Somali Regional Coordinator

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Office/Unit/Project Description

Based on UNDP’s new Country Program Document (CPD 2020-2025) and steering obtained from the  Ministry of Finance, UNDP has launched into offering focused and direct interventions within the three areas of Amhara, Oromia and Somali, chosen primarily based on socio-economic profiles, dimension and geographical variety, ranges of vulnerability, amongst different issues. The chosen areas additionally current advanced humanitarian, growth and peacebuilding wants in addition to pressing institutional capability gaps requiring a complete UNDP portfolio large method at regional stage and additional focusing on of pilot areas throughout the Regions for an area-based programming method that may maximize affect and sustainability. UNDP’s engagement at regional stage additional goals to strengthen the capacities of regional state governments to plan and ship high quality providers in a clear and accountable method. UNDP’s help is essential within the implementation of the National Development Plans and in advancing Ethiopia’s efforts to appreciate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Agenda 2063.

The function of UNDP’s total engagement in the Somali area is due to this fact, to boost collaboration and partnership with Regional Governments to contribute to the structural adjustments required to make sure that social providers, livelihoods, jobs, and the rule of legislation & democratic governance practices are sustained in a extra accountable, inclusive and responsive manner with out leaving anybody behind. UNDP  is dedicated to offering direct help to the Somali area with the aim of enhancing the area’s capability to plan, implement, and monitor growth programmes in the direction of attaining SDGs. The help areas will embody a broad spectrum of growth interventions together with governance capability constructing, entry to justice and rule of legislation, battle prevention and peacebuilding, jobs creation and livelihood enhancements, resilience constructing and girls empowerment.

The Initiative will concentrate on: (i) enhancing the governance capability together with selling justice, rule of legislation & human rights, peace and safety, enhancing public service supply, and strengthening native income era capability; (ii) enhancing the capability of regional bureaus on gender mainstreaming and accountability, (iii) selling the livelihood of individuals affected by drought focusing on ladies and youth in addition to internally displaced individuals (IDPs), (iv) strengthening capacities of regional establishments round local weather change mitigation and adaptation and resilience constructing; and (v) present help to regional establishments to formulate a Multi-Year Resilience Building Strategy. In the medium to long run (2-3 years), help will be focused in the direction of selling social cohesion and peacebuilding and different livelihood enchancment initiatives by diversified revenue producing actions and by selling environmental sustainability, thus bringing the Region to a developmental trajectory. Given the useful resource limitations particularly within the rapid time period, the initiative is restricted in scope, focusing primarily on constructing the capability of regional establishments/sector bureaus, and focusing on probably the most susceptible segments of the inhabitants equivalent to ladies, older individuals, individuals with disabilities, youth, and internally displaced individuals.

Scope of Work, Expected Roles, and Responsibilities of the Incumbent: 

Based within the workplace of the President of Somali Region, the general goal of the function is to offer strategic foresight and high-quality Policy and Technical Support to all actors engaged within the area. S/he additionally works in the direction of strengthening the capacities of the regional and native authorities to plan and implement resilience, governance capability constructing, and financial restoration interventions in the area. 

Regional coverage and technique help on resilience constructing:

• Maintain up-to-date understanding of the regional coverage, authorized, regulatory, institutional, financing, and operational points relating to regional resilience constructing; 
• Provide specialist recommendation on a well timed foundation to the president, key sectoral authorities bureaus, the UN companies, and different companions on Resilience constructing, local weather change adaptation, catastrophe threat administration, peacebuilding, and associated areas; 
• Provide technical recommendation and thought management to Regional Stakeholders on resilience constructing; 
• Design and help methods on constructing capability of regional authorities for efficient implementation of the SDGs;
• Forge and help implementation of regional methods on HDP nexus agenda;
• Lead regional methods and actions on inclusion, gender, and empowerment of susceptible individuals. 

High high quality technical and programmatic help:

• Work intently with the Somali Regional State Bureau of Finance to coordinate efforts of all stakeholders in resilience constructing;
• Support the Office of the president in rollout of the Somali Multi-Years Resilience Strategy and implementation of its funding Plan; 
• Provide high quality technical recommendation to related regional bureaus on strategic engagement in regional growth course of;
• Advise the workplace of the president on prevailing and potential dangers to resilience constructing and supply professional recommendation for accommodating and lowering dangers to regional growth;
• Ensure efficient monitoring, analysis, reporting, and classes studying from all related regional engagements of SDGs and resilience companions.

Partnership Building and Resources Mobilization:

• Identify strategic regional growth companions and help the design of programmes and mission in help of the MYRS; 
• Establish and maintain an lively community of actors at regional stage in order to encourage a harmonized method and contribution of all stakeholders in the direction of realization of the MYRS;
• Facilitate and strengthen essential regional for a and constructions on resilience constructing, HDP Nexus, and implementation of longer- and shorter-term growth plans of the area.

Evidence-based regional growth Support:

• Facilitating info sharing and joint planning/programming inside growth and humanitarian companions; 
• Support era of examined information practices on growth within the area and work and advocate for upscaling;
• Review the engagement of varied stakeholders in resilience constructing and supply the required suggestions.

Strategic visioning and thought management:

• Provide strategic foresight and evaluation for efficient regional programming according to the socio-economic dynamics within the area;
• Liaise with all related actors in Somali area on resilience programming and work in the direction of accommodating rising priorities;
• Provide imaginative and prescient and recommendation on the implementation of systemic methods of the MYRS and different engagements within the area.

The incumbent performs different duties inside their useful profile as deemed mandatory for the environment friendly functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Institutional Arrangement and Reporting Lines:

The Regional Programme Coordinator will work beneath the general steering and the direct supervision of Chief of Somali Region Cabinet and Head of the Regional President Office. S/he may even report back to the Team Leader, Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability, UNDP Country Office whereas cross working with UNDP nation workplace groups engaged on Governance, Inclusive Economic Transformation, coverage, and partnership administration in addition to with the UNDP Somali regional Programmes Coordinator, primarily based in Jigjiga.

Competencies

Core Competencies

Achieve Results: LEVEL 3: Set and align difficult, achievable aims for a number of initiatives, have lasting affect ;

Think Innovatively: LEVEL 3: Proactively mitigate potential dangers, develop new concepts to unravel advanced issues;

Learn Continuously: LEVEL 3: Create and act on alternatives to increase horizons, diversify experiences;

Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 3: Proactively provoke and champion change, handle a number of competing calls for;

Act with Determination: LEVEL 3: Think past rapid process/limitations and take motion to realize higher outcomes;

Engage and Partner: LEVEL 3: Political savvy, navigate advanced panorama, champion inter-agency collaboration;

Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 3: Appreciate advantages of various workforce and champion inclusivity.

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies: 

Business Direction and Strategy

• Strategic Thinking
  • Ability to develop efficient methods and prioritized plans according to regional priorities, and likewise primarily based on the systemic evaluation of challenges, potential dangers and alternatives; linking the imaginative and prescient to actuality on the bottom, and creating tangible options;
  • Ability to leverage studying from a wide range of sources to anticipate and reply to future developments; to display foresight with a purpose to mannequin what future developments and potential methods ahead seem like for the area.
• System Thinking
  • Ability to make use of goal drawback evaluation and judgement to grasp how interrelated parts coexist inside an total course of or system, and to contemplate how altering one factor can affect on different components of the system.

Business Management

• Portfolio Management
  • Ability to pick, prioritize and management the group’s programmes and initiatives, according to its strategic aims and capability; capability to stability the implementation of change initiatives and the upkeep of business-as-usual, whereas optimizing return on funding.
• Result-based Management
  • Ability to handle programmes and initiatives with a spotlight at improved efficiency and demonstrable outcomes.
• Communication
  • Ability to speak in a transparent, concise and unambiguous method each by written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and select communication strategies relying on the viewers;
  • Ability to handle communications internally and externally, by media, social media and different acceptable channels.

Business Development

• UNDP Representation
  • Ability to signify UNDP and productively share UNDP information and actions; advocate for UNDP, its values, mission and work with numerous constituencies.

Digital and Innovation

• Team Design and Management
  • Ability to create a transparent sense of shared function whereas leveraging curiosity, experience and company at a person stage.
  • Set up and handle workforce rituals and rhythms that create a secure area for studying and reflection. Foster a constructive tradition round failure, encourage exploration, experimentation. 
  • Set the situations and constructions for ‘fluid’ workforce modelling and distributed management enabling the workforce to repeatedly develop and renew itself.
  • Ability to create synergy between workforce members with various skilled and cultural backgrounds, having the ability to leverage their broad information and skillsets.

Minimum Qualifications

Education Requirements:

• Advanced college diploma (grasp’s diploma or equal) in Political Science, Public Administration, Governance, Development Studies, Economics, Natural Resources Management, or different Social Sciences or associated fields of research is required. Or 
• A first-level college diploma within the above fields together with two extra years of qualifying expertise might be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma.

Minimum years of related work expertise:

• Minimum 7 years (with grasp’s diploma) or 9 years (with bachelor’s diploma) progressive strategic stage expertise in growth and humanitarian programming and programme administration.

Required abilities:

• Experience in use of workplace software program packages (MS Word, Excel, and many others),  

Desired abilities along with the competencies lined within the competencies part:

• At least seven years of progressively accountable skilled growth expertise in associated areas in Ethiopia;
• Experience in designing and delivering Resilience constructing, put up crisis-recovery, and/or growth programmes/initiatives;
• Experience working in related or associated function could be a bonus;
• Proven strong information of Somali Region; 
• Advanced information of spreadsheet and database packages will be thought of as an asset;
• Excellent inter-personal abilities/expertise. 

Required Language(s) (at working stage):

• Fluency in spoken and written English and Somali (as nationwide language) is a requirement;
• Fluency in Amharic is benefit.