UNDP Jobs - 53002- National Early Recovery Coordinator

National Early Recovery Coordinator - (Open to Yemeni Nationals only)

Location :

Sana'a, YEMEN

Type of Contract :

Service Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

26-Jan-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

SB-4

Duration of Initial Contract :

One year (renewable)

Languages Required :

Arabic English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

UNDP supports Yemen's move to enhance democratic governance in an array of issues, including decentralization and local governance, promoting human rights and justice, enhancing women's empowerment and gender equality, strengthening anti-corruption efforts, supporting constitutional, legal and electoral reform and delivering fair and transparent elections at all governance levels. This includes developing national, regional, local and civil society capacities and ensuring that processes are more accessible to the greater public, particularly poor and disadvantaged groups, such as youth, women, rural populations, the disabled and people living with HIV and AIDS. Yemen is currently implementing rigorous economic, administrative and judicial reforms, in recognition of its commitment to bridge existing gaps and address governance problems. UNDP also has a global mandate within the Humanitarian Response framework to ensure coordination of Early Recovery through the cluster system.

Signing of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) political agreement in November 2011 signalled the beginning of a new period in Yemen’s history but the post conflict transition period, that it heralded, is fraught with challenge in Yemen as the poorest country in the Arab world.
The future of the country depends upon its ability to transition from a war torn state to a fully functional democratic state as outlined in the GCC agreement. However, the country still faces a humanitarian crisis mainly, but not wholly, as a result of the 2010-11 political crisis. The Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan (YHRP) is targeting more than fifteen million people who have been severely affected by the crisis and in need of life saving support.

The revised YHRP has emphasized that ER including capacity-building is a key strategic component if progress toward self-reliance is to be achieved. Early recovery programmes must be increased to provide a platform for durable and effective transition as outlined in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) agreement.

As stability increases and access to new areas opens up the need for, and ability to deliver, ER in Yemen is expanding. New opportunities to assist additional conflict affected populations to return to normal life have arisen following the recent re-establishment of government authority in the south thus increased the scope and geographical coverage of ER needs.

In particular UNDP’s role to provide strategic leadership, coordination as well as a direct implementer, has become an increasingly critical factor in the success of the transition from relief to ER humanitarian assistance and onward to development.

A comprehensive coordination system has been established which enables the ‘pooling of effort and maximization of the comparative advantage’ of Government, UN and NGO agencies. Within the framework of the UNCT vision for support of the Government TPSD several working groups have been created including the Sustainable Livelihoods and Employment Generation working group co-chaired by UNDP and WFF. Within the HCT cluster coordination system UNDP is increasingly taking a taking a leadership role through the Early Recovery cluster, its four main technical working group sub-components, and the Early Recovery Network.

Duties and Responsibilities

Ensure the strategic alignment of the ER response to the UN Vision for Support to the TPSD and Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan and other strategy documents;
Maintain and enhance all early recovery coordination systems within both the Humanitarian Country Team and UN Country Team systems including ad hoc working groups;
Engage on a bilateral basis with coordination stakeholders to ensure understanding, participation and reliable contributions to coordination groups;
Managing the coordination system such as; setting agendas, logistical arrangements, minute taking and action follow up;
Assist in the development and drafting of strategic documents, briefing notes and advocacy materials and support a coordinated fund raising strategy;
Undertake additional tasks at the request of the CPR unit manager.

Expected results:

Joint HCT Early Recovery (ER) strategies are developed and written in a coordinated manner. All ER contributions to UNCT and HCT agreed products are delivered at high quality in a timely manner;
The Sustainable Livelihoods and Employment Generation working group, (ER) cluster and ER cluster working groups are strategically active, with clear objectives, indicators and implementation plans;
All Coordination support documentation is completed to high quality in a timely manner, including: Agendas, Minutes, Follow-up records etc;
Support documents, briefing notes and advocacy documents are prepared as necessary at high quality in a timely manner. Needs assessments, priority identification, activity mapping and monitoring are timely supported. Internal briefing notes for UNDP units are prepared and distributes as agreed by CPR unit manager;
Other outputs as requested by the CPR unit manager.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

Demonstrating/safeguarding ethics and integrity;
Self-development, initiative-taking;
Acting as a team player and facilitating team work;
Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively;
Managing conflict;
Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others;

Functional Competencies:

Client Orientation

Reports to internal and external project clients in a timely and appropriate fashion;
Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle effectively multiple tasks without compromising quality, team spirit and positive working relationships with all colleagues;
Proven capacity to produce strategic documents in a participatory manner;

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise

Proven communication and interpersonal skills;
Ability to think analytically, synthesize information and clearly present findings to heterogeneous audiences;
A demonstrated capacity to deal with colleagues and counterparts from different backgrounds and to work under tight deadlines.

Promoting Organizational Change and Development

Demonstrates ability to identify problems and proposes solutions.

Promoting Accountability and Results-Based Management

Gathers and disseminates information on best practices in accountability and results-based management systems.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master's Degree in international development or project management or other relevant fields.

Experience:

Minimum five years’ work experience in early recovery, humanitarian and project management;
Minimum of two years of inter-agency coordination, preferably within the Humanitarian cluster system.

Language Requirements:

Excellent writing skills, both Arabic & English.