Mission and objectives

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations’ global development network. UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience to sustain development results.

Context

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Nature Climate Energy and Resilience (NCER)Unit is one of the flagship programmes of UNDP Uganda. The programme aims to ensure that Uganda achieves health ecosystems, productive landscapes, increased access to affordable clean energy, and resilience to climate change and disaster risk that spur economic growth, transformed livelihoods and resilient development. The main outcome of the programme is that by 2025, Uganda’s natural resources and environment are sustainably managed, protected, and the people, especially the vulnerable and marginalized, have the capacity to mitigate and adapt to climate change and disaster risk. UNDP’s engagement aims to be people and community focused by working to overcome the widespread land and ecosystem degradation, widespread vulnerability to climate and disaster risk, in order transform on the lives and livelihoods of the poor. The programme aims to achieve the following outputs; i) Improve the health and resilience of ecosystems to deliver quality ecosystems and services, build resilience to climate and disaster risk, and mitigate GHG emissions. ii) Improve the productivity of landscapes for increased agricultural production, livelihood diversification/improvement and most especially for most vulnerable people, groups and communities (e.g., agricultural productivity, improved value chains, aquaculture, eco-tourism etc). iii) Increase equitable access to affordable clean and renewable energy in underserved rural and urban communities (e.g., off-grid solar, biogas, wind, LPG etc) to reduce dependence on wood fuel and charcoal that cause deforestation, and. iv) Reduce human and economic losses to disaster and enable people and communities to cope and recover from disasters.

Task Description

Under the direct supervision of the Team Leader, Nature, Climate, Energy and Resilience, the UN Volunteer will support programme activities and perform tasks below; • Support the country office in reviewing Engineering designs and supervising Engineering related projects. • Support the Team Leader in the coordination of the Result Group 3 meetings on environment and natural resources which is chaired by UNDP, prepare minutes, follow up with other UN agencies for their input to UN INFO and follow up on joint planning and reporting processes. • Support the reporting processes at Country office level under the NCER portfolio including the Result Oriented Annual Reporting (ROAR), annual and quarterly reports. • Support project steering committee engagements with partners and support preparation and prepare reports with key outcomes of these meetings. • Assist in programme related activities, where required. These may include planning for meetings, local and national consultations, trips, and other programme related activities. • Maintain records of meetings, decisions, actions among others • Support technical analysis work that may be required to generate project reports to partners at both national and international levels. • Support preparation of workshop reports for all technical workshops • Support preparation of and develop briefing notes, case studies, press releases, talking points, web articles and other media products as required. • Assist with research and write and edit sections of technical reports as required. • Conduct any other task that may be assigned. • Support organization of all relevant programme workshops in a consultative manner, involving a wide variety of stakeholders, including the government, private sector, NGOs, donors, and academia.

Competencies and values

Functional competencies • Ability and demonstrable experience in reviewing Engineering designs and supervision of water and sanitation infrastructure works. • Ability to coordinate, convene stakeholders and report in a timely manner. • Excellent organizational skill, service-mind, punctual, self-motivated, proactive, reliable, and demonstrated ability to work in harmony with government, private sector, and staff members of different national backgrounds. • Respect for the principles of the United Nations. • Excellent report writing skills; and Strong communication skills including and presentation skills. • Proven capability to meet deadlines and work under pressure. • Good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems. Compliance with UN Core Values: i. Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards. ii. Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP. iii. Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability. iv. Treats all people fairly without favoritism. v. Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Living conditions and remarks

Kampala is the capital city of Uganda with accessibility to all social amenities.