Antecedentes

Candidates who previously applied need not re-apply.

Tanzania has held four credible general elections since the reintroduction of multi-party politics in 1992. Citizens and the government are eager to maintain this track record and to further strengthen democratic practice in Tanzania. Looking to the 2015 general election, government has undertaken early and comprehensive preparations for the electoral processes. Since receipt of official requests for UN assistance to the election cycle leading to the 2015 general election from the National Election Commission (NEC) and Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC), a UN Needs Assessment Mission recommended the development of a project in support of the national efforts.

Deberes y responsabilidades

• Comprehensive review of the legal basis for the conduct of election and NEC’s organisational structure and systems;
• Status of the leadership, organisational policies and procedures of NEC;
• Capacity of NEC to include the electoral cycle approach in its day-to-day activities and especially in its capacity building and organizational development objectives;
• The capacity and skills that exist for the full range of technical election administration;
• Capacity of NEC to plan and conduct voter and civic education for electoral events and between events;
• Overall management capacity, its planning and logistics capacity, financial accountability, human resource management, information and communications skills of NEC;
• Access to information, learning and empowerment of NEC staff;
• The capacity of NEC to conduct training in the various areas articulated under its mandate;
• The capacity of NEC to engage in multi-stakeholder dialogue involving, among others, political parties, women, civil society, faith-based organisations and youth to foster inclusive participation in the elections;
• Status of NEC’s inclusion of women, people with disabilities and youth within the organization including its operations and programming;
• The status of NEC’s communications and public relations strategies, policies and practices and its capacity to meet those obligations;
• The capacity of NEC to manage election observer accreditation and related support activities;
• Capacity of NEC to mobilise resources and identify required training and modes of training for identified stakeholder needs (who, what training, how and when) and engage in partnerships to meet those needs;
• Capacity of NEC to undertake monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of its business processes.
  

Competencias

• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.

• Demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter;
• Demonstrated ability to provide innovative technical leadership through the planning, development, and management of the assignment;
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and apply good judgment;
• Shows pride in work and in achievements;
• Is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results;
• Shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges.

• Ability to establish priorities and to plan, coordinate and monitor (own) work;
• Identifies and addresses priority activities and assignments;
• Allocates appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work;
• Monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary; uses time efficiently.

• Works collaboratively with project staff and EMB officials to achieve aims of the assignment;
• Solicits input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise;
• Facilitates the development of individual and multi-cultural/team competencies;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to operate and deliver in a complex and multicultural environment.
• Ability to provide substantive training and mentoring.

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

Education:

• A Masters degree in a relevant field such as public administration, law, or political science.

• At least 7 years of relevant experience in organizational development, capacity assessment or change management in a public sector environment is preferred for this position;
• Demonstrated experience in leading the development of strategic documents in the public sector, such as operational plans, business plans and strategic plans;
• Experience in training and organizational planning;
• Experience in democratic governance and/or election administration programming desirable;
• Solid understanding of mainstreaming of equity issues for gender, youth and PWDs into electoral and organisational frameworks;
• Knowledge and understanding of UNDP or major donor policies and practice on capacity building;
• Work experience in East Africa will be an asset;
• Experience in election administration and observation in an African setting is an added advantage.

• A high level of written and spoken English is essential;
• Kiswahili mother tongue is essential.

• Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than 8 July 2014 icprocurement.tz@undp.org;
• Applicants should download the application documents (presented in compresses file) from UNDP Tanzania website;
• Applicants should separate technical and financial proposals;
• Applications with no financial offer or missing P11 form and CV or the required documents for the technical evaluation will not be considered for evaluation;
• Applications without submitting a financial offer instead of other format will not be considered due to the ease comparison of the received offers;
• All necessary information for this post (TOR, Deliverables, Target dates, etc. are presented in the ICPN) therefore applicant must download it from the website as mentioned above;
• Do not send CV only to the Email account mentioned above without Cover Letter and Methodology (if requested) as it will be considered as incomplete application;
• The documents are available in PDF (the TOR, ICPN and IC Conditions) download them from the following link: : http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=16102; this is the only format available and it will not be provided in other formats; this is the only format available and it will not be provided in other formats;
• Each email should be less than 8MB; emails over this size will not be received to the above mentioned account.