UNDP Jobs - 54086- Assets Management & Telecommunications Expert

Assets Management & Telecommunications Expert

Location :

Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

25-Mar-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

14 weeks

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

14 weeks

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

Candidates who previously applied need not re-apply.

Tanzania has held four credible general elections since the reintroduction of multi-party politics in 1992. Citizens and the government are eager to maintain this track record and to further strengthen democratic practice in Tanzania. Looking to the 2015 general election, government has undertaken early and comprehensive preparations for the electoral processes. Since receipt of official requests for UN assistance to the election cycle leading to the 2015 general election from the National Election Commission (NEC) and Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC), a UN Needs Assessment Mission recommended the development of a project in support of the national efforts.

In addition, in 2014 the United Republic of Tanzania will likely conduct a first national referendum on a new constitution. The EMBs and other stakeholders in preparing for these critical events have requested the assistance of UNDP to provide technical support to the preparation and execution of this referendum.

To this end, the Democratic Empowerment Project (DEP) is a four year (2013-2016) UNDP, United Nations (UN) One Fund and other donor-funded project with the overall aim of contributing to Tanzania’s United Nations Development Assistance Plan’s (UNDAP’s ) Outcome 7: i.e. “Key institutions of democracy, (i.e. EMBs, etc.) effectively implement their election and political functions”. UN Women and UNESCO are implementing partners in a One UN Country Team context.

Duties and Responsibilities

Manage the installation, training and implementation plans, comprised of re-tasking of analogue VHF equipment to new district locations and their replacement in vacated districts with digital VHF equipment. Ensure digital VHF integration into the IRRS and the expansion of IRRS workstations in TPF Police station with internet connectivity with the assistance of TPF.
Advise on and establish JCCCs in both NEC and ZEC headquarters including client IRRS portals and field incident reporting capability by NEC and ZEC elections staff. Work with TPF and national mobile phone carriers to establish a SMS reporting end point to the IRRS SMS server for the IRRS, police, elections staff and the general public

Competencies

Strategic technical and intellectual skills in the substantive area with global dynamic perspectives;
Leadership, innovation, facilitation, advocacy and coordination skills;
Ability to manage senior national consultant and engage with UNDP and RPP strategic partners;
Entrepreneurial abilities and ability to work in an independent manner;
Ability to work effectively in a team, with good relationship management skills ;
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a highly complex organization context;
Ability to maintain high standards despite pressing deadlines;
Excellent communication (both oral and written) and partnership building skills with people and multi-dimension partners;
Excellent writing skills, especially in the preparation of official documents and reports;
Good knowledge of Tanzania’s environmental and socio-political context.
Understanding of gender and social inclusion issues.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

A University degree (Bachelors) related to ICT, logistics, supply-chain management or related field.

Experience:

5 years of practical, direct experience in ICT and assets management.

Language:

A good level of written and spoken English is essential;
A knowledge of Kiswahili will be an advantage.

Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than 25 March 2015. icprocurement.tz@undp.org

Applicants should download the application documents (presented in compresses file) from UNDP Tanzania website;http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=20735;
Applicants should separate technical and financial proposals;
Applications with no financial offer or missing P11 form and CV or the required documents for the technical evaluation will not be considered for evaluation;
Applications without submitting a financial offer instead of other format will not be considered due to the ease comparison of the received offers;
All necessary information for this post (TOR, Deliverables, Target dates, etc. are presented in the ICPN) therefore applicant must download it from the website as mentioned above;
Do not send CV only to the Email account mentioned above without Cover Letter and Methodology (if requested) as it will be considered as incomplete application;
The documents are available in PDF (the TOR, ICPN and IC guidelines) download them from (http://www.undp.org/content/tanzania), format: this is the only format available and it will not be provided in other formats;
Each email should be less than 8MB; emails over this size will not be received to the above mentioned account.