Historique

Under the day to day and direct supervision of the Deputy Country Director-Programme (DCD-P), in close collaboration with the UNDP Programme Team leaders, particularly the Team Leader of the CPR Unit the Programme Coordinator (PC) based in Gulu, will work closely with local Governments’ officials, other UN Agencies, and civil society to ensure implementation of the programme annual work plan in Gulu, Amuru,  Kitgum Pader districts in Acholi sub region and Lira and Oyam in Lango sub region. He/she will also closely collaborate with the Area Manager/Sub Office Heads  based in Gulu, Kitgum and Lira. The incumbent will play a supportive role with the latter and together work out a strategy on inter-agency coordination and development issues.

The Programme Manager  will lead the recovery and development coordination in Northern Uganda and will report to Resident Coordinator  (RC) on coordination issues.

Devoirs et responsabilités

• Programme Oversight and  Implementation
• Be responsible for the management and implementation of the different programme components in the target areas using an area based development approach;
• Participate in all internal and external (coordination) meetings representing the programme;
• Assist the Country Office on all issues related to the implementation modalities used, technical aspects of the sub-projects as well as relevant cultural/political issues;
• Coordinate and cooperate with initiatives of other sections of the UNDP Country office, specifically the CPR, Governance and Poverty Units;
• Coordinate with existing programme activities and capitalize on other ongoing similar interventions in the same sectors by other implementing agencies;
• Improve/establish communication and coordination mechanisms and procedures amongst the various stakeholders;
• Support the establishment of a web-based database to serve as monitoring and reporting tool;
  Provide local authorities technical expertise in communicating, planning and implementation of area based development initiatives;
• Prepare inception reports, up date work plans and prepare end of year report for the programme interventions;
• Ensure the achievement of outputs in line with the approved work plan through the day-to-day planning, management coordination and implementation of activities;
• Mobilize goods and services to various initiatives’ activities;
• Undertake monitoring visits to project sites and report on project progress and constraints;
• Manage and monitor identified project risks and update the status of these risks;
• Keep the DCD-P and the ARR (Ps) abreast of emerging programme issues;
• Carry out any other relevant duties as requested by the DCD (P) and the CD.
• Coordination and representation
• Represent UNDP country office in Northern Uganda including meetings with field missions, inter agency meetings and meeting with senior government officials;
• Provide coordination of the UNCT in Northern Uganda;
• Map initiatives and resources on humanitarian, recovery and development in Northern Uganda
  Conduct donor awareness activities;
• Provide support to the sector heads in coordination of sectors, ensuring that sector coordination where possible is vested in government, and that meetings are inclusive of all agencies and actors in the sector.
• Ensure liaison and coordination with governing administration and service delivery agencies in taking forward the recovery agenda
• Ensure that coordination aims for genuine partnership between UN agencies, government agencies and NGOs (both international and national);
• Ensure area coordination between initiatives of major donors and agencies and the delivery of their annual workplans and the UNDAF.
• Provide analysis of the context of recovery and ensure that the recovery agenda is centered on the specific needs of the area. This will require attention to addressing the underlying causes of conflict, and ensuring that interventions are cognizant of these.
• Provide structured reports on the situation and activities within the area.
• Draft proposals for the allocation of RC funds. Monitor and control the usage of these funds, review transactions and prepare expenditure reports.
• Carry out any other functions deemed appropriate by the Head RCO and the RC Office Management
• Supervise the management of the  joint premises currently shared between three UN Agencies, namely UNDP, FAO and ensure the appropriate use of resources attributed to the offices;
• Ensure that the office premises and all vehicles  meet MOSS;
• Ensure that costs for services provided by UNDP under the joint partnership agreements are recovered on a timely manner.
• Financial Management
• Ensure accountability for  the use of programme funds;
• Manage requests for the provision of financial resources by UNDP and monitor financial resources and accounting to ensure accuracy and reliability of financial reports;
• Provide leadership in overseeing of effective provision of services to counterparts including fair and transparent procurement, efficient logistics and sound financial management;
• Liaise with the ARR(P), the DCD-P as necessary and Administrative Assistants on financial management of the project activities; including monitoring programme financial expenditures and transactions; Ensuring the integrity of financial system and;
• Overseeing the administrative, financial and budgetary aspects of the programme activities;
• Ensure strict and consistent application of UNDP rules and regulations;
• Substantive Management
• Provide advice to the local administration, civil society organization, private sector and other national and international partners on recovery and area based development strategies;
• Promote identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learned from the project for organizational sharing and learning to ensure full fledge implementation.
• Partnership Building
• Fosters partnership building with local authorities, other international and national partners, donors, private sector and CSOs.

Compétences

Corporate 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;
• 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.

Functional Competencies:

Knowledge Management and Learning:

• Promotes knowledge management in UNDP and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example;
• Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.

Development and Operational Effectiveness:

• Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;
• Ability to lead formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development programmes and projects, mobilize resources;
• Ability to formulate and manage budgets, manage contributions and investments, manage transactions, conduct financial analysis, reporting and cost-recovery;
• Good knowledge of the Results Management Guide and Toolkit;
• Good ICT skills, (willingness to rapidly acquire) knowledge of Atlas;
• Ability to implement new systems and affect staff behavioral/ attitudinal change.
• Willingness to rapidly acquire) Prince2 Training and Certification, Results Based Management (RBM). 

Management and Leadership:

• Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
• Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills;
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

• Master’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences or related field;

Experience:

• At least 10 years field experience with increasing levels of responsibility, a significant part of which would be from countries in special development situations;
• Extensive experience at the national or international level in providing management advisory services, hands-on experience in design, monitoring and evaluation of development, recovery and conflict prevention/peace building strategies programmes and projects and establishing inter-relationships among international organizations and national governments;
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web based management systems (Atlas);
• Knowledge and experience from disaster response operations, including missions in support of recovery planning in at least two different UNDP regions is desirable;
• In conflict/post conflict situations;
• Experience with conflict prevention, peace building, reintegration and conflict sensitive development;
• Possess a comprehensive set of competencies enabling immediately taking on the challenging role of leading early recovery efforts – strategic, integrity, results orientation, teamwork, good inter-personal skills, well developed communication skills, sound judgment, analytical skills, flexibility, proactive engagement.

Language requirements:

• Fluency in both spoken and written English.  Knowledge of another UN language desirable.