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Local Governance Officer
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Sarajevo
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28.06.2016.
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Opis radnog mjesta:
Local Governance Officer
Vacancy End Date: 28/06/2016
Duty Station: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Education & Work Experience: G-Bachelor’s Level Degree – 5 year(s) experience, I-Master’s Level Degree – 3 year(s) experience
Grade: SB4
Vacancy Type: Service Contract (SC)
Contract Duration: 12 months
Candidates must be BIH nationality. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing an intricate set of development challenges, including economic decline, high unemployment, growing poverty and socio-economic inequalities. The complex administrative structure has led to political deadlocks, while slow legislative processes further hamper development. There is limited progress in finding political compromise on necessary reforms, including those required for integration to the European Union (EU). Many constraints persist on the economy, including poor infrastructure and a generally unattractive investment climate.
Placed within such a complex environment, local governments (LGs) have monotype competences, despite considerable differences in their size. LGs design integrated strategies, where social, economic, and environmental sectors are inter-connected to produce sustainable results. Nearly 30% of LGs have begun to apply an integrated municipal management approach. Yet, deficiencies in decision-making, internal management and organisation, policy and regulatory frameworks, as well as inadequate operational capacity hamper effective policy delivery.
Both finances and priority wise, water and environmental sanitation services are the most important LG services. More than 40 % of the country population of 3.8 million lacks access to safe water, with less than 40 % connected to the public sewerage system. Water losses frequently amount to more than 50 %, leading to overexploitation of water sources and high distribution costs. Water tariff levels are often too low to cover operation and maintenance, let alone enable capital investments. Further support to LGs and water utilities in cooperation with sectoral ministries at entity and cantonal levels is needed to increase service delivery management capacity and accountability through regulatory frameworks, ensuring functional and fiscal compliance across jurisdictions. Increasingly frequent floods and droughts adversely affect local service delivery, pointing to the lack of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and measures.
Because LGs are the intersection through which most business creation flows, their role is instrumental in creating a business-conducive environment and stimulating economic growth. Despite positive experiences, including pilot certification of “business-friendly” certification, LGs in Bosnia and Herzegovina still lack sound economic expertise and tools to engage in productive public-private dialogue and increase investment attractiveness of their localities through viable business infrastructure, support to employability and local entrepreneurship.
To address these challenges, the Municipal Environmental and Economic Governance (MEG) Project has been launched, supported by the Government of Switzerland and implemented by UNDP. The Project will support democratic local governance and improve quality of public services, focusing on the economic and environmental sectors. Together with its 18 partner local governments, private sector counterparts, relevant cantonal, entity and state level institutions, the Project will enhance municipal performance, applying sound public policy and management processes, spurring interaction among local decision-makers and citizens, and supporting capital investment to unlock sustainable economic growth and job creation. As for its geographic coverage, the MEG Project will work in the area of Una-Sana Canton and Prijedor, as well as in the wider Doboj-Tuzla region. To sustain changes introduced at the local level, the Project will encourage advancement of the regulatory framework as per EU standards, towards decentralized and improved service delivery, with focus on communal services and business environment. The expected overall duration of the Project is 12 years, while the first phase will last four years.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Local Governance Officer will have the following key functions:
Lead and steer the design, implementation and quality assurance of the Project assistance for partner local governments:
– Set and steer the overall strategy, approach and delivery of the governance activities within the Project, against global best practices and abreast with European Union standards and approaches;
– Guide the relevant Project team and provide quality technical advice in the affirming of a performance management system within partner local governments, as well as propose scaling-up mechanisms;
– Lead and monitor the design and affirmation of good governance benchmarks within partner local governments, as well as country-wide;
– In cooperation with the Project Economic Officer, design and steer the delivery of the comprehensive technical support aiming to improve business enabling environment, as well as regularly monitor and capture progress and achievements within partner local governments;
– Provide expert advice, guidance, support and oversight to local government officers throughout the process of introducing new tools and solutions aimed at improving economic governance, business services and environment, and quality of service delivery;
– Design and oversee the Project’s efforts to strengthen the legislative capacity of Municipal Councils and their interaction with the mayors/administrations;
– Help design tools that will aid local governments in the process of delivery of business incentives and employment-conducive measures;
– From the local governance and quality service delivery viewpoint, provide technical support and contribute to the improvement of relevant entity/cantonal/municipal regulatory framework;
– Identify, in coordination with local governance officers, regulatory and operational trends at the local level, and produce solution-based analytical report and recommendations;
– Support productive interaction between citizens and local governments, and oversee the conduct of annual citizens satisfaction surveys;
– Together with field local governance officers, coordinate the work of selected service providers;
– Encourage and support knowledge sharing, exchange of experience and partnership building in the course of Project implementation;
– Review results and monitor performance of Project goals in the area of local governance, as per the Project M&E plan and logical framework;
– Support sharing and scaling-up successful approaches in the broader UNDP local governance team.
Steer the overall Project on-budget support to partner local governments and manage the Project’s infrastructure component:
– Lead the design, delivery and monitoring of result-oriented on-budget support to partner local governments;
– Ensure meaningful synergies between capital investments of the Project and such planned by other UNDP-implemented local level interventions;
– Oversee the design and implementation of Project-set performance criteria across all partner local governments, monitoring progress against set targets;
– Manage the annual performance assessment of local governments, serving as entry point for determining the on-budget support for infrastructure projects;
– Oversee the identification of critical economic and environmental infrastructure projects originating from local strategies to be supported through on-budget support provided by the Project;
– Prepare analytical reports capturing lessons learnt and development effects from the on-budget support across the Project area of responsibility;
– Prepare relevant ad-hoc and periodic thematic reports.
Pro-active support to partnerships, networking and advocacy in the Project implementation, as well as in the broader UNDP local governance/local development programme:
– Capture and ensure wide promotion and visibility of Project achievements, particularly with regard to local success stories;
– Encourage inter-municipal cooperation across the Project area;
– Ensure regular communication and coordination with Project counterparts and develop and maintain effective mechanisms for integrating and responding to their feedback and insights;
– Encourage active participation of all stakeholders in order to promote empowerment and ownership of local counterparts and stakeholders;
– Maintain regular interaction with local governance interventions implemented by the international community;
– Contribute to knowledge sharing among the wider local governance thematic team within UNDP.
Gender equality mainstreaming within the Project:
– Support gender equality mainstreaming in Project implementation;
– Ensure that relevant Project documents are written using gender sensitive language.
Vacancy End Date: 28/06/2016
Duty Station: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Education & Work Experience: G-Bachelor’s Level Degree – 5 year(s) experience, I-Master’s Level Degree – 3 year(s) experience
Grade: SB4
Vacancy Type: Service Contract (SC)
Contract Duration: 12 months
Candidates must be BIH nationality. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing an intricate set of development challenges, including economic decline, high unemployment, growing poverty and socio-economic inequalities. The complex administrative structure has led to political deadlocks, while slow legislative processes further hamper development. There is limited progress in finding political compromise on necessary reforms, including those required for integration to the European Union (EU). Many constraints persist on the economy, including poor infrastructure and a generally unattractive investment climate.
Placed within such a complex environment, local governments (LGs) have monotype competences, despite considerable differences in their size. LGs design integrated strategies, where social, economic, and environmental sectors are inter-connected to produce sustainable results. Nearly 30% of LGs have begun to apply an integrated municipal management approach. Yet, deficiencies in decision-making, internal management and organisation, policy and regulatory frameworks, as well as inadequate operational capacity hamper effective policy delivery.
Both finances and priority wise, water and environmental sanitation services are the most important LG services. More than 40 % of the country population of 3.8 million lacks access to safe water, with less than 40 % connected to the public sewerage system. Water losses frequently amount to more than 50 %, leading to overexploitation of water sources and high distribution costs. Water tariff levels are often too low to cover operation and maintenance, let alone enable capital investments. Further support to LGs and water utilities in cooperation with sectoral ministries at entity and cantonal levels is needed to increase service delivery management capacity and accountability through regulatory frameworks, ensuring functional and fiscal compliance across jurisdictions. Increasingly frequent floods and droughts adversely affect local service delivery, pointing to the lack of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and measures.
Because LGs are the intersection through which most business creation flows, their role is instrumental in creating a business-conducive environment and stimulating economic growth. Despite positive experiences, including pilot certification of “business-friendly” certification, LGs in Bosnia and Herzegovina still lack sound economic expertise and tools to engage in productive public-private dialogue and increase investment attractiveness of their localities through viable business infrastructure, support to employability and local entrepreneurship.
To address these challenges, the Municipal Environmental and Economic Governance (MEG) Project has been launched, supported by the Government of Switzerland and implemented by UNDP. The Project will support democratic local governance and improve quality of public services, focusing on the economic and environmental sectors. Together with its 18 partner local governments, private sector counterparts, relevant cantonal, entity and state level institutions, the Project will enhance municipal performance, applying sound public policy and management processes, spurring interaction among local decision-makers and citizens, and supporting capital investment to unlock sustainable economic growth and job creation. As for its geographic coverage, the MEG Project will work in the area of Una-Sana Canton and Prijedor, as well as in the wider Doboj-Tuzla region. To sustain changes introduced at the local level, the Project will encourage advancement of the regulatory framework as per EU standards, towards decentralized and improved service delivery, with focus on communal services and business environment. The expected overall duration of the Project is 12 years, while the first phase will last four years.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Local Governance Officer will have the following key functions:
Lead and steer the design, implementation and quality assurance of the Project assistance for partner local governments:
– Set and steer the overall strategy, approach and delivery of the governance activities within the Project, against global best practices and abreast with European Union standards and approaches;
– Guide the relevant Project team and provide quality technical advice in the affirming of a performance management system within partner local governments, as well as propose scaling-up mechanisms;
– Lead and monitor the design and affirmation of good governance benchmarks within partner local governments, as well as country-wide;
– In cooperation with the Project Economic Officer, design and steer the delivery of the comprehensive technical support aiming to improve business enabling environment, as well as regularly monitor and capture progress and achievements within partner local governments;
– Provide expert advice, guidance, support and oversight to local government officers throughout the process of introducing new tools and solutions aimed at improving economic governance, business services and environment, and quality of service delivery;
– Design and oversee the Project’s efforts to strengthen the legislative capacity of Municipal Councils and their interaction with the mayors/administrations;
– Help design tools that will aid local governments in the process of delivery of business incentives and employment-conducive measures;
– From the local governance and quality service delivery viewpoint, provide technical support and contribute to the improvement of relevant entity/cantonal/municipal regulatory framework;
– Identify, in coordination with local governance officers, regulatory and operational trends at the local level, and produce solution-based analytical report and recommendations;
– Support productive interaction between citizens and local governments, and oversee the conduct of annual citizens satisfaction surveys;
– Together with field local governance officers, coordinate the work of selected service providers;
– Encourage and support knowledge sharing, exchange of experience and partnership building in the course of Project implementation;
– Review results and monitor performance of Project goals in the area of local governance, as per the Project M&E plan and logical framework;
– Support sharing and scaling-up successful approaches in the broader UNDP local governance team.
Steer the overall Project on-budget support to partner local governments and manage the Project’s infrastructure component:
– Lead the design, delivery and monitoring of result-oriented on-budget support to partner local governments;
– Ensure meaningful synergies between capital investments of the Project and such planned by other UNDP-implemented local level interventions;
– Oversee the design and implementation of Project-set performance criteria across all partner local governments, monitoring progress against set targets;
– Manage the annual performance assessment of local governments, serving as entry point for determining the on-budget support for infrastructure projects;
– Oversee the identification of critical economic and environmental infrastructure projects originating from local strategies to be supported through on-budget support provided by the Project;
– Prepare analytical reports capturing lessons learnt and development effects from the on-budget support across the Project area of responsibility;
– Prepare relevant ad-hoc and periodic thematic reports.
Pro-active support to partnerships, networking and advocacy in the Project implementation, as well as in the broader UNDP local governance/local development programme:
– Capture and ensure wide promotion and visibility of Project achievements, particularly with regard to local success stories;
– Encourage inter-municipal cooperation across the Project area;
– Ensure regular communication and coordination with Project counterparts and develop and maintain effective mechanisms for integrating and responding to their feedback and insights;
– Encourage active participation of all stakeholders in order to promote empowerment and ownership of local counterparts and stakeholders;
– Maintain regular interaction with local governance interventions implemented by the international community;
– Contribute to knowledge sharing among the wider local governance thematic team within UNDP.
Gender equality mainstreaming within the Project:
– Support gender equality mainstreaming in Project implementation;
– Ensure that relevant Project documents are written using gender sensitive language.
Vrsta posla:
rad na određeno vrijeme
Regija:
O zaposleniku
Znanja i kvalifikacije:
Competencies
Functional Competencies:
Advocacy/Advancing a Policy-Oriented Agenda
Preparing information for advocacy
– Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UNDP’s mandate;
– Maintains a functioning network of contacts with a variety of stakeholders to promote a better understanding of UNDP’s mandate and to support advocacy efforts.
Building Strategic Partnerships
Maintaining a network of contacts
– Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues;
– Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders;
– Establishes and nurtures positive communication with partners.
Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Basic research and analysis
– Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
– Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches.
Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise
Fundamental knowledge of own discipline
Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position;
Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks;
Analyzes the requirements and synthesizes proposals;
Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning;
Demonstrates good knowledge of inform;ation technology and applies it in work assignments;
Conceptual Innovation in the Provision of Technical Expertise.
Research and analysis
Keeps updated in his/her area of substantive expertise;
Analyses ongoing trends, evolving needs and emerging issues to identify appropriate responses for capacity building.
Resource Mobilization
Providing inputs to resource mobilization strategies
Analyzes information/databases on potential and actual donors
Client Orientation
Establishing effective client relationships
Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion;
Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines;
Establishes, builds and sustains effective relationships within the work unit and with internal and external clients.
Core Competencies:
Promoting ethics and integrity, creating organizational precedents;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, disabilities, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Treats all people and partners fairly without favouritism;
Self-development, initiative-taking;
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude and strong ability to continuously self-motivate;
Plans, prioritizes, and delivers tasks on time;
Excellent diplomatic and interpersonal skills and ability to liaise effectively with government and stakeholders at the highest levels;
Sound judgment and problem solving skills;
Excellent conceptualisation and analytical skills, as well as proven ability to draft documents in clear and concise manner;
Excellent communication skills with excellent drafting and presentation skills;
Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation;
Building and promoting effective Project team;
Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication;
Managing conflict;
Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning;
Fair and transparent decision making.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
Advanced university degree in public administration, engineering, development studies, economics, political sciences, social sciences, or other related areas;
BA degree with additional two years of working experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
Experience:
At least three years of relevant working experience in the areas of local governance, local development, capacity development of local governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Knowledge and expertise in the area of economic governance and local business enabling environment;
Understanding of the overall political, administrative and institutional set-up of local government in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Understanding of development trends in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Familiarity with key public documents, strategies and trends related to capacity development of local governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English and in official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Disclaimer
Important applicant information
All posts in the SC categories are subject to local recruitment.
Applicant information about UNDP rosters
Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.
Workforce diversity
UNDP is committed to achieving diversity within its workforce, and encourages all qualified applicants, irrespective of gender, nationality, disabilities, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds to apply. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Scam warning
The United Nations does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee, please disregard it. Furthermore, please note that emblems, logos, names and addresses are easily copied and reproduced. Therefore, you are advised to apply particular care when submitting personal information on the web.
More information: https://jobs.partneragencies.net/erecruitjobs.html?JobOpeningId=4353
Functional Competencies:
Advocacy/Advancing a Policy-Oriented Agenda
Preparing information for advocacy
– Identifies and communicates relevant information for a variety of audiences for advocating UNDP’s mandate;
– Maintains a functioning network of contacts with a variety of stakeholders to promote a better understanding of UNDP’s mandate and to support advocacy efforts.
Building Strategic Partnerships
Maintaining a network of contacts
– Maintains an established network of contacts for general information sharing and to remain up-to-date on partnership related issues;
– Analyzes and selects materials for strengthening strategic alliances with partners and stakeholders;
– Establishes and nurtures positive communication with partners.
Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Basic research and analysis
– Generates new ideas and approaches, researches best practices and proposes new, more effective ways of doing things;
– Documents and analyses innovative strategies and new approaches.
Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise
Fundamental knowledge of own discipline
Understands and applies fundamental concepts and principles of a professional discipline or technical specialty relating to the position;
Possesses basic knowledge of organizational policies and procedures relating to the position and applies them consistently in work tasks;
Analyzes the requirements and synthesizes proposals;
Strives to keep job knowledge up-to-date through self-directed study and other means of learning;
Demonstrates good knowledge of inform;ation technology and applies it in work assignments;
Conceptual Innovation in the Provision of Technical Expertise.
Research and analysis
Keeps updated in his/her area of substantive expertise;
Analyses ongoing trends, evolving needs and emerging issues to identify appropriate responses for capacity building.
Resource Mobilization
Providing inputs to resource mobilization strategies
Analyzes information/databases on potential and actual donors
Client Orientation
Establishing effective client relationships
Researches potential solutions to internal and external client needs and reports back in a timely, succinct and appropriate fashion;
Organizes and prioritizes work schedule to meet client needs and deadlines;
Establishes, builds and sustains effective relationships within the work unit and with internal and external clients.
Core Competencies:
Promoting ethics and integrity, creating organizational precedents;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, disabilities, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Treats all people and partners fairly without favouritism;
Self-development, initiative-taking;
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude and strong ability to continuously self-motivate;
Plans, prioritizes, and delivers tasks on time;
Excellent diplomatic and interpersonal skills and ability to liaise effectively with government and stakeholders at the highest levels;
Sound judgment and problem solving skills;
Excellent conceptualisation and analytical skills, as well as proven ability to draft documents in clear and concise manner;
Excellent communication skills with excellent drafting and presentation skills;
Building staff competence, creating an environment of creativity and innovation;
Building and promoting effective Project team;
Creating and promoting enabling environment for open communication;
Managing conflict;
Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning;
Fair and transparent decision making.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
Advanced university degree in public administration, engineering, development studies, economics, political sciences, social sciences, or other related areas;
BA degree with additional two years of working experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
Experience:
At least three years of relevant working experience in the areas of local governance, local development, capacity development of local governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Knowledge and expertise in the area of economic governance and local business enabling environment;
Understanding of the overall political, administrative and institutional set-up of local government in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Understanding of development trends in Bosnia and Herzegovina;
Familiarity with key public documents, strategies and trends related to capacity development of local governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Language Requirements:
Fluency in English and in official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Disclaimer
Important applicant information
All posts in the SC categories are subject to local recruitment.
Applicant information about UNDP rosters
Note: UNDP reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and educational requirements.
Workforce diversity
UNDP is committed to achieving diversity within its workforce, and encourages all qualified applicants, irrespective of gender, nationality, disabilities, sexual orientation, culture, religious and ethnic backgrounds to apply. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.
Scam warning
The United Nations does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee, please disregard it. Furthermore, please note that emblems, logos, names and addresses are easily copied and reproduced. Therefore, you are advised to apply particular care when submitting personal information on the web.
More information: https://jobs.partneragencies.net/erecruitjobs.html?JobOpeningId=4353
Minimalna stručna sprema:
Fakultet
Strani jezik:
engleski
Poznavanje rada na računaru:
dobro
Potrebno radno iskustvo:
pet godina
