Political Affairs Officer, P3

Job Network :
Political, Peace and Humanitarian

Job Family :
Political Affairs

Category and Level :
Professional and Higher Categories , P-3

Recruitment Type :
Temporary Opportunities

Department/Office :
Department of Peace Operations

This position is located in the Light Coordination Mechanism (LCM) within the Integrated Training Service (ITS) of the Policy, Evaluation and Training Division (DPET) in the Department of Peace Operations (DPO). The Political Affairs Officer reports to the Team Leader of the LCM. The incumbent provides substantive and technical support to the LCM and other related activities. DPO provides political and executive direction to UN Peacekeeping operations around the world and maintains contact with the Security Council, troop and financial contributors, and parties to the conflict in the implementation of Security Council mandates.

The Department works to integrate the efforts of UN, governmental and nongovernmental entities in the context of peacekeeping operations. DPO also provides guidance and support on military, police, mine action and other relevant issues to other UN political and peace building missions. The Policy, Evaluation and Training Division (DPET) is mandated to develop and disseminate the policy and doctrine guiding the work of Peacekeeping.

In addition, the division has the responsibility to evaluate, at the request of the heads of the departments, how those policies are being applied, gather lessons learned and best practices, and use that information to guide the development, coordination and delivery of standardized training, so as to complete the learning cycle. DPET is also responsible for developing and maintaining strategic cooperation with various UN and external partners.

The LCM's mandate is to facilitate bilateral and multilateral partnerships between Troop-and Police contributing countries (T/PCCs) and Member States in order to provide training and capacity building support including technical, financial, logistical (infrastructure) and equipment to address short-and medium-term needs and to help T/PCCS build sustainable national systems.