UNDP Jobs - 56877- International Expert for Identifying Two Anti-corr

International Expert for Identifying Two Anti-corruption Pilot Sectors in Zanzibar and Conduct Baseline Assessment and Develop Plan of Action and M&E Tool

Location :

Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

12-Jun-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

35 days

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

35 days

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

The United Republic of Tanzania ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in 2005. The Convention provides strategic guidance to international and national anti-corruption approaches that could be adopted by member countries. Article 5(1) of the UNCAC stipulates that 'Each State Party shall, in accordance with the fundamental principles of its legal system, develop and implement or maintain effective, coordinated anti-corruption policies that promote the participation of society and reflect the principles of the rule of law, proper management of public affairs and public property, integrity, transparency and accountability.

Until recently, Zanzibar did not have a specific anti-corruption body and the Tanzania mainland graft body; The Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) did not have mandate to cover Zanzibar. In 2011 the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar (RGOZ) developed and adopted a good governance policy and shortly thereafter an Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act was passed by the Zanzibar House of Representatives.

The Act establishes the Zanzibar Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Authority (ZACECA) operationalized in 2012 with a three-pronged mandate of:

Providing education to the public about corruption and economic crimes and their effects for the purpose of involving public to prevent corruption and economic crimes as well as changing of people's attitude towards corruption;
Examining practices and procedures of government agendas and public bodies to reduce corruption and economic crimes opportunities and offers free and confidential corruption and economic crimes prevention advice to private organizations upon request;
Receiving, considering and investigating alleged corruption and economic crimes offences.

A previous Baseline Assessment of Anti-Corruption Activities in Zanzibar noted that in Zanzibar there is a public perception that in certain sectors corruption is endemic and the public cannot access services for free. The impact of corruption especially in sectors providing essential services hampers progress to achieve MDGs and other goals set out in the PSRP like MKUZA II and other national plans. A sectorial approach to fighting corruption is expected to significantly help to accelerate progress so as to achieve the agreed national development goals and objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

Coordinate the work and Ensure that deadlines are met;
Briefing meeting with ZACECA and UNDP;
Desk review of relevant quantitative and qualitative data;
Consultations, meetings and interviews with a broad range of relevant stakeholders in Zanzibar as well as in mainland to explore links between mainland and Zanzibar;
Meetings in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam with selected staff from ZACECA and UNDP;
Stakeholder workshop to discuss and validate report, baseline, action plan and M&E tool;
Overall responsibility for the quality of the report submitted to UNDP/ZACECA;
Presentation at stakeholder workshop to discuss and validate report, baseline, action plan and M&E tool.

Competencies

Corporate Competencies:

Displays cultural gender, religion, race, nationality, and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Demonstrates diplomacy and tact in dealing with sensitive and complex situations.

Professionalism:

Demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter;
Demonstrated ability to negotiate and apply good judgment;
Shows pride in work and in achievements;
Is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results.

Planning & Organizing:

Organises and accurately completes multiple tasks by establishing priorities while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent interruptions, deadlines, available resources and multiple reporting relationships;
Plans, coordinates and organises workload while remaining aware of changing priorities and competing deadlines;
Establishes, builds and maintains effective working relationships with staff and clients to achieve the planned results.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master's degree in Law, Public Administration, or relevant Social Science.

Experience:

Practical experience of not less than 8 years working/consulting in anti-corruption;
Professional knowledge and practical experience in drafting anti-corruption related baselines, actions plan and M&E tools;
Demonstrated experience in working with a variety of stakeholders from all key stakeholders, public, private and civil society including the religious bodies and the media;
Understanding of anti-corruption environments in small island societies/close family and cultural ties;
Basic gender understanding, skills, experience and commitment;
Strong writing and oral communications skills;
Strong analytical skills, including in the identification of key issues and how they relate.

Language:

Fluency in spoken and writing English is a requirement;
Knowledge of Kiswahili will be considered an asset.

Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than Friday 12th June 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=22648
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.