Organization: UNECA – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Location: Addis Ababa
Grade: Consultancy – National Consultant – Locally recruited Contractors Agreement
Occupational Groups:
Project and Programme Management
Closing Date: 2024-10-08
Result of Service
• Prepared strategic programme plan, Annual Business Plan and monitoring and evaluation reports; • Identification of significant programmes/projects and related issues with innovative approaches; • Periodic programme reports to the Accountability and Programme Performance Review Meetings; • Prepared Budgets, and financial reports of projects and activities of the division • Prepared project proposals for funding; • Well prepared background papers, reports, studies, and inputs to divisional outputs • Meetings, workshops, seminars, and conferences organised and serviced.
Work Location
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Expected duration
3 months
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the guidance of the Director of Climate Change, Food Security and Natural Resource Management Division (CFND) and the supervision of the Chief of Section, Natural Resources, Green and Blue Economy, the Consultant will perform the following tasks: 1.Responsible for deliverables pertaining to the ECA-led project “Fostering environmentally and socially responsible, decarbonized, inclusive, and transformative value chains for energy transition minerals in the SADC region”: • Coordinate engagement with and endorsement from the six member States to be involved in the project. • Revise and enrich the budget and activity plan for the project’s preparation phase, following feedback from the German Government donors. • Plan for forthcoming initial activities including project meetings and activities at COM, a consortium meeting in Johannesburg, and country visits to the six countries by ECA and its partners. • Support other ECA staff to push forward with the project including finalizing its MoU, liaising with German donors, and linking the other five consortium partners with ECA and the German side. • As part of efforts to improve effective programme delivery, ensure internal oversight and enhance cohesion, the Senior Leadership Team endorsed the provision of Programme Management Officers across all offices. • Develops, implements, and evaluates programmes/projects. • Monitors and analyses programme/project development and implementation at all stages, including the analysis of implementation difficulties and initiating remedial action. • Provides periodic progress reports on the programmes/projects’ implementation, including fund utilization. • Review, prepare and provide inputs to relevant documents and reports related to programmes/projects. • Identifies resource needs and participate in the development of resource mobilization strategy. • Liaise with relevant offices of the ECA-led project; identifies and tracks follow-up actions. • Leads and participates in planning accountability missions and provides guidance to consultants, government officials and draft mission summaries and reports. • Coordinate activities related to budget and funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, contracts such as Letter of Agreements, Memorandum of Understanding, reports &financial statements) and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget, progress reports). 2. Provide substantive/technical support to the ECA-led project: • Research, analyses, and presents information gathered from diverse sources. • Assists in policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies. • Undertakes survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyses and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions. • Organizes & prepares various written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc; • Provides substantive support to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc; • Provide substantive technical support to interdivisional activities relevant to the work of the project; • Initiates and coordinates outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, etc.; makes presentations on assigned topics/activities. • Provide logistical and other types of support in the running of the meetings/workshops/conferences etc., of the ECA-led project. 3. Performs other duties as required.
Qualifications/special skills
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, management, public administration, economics, political science, social sciences or related field or other relevant area is required. A first-level university degree in business administration, management, public administration, economics, political science, social sciences or related field of studies with two additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, administration, or related area, is required.
Languages
English and French are the working language of the United Nations. For the consultancy advertised, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of the other language is desirable.
Additional Information
Not available.
No Fee
THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.