Bridge Train-The-Trainer Facilitators, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

CONSULTANT - BRIDGE TRAIN-THE-TRAINER FACILITATORS

Location :Dar Es Salaam, TANZANIA

Application Deadline :28-Mar-14

Additional Category:Democratic Governance

Type of Contract :Individual Contract

Post Level :International Consultant

Languages Required :English

Duration of Initial Contract :18 Working Days

Expected Duration of Assignment :18 Working Days

Background

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 elections, government has undertaken early and comprehensive preparations for the electoral processes. Tanzania will likely conduct a first national referendum on a new constitution in 2014 before conducting the next general elections a year later. In preparing for these important events, the National Electoral Commission of Tanzania (NEC), the Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) and other electoral stakeholders have requested the support of UNDP to provide technical and material support to these national efforts. Since receipt of official requests from the two EMBs of Tanzania for UN assistance to the election cycle leading to the 2015 general elections, a UN Needs Assessment Mission recommended the development of an electoral support project under the auspices of UNDP and supported by international development partners through a Basket Fund modality. The project under the name Democratic Empowerment Project (DEP) will be implemented over four year (2013-2016) 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 the other project implementing partners in a One UN Country Team context.In an effort to strengthen the institutional capacity of the two Electoral Management Bodies of Tanzania, i.e. NEC and ZEC, DEP wishes to recruit two (2) international consultants to undertake a two-week BRIDGE Train-the-Trainer Facilitation (TtF) for 20 EMB staff (from both NEC and ZEC) in preparation for the 2014 referendum and the 2015 elections.

Duties and Responsibilities

Working under the guidance of the Chief Technical Adviser and daily supervision of the Project Manager, the consultants will perform the following duties:

• Prepare a training programme (agenda) and compile training materials for the TtF course;
• Prepare monitoring and evaluation tools for the training;
• Deliver TtF course to the 20 EMB staff;
• Prepare a comprehensive final report at the end of the TtF, to cover the training experiences, lessons learned and evaluate areas of improvement for the training workshop;
• Based on consultations with participants, prepare a report to advise on specific areas of training needs which each EMB should address through BRIDGE modular training beyond the TtF.

Competencies

Corporate competencies:

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

Professionalism:

• Demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter;
• Demonstrated ability to provide innovative technical leadership through the planning, development, and management of the project activities;
• 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;

Planning & Organizing:

• Organises 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 organises workload while remaining aware of changing priorities and competing deadlines.
• Demonstrates ability to quickly shift from one task to another to meet multiple support needs.
• Establishes, builds and maintains effective working relationships with staff and clients to facilitate the provision of support.

Teamwork:

• Works collaboratively with DEP and EMB staff to achieve organizational goals;
• Solicits input by genuinely valuing others' ideas and expertise;
• Facilitates the development of individual and multi-cultural/team competencies;
• Ability to provide substantive training and mentoring, and manage teams.

Required Skills and Experience

Education

• University degree in a relevant field, such as public administration, law, sociology, political science or education.

Experience

• At least 10 years of relevant work experience in the area of elections administration and training;
• Expert knowledge and skills in developing training material for BRIDGE TtF;
• Demonstrated mentoring experience;
• Experience in election administration, election support and/or observation in Sub-Saharan Africa desirable;
• Sound knowledge in the area of democratic governance.
• Experience in an election-related IT environment is a plus.

Language

• A high level of written and spoken English is essential.
• Knowledge of Kiswahili an asset.

How to submit proposals:

Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than 28 March 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 guidelines) download them from (http://www.undp.org/content/tanzania), 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.

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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