Cameroon is a lower-middle income country situated in Central Africa, with a population of approximately 26.3 million people. The country is host to many different cultures, ethnicities and languages. The political and social development is rising concerns. Facing three major crises, one in the Far North, the CAR refugee crisis in the east and most recently in the anglophone Southwest and Northwest regions, stability in Cameroon is seriously challenged. This has been exuberated by the protracted instability in neighboring countries, such as crises in Central African Republic and Nigeria. According to Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) 2018, Cameroon hosts 91,000 Nigerian refugees and 236,000 IDPs and 59,000 returnees in the Far North region mainly due to the crisis.
The crisis in the Southwest and Northwest regions started in 2016 with barristers and teachers strike claiming common law system implementation and improvement of work conditions. From these social claims, the context shifted to political rights claims witch revamps previous and consistent claims of territorial autonomy and separation. The humanitarian situation in the two regions keeps worsening with more than 550 000 IDP to date and increasing number of causalities on the military side, non-state actors and civilian end as well. Many schools have been burnt[1] down leading schools in most of the regions to close and the whole education system has collapsed. Along the crisis, violence has seriously increased with the kidnapping of civilians, destruction of public infrastructures, attacks against security forces and exactions against civilians. Massive human rights violations and violations of IHL have been recorded and population is living under permanent threat from non-state actors and Cameroonian security forces. The crisis that affected the North West and South West regions has damaged public infrastructures, broken social cohesion and slowed down economic development.
With the aim to resolve the crisis, the President of the Republic called for a Major National Dialogue, that brought together more than 600 participants from all 10 regions of the country. Third quarter of participants to the Dialogue came from the NWSW regions. The Head of State instructed the Prime Minister, Head of the Government to preside over the Major National Dialogue. Among other recommendations, the Major National Dialogue recommended the reconstruction of North-West and South-West regions.
The Government of Cameroon and UNDP collaborated to the formulation of the Presidential Plan for Reconstruction and Development (PPRD) of the North-West and South-West regions. The PPRD is a component of the National Development Plan 2020-2030 (post DSCE), aiming at reducing the effects of the socio-political and security crisis for the affected communities in the NW/SW regions. The PPRD feeds into the government efforts to resolve the current crisis. This initiative is complementary to other key reforms such as the establishment of a Special Status for the NW/SW regions.
Confronted with complex development challenges, the Government intends to emphasize on governance, economic recovery and crisis prevention in order to consolidate the peace process. Through the PPRD, the government aims at reinforcing the resilience and development of the populations in the affected regions of North West and South West. The Government envisages to restore social cohesion, provide livelihood opportunities and increase access to basic services for communities in the NW/SW regions. Finally, through the PPRD, the Government ambitions to bring about short and medium terms transformational changes. The United Nations Development Programme is the implementing partner and fund manager of the PPRD.
In order to manage the PPRD, UNDP Cameroon is looking for Two (02) individuals to act as Regional Coordinator in the SW and in the NW regions. The Regional Coordinator’s prime responsibility is to ensure that the project produces the results specified in the project document for each region, to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost.
Under the direct authority of the UNDP Resident Representative, the supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative and the PPRD Project Manager (PPRDPM) and in close collaboration with Assistant Resident Representative (Governance and crisis Prevention), the Regional coordinator will run the day-to-day activities of each region. The regional coordinator is responsible of the activity’s implementation in the field.
Core
Innovation
Leadership
People Management
Communication
Delivery
Technical/Functional
Results-based Management
Partnership Management
Representation and advocacy
Stress Management
Corporate Competencies:
Management and Leadership
Education:
· Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience in institutional capacity building, early recovery, crisis prevention, peacebuilding and economic regeneration.
· Knowledge of 3*6 Methodology;
· Experience in project management preferably with UNDP
Use of local languages in the regions (pidgin; etc…) is desirable.
· Significant and proven skills in results-based management with preference for experience with UNDP programming
· Solid expertise in liaising with local and senior administration and regional counterparts;
· Sound skills and demonstrated experience in facilitation, consensus-building, multi-stakeholder processes and negotiation;
· Sound analytical skills;
· Proven experience in training, networking and coordination skills;
· Excellent communication and inter-personal skills and ability to establish and maintain effective partnerships and working relationships with internal and external parties in a multi-cultural environment;
· In-depth knowledge of human development situation in the SW/NW Regions and recent history/events/…
· Sound time management and organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks;
· Focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
· Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
· Capacity to work under pressure, manage stress and adapt to rapidly evolving situations;
Contract Duration: ONE YEAR
This vacancy is archived.