Program Manager/Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management at UNV - United Nations Volunteers

Mission and objectives

In 2021, UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa launched timbuktoo, a multi-pronged initiative aimed to galvanize African youth as entrepreneurs, innovators, and problem solvers. The initiative is focused on supporting and growing innovative, scalable, and impactful entrepreneurship by African young people, while relying on a springboard of partners who together contribute meaningfully to building an African youth innovation and startup ecosystem. The timbuktoo approach is anchored in seeking, nurturing, and building African solutions forwarded by Africa’s youth that directly address one or more of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Timbuktoo is an explosive new entrant into UNDP Africa’s ambition to transform the African continent by harnessing on the African people themselves, particularly its ambitious, vibrant, youth, as the key to its development and path out of poverty. To achieve this bold ambition timbuktoo utilizes a hub and spoke model composed of 10 thematic nodes.

Context

The Programme Manager will be responsible for the effective management of initiatives in Disaster Risk Management (DRM), Early Warning Systems (EWS), and climate adaptation. She/he will ensure strong stakeholder coordination, alignment with national priorities and UNDP’s strategic objectives, and the integration of climate-smart approaches to strengthen resilience and environmental governance. She/he will also drive innovation, promote knowledge exchange, and oversee the delivery of high-quality outputs across all assigned thematic areas. UNDP applies a portfolio approach that enables flexibility in responding to evolving development needs and maximizes synergies across interventions.

Under the direct supervision of the Head of Sustainable Environment, Energy Development and Climate Change (SEEDCC) Unit, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

Management of programmatic engagement:

• Lead the implementation of DRM, EWS programmatic activities, ensuring timely deliv-ery of key components and alignment with strategic objectives.

• Monitor progress against work plans and proactively follow up on critical milestones to avoid delays and bottlenecks.

• Provide strategic oversight and troubleshooting support to maintain quality and respon-siveness throughout implementation.

• Track and report on programmatic achievements, challenges, and lessons learned to in-form adaptive management.

• Maintain regular communication with partners and internal teams to ensure coherence and accountability across all program streams.

Policy Analysis, Knowledge Facilitation and Sharing:

• Coordinate the Loss and Damage (L&D) study, including stakeholder engagement, data collection oversight.

• Coordinate the implementation of the disaster risk assessment and hotspot mapping, in partnership with MINEMA and other key stakeholders.

• Coordinate the implementation of the feasibility study on the integration of AI and machine learning in weather forecasting and climate information services

• Coordinate the implementation of the implementation of the NbS Study

Resource Mobilization:

• Follow up on ongoing proposals development, ensuring that all technical and strate-gic comments from reviewers are addressed comprehensively and in a timely manner and design ToRs for SES, HACT, and other relevant assessments.

• Develop of concept notes (CNs) and full proposals related to disaster risk manage-ment, early warning systems, climate-smart agriculture, natural resources manage-ment, ensuring coherence with national priorities, donor requirements, and UNDP’s climate-smart programming.

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