Closing date: Wednesday, 23 September 2015
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.
