Background

Duties and Responsibilities

• Collect all documentation related to 2011 mass media bed nets distribution campaign and lessons learnt;
• Work with the national campaign coordination committee to ensure effective coordination of the implementation of the campaign chronogram, initiating relevant revisions;
• Coordinate the work of all committees and subcommittees put in place for the campaign;
• Organize field visits to regions, sectors and health areas to interact with partners to assess preparedness for LLIN distribution campaign, identify bottlenecks and help addressing these;
• Support the preparation and conduct of micro planning at the local level;
• Coordinate with the logistics team leader the pre-positioning of the LLINs on distribution sites;
• Review campaign budget and propose relevant budgetary revisions in accordance with the campaign action plan.
• Review training plans for the campaign and participate in the organization of the training activities;
• In collaboration with the communication subcommittee, prepare and propose material for high level advocacy for the campaign;
• Put in place an appropriate strategy to monitor and report on the distribution and hang-up of the LLINs;
• Document the entire campaign process with milestones and lessons learnt;
• Submit a detailed report of the campaign with lessons learnt and recommendations.

Competencies

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

• Knowledge Management and Learning;
• Promotes knowledge management in UNDP and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example;
• Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills;
•  Development and Operational Effectiveness;
• Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;
• Ability to lead formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development program and projects, mobilize resources;
• Ability to formulate and manage budgets, manages contributions and investments, manage transactions, conduct financial analysis, reporting and cost-recovery;
• Ability to implement new systems and affect staff behavioral/ attitudinal change;
• Ability to apply development theory to the specific country context to identify creative, practical approaches to overcome challenging situations;
• Strong IT skills, web-based management systems;
• Excellent knowledge of financial rules and regulations, accounting;
• Excellent knowledge of Results Based Management;
• Management and Leadership;
• Builds strong relationships with implementing partners, focuses on impact and result for the implementing partners and responds positively to feedback;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills;
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
• Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure;
• Excellent negotiation, managerial and analytical skills;
• Sensitivity to a changing political and economic environment and to the range of professional perspectives of the supervised staff;
• Good leadership skills with ability to oversee a diverse and multicultural team;
• Ability to work under stress and pressure.

Required Skills and Experience