ELECTION-RELATED CONFLICT PREVENTION SPECIALIST ( NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL)
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Location :
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Dar es Salaam, with Frequent travel to Zanzibar, TANZANIA
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Application Deadline :
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24-Feb-14
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Additional Category
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Democratic Governance
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Type of Contract :
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Individual Contract
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Post Level :
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National Consultant
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Languages Required : |
English
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Duration of Initial Contract :
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3 months
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Expected Duration of Assignment :
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3 months
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Background
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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.
In addition, in 2014 the United Republic of Tanzania will likely
conduct a first national referendum on a new constitution. The EMBs and
other stakeholders in preparing for these critical events have
requested the assistance of UNDP to provide technical support to the
preparation and execution of this referendum.
To these ends, the Democratic Empowerment Project is a four year
(2013-2016) UNDP, UN One Fund and other donor-funded project with the
overall aim of contributing to Tanzania’s UNDAP’s Outcome 7: i.e. “Key
institutions of democracy, (i.e. EMBs, etc.) effectively implement their
election and political functions”. UN Women and UNESCO are implementing
partners in a One UN Country Team context.
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Duties and Responsibilities
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Undertake consultations with elections stakeholders, mainly
located in Dar es Salaam and on Zanzibar, and conduct a needs assessment
related to election-related peace-building and conflict reduction;
Based on the needs assessment, develop a strategy and action
plan for police training, community dialogues and other measures to be
undertaken to help build peace and prevent election-related conflict in
Tanzania in the 2014 and 2015 pre-election and general election period;
The result will be a report documenting the findings and
presenting a Strategy and an Action Plan to UNDP and Government. This
effort will be nationwide in scope; however special attention will be
placed on regions/areas that have been prone to election-related/other
politically-related violence in the recent past, including (inter alia)
Zanzibar, Arusha, Mtwara and Dar es Salaam;
In these areas, special attention will be given to identifying
opportunities for and making recommendations regarding community-based,
youth-focused, political party engagement and other approaches to
enhance dialogues and other conflict prevention measures, including
police training;
The Strategy document and Action Plan will draw on the reports
and recommendations of the UN conflict prevention expert deployed in
Zanzibar in advance of the 2010 general election, as well as a mapping
and analysis study conducted in 2011.
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Competencies
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Functional competencies:
Expertise and proven experience in conflict prevention in Africa;
Understanding of electoral processes including stakeholders and Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) in Tanzania
Proven ability to plan, organize and effectively implement activities;
Ability to coordinate and work in teams under pressure as well as in complex environments;
Strong communication and writing skills;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and sensitivity and adaptation.
Corporate competencies:
Demonstrates commitment to UNDP’s mission, vision and values;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Highest standards of integrity, discretion and loyalty.
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Required Skills and Experience
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Education
Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, development, political sciences.
Experience:
At least 7 years of
progressively responsible experience in international development
including experience with elections, electoral security,
prevention/mitigation of political and social conflict related to the
electoral cycle.
Thorough knowledge and
demonstrated extensive experience in conflict prevention policy
development, programming and advocacy related to the electoral cycle;
Demonstrated substantive
experience in security sector governance and collaboration among/between
security services and electoral management bodies, reconciliation &
dialogue, voter/civic education, engaging men and boys in prevention of
gender based violence, community security and social cohesion;
Demonstrated experience in
conducting conflict, political economy and governance analysis and in
designing and managing multi-stakeholder participatory conflict analysis
processes and methodologies;
Nuanced knowledge of conflict analysis tools and methodologies;
Track record of building good working relationships with government counterparts.
Demonstrable understanding of the gender aspects of peace and conflict through programming or research;
Demonstrated experience in mainstreaming gender and human rights in projects.
Language:
How to submit proposals:
Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than 24 February 2014 (Tanzanian Time 13:00 hours), icprocurement.tz@undp.org
Applicants should download the
application documents (presented in compresses file) from UNDP Tanzania
website, complete and sign them, and the send the scanned copies to the
email account above by or before the deadline of this post;
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 guidelines) format: 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.
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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.
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