Required Consultant To Technical Coordination - UNDP in Kuwait

This initiative aims at building the capacity of religious leaders to participate in a positive national dialogue on developmental challenges such as gender equality, good governance, environmental sustainability (including energy and water), health issues, education, human rights, justice, peace and empowering the youth and the marginalized.
Religious leaders in Kuwait have considerable opportunities to communicate with the public through their places of worship, faith-based organizations, charities and media outlets. These channels of communication are highly influential and appeal to both the grassroots and national leaders. UNDP will draw on its access to international best practice and methodological tools with the aim of maximising the potential for transformational change offered by these religious communication opportunities. This initiative will mobilise existing national, regional and global networks and partnerships between religious leaders to increase public support for the promotion of human rights, gender, and environmental sustainability and strengthen public and policy makers’ commitment to achieve these goals.
Objectives:

1. To provide a platform for religious leaders to explore developmental and human rights challenges in Kuwait and develop a more comprehensive understanding of the need to address these.
2. To increase awareness of the inherent harmony between the core principles of religion and the human rights based approach to development.
3. To identify a core group of religious leaders committed to promoting inclusive development principles and build their capacity to serve as community educators among their peers and the public.
4. To produce materials including a training manual, documentary film and educational toolkits on the issues to be covered in the training sessions.

Duties / Responsibilities

• Collaborate with The UNDP Kuwait Senior Policy and Programme Advisor and other consultants in overall design and management, monitoring and reporting for the project activity implementation
• Performing all secretarial duties necessary for functioning of UNDP Kuwait country office at the administrative level including:  typing of correspondence in both Arabic and English, screening telephone calls, administering faxes, maintaining appointment etc.
• Creating systems to organize UNDP Kuwait office at the administrative level for use by the UNDP CO team including: file system, indexes for all vendors, directories, etc.
• Help in co-ordinating travel logistics for UNDP CO staff and workshop participants including visa and security clearances, TAs and DSAs
• Providing administrative and logistical support for all project workshops and conferences including: hotel logistics and negotiations including negotiating rates with vendors,  booking meeting rooms, participant rooms, A/V equipment and coffee/meal breaks, travel logistics, participant logistics, agenda drafts, collection and collation of documents to distribute to all participants, ordering of stationary, handling of budget for workshops, drafting of standard documents including invitations and background notes, providing all necessary, timely follow-up, attending all workshop meetings, drafting meeting minutes and necessary pre-and post workshop.
• Liaise with other partners and departments on all administrative matters for project programming
• Collaborate and liaise with team members and local and international consultants for smooth activity delivery, including programmatic implementation and logistics
• Provide technical assistance to key partners on financial, operational, and further resource mobilization
• Collaborate with consultants on Knowledge Management in data collection, compiling, review, editing, and translation as requested
• Maintain overall complete and accurate files on all project activity delivery, to support project documentation
• Perform other tasks as requested by the UNDP Kuwait Senior Policy and Programme Advisor in a results-based approach to activities implementation.

Expected Outputs:

• Quarterly, mid-year, and annual reports of the project implementation prepared and submitted on time
• Complete and accurate files on all project activity delivery, to support project documentation
• Demonstrated smooth coordination between UNDP Officers, implementation team, key multi-sector stakeholders and partners on the ground.

Competencies
Good organizational skills
Attention to detail and sense of urgency
Able to work independently and with initiative and sound judgment
Demonstrates integrity and proper client approach
Good teamwork and interpersonal skills
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, age sensitivity
Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks and work under pressure

Required Skills / Experience
    Undergraduate Bachelor or equivalent, preferably in a field related to development
    At least 2 years work experience in a related field
    Knowledge of UNDP system and of similar initiatives is an asset
    English and Arabic, spoken and written
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