflict impacts in Northern Ethiopia. The RC/HC tasked UNDP to prepare a two-year immediate and rapid peace support (stabilization) proposal worth USD 2.4 billion leading to the establishment of the Peace Support Facility. It is an offer endorsed by the Ethiopian Government to support peace processes in Ethiopia providing rapid and scalable peace dividends complementing the 3RF. The Facility is designed to support immediate recovery, risk and vulnerability reduction for communities, conflict prevention working along the HDP Nexus, and promoting pathways towards durable solutions to protracted displacement, and fostering lasting peace in Ethiopia.

The Facility’s strategic goal is to contribute to an irreversible peace process in Northern Ethiopia.  it contributes to the Country’s Programme Document in three key areas:

1. Federal, Regional, and sub regional capacities are strengthened for reintegration, reconciliation, prevention, and peaceful management of conflicts.
2. Marginalized groups, particularly the poor, women, persons with disabilities and displaced are empowered to access entrepreneurship services and financial and non-financial assets and services to build productive capacities and benefit from sustainable livelihoods and jobs.
3. The complex, multi-dimensional challenge of consolidating peace and delivering a peace dividend can be addressed adequately only through a multi-dimensional response moving from ‘saving lives’ to ‘sustaining life’, and restoring a sense of normalcy The situation in Northern Ethiopia, therefore, demands practical application of the HDP nexus (and related concept of human security), with all three parts of this equation moving in tandem to stabilize conditions, save, protect, and improve lives, ensure respect for human rights, and lay the groundwork for sustainable peace and development.

The PSF is uniquely positioned to respond quickly and effectively to the needs in Northern Ethiopia. It offers a platform benefiting from the leadership and ownership of the Ethiopian Government and Regional Presidents. It has successfully supported the creation of the RROs that are critical for coordination, prioritization and accountable implementation of interventions.

The PSF further offers a platform for collaborative, coordinated, and accountable support to the peace processes ensuring that development partners can effectively and efficiently participate in rule of law, whole-of-government, and people centered approach to the stabilization, reconstruction, early recovery, and conflict transformation efforts in Ethiopia.

The PSF focuses on the following windows:

Window 1: Local Governance, Human Rights and Social Cohesion 

Window 2: Basic Social Services (health, nutrition, education, WASH, protection)

Window 3: Economic Revival (enterprises and livelihoods)

Window 4: Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants 

Window 5: Solutions to Internal Displacement

Geographic Focus:  Afar, Amhara and Tigray (Northern Ethiopia).

Accordingly, the incumbent will be responsible for the following tasks

Scope of Work and responsibilities

Under the overall guidance of the PSF project and the direct supervision of Deputy Head of Peace Support Facility, the Driver provides reliable and safe driving services to PSF by ensuring highest standards of discretion and integrity, sense of responsibility, excellent knowledge of protocol and security issues. The Driver also demonstrates a client-oriented approach, courtesy, tact and ability to work with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.

Upon request of the supervisor, the Driver may also be required to provide driving services to the operations and programme staff in the CO, consultants and experts and UN staff on mission.

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach to accommodate changing business needs and leverage linkages across interventions to achieve its strategic goals. Therefore, UNDP personnel are expected to work across units, functions, teams, and projects in multidisciplinary teams in order to enhance and enable horizontal collaboration:

1. Provision of reliable and secure driving services focusing on the following key activities.

• Apply defensive driving principles at all times and conditions
• Check availability of fuel, water, and oils every day before start traveling
• Ensures that the assigned vehicle is kept clean and ready to provide transport services
• Provide satisfactory and punctual transport services to staff

       2 . Proper use of vehicle including daily maintenance and documentation focusing on the following key  activities:

• Takes care of day-to-day maintenance services of the vehicle, check oil, water, battery, brakes, tires, etc
• Perform minor repairs and arrange for other required repair services
• Properly fill log sheets and make sure they are signed by users on daily basis
• Timely inform the administration assistant when maintenance service is required
• Make sure that all staff on board are UNSMS and/or allowed to be onboard by supervisor(s) for official purposes

      3. While on board and enroute, ensure UNSMS, UN properties and Assets Safety and Security          

• Apply defensive driving principles at all times and conditions
• Ensures that the steps, rules, and regulations are taken in case of reporting an accident
• Timely reporting accidents to direct supervisor, field level UNDSS and local police/traffic
• Collect and share facts to medical personnel and police officers, when necessary.
• Ensures availability of all the required documents/supplies including vehicle insurance, vehicle logs, office directory, map of the city/country, first aid kit, necessary spare parts.
• Deal effectively and tactfully with officials and visitors that use his/her vehicle.

     4. Performs other duties as assigned by the office focusing on the following key activities

• Assist programme and operations staff while receiving guests, arranging workshops, meetings and conducting procurements
• Support programme and operations team in delivering and receiving messages to and from partners
• Support the procurement team in making minor purchases and collects urgent purchases from local suppliers as requested
• Support PSF staffs in documentation and facilitation of training

• Administration & Operations: Vehicle management: Knowledge of policy & procedures on fleet management
• Administration & Operations:  Insurance management: Knowledge of policy and procedures on insurance; ability to conduct risk assessment to procure coverage; to ensure relevant tracking and reporting.
• Administration & Operations: Documents and records management: Overall document (hard or electronic) management; registry and retention policy including storing and archiving.
• Business Management: Operations Management: Ability to effectively plan, organize, and oversee the organizations business processes in order to convert its assets into the best results in the most efficient manner.
• Business Management: Customer Satisfaction/Client Management:   Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers’ needs, provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy, Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests, and Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns.
• Business Management: Communication: Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience, and Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels.
• Business Management:  Digital Awareness and Literacy: Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skillfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed.