International Expert Parliament Support Project Evaluator
Location : Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA
Application Deadline : 23-Sep-15
Additional Category
Democratic Governance
Type of Contract : Individual Contract
Post Level : International Consultant
Languages Required : English
Duration of Initial Contract : up to 30 working days
Expected Duration of Assignment : up to 30 working days
Background
Based on the Corporate/Strategic Plans of the two legislatures the
project was designed to support the National Assembly and the Zanzibar
House of Representatives by helping to strengthen Members' legislative,
oversight and representative capacities and assisting the Secretariats
of both legislatures to deliver upgraded services to Members. The
project was informed by the National Framework on Good Governance,
Vision 2025 (Union) and Vision 2020 (Zanzibar), the 2010 poverty
reduction strategies MKUKUTA and MKUZA and the Five Year Development
Plan 2011-2016.
Initiatives were designed to target parliamentarians, their committees,
and their support Secretariats. Through an emphasis on partnerships with
national stakeholders and through technical and capacity development
support, this project set out to:
- Strengthen
and enhance the capacity of MPs and their committees to better exercise
their interrelated functions of law making, executive oversight
including national budget approval and oversight, and representation of
constituents/citizens; and
- Strengthen the
Secretariats of both legislatures to help them deliver effective
services to parliamentarians and help build sustainable, modern internal
parliamentary staff management structures and practices.
The Union and Zanzibar legislatures are at different levels of
development reflecting the history, needs and resources of both
jurisdictions. Both legislatures need long-term, sustainable assistance
to become stronger, more effective institutions at the heart of
national, democratic governance and essential to building the capable
State necessary for national development goals. Grounded in
constitutional mandates, the two legislatures have evolved since
colonial times, one-party rule and more recently since the introduction
of multi-party elections and parliaments.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assess
the adequacy of resources (human, financial and material) allocated to
the project for the achievement of the established objectives. Review /
Assess the allocation of resources across the project objectives and the
two legislatures. Comment on Value for Money;
- Verify
qualitative and quantitative data on the results achieved so far and
assess their contribution to the strengthening of the legislatures,
taking into account the project document and M & E framework also
includes STH on the results not achieved and why;
- Assess
the level of national and international especially South-South
stakeholder involvement and its contribution to the results of project;
- Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of implementation modality and project staffing;
- Examine
to what extent national ownership of the project has been ensured
during the project implementation and the stakeholders' level of
satisfaction with the Project's results;
- Assess to what extent the project is managed in relation to best practice in the field of parliamentary support;
- Identify
the lessons learnt and good practices from the project implementation
that can be considered in the planning and design of future support
activities;
- Provide recommendations for the improvement of parliamentary support by UNDP and its partners.
Competencies
Corporate Competencies
- Displays cultural gender, religion, race, nationality, and age sensitivity and adaptability;
- Demonstrates diplomacy and tact in dealing with sensitive and complex situations.
Professionalism
- Demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter;
- 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;
Planning & Organizing
- Organizes
and accurately completes multiple tasks by establishing priorities
while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent
interruptions, deadlines, available resources and multiple reporting
relationships;
- Plans, coordinates and organizes workload while remaining aware of changing priorities and competing deadlines;
- Establishes, builds and maintains effective working relationships with staff and clients to achieve the planned results.
Required Skills and Experience
Education
- Masters Degree in Political Science or similar.
Experience
- At
least 10 years of relevant experience, out of which at least 7 in the
area of governance; particularly in the areas of strengthening the
capacity of Parliaments;
- Substantial previous experience with evaluation of Parliament programmes;
- Proven experience in project formulation;
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills;
- Good understanding of mainstreaming of cross cutting issues including human rights and gender;
- Excellent writing skills and proven ability to produce quality documents at speed; and
- Proven team leading experience
Language
- Full proficiency in English;
- Understanding of Swahili will be an added asset.
How to Submit Proposals
- Proposals should be submitted to icprocurement.tz@undp.org e-mail address not later than Friday, 18 September 2015 at 13:00 Hours (Local Time);
- 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;
- 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 and MS Word (the TOR, ICPN, IC Conditions and P11)
download them from the following link:
http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=25273 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.
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.
