Programme Specialist (Local Government) United Nations at UNDP Tanzania

UNCDF seeks to hire a Programme Specialist
(Local Government) who will report to the Programme Management
Specialist (P4/IPSA11). The Programme Specialist (Local Government) will
support the Programme Management Specialist in the overall management
of the project, together with other team members.

1. Ensure compliance with the strategic direction of project operations focusing on the achievements of the following results.
2. Support to public finance management and administration at the district level focusing on achievements of the following results.
3. Support to the set-up and management of the Performance-based Climate Resilience Grants System.
4. Ensuring efficient support to tasks related to advocacy, programming, monitoring and evaluation, and representation.
5. Knowledge Management and Sharing.

1.Ensure compliance with the strategic direction of project operations focusing on the achievements of the following results:

• Ensures compliance of operations with UNCDF and UNDP rules,
  regulations and policies, implementing project operational strategies
  and monitoring achievement of results;
• Provides advice on strategies, policies and plans affecting project
  operation and implementation, knowledge and learning services in
  general, and provides extensive input to review and amendment of
  guidelines and documents pertaining to local authorities with a focus on
  planning, financial management and reporting, monitoring, evaluation
  and audits;
• Contributes to the design of longer-term strategies and approaches
  to local governance and local development financing mechanisms;
• Contributes to enhancing the synergies and links between UNCDF
  activities on local finance activities and other approaches to local
  public expenditure management and financing of other agencies;
• Establishes collaborative arrangements with other potential project
  partners and appropriate operational partnership arrangements;
• Provide constant monitoring and analysis of the operating
  environment, quick readjustment of the operations, advice on legal
  considerations and risk assessments;
• Ensures timely follow up of routine actions and deadlines.

2. Support to public finance management and administration at
the district level focusing on achievements of the following results:

• Manage the delivery of inputs and outputs in line with the project’s approved work plan;
• Provides capacity advice and guidance to partners in general and to target districts, for the implementation of the project;
• Ensure enabling process and policy framework to adopt the best
  business practices as well as programme management activities while
  ensuring consistency with the application financial regulations;
• Administration of the organization’s internal control framework,
  monitoring financial management including implementation of resource
  planning, management, tools and reports.

3. Support to the set-up and management of the Performance-based Climate Resilience Grants System:

• In collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of
  Interior, other government agencies, and UN partners provide support and
  leadership in the area of fiscal decentralization, for sustainable
  financing of public service and infrastructure delivery at the local
  level;
• Ensure all the disbursement happens in compliance with set rules, regulations and guidelines;
• Oversees and keeps a record of risk factors and supports any risk mitigation actions to be undertaken by UNCDF;
• Ensures that funds managed are subject to regular audits;
• Ensures planning and reporting on activities related to the operation as appropriate;
• Carries out any other duties as requested.

4. Ensuring efficient support to tasks related to advocacy, programming, monitoring and evaluation, and representation:

• Promotes identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons
  learned from the project for organizational sharing and learning;
• Ensures information sharing that all partners are familiar with technical and logistical issues;
• Coordinate capacity-building of national counterparts;
• Ensure appropriate representation of UNCDF and commitment to UN rules, regulations and values;
• Provide support to monitoring and evaluation activities in general and at the district level in particular.

5. Knowledge Management and Sharing:

• For all the tasks mentioned above, ensures a transfer of skills to relevant national actors involved in the management;
• Provide input to knowledge building and sharing with regards to the management and operations of the project;
• Contribute to the development and implementation of knowledge management strategy;
• Promote and communicate new corporate knowledge sharing mechanisms, and actively manage the existing community of practice;
• Implement quality assurance standards for developing knowledge
  products, documentation of programme challenges, good practices, lessons
  learnt.

The incumbent performs other duties within their functional
profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office
and the Organization.

The Programme Specialist (Local Government)
will report to the Programme Management Specialist (P4/IPSA) and works
under the overall coordination of the LoCAL Global Programme Manager,
P-5, based in Kampala, Uganda as well as works in close collaboration
with other LTF and LoCAL colleagues in the regional office/HQ based and
country and across the region. 

Partnership Management

• Multi-stakeholder Engagement and Funding:
  Knowledge and ability to forge multi-stakeholder partnerships, and
  remove any obstacles to resource mobilization and multi-stakeholder
  funding platforms.

• Demonstrated skills in coordinating with different stakeholders and facilitating discussions; 
• Work experience with environmental sustainability and climate
  change and with addressing gender equality as project objective and/or
  cross-cutting issue in developing countries.

• Experience with local governance and/or public financial management is desirable;
• Experience with a UN organization/agency/ International development sector is desirable;
• Experience in designing, developing, and using knowledge products, mentoring, training, or outreach;
• Experience in project management, implementation, and monitoring;
• Understanding of key concepts related to decentralization and local economic development is required;  
• Strong networking capabilities and ability to associate him/herself
  with a range of actors (inter alia central and local governments;
  policy makers; regulators, donors, local communities, women and youth)
  with a view to building relations and facilitating links; 
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages
  (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and
  database packages;
• Previous experience on policies and plans affecting project
  operation and implementation, knowledge and learning services in
  general, and provides extensive input to review and amendment of
  guideline;
• Experience in the design of longer-term strategies and approaches
  to local governance and local development financing mechanisms.

• Fluency in English and Kiswahili is required.