Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950711180157.22736B-100000@suna.unv.ch> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 18:04:01 +0200 From: mailto:ratsa@UNV.CH> Subject: Vacancy Announcement - UNV To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
UNITED NATIONS VOLUNTEERS
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VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
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Title: UNV Specialist on NGO Management and
Organizational Development (Team Leader)
Duty Station: Bishkek, KYRGHYZSTAN
Duration: Two Years
Assignment commencement date: As soon as possible
Reporting to:
In country the UNDP Resident Representative will be responsible
for the UNV. The International NGO Training and Research Center
(INTRAC) will provide professional support advice and guidance
to the NGO capacity building component of the programme.
Personal requirements:
The UNV Specialist must have at least five years experience of
NGO management and organisational development. She/he should
have some experience of managing within an NGO context as well
as awareness of wider issues in NGO management and organisational
development. She/he should be aware of different approaches, the
international literature, experience in organisational analysis
and strategic planning within a developmental context. Ideally
she/he should have some experience in training as well as
experience of organizational and management of NGOs in different
cultural and national contexts.
Languages: English, working knowledge of Russian useful.
Objectives of the Assignment:
The UNV Specialist will assist in the organisational development
of local NGOs in Kyrghyzstan through a process of organisational
capacity building based on management and organisational training
and other support with a view to enhancing their capacity to
support community-based sustainable poverty reduction programmes.
Specific tasks:
The UNV Specialist will be expected to assist in the longer term
development of the local NGOs through training, management
consultancy, organisational development and other support. The
aim will be to improve the capacity of the local NGOs to manage
development programmes and to do this they will require
assistance in reviewing their longer term strategies, their
structure, human and financial resources.
Initial work tasks:
(i) to get to know the NGO scene in the country building on the
original mapping exercise;
(ii) to identify within the first 3 to 6 months an NGO which
could act as host to the project;
(iii) to start planning a basic in-service training
programme in NGO management, adapted to the country;
(iv) to start collecting a small resource of materials and
identify those deserving of translation;
(v) to set up a data base containing relevant training
materials and identify those deserving of translation;
(vi) to consider the management needs of local NGOs and identify
agencies requiring and open to a process of organisational
development on the basis of organisational development
through staff discussions, reviews of its objectives,
structure, function, strategy, and activities, etc.
(vii) to assist the second UNV Specialist identify areas for
the pilot community action programmes and ways of
disseminating the experiences.
Professional context:
The development of NGOs in Kyrghyzstan is relatively recent, many
of the agencies have their origins in the previous Soviet State
system, whilst others are totally new. However they both share
relative inexperience in working in a non-governmental mode. The
poverty of the country places a great burden on local agencies
as the needs are great and likely in the short term to increase
as the country passes from being a subsidised member of the
former Soviet Union to a small, independent country, unable to
maintain the previous standard of living.
Professionally this poses a major challenge for the programme and
the UNV Specialists. Because of the unusual nature of the
assignment INTRAC (The International NGO Training and Research
Center), based in the UK will provide additional professional
support to the UNV by advising on the development of the
programmes, regularly visiting the country, assisting with the
training and supplying materials.
There will also be a fund for exchange visits as well as bringing
UNVs on short term assignments to assist with specific tasks.
For further information, please contact Mr. Jens Behrendt,
Associate Programme Officer, United Nations Volunteers, Palais
des Nations, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, Tel. No. (022)
788.24.55, Fax No. (022) 788.25.01, Email mailto:behrendt@unv.ch
If interested, please send your CV to Mr. Behrendt.