Reducing Land Degradation on the Highlands of Kilimanjaro Region, Moshi Regional Administrative secretary (RAS) office

REDUCING LAND DEGRADATION ON THE HIGHLANDS OF KILIMANJARO REGION

Location :

Moshi Regional Administrative secretary(RAS) office, TANZANIA

Application Deadline :

12-Dec-13

Additional Category

Environment and Energy

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Post Level :

International Consultant

Languages Required :

English

Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)

06-Jan-2014

Duration of Initial Contract :

24 working days

Expected Duration of Assignment :

24 working days

Background

In accordance with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Policies and procedures, all full-size projects must undergo an independent Mid-Term Review (MTR) at approximately mid-point of project implementation phase. In compliance with such policies and procedures, the UNDP-GEF project document entitled 'Reducing Land Degradation on the Highlands of Kilimanjaro Region 'states that the project will undergo a Mid-Term Review by mid-2012. However, following protracted delays in effective project start up, the MTR exercise was rescheduled to the end of 2013.

The project aims at reducing land degradation on the highlands of the Kilimanjaro Region, which has 7 administrative councils, namely Siha, Rombo, Hai, Moshi Rural, Moshi Municipality, Mwanga, and Same. The project is in response to the fact that despite its local and global significance, the Kilimanjaro ecosystem is experiencing extensive degradation and deforestation driven by a set of complex interrelated factors, such as rapid population increase, land-use change, poor land-management practices, unsustainable harvesting of natural resources, declining commodity prices, and climate change

The project's goal is to ensure that 'Sustainable Land Management (SLM) provides the basis for economic development, food security, and sustainable livelihoods while restoring the ecological integrity of the Kilimanjaro Region's ecosystems'. The project objective is to provide local land-users and managers with the enabling environment (policy, financial, institutional, capacity) necessary for the widespread adoption of sustainable land-management practices

Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitor project results and assess early signs of project success or failure and identify the necessary changes required;
• Identify potential project design problems and recommend corrective measures;
• Assess progress towards the achievement of the project objective;
• Identify areas that need to be reviewed in order to strengthen adaptive management and monitoring functions of the project, so as to provide a basis for decision making on necessary amendments and improvements;
• Identify and document lessons learned (including lessons that might improve design and implementation of other UNDP-GEF projects); and
• The MTR shall validate initial project assumptions and assess critical changes since project design and provide recommendations on modifications to be introduced after the Mid-Term Review (including project restructuring and funding allocation, governance structure, coordination and management) to increase the likelihood of success;
• Make recommendations regarding specific actions that should be taken to improve the project implementation in the remaining period. Project performance will be measured based on the indicators of the project's logical framework in the Project Document, and various Tracking Tools.

Competencies

Functional competencies:

• Expertise and proven experience in SLM/SFM approach or natural resources management;
• Strong research and analysis skills;
• Proven ability to plan, organize and effectively implement activities;
• Understanding of landscape conservation and land use planning and management;
• Ability to coordinate and work in teams, as well as in complex environments;
• Proven experience in participatory processes, and in facilitating dialogue between Government, Development partners, private sector and civil society;
• Strong communication and advocacy skills;
• Understanding of UNDP/GEF functioning and reporting procedures;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and sensitivity and adaptability.

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.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• At least Masters degree in Environmental Sciences or other related fields (natural resources management, landscape ecology or land husbandry, etc.) and familiarity with project implementation in complex multi donor-funded projects.

Experience:

• Broad knowledge of political and economic development in Tanzania coupled with excellent organizational skills;
• Work experience in the environment management technical area for at least 5 years;
• Recent experience with result-based management methodologies;
• Experience in the evaluation of development assistance programmes and projects with ability to apply SMART indicators and reconstructing or validating baseline scenarios;
• Competence in adaptive management, as applied to conservation or natural resource management;
• Project experiences within the United Nations system and GEF will be considered an asset.

Language:

• Excellent English communication skills.

Application conditions:

All necessary information including complete terms of Reference, Individual Consultant Procurement Notice, and IC guidelines are found on the following link under http://www.tz.undp.org/operations_vacancies.html.

Proposals should be submitted to the following e-mail address not later than 12 December 2013 (Tanzanian Time 13:00 hours), icprocurement.tz@undp.org

• Applicants should download the application documents (presented in compressed file) from the link above for UNDP Tanzania-Procurement Notice 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 procurement notice documents) therefore applicant MUST download it to apply for this post.
• 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.

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.