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Chris Kirkcaldy

Director, Division of Administrative Services

Chris Kirkcaldy is the Director, Division of Administrative Services (DAS) at the United Nations Office at Nairobi, the UN Headquarters in Africa.  
Reporting directly to the Director-General of UNON, Mr. Kirkcaldy oversees the Division of Administrative Services (DAS) which is responsible for the provision of human, financial, physical and IT services. DAS delivers services to UNEP, UN-Habitat, the Resident Coordination System and other global, regional and local UN system clients, spanning humanitarian, peacekeeping and development programmes. Chris Kirkcaldy provides guidance to UNEP and UN-Habitat management teams and plays a role in the formulation and implementation of UN reforms.

Equipped with over 25 years of experience in the United Nations Secretariat in Nairobi, New York, Geneva and Vienna, Mr. Kirkcaldy has held an array of cross-cutting positions in a number of UN Secretariat entities, specializing in programme administration, budget and financial management. 
 
Chris Kirkcaldy holds a MSc. (Econs) in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Politics and Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 
 

Kazimiro Rudolf Jocondo

Chief of Staff, Office of the Director-General

For close to twenty-five years, Mr. Rudolf-Jocondo has been a United Nations official, first with the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), then as a senior Official with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and since 2012 as the Chief of Staff at United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON). 

Mr. Rudolf Jocondo started his carrier with the UN as a humanitarian Affairs Officer with MONUC, based in Eastern DRC. From September 2001 to December 2002, he served as Deputy Head of the Office for OCHA office in the DRC. 

From January 2003 to July 2004, he served as Deputy Head of the Regional Support Office for Central and Eastern Africa at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Nairobi. In July 2004 Mr. Rudolf-Jocondo occupied the position of Deputy Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia, then Head of OCHA Office in Eritrea from January 2006 to January 2007. 

From February 2011 to August 1, 2012, he occupied the position of the Head of the Regional Office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for West and Central Africa.  Previously, he was the Head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Haiti after serving as the Representative of OCHA to the African Union from September 2008 to September 2010. Mr. Rudolf Jocondo previously served as head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Humanitarians in Cote d’Ivoire from January 2006 to August 2008.  

Since August 1, 2012Mr. Kazimiro Rudolf-Jocondo has been the Chief of Staff in the office of Director-General of the United Nations office in Nairobi (UNON). 

While occupying this position, Kazimiro was deployed on a temporary Mission to United Nations Multidimensional Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), where he served as MINUSCA Director of Political Affairs Division from October 2020 to December 2022. 

Prior to joining the UN, Kazimiro served in various positions at the Foreign Service of the Sudan. His experience includes serving as Counselor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diplomatic Advisor to the African Bureau for Educational Sciences (OAU) in Kinshasa and Charge d’Affaires and a Diplomat at the Sudanese Embassy in Kinshasa. 
 

Prince Bruce

Principal Security Adviser (a.i), Kenya & Eritrea and Chief, Security and Safety Service UNON

Prince Bruce is the UNDSS Principal Security Adviser, a.i for Kenya & Eritrea and the Acting Chief, Security and Safety Service, UNON.

Prince has over twenty-four years of experience in the United Nations having served in different countries and capacities as a Security Officer at the Security and Safety Service in NY, a Mission Security Officer in Sierra Leone, Assistant Chief of Security at the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON), Security Coordination Officer at the Peacekeeping Operations Support Section of UNDSS, Deputy Chief of Security at UNON, and the Chief Security Adviser for Ethiopia and Djibouti.

Prince has extensive experience in humanitarian operations, physical security, management of large security establishments and staff, and security coordination of global UN conferences. Before joining the United Nations, Prince worked in private security and as a Non-Commissioned Officer in the US Army Reserves. Prince holds a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice administration and planning and a master’s in public administration from Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Prince hails from Accra, Ghana. He is married with two daughters.

Sandra Macharia

Director, UNIS Nairobi

Sandra Macharia has been the Director, UN Information Service (UNIS) in Nairobi, covering Kenya, the Seychelles and Uganda since July 2023. The UNIS is part of a network of UN Information Centres spanning the globe, which are part of the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC).

Ms. Macharia has over 20 years of experience in strategic and crisis communications, as well as policy and programme development.  Prior to her current role, she served as Chief of the Africa Section and Editor-in-Chief of Africa Renewal in the United Nations Department of Global Communications.  In addition, she previously held several positions with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) including Deputy Communications Director ad interim, Regional Communications Adviser for Africa, Special Assistant to Assistant Secretaries-General, and Communications Officer, serving in different locations including New York, Addis Ababa and Nairobi.

Prior to the United Nations, she worked as a producer, reporter and news anchor for news outlets including Reuters, BBC World Service, Nation TV/Nation Media Group and Kenya Television Network.

Ms. Macharia holds a master’s degree in media, peace and conflict studies from the Universidad para la Paz, as well as a bachelor’s degree in journalism, film and broadcasting, and a postgraduate diploma in broadcasting from Cardiff University.

Nancee Oku Bright

Chief of Staff, Office of the Director-General

Nancee Oku Bright joined the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) in January 2021 as Chief of Staff, a.i. in the Office of the Director-General, coming directly from MONUSCO, the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where, for three years, she was the Mission's Chief of Staff. Prior to MONUSCO, Ms. Bright worked at the UN Secretariat in New York as Chief of Staff in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict from 2010. In 2017, Ms. Bright was appointed by the Secretary-General to his High-level Task Force on the UN Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

Ms. Bright has worked as Principal Officer in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and in a number of capacities in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), including as Chief of the Africa Section, and as OCHA’s Chief of Advocacy and Public Information. She was also Chief of Staff of the UN peacekeeping Mission for Chad and the Central African Republic, where she led the start-up phase of the Mission, in which capacity she oversaw the coherent integration of the Mission across all sectors. 

She served earlier in the DRC as Chief of the Humanitarian Affairs Section in MONUC from 2002 to 2004. In this capacity, she negotiated for humanitarian access with rebel groups and government authorities and helped to expand humanitarian presence in the DRC by ensuring that UN Agencies and NGOs could benefit from MONUC’s air and riverine resources. She initiated the first-ever joint UN-NGO-Government humanitarian medical barge in the DRC, supporting impoverished communities along the Congo and Ubangi rivers, and, during the 2003 war in Ituri, led the establishment of a civilian-run emergency hospital in war-torn Bunia, with colleagues from OCHA, UNICEF, and ECHO.  She also served as MONUC’s official Representative on the UN Country Team for two years, prior to MONUC becoming an integrated peacekeeping mission.

Ms. Bright holds a BA from Wesleyan University, an MA from Georgetown University, as well as Masters’ and Doctoral degrees from Oxford University. Ms. Bright hails from Liberia and is married with one child.