Senior Management Team

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. 

Chief of Staff, Office of the Director-General (South Sudanese)

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. 

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Director, UNIS Nairobi (Kenyan)

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.

Director, Division of Conference Services (DCS) (Russian)

Edmond Oganian is the Director of the Division of Conference Services (DCS) at the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON), the UN’s African headquarters. In this role, he leads a team responsible for providing comprehensive conference services, including meetings planning and coordination, documentation management, translation, interpretation, editing, and report writing, as well as publishing and other related support services.

With extensive experience in the UN system, Edmond has previously served as Chief of the Russian Translation Unit in DCS and as Acting Chief of the Translation and Editorial Section. He began his career as a Russian translator at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and most recently served as Chief of the Conference and Documentation Services Section at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok.

He holds a Specialist Diploma in Foreign Languages and Civil Engineering from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the United States International University in Nairobi. Edmond is fluent in English, Russian, and Spanish.