Antecedentes
Deberes y responsabilidades
- Monitoring of partners, contractors and project activities;
- Gathering regular feedback from beneficiaries on the progress of the project, maintain updated contact lists;
- Regularly inform UNVs at District level on progress and issue of project and gather feedback from them.
- Liaison with local authorities including District, Block Panchayats and Gramsabhas and major economic players such as banking and credit institutions, relevant production companies, etc;
- Organize public events, workshops, competitions, training and other events that may be necessary to implement or improve the impact of UNDP's interventions;
- Suggest and, if agreed by supervisor, develop innovative partnerships that can boost the impact of the programme.
- Ensure that beneficiaries and all key local stakeholders are regularly updated on the programme's goals and status including commitments and status of implementation of partner and contractors;
- Take pictures and maintain updated photo data base of ongoing project activities;
- Interpretation support to State Manager when needed.
- Prepare and update field deployment plans;
- Support the State Manager in developing Annual and Quarterly Workplans;
- Prepare inputs to risk and issue logs and documentation of lessons learned;
- Prepare other written inputs to plan and implement the programme such as specific field reports, terms of reference, etc;
- Translation support to State Manager when needed.
- Leverage continous support of State Government, UNICEF and other counterparts for programme;
- Update counterparts on status of programme;
- Provide any other networking and logistical support that may be needed for supervisor or Programme Coordinator.
Competencias
- 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.
- Knowledge of Results based management tools and quality assurance of field based large programmes;
- Strategic planning, strong leadership and effective team player;
- Sound knowledge of relevant legislations and constitutional provisions/amendments, especially in the context of Gujarat;
- Focuses on impact and result and responds positively to feedback;
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
- Demonstrates strong oral and written documentation and communication skills;
- Builds strong relationships with clients and external actors;
- High interpersonal skills, and ability to remain calm and in control under pressure;
- Ability to prioritise assignments and requirements, and multitask as needed;
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with people and multi sectoral teams to achieve results;
- Usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, Power Point etc);
- Monitoring aptitude in rural context.
Habilidades y experiencia requeridas
Education :
- Masters degree in relevant fields- political science, public administration, rural development/ management, law, public policy or social sciences.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in contributing to medium to large scale social mobilization projects with poor communities;
- At least 2 years of substantive engagement with projects focusing on women’s empowerment at state/national level;
- Knowledge of gender in development issues and sensitivity to deal with diverse sections of the society;
- Experience in gender, inclusion, gender based planning, campaign management is an asset;
- Familiarity with the work of CSOs/NGOs in the field of livelihood promotion and enterprise development;.
- Experience of working in a multi-sectoral team and as a team worker;
- Relevant experience in documentation and preparation of reports/ communications material on relevant issues;
- Specialized experience in the area of social mobilization, gender inclusion and women’s empowerment is desirable;
- Relevant project experience in Gujarat is strongly desired;
- Prior experience of working with government, international development agencies and/or national NGOs will be an advantage.
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Fluency in spoken and written English and Hindi.