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UNV Assignment:
Coordinator Income Generation and Community Mobilization Programme UN VOLUNTEER DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT
Preamble:
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme is the UN organization that promotes volunteerism to support peace and development worldwide. Volunteerism can transform the pace and nature of development and it benefits both society at large and the individual volunteer. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for volunteerism globally, encouraging partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing volunteers.
In most cultures volunteerism is deeply embedded in long-established, ancient traditions of sharing and support within the communities. In this context, UN Volunteers take part in various forms of volunteerism and play a role in development and peace together with co-workers, host agencies and local communities.
In all assignments, UN Volunteers promote volunteerism through their action and conduct. Engaging in volunteer activity can effectively and positively enrich their understanding of local and social realities, as well as create a bridge between themselves and the people in their host community. This will make the time they spend as UN Volunteers even more rewarding and productive.
1. UNV Assignment Title: Coordinator Income Generation and Community Mobilization Programme
2. Type of Assignment: International UN Volunteer
3. Project Title: Human security initiative for “tensions” reduction, reconciliation and rehabilitation in the Solomon Islands
4. Duration: 12 months with possible extension
5. Location, Country: Honiara, Solomon Islands
6. Expected Starting Date: February 2013
7. Brief Project Description:
The Human security initiative for “tensions” reduction, reconciliation and rehabilitation in the Solomon Islands project (referred to henceforth in this document as the “Project”) is jointly formulated by the most active UN agencies within the country, with comparative advantages over their specialized mandates. Under this project, the participating agencies aim to translate into action two essential principles of the human security approach: “Freedom from Fear” and “Freedom from Want” with two context-specific priorities: (I) “tensions” prevention; and (II) community “rehabilitation” for the returned ex-combatants and their host communities. The ILO component of the Project will focus on addressing issues related to Freedom from Want. The ILO will seek to address the following Objectives, outlined in the project document:
Objective II-1:
To empower the economic security and promote sustainable livelihoods for the target communities and returned ex-combatants, through income-generation measures (ILO)
Objective II-2:
To improve the understanding of both communities and ex-combatants of the relevance of human rights and gender equality in order to strengthened forms of social security and decent work (ILO).
8. Host Agency/Host Institute:
Ministry of National Reconciliation, Unity and Peace (MNRUP), Honiara, Solomon Islands
9. Organizational Context:
The Solomon Islands is a country in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands, with a population of 523,000. The country has more than 70 language groups signifying its cultural diversity. While the Solomon Islands has long suffered from poverty, its acceleration of economic development has been doubly hampered by the outbreak of violent conflicts.
The conflict in the Solomon Islands, locally referred to as ‘the tensions’, began in 1998 when a group of militant youths from the island of Guadalcanal attacked settlements of islanders predominantly from Malaita in northwest Guadalcanal, an area bordering the capital city Honiara. The “tensions” resulted in hundreds of deaths as well as the displacement more than 30,000 people from and within the province of Guadalcanal. It also caused the massive destruction of infrastructure and key industries, the breakdown of the law and order system, and the virtual failure of democratic government.
In the years since the Townsville Peace Agreement and the arrival of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), some sort of ‘peace’ has been restored in most areas of daily life. The RAMSI has assisted the SIG with the maintenance of law and order, the building of institutional capacity and the stabilization of government finances. In the Solomon Islands, RAMSI is assisting to develop the capacity and confidence of the community and institutions to work independently, effectively and self-sufficiently so they strengthened to govern their nation in a safe, transparent and accountable manner. They also contribute towards building greater knowledge and skills of the local counterparts. As a result, Solomon Islands people are prepared to reconcile over ethnic tensions in which thousands were displaced and an unknown number killed. There is still a need for community cohesion strengthening activities, which this part of the programme aims to strengthen. However, the structural drivers for conflict—poverty and relative deprivation; outstanding grievances, often playing out along ethnic lines; concentration of disaffected youth/ex-combatants in large numbers in the capital Honiara and Guadalcanal and Malaita provinces; climate of distrust and division between communities; elite/political capture and manipulation of resources; and political exclusion, disempowerment and brinkmanship— all remain. This combination of factors constitutes severe and ever-present threats to human security in the Solomon Islands.
10. Type of Assignment Place: Assignment with family
11. Description of tasks:
Under the overall responsibility of the UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in the Solomon Islands and the direct supervision of the UNDP Assistant Resident Representative Programme, in close coordination with the ILO Office for South Pacific Island Countries in Suva, the MNRUP in Honiara, and in consultation with the ILO Specialists Decent Work Team in Bangkok, the UN Volunteer performs a variety of activities such as delivering of trainings, information collection, the provision of technical and administrative input and coordination related to the implementation of the ILO component of the Project in order to ensure proper implementation and information flow. The incumbent will be placed in the UNDP CO Honiara, Solomon Islands.
More specifically, the responsibilities of the incumbent are - in close collaboration with technical backstopping in Bangkok - to carry out to:
Assist in the finalization, implementation and updating of the work plan for the ILO component of the project and harmonization of the project;
Organize and provide training on prevocational skills; basic business skills and business group forms; and on financial education for the target groups.
Administer the ILO component of the Project in coordination with UNDP and the ILO Suva office; facilitates and coordinates the implementing of the project, monitors the status of deliverables, initiates and maintains sound periodic correspondence with the ILO in Suva, administer the administrative, operational, control and reporting tasks of the ILO stakeholders in the field.
Ensure proper documentation on progress of ILO related activities of the Project, supports its wide-scale dissemination of tools of learning and supports the development of electronic communication linkages between all parties involved;
Develop and submit to Honiara and Suva quarterly evaluations and work plans for ILO activities component;
Identify training needs, develops and organizes trainings for target beneficiaries including institutions, project staff, government agencies, and local authorities. Acts as a trainer when needed;
Assist the ILO and country-level UNDP management in seeking the support for Project activities from the UN community, the national and local governments, non-governmental and community-based organizations and the private sector;
Identifies and disseminates existing good practices addressing the economic empowerment in post conflict areas;
Liaise with national and international civil society organizations/ volunteer-based organizations of all kinds in the region in order to build and/or strengthen the outcomes of the ILO component;
Support the country/regional media coverage of events and stories related to the ILO component of the Project; prepares PR materials and post information on the ILO component, follows up on the actions to be taken;
Performs any other duty as may be requested by his/ her supervisors.
Furthermore, UN Volunteers are encouraged to:
Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark IVD);
Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country;
Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in on-going activities;
Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.;
Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers;
Promote and advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, and encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.
12. Results/Expected Output:
A fully operational ILO component of the Human security initiative for “tensions” reduction, reconciliation and rehabilitation in the Solomon Islands;
Submission of quarterly financial and narrative evaluations and updated work plans for ILO activities component;
Training needs assessments at different community in targeted area;
Collection and analyses of good practices addressing the economic empowerment in post conflict areas;
Trainings delivered to appropriate target communities;
Initiation and maintenance of effective working relations with stakeholders and beneficiaries;
A final report containing major achievements, progress made and challenges faced during the assignment, plus recommendations for further assistance in the field of sustainable enterprise development and green jobs;
A final documentation and presentation of achievements towards volunteerism for development within the Solomon Islands;
A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for development during the assignment.
13. Qualifications/Requirements:
Education:
A university degree in economics, business management, development economics, sociology, anthropology, or its equivalent in training and experience.
Experience:
Three years’ experience at the national level and/or two years at the international level. The incumbent should have experience in providing training in vocational business skills at community level, and the provision of guidance to trainees to develop their skills in the field. It is highly desirable that the incumbent has working experience in post conflict, peace reconciliation and/ or tribal settings, preferable in the Pacific region.
Skills:
Practical ability and experience - preferably international - to promote business skills and economic development in a post conflict environment; ability to draft technical reports and meet deadlines; capacity to work in a team and cope with stress; excellent computer skills; experience in and displayed conflict prevention and recovery activities will be a distinctive advantage; experience within the UN system will be a distinctive surplus; working experience in the Pacific preferred.
Languages:
English is the administrative language in Solomon Islands and fluency in written and oral English is a requirement.
Competencies:
Self-starter, being able to work with minimal supervision, determent group player nurturing team spirits. The ability to participate effectively in technical missions and multi-disciplinary teams; capacity to provide independent technical advice regarding starting and maintaining small economic activities with a conflict prevention component; ability to prepare strategic monitoring KRA reports and high quality publications , provide credible implementation assistance to senior management and specialists in carrying out research, programme and project formulation and implementation.
14. Living Conditions:
Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands, is with a population of approximately 60,000, is a multi ethnic and multicultural place of mostly Melanesians, with minorities of Polynesians, Chinese and several other minorities. Melanesians predominate in the Solomon Islands.
About 80% of the population live in the rural areas and are engaged in subsistence farming and fishing. The rate of urbanization is very high with high unemployment. There is opportunistic burglary but no grave crime. Serious crimes are often related to family, land or tribal disputes. Nevertheless, UN Volunteers are required to take precaution and security measures. Because of the geographical location of the islands and the weather patterns, transportation is often unreliable and only some islands are accessible by plane, while the rest of the rural areas are accessible only by either boat or by walking, making transportation very time consuming and expensive.
The quality of medical service and health facilities is low and often lacks most of the basic necessities in terms of equipment, мята and medical supplies. There are two UN Doctors in Honiara who can offer basic medical services, and medical facilities are very limited. Modest accommodation is available in Honiara but the number of houses for expatriates is limited and rentals are presently costly. Food, fuel, electricity, internet and water prices are also quite high. There are beautiful beaches and waterfalls for recreation purposes.
The Solomon Islands climate is hot and humid, moderated by ocean breezes most days. The hotter and wetter season is from November to April, but rain can fall any time throughout the year. Daytime temperatures average around 30 ° C (87°F) and the nights around 240C. Tropical cyclones form in the nearby seas during the wet season but rarely affect Honiara directly.
The majority of the expatriates working in Solomon Islands are Honiara-based. English is widely understood, but the common lingua-franca is Solomon Pijin English. There are currently a couple of UN Volunteers based in the Solomon Islands.
15. Conditions of Service
A 12 month contract; monthly volunteer living allowance (VLA) intended to cover basic needs and utilities equivalent to USD 2575 for single person, USD 2825 for person with one dependent, and USD 3025 for person with two or more recognized dependents will be provided. In addition the successful UN Volunteer will also receive a settling in grant; health, and permanent disability insurance; return airfares; resettlement allowance of USD 150 per month of satisfactory service. All UN Volunteers are required to follow the Revised UNV Conditions of Service which came into effect in September 2008.
Deadline for applications: 22 January, 2013. To apply to this post, kindly register yourself in our UNV Roster at
https://ereta.unv.org/html/index.php?mo ... nmyprofile, and send your resume and application letter to:
lioba.vandam@undp.org, CCing
alesi.ali@undp.org.
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