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Devoirs et responsabilités

• Technical Advice
• Capacity Development
• Quality assurance support to project work plans, reports, and activities
• Partnership management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Communication, Knowledge Sharing and Mentoring

• Provide technical advice to the National Project Director, Speaker, MPs, Clerk, and parliamentary staff and others in the design, organization and implementation of agreed activities
• In coordination with the National Project Director, provide guidance to national and international short term experts/consultants
• Assist the National Project Directors in ensuring the technical soundness of project activities
• Continuous advice to MPs and staff on parliamentary practice and development

• Stimulate strategic thinking in parliamentary development and bring best practices on parliamentary development to the legislatures

• Provide intellectual or substantive leadership in managing issues related to Parliamentary law and practice
• Provide technical advice to the parliamentary standing committees and other bodies/offices to help meet Members needs
• Ensure highest standards in the provision of technical and advisory inputs, organization of workshops, seminars, training and delivery of outputs

• Any other substantive advisory inputs, as requested by the NPD and/or UNDP in relation to project objectives
• Identify strategic entry points for gender mainstreaming in the work of the ZHoR and for the empowerment of women parliamentarians

• Support the development and implementation of a capacity development strategy for the project that identifies priorities, needs and interventions to accustomed to address the needs of ZHoR

• Provide support to the NPD in ensuring the sustainability of project management capacities and in building sustainability into project activities from the outset
• Provide technical advice to enhance the capacity of MPs to represent, make laws and oversee the government
• Manage the development of effective materials and training programs for Members, Committee Chairs and staff and others and ensure the institutionalization of the capacity being developed
• Develop and supervise capacity building efforts with the parliaments, media and other stakeholders
• Support gender mainstreaming activities and ensure a leading role for the national gender focal points for activities implemented

• Provide expert contributions to the development of annual results based work plans and results frameworks
• Help ensure delivery of relevant quarterly and annual project reporting to UNDP
• Prepare and/or review Terms of Reference for specific activities as directed and assist in the identification of short-term experts
• Ensure the alignment of project activities with UNDP rules and regulations by providing appropriate advice to the NPDs in this regard

• Assist the NPDs in establishing effective working mechanisms for the project including the Speakers and other senior officers of the ZHoR, Committee Chairs, Members and the Clerk/Secretariat
• Assist the ZHoR in establishing, developing and maintaining mutually beneficial strategic partnerships with Development Partners and other stakeholders in parliamentary development
• Help set up a framework to foster and monitor partnership around the project and to realize the project strategy in this regard
• Support the ZHoR in managing information related to partnership activities

• Support the parliaments in setting up a monitoring framework for the project integrated within the monitoring system for the ZHoR Strategic Plan
• Ensure the implementation of the project monitoring framework that will demonstrate progress and achievement on key project results, and provide technical advice to develop baselines and indicators for monitoring and evaluation

• Advise the NPD in preparing project reports focused on capturing results, lessons learned and good practices Participate in and contribute to global UNDP knowledge networks on parliamentary development

• Contribute to the production of reports and publications, and serve as peer reviewer
• Promote the adoption of suitable knowledge management approaches as relating to project activities and in support of parliamentary strengthening
• Support the NPD in the internal and external communication efforts and the dissemination of information around project objectives and activities
• Function as a mentor and coach to parliamentary staff as requested in support of achievement of project results
• Participate in and contribute to global UNDP knowledge networks on parliamentary development
• Ensure the application of relevant global good practices and actively search for solutions that can benefit Tanzania’s parliamentary strengthening.

Compétences

• Promotes UN's Values and ethical standards (tolerance, integrity, respect, results orientation, impartiality).
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and sensitivity and adaptability.
• Demonstrates integrity by modeling in the UN's values and ethical standards (human rights, peace, understanding between people and nations, tolerance, integrity, respect, results orientation, UNDP core ethics, impartiality).

• Promotes knowledge management and a learning environment through personal example, excellent knowledge of parliamentary practices, cultures and needs, good understanding of parliamentary capacity building, excellent ability to identify significant capacity building opportunities.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English
• Display understanding of relevant contemporary parliamentary challenges and tools
• Ability to provide top quality technical advice
• Established track record of delivering support to parliaments
• In-depth practical knowledge of democracy and development issues

• Ability to engage with high level UNDP Officials, Government Officials and international donor community and provide advisory support services
• Ability to identify opportunities, conceptualize and develop project reports
• Ability to effectively support in strategic planning, results-based management and reporting
• Ability to implement new systems and affect behaviour/attitude change
• Ability to undertake result based management and reporting

• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
• Builds strong relationship with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback, timely responses to queries
• Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities
• Demonstrates strong administrative skills and result oriented approach to work
• Provides inspiration and leadership

• Has an excellent oral communication skill in English and conflict resolution competency to manage inter-group dynamics and mediate conflicting interests of varied actors.
• Has an excellent written communication skill in English, with analytic capacity and ability to synthesize project outputs and relevant findings for the preparation of quality project reports.
• Maturity and confidence in dealing with senior and high ranking members of national and international institutions, government and non-government.

Qualifications et expériences requises