UNDP Jobs - 54132- International Consutlant to Conduct National Capac

International Consutlant to Conduct National Capacity Assessment, Scoping and Stakeholder Mapping for National Volunteers Scheme, Ethiopia

Location :

Addis Ababa at UNDP/UNV Country Office, with travels to Regions outside Addis Ababa, within Ethiopia, ETHIOPIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

23-Mar-2015

Application Deadline :

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

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

Within 3 months in total (60 working days)

Languages Required :

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

In Ethiopia, The UNV Programme Comprises advocates strongly for voluntarism as a major form of civic engagement and it actively works with development agencies providing technical co-operation and capacity development initiatives. Increasingly government, development organizations (UN Agencies), and Volunteer Involving organizations are aligning their strategies and actions with much higher level development goals at national and international level.The idea is that projects alone will not affect longer term change and sustainable development, working in synergy likely to produce significant changes for people living in poverty.

UN Volunteers Field Unit currently hosting up to 60 Volunteers under different modalities including National UN Volunteers, International Volunteers, Youth Volunteers, Interns among others. Majority of the UN Volunteers are currently serving in different agencies majorly UN Agencies and Government at National, Regional and Local levels.

Duties and Responsibilities

More specifically the INTERNATIONAL Consultant in consultation with Government of Ethiopia, UN Agencies and all 17 Volunteer Involving Organizations active in Ethiopia, Partners, serving national Volunteers, and (those who are no longer serving) will undertake the following tasks.

Undertake Stakeholder Mapping and scoping Volunteer actions to draw lessons for the proposed scheme
Undertake analysis of contribution of voluntarism, particularly national volunteering to achievement of development results.
Collect and analyses Primary and Secondary data sources to inform the study
Identify factors that may inhibit realization of result.
Support Engagement process with National, Regional, Local Government counterparts, prepare an inception report, and conduct of validation workshops.
Conduct an assessment of National Institutional, Policy, Legal frameworks for promoting national voluntarism, for design of frameworks.
Support preparation of Final reports and programme outlines to be submitted for technical appraisal by Technical steering committee, and approved by the Project Board as elaborated in the management arrangements.
Use findings/recommendations for design of full project document of National Scheme for Ethiopia.
Recommend sustainable strategies for advocacy and resource mobilization, and construct an outline for the final project document, longer term intervention

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Ability to undertake technical policy-focused research related to capacity development assessment.
Ability to work under pressure and to deliver in a timely manner without compromising quality standards
Ability to provide general Leadership and Direction to the study/ research analysis and report writing;
Excellent research and advocacy skills relating to national capacity assessment, scoping, and stakeholder mapping.
Strong organizational skills
Training and hands-on experience in a governance and institutional development
Ability to work under pressure, with a group of UN Agencies, and to deliver in a timely manner without compromising quality standards
Strong communication skills
Strong presentation and facilitation skills

Core Competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modelling 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
Treats all people fairly without favouritism;
Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Qualification:

At least a Post graduate Degree, (Advanced degree) in Public Policy, Public Administration, Strategic Human Resource Management, Organizational Development, Business Administration and Management.

Experience:

Must have a minimum of eight (8) years of practical experience in conduct of such task in line with Capacity development agenda at National Context of Africa, preferably have previous engagements with the non-for-profit sector and UN Agencies in relation to Public Sector Service Delivery, voluntary sector (experience in Africa and added advantage within Ethiopia);
Professional demonstrated experience in facilitating such a kind of development process involving analytical, synthesis and elaborate reporting, commissioning assessment and framing of standard policy, institutional and project documents, including managing diverse portfolio with multi-sect oral dialogue process;

The prospective service provider is expected to meet the following minimum requirements:

Knowledge of relevant sector, National Voluntarism, within Context for capacity development.
Experience working with UN or other international Organizations is beneficial, Extensive knowledge of handling Development and Humanitarian Approaches.
Capability to deploy strong analytical aptitude, communication and presentation expertise.
Ability to conduct National Needs Assessment using known approaches.
Good knowledge of design and application of capacity development approaches and understanding of strategies, techniques is desirable.
Understanding of institutional and organizational structure and public sector inter-linkages between capacity development, effective legal, policy and institutional frameworks in line with sustainable development preferably in Africa context.
Capability to deploy good communication expertise, ability to present quality reports on socio-economic issues of relevance to National Development and delivery of inputs in time.
Understanding decentralized service delivery, urban and rural development co-ordination frameworks.
Proven ability to work on cross-sector capacity development issues at different levels (National- sub regional/national) evidence undertaken similar assignments.

Language:

Excellent command on both written and spoken English is essential;
Knowledge of Amharic will be an added advantage.

Application Instruction:

Download both TOR and Procurement Notice from: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=20765;
Strictly follow the instructions indicated in the Procurement Notice;
Those prospect consultants who fail to submit both Technical and Financial proposals as per the stated instruction and to the designated secured email will not be further considered for evaluation.

Documents Required:

The following proposals shall be submitted before application deadline March 10, 2015 via UNDP Ethiopia Secured mail address: procurement.et@undp.org.

Technical Proposal in pdf;
Financial Proposal in pdf.

Important Note:

Failing to submit any one of the documents stated above will automatically disqualify the candidate from further consideration of evaluation;
A candidate applying only by uploading CV to this job site will not be considered. Instead, both Technical and Financial Proposals shall be submitted to designated UNDP Secured email before submission deadline.