Background

Following the popular uprising and the departure of former president Ben Ali in 2011, Tunisia entered into a transition towards democracy involving a complete overhaul of its political system and a long-awaited change in core governance institutions.

UNDP’s “Tunisia Electoral Assistance Project” (TEAP) builds on the experience and work of UNDP’s previous project “Support to the Electoral Process in Tunisia” (SEPT) established in 2011, at the request of the Tunisian interim government. While SEPT focused on electoral events, and in fact it provided technical and operational assistance to the relevant national authorities for managing the electoral processes in 2011 and 2014, TEAP seeks to capitalize on the good conduct of the legislative and presidential elections in 2014 in order to reinforce the relevant electoral authorities, in particular the electoral management body (EMB) named High Independent Authority for Elections  (in French Instance Supérieure Indépendante pour les Élections [ISIE]) and the High Independent Authority of the Audio-visual Communication (in French Haute Autorité Indépendante de la Communication Audiovisuelle [HAICA]) through a long-term capacity building programme in line with the electoral cycle approach.

Aligned with UNDP’s Strategic Plan and the Tunisian UN Development Action Framework (UNDAF), the UNDP Country Programme Document (CPD) and Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP) objectives, TEAP seeks to reinforce democratic principles that contribute to building Tunisian national unity by increasing political participation in inclusive and transparent electoral processes.

Accordingly, the TEAP project document was formulated in line with the electoral cycle approach for the period of 2015-2019, with the aim of achieving the following key results:

  1. Long-term institutional capacity building for electoral authorities.
  2. Strengthen the electoral administration to conduct inclusive and credible electoral events.

Duties and Responsibilities

TEAP is seeking an Expert on Online Communication who, under the supervision of its Chief Technical Advisor, will be responsible for the following:

  • Assess Tunisian electoral authorities needs in terms of online communication (with particular reference to communication via social media platforms);
  • Study relevant documents (including the Tunisian electoral legal framework) and the particular context of the work of HAICA and ISIE;
  • Develop training materials (agenda for the training, background materials, exercises and evaluation forms) that will be discussed and amended in light of the HAICA and ISIE’s needs and comments;
  • Advise and select the background materials that will be distributed during the training;
  • Deliver 10 days of training to a group of 5 to 10 persons from the HAICA and ISIE staff in charge of online communication;
  • Provide participants with methods, tools and approaches for online communication and communication on social media in particular;
  • Help the participants to identify the strong points, weaknesses and perspectives for HAICA’s and ISIE’s communication through social media;
  • Assist the participants to draft guidelines for online communication for their institutions;
  • Elaborate and submit the final report that would include: (1) concise presentation of the content of the training sessions and of the applied methods, including the feedbacks from the participants on the discussed subjects; (2) conclusions and recommendations based on lessons learned; (3) training agenda, evaluation forms filled in by participants and other relevant materials produced or distributed during training (e.g. the draft guidelines);
  • Performs other tasks, duties and responsibilities required for the successful implementation of the training.

Competencies

  • Excellent Arabic and/or French language skills. The knowledge of English will be an asset;
  • Experience of working with UN administration and familiarity with UN policies of electoral assistance and understanding of UN/UNDP programming arrangements would be an asset;
  • Prior experience of working in transitional and emerging democracies and/or of working in the MENA region would be an asset,
  • Excellent communications skills.

Required Skills and Experience

  • Masters Degree with 5 years (or Bachelor Degree with 7 years) of professional experience in communication, community and social media management, journalism, public relations or other related field,
  • Experience of technical assistance to national institutions (writing communication strategies with a monitoring and evaluation framework, web platform development/management for public entities/authorities)
  • Professional experience in designing and delivering training courses on online communication/community management etc

Submission documents:
Interested IC must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate her/his qualifications:

  • Proposal explaining why s/he is the most suitable for the work;
  • Provide a brief methodology on how s/he will approach and conduct the work (limit to under 1500 words);
  • Financial proposal indicating a lump sum consultancy fee for the deliverables. The proposal must separate clearly the fees and the other costs;
  • Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references.

Please merge all documents in one file before uploading to UNDP

 Applications should be submitted by email to the following address: procurement.sap-tunisia@undp.org or by pouch, no later than Friday 7th    July 2016 at 17:00 Tunisian Time to:
The UNDP Resident Representative, 41 bis, Impasse Louis Braille
Avenue Louis Braille, P.B: 683, 1035
Cité El Khadra - 1003 Tunis, Tunisie

For Applications by pouch, please put the following mention:
“DO NOT OPEN “
“Expert on Online Communication”