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Programme Manager, P5 UNCDF (UN Joint Programme on Local Governance & Decentralized Service Delivery) – Mogadishu, Somalia
Job ID: 33407
Practice Area – Job Family: Democratic Governance
Vacancy End Date: (Midnight New York, USA) 10/11/2020
Duty Station: Mogadiscio, Somalia
Education & Work Experience: G-Bachelor’s Level Degree – 12 year(s) experience, I-Master’s Level Degree – 10 year(s) experience
Languages: English
Grade: P5
Vacancy Type: FTA International
Posting Type: External
Bureau: UNCDF
Contract Duration: 1 Year with possibility for extension
Background
The United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 47 least developed countries. With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers ‘last mile’ finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development.
UNCDF’s financing models work through three channels: inclusive digital economies, connecting individuals, households, and small businesses with financial eco-systems that catalyze participation in the local economy, and provide tools to climb out of poverty and manage financial lives; local development finance, that capacitates localities through fiscal decentralization, innovative municipal finance, and structured project finance to drive local economic expansion and sustainable development; and investment finance, that provides catalytic financial structuring, de-risking, and capital deployment to drive SDG impact and domestic resource mobilization. By strengthening how finance works for poor people at the household, small enterprise, and local infrastructure levels, UNCDF contributes to Sustainable Development Goal-SDG 1 on eradicating poverty and SDG 17 on the means of implementation. By identifying those market segments where innovative financing models can have transformational impact in helping to reach the last mile and address exclusion and inequalities of access, UNCDF contributes to a broad diversity of SDGs.
UNCDF’s Local Development Finance Practice (LDFPA) aims to be a center of excellence and innovative fund for local government finance and local capital investment finance in the world’s 47 least developed countries. We passionately believe that fiscal decentralization and more accessible capital finance for local governments and local economies accelerates structural transformation and sustainable equitable development in least developed countries. We bring this expertise to address the challenge of local development together with partners, including our UNCDF colleagues from other technical areas.
The UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery is a joint Programme of ILO, UNCDF, UNDP, UN-HABITAT and UNICEF initiated in 2008. The long-term commitment of the JPLG donors and UN agencies, and the leadership of the Somali Government has ensured the success of the programme.
In the initial phases of the programme the focus was on Puntland and Somaliland where there was relative peace and a foundation of local government structures to build upon. In the subsequent nine years, and through two phases of the programme, strong partnerships with the governments of Puntland and Somaliland, Federal and new member states, have been built, reaching more than 60% of the population in Puntland and Somaliland. This partnership has enabled a fundamental change in the legitimacy, functionality, and quality of services provided by these local governments. Towards the end of the second phase of the programme the engagement in Jubbaland, South-West State, Galmudug and Hirshabele has been seen as a pivotal shift towards a country wide programme under the federal agenda.
The third phase of this programme (2018-2023), currently under implementation, is designed to support the establishment and transformation of local government through capacitated institutions, legal frameworks, policies and practices that are accountable, inclusive, and gender equal that support the effective delivery of services which contribute to improving the well-being of men, women and children.
Within this programme UNCDF in collaboration with the other partners is leading on macro fiscal systems related to local governance and intergovernmental fund transfers, with direct responsibility for LDF practice management. The UNCDF responsibilities include:
- Overall coordination of the sub-national Public Financial Management
- Support to Fiscal Decentralization roll-out and intergovernmental fiscal relations between the federal government, the states, and local governments
- Local Development Fund implementation with an average annual budget of USD 5.5 million
- Implementation of the Local Revenue Mobilization programme
- Representation of the JPLG in multi-stakeholder forums related to PFM and Fiscal Decentralization
Duties and Responsibilities
Position Context:
In undertaking these assignments there is the need for a resident technical support from UNCDF to provide the required technical guidance and management to achieve the objectives of the Joint Programme.
Given this context, UNCDF is seeking to hire a Programme Manager for implementation of the UNCDF programme activities in Somalia. This will facilitate the timely provision and management of technical services to support the UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery.
The UNCDF Programme Manager will provide technical support to the UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery (JPLG) and other decentralization and local development initiatives by UNDP Somalia.
The Programme Manager will also serve as a key player in decentralization and local development within the wider donors’ group in Somalia. He/she will provide consistent support to the Joint Programme Senior Programme Manager of the JPLG and also the PCU in general on issues of institutional development, fiscal strategies and the pursuit of strategies to provide and manage local service delivery.
The managerial role is based in Mogadishu, Somalia and involves travel to all Somalia country location including Puntland and some official travel to Nairobi Kenya (UNDP Somalia) and programme coordination purposes as required. The Programme Management Specialist, P-3 Mogadishu Somalia and UNCDF national officers’ team (NOCs, NOAs and Service Contractors) report to the Programme Manager role.
Functions / Key Results Expected
Under the overall guidance and supervision of the UNCDF Regional Technical Advisor/Africa Team Leader, P-5 based in Dakar Senegal, and with the expectation to work closely with the UNCDF Global Technical Advisor on Local Government Finance o day to day programme management issues and in close collaboration with UNDP’s Senior Programme Manager (JPLG), Somalia Programme, the UNCDF Programme Manager will be responsible for the following functions:
Summary of key functions
- Policy advice and Strategic Programme Management
- Provide leadership in Technical advice and programme monitoring support
- Provide corporate support to LDFPA and UNCDF Senior Management
- Any other tasks as assigned
1. Responsible for Policy Advice and Strategic Programme Management (50%)
- Initiate and support discussions on issues of fiscal decentralization and funding of local development initiatives through lessons generated from JPLG and other related initiatives;
- Expand the existing public financial solutions and create new ones to meet the challenges of fiscal nature, focusing on new Federal Member States;
- Contribute at a senior level expertise to government’s debate on fiscal decentralization and local development funding, building intergovernmental fiscal relation between the federal government, states and local governments, and local revenue mobilization;
- Organize forums and workshops to support the implementation of the LDF and its gradual integration into regular intergovernmental fiscal transfer systems at local, regional and national level, including the design and delivery of targeted capacity development;
- Generate lessons as good practice and see these incorporated into draft and subsequently updated Public Expenditure Management manuals.
2. Provide leadership in Technical advice and programme monitoring support (40%):
- Oversee the development and implementation of the local capacity for fiscal management as well as the operation of the Local Development Fund;
- Ensure technical leadership within JPLG for local financial and fiscal management and the establishment and operation of the Local Development Fund and linkages with other related activities within the UNJP and Somalia in general;
- Establish monitoring frameworks for the LDF and provide ongoing feedback and technical backstopping, and regularly monitor progress towards the identified indicators;
- Provide technical support to the identified districts for establishing the LDF and fiscal management support as well as the respective national teams and ensure progress of implementation of work plans of UNCDF;
- Identify capacity building needs and coordinate responses around the LDF and local fiscal management.to ensure equitable local development principles;
- Develop tools and guidelines that facilitate the achievement of the anticipated outcomes with respect to local fiscal management and funding for local development at the district, regional and national levels;
- Support the Joint Programme Senior Programme Manager in the preparation of reports for the JP Steering Committee and other technical requirements as requested by the JP Senior Programme Manager.
3. Provide corporate support to LDFPA and UNCDF Management (10%)
- Provide input to support annual and cumulative UNCDF results analyses and substantive inputs into Unit work plan and UNCDF Business Plan;
- Support to the development of UNCDF programme and business strategies and to annual reviews;
- Provide advice to UNCDF senior management on technical issues and business development opportunities, including inputs into corporate presentations and reports.
- Be responsive to ad hoc requests and opportunities for contributing to other initiatives to which the post holder is qualified;
- Expand partnerships with local, national, regional and international partners in the interest of UNCDF, UNDP and the UN in general.
Impact of Results /Outcome Indicators
Outcome indicators: Intended Outcome as stated in the Project document of the UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery Programme Results and Resource Framework;
Outcome 1: Policy, legal and regulatory frameworks on local governance finalized;
Outcome 2: Local governments’ have the capacity to deliver equitable and sustainable services, promote economic development and peace.
Competencies
Core Competencies
Innovation. Ability to make new and useful ideas work – Level 6: Exercises stakeholder-centered design approaches for office / programme / division
Leadership. Ability to persuade others to follow – Level 6: Ensures teams are resourced for success and empowered to deliver
People Management. Ability to improve performance and satisfaction – Level 6: Guides substantive specialists / teams and expands credibility and innovation capacity
Communication. Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform – Level 6: Creates confidence among stakeholders by delivering authoritative positions, compelling analysis, and contextual acumen
Delivery. Ability to get things done while exercising good judgement – Level 6: Accepts accountability for the outcomes of programme delivery and facilitates improvement and innovation in the delivery of products and services
Technical / Functional Competencies
- Management Solutions – Level 6: Integrate & Empower: Leads integral work of teams utilizing expertise, vision, problem-solving capability, and collaborative energy in professional area of expertise
- Innovation and New Approach – Level 7: Navigate & Guide: Charts a course for a systems approach to continuous learning, adaptation, and excellence, creating institutional imperatives to realize progress within across the relevant profession
- Stakeholder Advocacy & Coordination – Level 6: Integrate & Empower: Leads integral work of teams utilizing expertise, vision, problem-solving capability, and collaborative energy in professional area of expertise
- Decision Making and Solutions – Level 6: Integrate & Empower: Leads integral work of teams utilizing expertise, vision, problem-solving capability, and collaborative energy in professional area of expertise
- Results based Management – Level 5: Originate: Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise
- Decentralization and Fiscal reform – Level 6: Integrate & Empower: Leads integral work of teams utilizing expertise, vision, problem-solving capability, and collaborative energy in professional area of expertise
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- An advanced degree (minimum at a Master’s level) in Economics, Business Management, Development Studies, Public Administration/Public Finance or a related discipline.
- A Bachelor’s/first university degree with an additional two years of experience is also considered acceptable.
Work Experience:
- A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience at local, national and international levels, dealing with local fiscal management and decentralization.
- Deep knowledge and understanding of the process of fiscal decentralization in the context of (post) conflict and fragile states;
- Understanding and experience in operation of a Local Development Fund and/or other intergovernmental fiscal transfer schemes and of the related challenges in African countries;
- Recognized leadership in fiscal policy and systems development;
- Wide experience of technical advisory support and overall capacity development, preferably in a post-conflict situation;
- Country level experience in working directly on decentralization, local government reform and public expenditure management;
- Substantive knowledge and understanding of local development finance and fiscal decentralization through government reform;
- Substantive knowledge of developing and managing a fiscal transfer system for a country with a decentralized system;
- Sound experience of developing local fiscal management systems and subsequent management of a Local Development Fund;
- Strong research and analytical skills, to contribute to the formulation of policies, procedures and guidelines for local fiscal management and participatory accountable systems;
- Resource mobilization experience and record of success in reporting to and managing donor grants and reporting mechanisms.
- Strong programme management experience with emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and incorporating lessons learned into programmes;
- Experience in successfully managing large projects and corresponding budgets required;
- Experience with financial management within the UN system, including use of ATLAS is required;
- Experience with fundraising, donor reporting, and a working knowledge of international donor organizations is highly desirable;
- Ability to build and manage teams effectively, mentoring team members well, inspiring confidence in others; managing matrices fluidly by encouraging inter-agency collaboration;
- Build strong relationships with both internal and external actors; cultivate productive relationships with UN organizations, donors, partners and other important institutions and individuals;
- Manage technical inputs effectively – consistently ensures timeliness and quality of project work carried out by the incumbent or the team;
- Strong oral and written communication skills;
- Effective presentation and report-writing skills; strong analytical and strategic skills as well as good written and oral communication skills.
Language:
- Fluency in English is required, with effective written and oral communication skills;
- Knowledge of another UN language considered an advantage but not required.
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