Historique

Sierra Leone is highly vulnerable to various natural and man-made disasters such as floods, landslides, epidemics (cholera and ebola), storms, erosion, fire and water pollution. In addition, climate change is expected to increase the magnitude and severity of disasters. Sierra Leone’s vulnerability is linked partly to its geographical specificities, as well as to socio-economic and environmental exacerbating factors. The Cholera outbreak in 2012 and more specifically the Ebola crisis in 2014 resulted in a large number of deaths, put severe pressure on the health sector, and impacted on recent development gains.

UNDP supports national authorities to develop capacities to manage disaster risks in such a way as to benefit the poor and integrate environmental and disaster management dimensions into poverty reduction strategies and the national development framework. In Sierra Leone, UNDP works together with the Disaster Management Department (DMD) in the Office of National Security (ONS) to enhance legal frameworks, develop Disaster Risk Management (DRM) strategies and action plans, to build capacity for centralized database management, and to train stakeholders to monitor, manage, and respond to disasters at the national and local level.

In view of a high level of risk and vulnerability in the country, UNDP proposes to develop a new DRM programme in accordance with UNDAF (Pillar 2). The new programme will be implemented over a period of four years in partnership with the Sierra Leone Disaster Management Department.

UNDP Country Programme and UNDAF in Sierra Leone aims to promote poverty reduction and sustainable development that are rights-based, gender-sensitive, inclusive and equitable by strengthening institutional capacity of national and local level.

UNDAF Pillar II focuses on strengthening capacities at local, regional and national level to manage and utilize natural resources in a sustainable way, and to enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to long-term climate change including variability impacts and to reduce the associated risk of disasters.

UNDP intends to recruit an International Consultant to develop a Disaster Risk Management Programme document for UNDP Sierra Leone for the period of 2015 – 2018 in accordance with key areas mentioned in UNDAF pillar 2. The programme will adapt to the impacts of climate change and other man-made and natural disasters.

The objective of the consultancy is to design a holistic programme document on disaster risk management for 2015-2018 in key areas mentioned in UNDAF. The consultancy is also expected to make recommendations as to how DMD could be strengthened/improved as an institution in order to better fulfil its mandated role.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Under the overall guidance of the UNDP Programme Manager Environment, the consultant will be expected to work in close collaboration with DMD to draw up a programme document for the UNDP CO on disaster risk management. This should align with the AFP 2013-2018, DMDs draft policy and strategy documents, and the UNDAF and should be informed by analysis of the current socio-economic situation in Sierra Leone.

The consultant  will be expected to deliver:

  • Design and formulation of UNDP CO disaster risk management programme for 2015 – 2018;
  • A result framework to be used for fundraising as well as progress tracking.

Compétences

Corporate Competencies:

  • Demonstrates integrity by modelling 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.

Functional Competencies:

  • Building Strategic Partnerships;
  • Ability to identify needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners;
  • Demonstrated ability to develop multi-year DRM proposals.

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise:

  • Expertise in developing project documents on disaster risk management;
  • Sound knowledge and experience of designing Results Based Management frameworks.

Results Orientation:

  • Displays initiative, sets challenging outputs for him/herself and willingly accepts new work assignments;
  • Ability to take responsibility for achieving agreed outputs within set deadlines and strives until successful outputs are achieved;
  • Identifies opportunities to bring forward and disseminate materials for advocacy work.

Team Work and Communication skills:

  • Ability to work in teams;
  • Excellent time management, monitoring and evaluation skills;
  • Openness to change and ability to receive/integrate feedback;
  • Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication;
  • Demonstrates initiative and self-motivation to work independently, as well as, cooperative and collaborative spirit to work in a team;
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Innovation and Marketing New Approaches:

  • Consistently looks at experience critically, drawing lessons, and building them into the design of new approaches;
  • Identifies new approaches and promotes their use in other situations;
  • Documents successes and uses them to project a positive image;
  • Creates an environment that fosters innovation and innovative thinking;
  • Capacity to make fair and transparent decisions, and take calculated risks;
  • Promotes innovative ideas from the team with supervisor.

Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing:

  • Advocates for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approache;.
  • Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms;
  • Shares knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning;
  • Knowledge of inter-disciplinary development issues.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

  • Master’s degree or equivalent academic qualification in environmental, disaster risk management international development field (social, political, economic sciences), or other closely related field.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 7 years professional experience in DRM;
  • Experience in working in developing countries, particularly in West Africa;
  • Familiarity with the UN system and UNDP.

Language:

  • Fluency in oral and written English required.

Payment to the consultant will be made in three instalments upon satisfactory completion of the following deliverables:

  • 1st Instalment: 40% upon start of work;
  • 2nd Instalment: 60% upon submission and approval of the final document.

Qualified and interested candidates are hereby requested to apply. The application must contain the following:

NB: Kindly upload ALL of the above as ONE single PDF file.