Background

Within the overall framework of the Gulf Cooperation Council Agreement Implementation Mechanism, the Transitional Program for Stabilization and Development 2012-2014 (TPSD), and the Mutual Accountability Framework (MAF), Pillar III - Good Governance, Rule of Law, and Human Rights - the Government of Yemen (GoY) committed itself to implement the "Program to remove ghost workers and double dippers in the civil service, military, and security."

The GoY sought the technical expertise of UNDP to conduct an assessment of the existing capacity of the Ministry of Civil Service to complete the biometric registration of all public employees and devise an action plan to remove ghost workers and double dippers. Endorsed by GoY on 18/9/2013 and presented at the Friends of Yemen meeting held on 25/9/2013, the plan provides a detailed roadmap to accelerate the implementation of the foreseen program. Without immediate funding allocated to the implementation of this roadmap, UNDP teamed up with the Executive Bureau to design this project document on the basis of the approved roadmap.

The Project Purpose/Specific Objectives are:

  • The Ministry of Civil Service has built a sustainable and secure web based public sector human resources central database, collating all public sector staff data, providing a consolidated accurate balance of all public sector entities human resources databases;
  • Double dippers and ghost workers are eliminated from the Yemeni public sector, and are unlikely to re-appear due to consistent implementation of human resources staffing policies that are in accordance with the law, backed with accordingly designed public sector HR procedures and guidelines;
  • The consolidated organization structure of the public sector in Yemen, central, federal, regional, and local, is progressively organized by an public sector HR management environment that is professional, effectively organized, trained, and answering to MoCS, legally backed policy, templates, guidelines and procedures.

Within this support effort, UNDP Yemen looks to hire a National Project Coordinator to support the CTA and Government of Yemen to strengthen the public sector human resources management system and support the elimination of double dippers and ghost workers from the Yemeni public sector.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership and strategic thinking to ensure proper implementation of project activities;
  • Overall management and planning of the implementation of the project’s outputs and activities;
  • Manage and administer the day-by-day operations to ensure the effective implementation of the activities of above mentioned project;
  • Initiate coordination with relevant national organizations, private sector companies and civil society initiatives where necessary;
  • Prepare the management and informatics studies linked with Human Resource Development;
  • Participating in local and international meetings and conferences;
  • Prepare and implement the training and technical plans for the staff at the key ministries;
  • Monitoring of the individual action plans and provide relevant support avoiding time-gaps;
  • Translation and interpretation assistance to the CTA;
  • Assisting the CTA in Donor Coordination and resource mobilization;
  • Reporting assistance;
  • Assisting the CTA in knowledge transfer activities;
  • Maintaining track on relevant government led initiatives beyond the direct scope of the project, e.g. e-governance;
  • Any other duties requested by the CTA.

The key results have an impact on the overall success of the country programme and reaching project document goals. In particular, the key results have an impact on the design, operations and programming of activities, creation of strategic partnerships as well as reaching overall project targets.

Anticipated Results:

  • Central web based database managed by MOCS;
  • Double dippers cleared from all public entity data;
  • Ghost Workers at the end of 2016 – 40% cleared;
  • Biometric HR time management system progressively in place;
  • Web based e-governance HR management system progressively in place;
  • HR MoCS internal capacity built;
  • RIMU system tested and progressively active throughout the public sector;
  • HR Manual delivered - incl. all relevant procedures and guidelines;
  • New HR departments' built;
  • Trained HR managers';
  • New Federal entities prepared from HR perspective;
  • Agreement in place between Ministry of Finance  and MOCS towards a new verifiable salary payment system.

Competencies

Core 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;
  • Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
  • Promotes knowledge management in UNDP and in the project through personal example Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development.

Functional Competencies:

  • Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills;
  • Ability to assist with strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;
  • Focus on impact and result for the client and positive response to feedback;
  • Strong interpretation and translation skills;
  • Strong research skills;
  • Demonstrated openness to change and ability to manage complexities.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

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

Experience:

  • 5 years of experience in project management in the public or private sector;
  • Strong network within the public sector;
  • Experience with leading training sessions;
  • Sound experience in partnership building with clients and external actors;Substantive experience working with the Public Administration in Yemen;
  • Proficiency in computing, including MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and other packages.

Language:

  • Fluency in English and Arabic, both written and oral.