- UNDP around the world
close
Many of UNDP's relationships with countries and territories on the ground exceed 60 years. Find details on our successes and ongoing work.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo (Dem. Republic of)
- Congo (Republic of)
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Denmark (Rep. Office)
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- E.U (Rep. Office)
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Fiji (Multi-country Office)
- Finland (Rep. Office)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Geneva (Rep. Office)
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq (Republic of)
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kosovo (as per UNSCR 1244)
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao PDR
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius & Seychelles
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Norway (Rep. Office)
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People
- Romania
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Samoa (Multi-country Office)
- São Tomé and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Swaziland
- Sweden (Rep. Office)
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tokyo (Rep. Office)
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
Regional Presence
Much of UNDP’s work is administered through 5 regional bureaus. - About Us
- Publications
- News Centre
- Multimedia
Consultant: Community Coach/Community Development Specialist | |
Location : | Braila, ROMANIA |
Application Deadline : | 10-Sep-13 (Midnight New York, USA) |
Type of Contract : | Individual Contract |
Post Level : | International Consultant |
Languages Required : | English |
Duration of Initial Contract : | estimated mid September 2013 – May 31, 2014 |
Expected Duration of Assignment : | Approximately 170 working days including minimum 100 days fieldwork |
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks. |
Background |
|
Roma inclusion is both, a national and pan-European challenge and UNDP as international organization faces to be one of the key players of the Roma inclusion process in Europe. The dual layer organizational structure of UNDP combines the network of CO-s to implement country-specific projects, and the Bratislava Regional Centre to provide comprehensive and consistent conceptual framework and support. Being part of UN system makes UNDP and its work impartial and equally trusted by governments, international organizations and the Roma civil society too. The substantive sources of UNDP are rooted in the strong record of sustainable and realistic approach to Roma inclusion. Namely:
UNDP has broad expertise in actual implementation of projects on the ground with wide range of partners at CO level. This network can be used in the future as knowledge and experience base and an implementation infrastructure of big-scale regional endeavours. UNDP’s conceptual approach is built around the idea of area-based development and human development context. It consistently defines the issue of Roma inclusion and the proposed solutions not in terms of ethnicity but rather in the context of multiple deprivations faced by different individuals and groups. Those deprivations correlate with group identity but are not primarily driven by that identity (this is why although the majority of Roma are vulnerable, not all Roma are vulnerable). The practical implications of this approach mean that Roma exclusion can be successfully addressed in territorial context, addressing all people living in the most disadvantaged regions. This will most often cover groups with a Roma majority. UNDP is among the few international players that have the courage to present the challenge of Roma exclusion in its complexity and multidimensionality raising the issue of the complex web of interests involved. Roma exclusion is not just a matter of ignorant racist prejudice and human rights abuse; it’s a complex combination of ignorant racist prejudice and objective outcomes of daily interactions between Roma and non-Roma that reinforce those prejudices and prepare the ground for human rights abuse. UNDP BRC plans drafting a number of regional projects with individual country components testing practical interventions at community level, addressing various challenges of poverty reduction, social inclusion, and other areas of work through tangible projects implemented with partners at community level. They would also build on existing local-level networks that have been created on the Western Balkans, in the Cserehát project in Hungary and in various projects in Slovakia. In 2013 UNDP initiated a regional project “Regional support facility for improving stakeholder capacity for progress on Roma inclusion” to provide national governments (central and local), civil society and other stakeholders with the operational support needed to build capacity for Roma inclusion in Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR Macedonia, Kosovo (as per UN Security Council resolution 1244 (1999)), Montenegro, Serbia, Moldova, Turkey). UNDP sees this objective as critical in terms of these governments’ EU membership preparations. The initiative has three components: (a) Supporting national stakeholders in operationalizing the national Roma integration strategies, in order to strengthen their implementing infrastructure at central and local levels; (b) Supporting the establishment of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks, including data collection for results-oriented progress monitoring; and (c) Facilitating the exchange of experience, mutual learning from successes and failures, and mainstreaming working approaches to Roma inclusion at local level. “Area-Based Interventions for making the most of EU Fund for Sustainable Housing and Inclusion of disadvantaged Roma in pilot areas in Romania & across the border to Serbia, Macedonia and Turkey” regional initiative builds upon many years of UNDP expertise in the area of poverty reduction and Roma inclusion in the ECIS region, as well as Roma-targeted area-based-development projects at the local level in Cserehat, Hungary (2005-2010) and in Cluj, Romania (2012). The project relies also on the committed involvement on a national level through the UNDP offices in the 4 countries (Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, and Turkey). It is being implemented as part of the wider Regional Support Facility regional project. The project aligns closely with MtM’s mission to make the most of EU funds for Roma inclusion — by holding as its prime objectives the forging and enhancement of processes and replicable models of social inclusion and desegregation through integrated local development and housing improvement, thus creating an opportunity for Roma communities in critical sites to absorb EU funds for inclusion. Goals of the project: The project’s activities aim at:
Objectives:
|
|
Duties and Responsibilities |
|
Definition of the Community Coaching: The benefits of contributing to the 'common good' or, developing 'social capital' are being lost in many communities. Community coaching is a development tool to encouraging communities and the individuals within them to achieve their full potential and accumulate social capital through working together. Community coaches take a holistic view of society and work to bring balance to the economic, environmental, spiritual and political forces that surround it.
Community coaches are different from consultants in that they 'coach' rather than 'advise', work locally and are committed to the goals of the local community. Community coaches work to promote:
The process of local mobilization awakens people’s hidden self-confidence; bring many new local development actions and project ideas to the surface; and help local people realize the importance of creating partnerships. At the same time, it gives hands-on experience in the demanding techniques of project identification and management to people who had never before been exposed to such processes. By involving them in planning, decision-making, and project implementation, it serves to build people’s motivation, self-esteem and sense of empowerment. Within the framework of this TOR the responsibilities of the Coach are related to fulfillment of the Objective 2 of the project by performing the following duties:
No travel outside of Braila is expected. Output and deliverables:
The above-mentioned activities shall be performed under supervision of the Programme’s Project Manager for ABD Interventions on Roma Inclusion and Local Project Coordinator in Braila.
|
|
Competencies |
|
Corporate competencies:
Functional competencies:
| |
Required Skills and Experience |
|
Education:
Experience:
Evaluation of Applicants: The award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:
Only the highest ranked candidates who would be found qualified for the job will be considered for the Financial Evaluation. Technical Criteria - 70% of total evaluation – max. 70 points:
Financial Criteria - 30% of total evaluation – max. 30 points. Application procedures:
Please note that the financial proposal is all-inclusive and shall take into account various expenses incurred by the consultant/contractor during the contract period (e.g. fee, health insurance, vaccination and any other relevant expenses related to the performance of services...). All envisaged local travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. Payments will be made only upon confirmation of UNDP on delivering on the contract obligations in a satisfactory manner. Individual Consultants are responsible for ensuring they have vaccinations/inoculations when travelling to certain countries, as designated by the UN Medical Director. Consultants are also required to comply with the UN security directives set forth under dss.un.org. General Terms and conditions as well as other related documents can be found under: http://europeandcis.undp.org/home/jobs. Qualified women and members of minorities are encouraged to apply. |
|
If you are experiencing difficulties with online job applications, please contact the eRecruit Helpdesk.