UN VACANCY - CONSULTANT - MAPPING AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PEACE - (OPEN TO TANZANIAN NATIONALS ONLY)

CONSULTANT - MAPPING AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PEACE - (OPEN TO TANZANIAN NATIONALS ONLY)

Background

• Capacity of the key democratic institutions (EMBs, CRC, RPP, etc.) enhanced to support and promote legal and institutional reform in the context of the on-going constitutional reform process and beyond;
• Capacity of the EMBs to conduct credible elections enhanced through strategic, technical and operational support and improved EMB engagement with stakeholders (i.e. political parties, CSOs, and the media) to foster a democratic environment;
• Inclusive participation in elections and politics enhanced through the empowerment of women, youth and PWDs;
• National peace infrastructure enhanced to mitigate and prevent election-related conflicts.

Duties and Responsibilities

• What are the risks found in the security, political, economic, social and public administrative sectors? 
• What other risk factors—such as the type of electoral or political party system—exist?

• What has been the nature of the conflicts?

• What are the characteristics of these stakeholders, and how do they relate to conflict prevention and building an infrastructure for peace?

• A detailed desk study, literature review, economic and political research, and preliminary information interviews including with Government which shall include the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Tanzania Police Force, and other Ministries and Agencies delivering services that relate to the national infrastructure for peace, along with interviews with a wide range of stakeholders that can be advised by the current “contact group”;
• This information gathering exercise serves to inform the first key steps of the assessment, the contextual analysis and the historical conflict analysis;
• Field work;
• Following the assessment field work, completion of the deliverables described below.

Competencies

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Displays cultural gender, religion, race, nationality, and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
• Demonstrates diplomacy and tact in dealing with sensitive and complex situations.

• Promotes knowledge management in UNDP and a learning environment in the office through mentoring and personal example;
• Promote knowledge building and sharing with regards to management and operations, organization of project staff training, synthesis of lessons learnt/best practices and sound contributions to UNDP knowledge networks and communities of practice.

• Ability to lead strategic planning, results based management and reporting;
• Ability to lead formulation and monitoring of management projects;
• Ability to lead business processes and implement new systems;
• Good coordination and interpersonal skills.

Required Skills and Experience

• Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, development, political sciences, etc.).

• 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;
• Demonstrated understanding of the gender aspects of peace and conflict through programming or research;
• Demonstrated experience in mainstreaming gender and human rights in projects.

• Good knowledge and understanding of the UN, its values, priority goals and systems and procedures will be a definite asset;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to operate and deliver in a complex and multicultural environment;
• Work experience in East Africa will be a definite asset.

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