UNOPS Governance Advisor; GA

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The Israeli – Palestinian conflict remains a protracted and complex conflict. While political efforts are pursued at various levels to bring the wider conflict to an end, it is essential that progress be made on the ground in a manner that will create a more conducive environment for final status negotiations.

The mandate of the Office of the Quartet is to increase Palestinian institutional and economic development and empowerment, as a support towards achieving a two-state solution. In the event of a resumption of final status negotiations, the OQ would support Quartet members in their efforts to realize a successful outcome.

The OQ works to deliver its mandate by supporting sustainable policy change through working with the international community, the Palestinian Authority and the Government of Israel. This allows the OQ to facilitate engagement between the parties, encouraging agreement and progress at the political level, while also drawing on its sectoral expertise to support the technical-level work. A key focus of working with the international community is to strengthen the engagement with the parties.

This is achieved through facilitating and supporting international community discussions at various levels towards tangible action and ownership as well as providing technical expertise for a collective international community wide approach.

The OQ is a fast paced and dynamic office operating in the areas of infrastructure, governance and economic development. The following strategic principles guide the OQ’s work to support the parties while also ensuring alignment with the strategic objectives of the Quartet members and donors to the OQ.

• Bridging between the parties and providing creative solutions that enable progress on the ground;
• Playing a catalytic role in working towards sectoral solutions in partnership with other actors, while taking on direct responsibility for specific elements of those solutions when the Office is well positioned and requested to do so;
• Focusing on policies and projects that have a multiplier effect – that is, an outcome that extends beyond the direct output of the policy or project;
• Focusing on the implementation of agreements reached and announcements made by the parties to ensure that they are translated as quickly as possible into results that have a positive impact on people’s lives;
• Maintaining the vertical depth of our work from the granular, technical level to the strategic and political level while engaging the broad array of actors required to make progress, including the parties, members of the international community and others;
• Ensuring complementarity of the OQ’s work with that of other key actors, including those which also play a convening role;
• Continuing support to Quartet members.

The Governance Advisor (GA) is part of the Governance Team, reporting to the Director of Governance and will work within the work streams – justice, security, and fiscal issues.

The GA will be working closely with the members of the Governance Team, and members of the other OQ teams. S/he will be engaging with the stakeholders as described in the ToR, under the guidance of the line manager. The GA is responsible for delivering the ToR and additional tasks assigned by the line manager.

As part of the Governance Team, GA is key and an integral part of implementing the Sector Strategy and Workplan, contributing towards the delivery of overall OQ Strategy.

The GA will contribute towards the strategy and work of Governance Team and OQ within the scope below.

• Sectoral policy and strategic focus
• Produce strategic, technical and communication content
• Workstream management
• Cross program collaboration and capacity building

The work of GA is highly confidential in nature, hence must maintain the highest standards of confidentiality.

The GA is responsible for the deliverables below, following the objective of the assignment and the scope of work.

• Keep abreast of relevant local and regional developments as well as related developments in other sectors, to provide…