Antecedentes

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Under the guidance of the Resident Representative and in close collaboration with the Deputy Resident Representative, the Recovery Project Manager/Technical Adviser acts as a coordinator on all aspects of the Cyclone Evan Shelter Recovery Programme. The Recovery Project Manager/Technical Adviser leads UNDP Samoa’s involvement in the preparation and coordination of the UNDP Direct implementation of the Cyclone Evan Shelter Recovery Programme and subsequent programmes.

The recovery Project Manager/Technical Adviser organizes and is secretariat of the project board made up of Government officials, other UN Agencies, UNDP HQ, technical advisors and experts, multi-lateral and bi-lateral donors and civil societies to strategically position UNDP in the early recovery and to implement UNDP’s Recovery programme.

 In December 2012, Tropical Cyclone Evan, a Category 3 cyclone passed over Samoa. Strong winds and flooding caused severe destruction. A Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) conducted by the World Bank and the United Nations with the participation of the Government to assess the damage and the loss from the Cyclone was completed in January 2013. Its recommendations have provided the basis for a Recovery Framework that has now received Cabinet approval, and its principles are expected to guide the Government Recovery Programme. It stresses the need for investments in recovery of lost assets to go beyond regaining damaged assets and loss to the economy to ‘Build Back Better’ (BBB) with improved standards, for increasing disaster resilience and avoiding the creation of new vulnerabilities. United Nations-Habitat with other development partners is working with the Government of Samoa providing assistance to realise these objectives.

Damage to Housing:

Housing suffered heavy damage during the cyclone with 2,088 houses affected, temporarily displacing about 7,500 people with serious implications to their quality of life and, particularly women, children and the disabled. The affected population is in an urgent need of access to financial resources, support in purchasing building materials, and technical advisory services to rebuild and repair their damaged houses, as an essential first step for most families in their long struggle to recover their lives after the disaster.

UN-Habitat & UNDP were associated in the Post Disaster Needs Assessment with others, co-producing its Section on Shelter, using data and information from diverse Governmental sources as well as private sector, local authorities, affected communities and other stakeholder. Responding to a request from Government for assistance in the recovery efforts of housing, UNDP has negotiated funding from BCPR (Bureau of Crises Prevention and Recovery) to provide coordination assistance to the Government's recovery programme of disaster-affected housing.

The Cyclone Evan Shelter Recovery programme comprises three components with the following outcomes:

Component1: Community Based Post – Cyclone Shelter Recovery for Climate Resilience in Samoa

• Construction of new replacement houses through a well-planned reconstruction effort, based on an owner-driven approach;
• Houses will promote BBB concept within the villages;
• Creation of construction skill base at village level to increase diversification of income streams;
• Revival of traditional construction techniques and design as a response to climate change;
• Education on construction and development in with a focus on climate change and Disaster Risk Reduction (DDR).

• Construct a Model House in a high exposure site in Apia to be used as a training tool for Contractors and local builders and a learning centre for the general public about climate resilient design;
• Model House to be used as an instrument to collect information from general public to gain an understanding of the general view of climate resilient design and what can be done to improve the approaches of various agencies;
• Provide design that is Multi Hazard Disaster Resilient for Samoan Government approval;
• Model fale to be used as a learning tool to educate general public about Climate Resilient Design and the risks of natural disaters. With an aim to draw attention to high risk areas of construction within villages.

Component 3: Creation of Shelter Resource Capabilities in Samoa

• Engage Recovery Project Manager/Technical Advisor to monitor and evaluate execution of the Shelter Programme;
• Formation of Knowledge base and development of best practice;
• UNDP and UN-Habitat are working with the Government providing coordinating assistance, and technical advisory support to ensure that the programme is implemented along these lines. It has already fielded several short-term international advisors during February-July 2013 to assess and determine how it could assist the Government to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Works in planning and monitoring the housing sector BBB initiative as per the National Recovery Framework (NRF). In addition, another short-term advisor will assume duties soon to help review the Samoa Building Code. Currently UN-Habitat has an International Shelter Coordinator and Reconstruction Adviser for Samoa, who is expected to negotiate with the Government and propose an appropriate institutional mechanism and monitoring system for shelter sector coordination.

Deberes y responsabilidades

Summary of Key Functions:

• The principle objective is to project manage the reconstruction program through a project board consisting of government agencies Planning and Urban Management Agency PUMA, Ministry of Works Transport and Infrastructure (MWTI), Ministry of Women and Social Development (MWCSD), Ministry of Finance (MOF). guide and coordinate the shelter recovery process of the affected populations through timely and effective intervention and coordination of Responsible Party (RP);
• The National Recovery Framework (NRF) formulated by the Ministry of Finance covering all sectors affected by the cyclone was recently approved by the Government, which includes a programme of assistance to affected families to help them to build back better. The proposal has also recommended that the housing recovery should follow a people centred participatory process, which promotes owner built housing, incremental construction, conformity with the provisions of the national building code and to the opportunity to provide training in construction skills;
• The Project Manager will help the Government with advice on creating optimal synergy among the UNDP/UN-Habitat funded initiatives for recovery and development initiatives;
• Leads UNDP’s involvement in and substantively contributes to joint needs assessments and development of UN Recovery Strategy/Transitional Result Matrix;
• Trains the Country office staff on the recovery programme designing & formulation, management, monitoring and evaluation, particularly in fragile and small islands developing states;
• Leads the development of strategic partnerships and resource mobilization for recovery;
• Provision of strategic policy advisory services to the Government and facilitation of knowledge and capacity building on recovery issues;
• In natural disasters – ensure that the Country Office responds in a culturally sensitive manner to the transition challenges and contribute to peace early recovery and reconstruction.

Project Management:

• Thorough analysis of the political, social and economic situation in the immediate response context and provision of strategic advice to UNDP Management;
• Interface and manage the Cyclone Evan Shelter Reconstruction programme on day-to-day basis, to follow up the approaches and process prescribed by the National Recovery Framework;
• Assist the Government in establishing a specific coordination responsibility for shelter and facilitate its setting up of permanent Coordination Committee with stakeholder representation in MWTI Buildings Division or where the Cabinet decides to rest the shelter sector coordination responsibility. The Committee will initially support the shelter recovery and reconstruction activities, and later be institutionalized as a statutory monitoring & evaluation body for the sector;
• Assist MWTI and PUMA in the development of a strategic Work Plan for recovery and reconstruction activities that may include, where necessary, sustainable and safe voluntary resettlement;
• Help the coordination agency implement the key recommendations and proposals for safer housing that the Government will adopt;
• Identification of strategic opportunities and potential recovery programme areas of cooperation and funding, including opportunities for joint programming with UN agencies and other development partners (International Non-Governmental Organisation) INGOs, etc.);
• Leads the implementation of UNDP’s Cyclone Evan Shelter Recovery Programme in collaboration with the main partners and other UN Agencies;
• Ensures alignment and coordination of Cyclone Evan Shelter Recovery programme with other programme activities of the Country Office (CO) as well as those of UN Agencies and capitalizes on synergies where possible;
• Ensures mainstreaming of cross-cutting UN/UNDP priorities in recovery programmes, in particular environment, gender, human rights and disaster risk reduction;
• Leads the relevant strategies to ensure effective resources mobilization;
• Regular reports to the project board, bi-monthly and quarterly and an Annual Review Report;
• Manage and monitor the project risks initially identified and submit new risks to the project board for consideration and decision on possible actions if required; update the status of these risks by maintaining the project risks log;
• Seek additional funding in order to extend the duration and capacity of the project;
• Create and Maintain an “Issues Log” to capture, categorise and track all Project Issues;
• Coordinate project Board Meetings according to an agreed timetable;
• Maintain and update the “Monitoring Schedule Plan”;
• Production of a “Lessons Learned Log” on Completion of the Project.

Supervision, Reporting and Quality Control:

• Effective application of Results Based Management (RBM) tools, establishment of management targets, Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and monitoring achievement of results are desirable;
• Design and formulation of Recovery Programme, translating UNDP priorities into local interventions. Coordination of programme implementation with the executing agencies;
• Strategic oversight of planning, budgeting, implementing and monitoring of the Recovery Programme, tracking use of financial resources in accordance with UNDP rules and regulations;
• Effective monitoring and evaluation, continuous analysis of the programme environment and timely readjustment of programmes;
• Follow up on audit recommendations. All exceptions are timely reported;
• Aggregate reports are regularly prepared on activities, outputs and outcomes. Donor reports are prepared and submitted within deadlines;
• Ensure that UNDP and UN-Habitat financed recovery initiatives are better understood by the Government and the partners and are well synergized into an integrated programme with the Government;
• Support the Division in reviewing the database with the support of the Bureau of Statistics and Disaster Management Office, to assist in decision-making processes;
• Guide the field staff of the MWTI in the use of the reporting forms that are already being developed. The forms are designed to collect information and to monitor the shelter implementation progress;
• Support the UNDP in Samoa in the development of the housing / shelter component of its Climate Change Adaptation programmes;
• Submit a progress report bi-monthly to Assistant Chief Executive Officer (ACEO) of MWTI (Buildings) in time for Minister's regular Debriefing Report, and to the Pacific Habitat Programme Manager, copied to UNDP-Samoa's focal person for Disaster Risk Reduction & Shelter;
• Be responsible for preparing and submitting financial reports to UNDP on a quarterly basis.

 Strategic Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation

• Development and implementation of partnerships and resources mobilization strategies to achieve recovery programme outcomes;
• Creation and coordination of partnerships with the UN Agencies, International Financial Institutions (IFI’s), government institutions, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, private sector, civil society etc;
• Determination of programmatic areas of cooperation based on strategic goals of UNDP and the Sub-Regional Programme Document (SRPD) of the UNDAF (2013-2017), the country’s recovery needs and donors’ priorities;
• Analysis and research of information on donors, preparation of substantive briefs on possible areas of cooperation, identification of opportunities for cost-sharing.

Strategic Advisory Services, Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing

• Advocacy for and strengthening of national capacity for planning and coordination of the recovery effort;
• Provision of top quality policy and strategic advice to Government on development and implementation of recovery policies and strategies;
• Identification, sharing and application of international best practices and lessons on recovery related issues relevant to the country’s recovery needs and goals;
• Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice;
• Capacity building for country office staff (programme and operations).

Documentation and Communication

• Document UN-Habitat, UNDP and other field experiences, other good practices and lessons learned. Discuss with the Government the possible campaign mechanisms to support the Government in (a) integrating the lessons learned into shelter sector policy dialogues and legislative reviews, and (b) formulating a National Shelter Policy and Strategy;
• Work closely with the Government and partner agencies and keep the Government of Samoa (i.e., MWTI, MoF, MNRE, the Samoa Housing Corporation, Disaster Management Office (DMO), UNDP and other international agencies AusAID, New Zealand, European Union/ European Commission Humanitarian Office (EU/ ECHO), Asian Development Bank (ADB), World Bank (WB) regularly updated on shelter sector recovery, reconstruction and coordination, and sustain advocacy and lobbying for continued and increased resource mobilisation;
• Link up NGO/Contractor with shelter coordinating agency of the Government and create a framework for a shelter resource that will act as a repository and dissemination point of all available shelter data, climate-resilient designs and related information in Samoa to help academics, students, researchers, architects, builders and house owners have easy access.

  Housing Knowledge

• Help the MWTI construct a demonstration of the UNDP/UN-Habitat produced Disaster Resilient Model House and popularize and promote its use; obtain socio-technical feed-back from relevant Government agencies, architects, contractors, builders, house-owners and disaster-affected families; liaising with the UNDP based, University of Auckland’s resilient housing specialist and UN-Habitat contracted Consultants, improve and finalize the Model; develop an awareness raising strategy for outreach, advocacy and for wider dissemination of the shelter model, using brochures, video documentary and the media, and; help the Government identify a few districts and suitable land for construction of demonstration units, identifying local host agency, Governmental or non-Governmental, to provide continued demonstration support;
• Follow up the safer house demonstration by consulting the related Government agencies and technical institutions and getting the designs, construction techniques and guidelines incorporated in their guidebooks and manuals;
• Brief AusAID and Asia Pacific Training College (APTC) on the Resilient House Model and explore opportunities to get its designs, construction techniques and guidelines included in the curricula of the APTC and other AusAID supported training programmes for masons, artisans and shelter professionals to disseminate the guidelines of the disaster-resilient construction model;
• Guide and help the MWTI and National Building Code Committee in the revision of Buildings Regulations to be compatible with the Revised National Building Code;
• Help MWTI develop and mount and effective awareness campaign with appropriate dissemination material to enhance public and community awareness on the Building Code innovations and the Regulations.
  

Competencias

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.

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/POPP and Toolkit;
• Good ICT skills, knowledge of Atlas;
• Ability to implement new systems and affect staff behavioral/ attitudinal change.

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;
• Excellent analytical skills.

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Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

• Master’s degree or equivalent education in Project Management, Business Management, Economics, Public Administration, and/or or Urban Planning & Housing, Social Sciences, Disaster Recovery and/or Reconstruction or related discipline, preferably including architecture or housing/engineering.

• At least 7 years of experience in project management and/or design/development of development and/or construction projects;
• Experience in working with Government agencies and donors in post disaster environment, preferably in a Pacific or SIDS country;
• Knowledge and experience from disaster response operations, including missions in support of recovery planning in at least two different UNDP regions is desirable;
• He/she should have experience of managing housing and infrastructure programmes;
• Experience in post disaster recovery and reconstruction adopting people's participatory process;
• Experience and skills in facilitation, consultation or multi-stakeholder consultative processes 
• Proficiency in computers; good working knowledge of GIS, word processing and spreadsheet programmes;
• Work Experience with communities in the Pacific is advantageous;
• At least 7 years field experience, 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 rebuilding 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) is desirable. 

• Fluency in English both verbal and written;
• Working knowledge of Samoan preferred.

For further information kindly contact Fonotele Levi at fonotele.levi@undp.org.