Background

• Output 1: NFP and Somalia Parliaments supported to enact quality legislation and to maintain effective oversight over the other branches of government according to the interests of all Somali people and in support of peace-building and nation-building;
• Output 2: House of the People established as an effective institution, with a functioning administration and infrastructure and leadership supported to discharge their constitutional mandates to fairly, inclusively and transparently manage the business of Parliament and lead the Parliamentary Administration;
• Output 3: MPs are empowered to represent and remain accountable to the Somali people and to provide leadership in a way that promotes national unity for Somalis, including young people and women, participative & representative democracy and more effective contribution to political decision-making.

• Output 4: NFP capacities supported to ensure timely implementation and review of the Constitution.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of key functions

• Provide directly and coordinate substantive technical advice on core functions of Parliament – law making, oversight and representation – and on institutional capacity development to the Somalia National Federal Parliament and Somaliland and Puntland Parliaments to build capacities of MPs, Committees and Secretariat staff;
• In very close coordination with UNSOM and the broader UN Integrated Constitutional Support Team, provide substantial technical support to the National Federal Parliament – in particular the Oversight Committee and the Review and Implementation Commission – in support of Parliament’s constitutional review and implementation activities, in particular, committee review and public outreach and dialogue;
• Provided overall management and oversight of the UNDP Parliament Support and Constitution Review Project, including management of international and national staff and supervising all aspects of project implementation.

Direct technical advice and coordination of support for Parliamentary Development

The CTA will provide strategic technical leadership to the Project Team and direct technical advice, in order to progress parliamentary development across the Federal, Somaliland and Puntland Parliaments including:

• Support implementation of all aspects of the three Parliament’s Strategic Plans;
• Collaboratively develop and implement a capacity development strategy for the MPs and staff of three Parliaments that responds to the Somali socio-cultural and institutional context;
• Provide directly and/or coordinate substantive technical advice in support of institutional capacity development to the three parliaments;
• Provide strategic and technical advise in for three core functions of Parliaments in Somalia – law making, oversight and representation;
• Exert substantive oversight of Project technical advisers and consultants in a manner that ensures achievement of the Project’s advisory and capacity development goals and priorities;
• Facilitate policy dialogue on parliamentary issues with the three Parliaments, Federal Government, civil society, media and donors;
• Provide policy advice to the Speakers of the three Parliaments, UNDP and UNSOM in the areas of substantive activity that are being addressed by the Project.

Support to Constitutional Review:

The CTA will work closely with UNSOM and the broader UN ICST on supporting the constitution review process and provide strategic technical leadership to the Project Team in close collaboration with the P-4 Constitutional Technical Specialist in order to support Parliament’s engagement with the constitutional implementation and review process, including:

• Ensure the provision of direct technical advise to the Speaker, Committee members and MPs to support the review and implementation of constitution by the NFP;
• Build the capacity of the NFP MPs and staff to engage on constitutional issues, including identifying specialized technical expertise to support the constitutional process and working closely with the Max Planck Institute;
• Support capacity development of the Oversight Committee and Implementation and Review Commission, in collaboration with other relevant UN and UNDP Projects;
• Support the NFP’s constitutional outreach and dialogue processes;
• Provide advice to UNSOM and UNDP on all relevant constitutional issues related to the Parliament and its constitutional activities;
• Engage in regular meetings and other information sharing with the UN Integrated Constitutional Support Team, to ensure coordinate whole-of-government support to the constitutional process;
• In close coordination with UNSOM, liaise and foster strategic cooperation with other partners across government and donors to reinforce the dialogue between stakeholders of the process.

Overall management and oversight of the UNDP Parliament Support and Constitution Review Project:

The CTA has the overall project management responsibility supported on daily basis by the Project Management Specialist (P3)

• Oversee the effective administrative and technical management of the Project, in particular, technical management of the Project team for results;
• Provide advice to the Project Steering Committee on parliamentary development and constitutional review good practice;
• Oversee the development and implementation of the Annual Work Plan and Budget;
• Supervise the UNDP Project Management Specialist, and oversee drafting of periodic reports on the progress of the Project to UNDP, the Project Board and Donors, including by ensuring top quality analysis and substantive inputs to project documents, reports, concept notes and other strategic documents;
• Supervise plan and coordinate relevant meetings of the Project Board and other relevant coordination processes (eg. New Deal meetings, constitutional coordination meetings), including by producing relevant reporting;
• Oversee the mobilization of additional resources from development partners to the parliamentary strengthening and constitutional review process;
• Perform other relevant duties as required by the UNDP Country Director, Deputy Country Director – Programme and Governance and Rule of Law Programme Manager;
• Ensure in all circumstances that the project upholds the values of the UN System, the country’s interests and partners implicated in the process.

Impact of Results

The key results have an impact on the overall success of the country programme and reaching UNDAF/CPD goals. In the short-term, the key results have an impact on the project objective to support the Federal Parliament of Somalia and the Parliaments of Somaliland and Puntland to effectively fulfill its role as a legislative, representative, and oversight body and support the ongoing constitutional review and implementation process.

Performance Indicators:

• Programme/ advice of high quality;
• Policy and technical advice of high quality and relevance and based on established Parliamentary law and practice;
• High level and effective inputs into project progress reports and work plans, and review and monitoring systems;
• High quality advice and management of human resources including effective performance management and day-to-day guidance of staff;
• Appropriate international and national staff and consultants effectively and substantively managed to achieve anticipated outcome;
• Effective communication to achieve results and to develop effective and active networking and partnerships to ensure coordination amongst those working with the parliament.

Competencies

• Serves and promotes the vision, mission, values, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Plans, prioritizes, and delivers tasks on time.

• Plans and produces quality results to meet established goals;
• Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;
• Ability to lead implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes and programmes, mobilize resources;
• Ability to formulate and manage budgets, manage transactions, conduct financial analysis and reporting.

• Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client 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;
• Sets clear performance goals and standards; executes responsibilities accordingly.

• Conceptualizes and analyses problems to identify key issues, underlying problems and how they relate;
• Contributes creative, practical ideas and approaches to deal with challenging situation;
• Strives for quality client-cantered services (internal/external) when making decisions and taking action.

• Demonstrates substantive and technical knowledge to meet responsibilities and post requirements with excellence;
• Uses ICT and web-based management systems effectively as a tool and resource;
• Is motivated and demonstrates a capacity to pursue personal development and learn;
• Strong drafting, report-writing skills and oral communication skills;
• Ability to work under pressure in a multicultural and complex environment.

Required Skills and Experience

• Master's degree in Political Science, International Relations, Social Sciences, Management, Administration, Law or related fields.

• At least ten years of professional and responsible experience in parliamentary development, constitutional review and/or governance/institutional development are required, with experience in conflict or post-conflict settings an advantage;
• Strong experience supporting inclusive and consultative public consultation processes;
• High level representational and advisory experience, ideally in a cross-cultural setting;
• Experience working with the UN an asset;
• Relevant experience in Africa an advantage;
• Previously experience as CTA in the framework multi donor programmes.

• Fluency in English mandatory.