National Individual Consultant
Field Project Coordinator - Turkana
Background
The drought described as one of the worst in 60 years affected
three quarters of the country especially in the North Eastern, Rift Valley,
Eastern and Coast provinces.
3.75 million people mainly the pastoralists, farmers in marginal
agricultural areas as well as the urban poor were affected.
The drought caused crop failure, depleted pasture, water and led
to loss of livestock contributing to a sharp deterioration of household food
security.
UNDP together with GOK have developed a project as a medium term
measure to support recovery as well as build resilience of communities
especially youth and women’s groups affected by the drought and to strengthen
institutions responsible for recovery and disaster risk reduction work.
The intervention will address short term livelihoods economic
recovery needs of youth and women while establishing in the process the
capacities and building blocks of sustainable local long-term development.
Objective
The main objective of the assignment is to assist the implementing
agency (NDMA) to coordinate implementation of interventions to support recovery
as well as build resilience of communities especially youth and women’s
groups.
Working in close collaboration and reporting to the National
Programme Officer (NPO), the consultant will coordinate and ensure high quality
of project activities in Turkana.
Application Procedure
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their
application which should include the following:
1. Detailed Curriculum Vitae
2. UNDP Personal History Form (P11) (template provided)
3. Proposal for implementing the assignment (template provided)
Please quote “Field Project Coordinator - Turkana” on the
subject line.
Applications should be emailed to consultants.ken@undp.org to
reach us not later than Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 12.00 Noon, Kenya Time.
Please see the Terms of Reference, the P11 form, the Individual
Contract Proposal form and the Terms and Conditions of Individual Contracts by
visiting the UNDP Kenya Website: