GoGirls ICT Initiative

8. Competencies

Corporate Competencies

• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality, and age sensitivity and adaptability
• Demonstrates diplomacy and tact in dealing with sensitive and complex situations
• Strong communication, team building, interpersonal, analysis, and planning skills

Professionalism

• Demonstrates professional competence and mastery of the subject matter
• Demonstrates experience in subject matter
• Demonstrates ability to negotiate and apply good judgment
• Shows pride in work and in achievements
• Is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines, and achieving results

Planning & Organizing

• Organizes and accurately completes multiple tasks by establishing priorities while taking into consideration special assignments, frequent interruptions, deadlines, available resources, and multiple reporting relationships
• Plans, coordinates, and organizes workload while remaining aware of changing priorities and competing deadlines
• Establishes, builds, and maintains effective working relationships with staff, partners, and beneficiaries to achieve the planned results

Communicating Information and Ideas

• Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively.
• Delivers verbal/written information in a timely, clear, organized and easily understood manner
• Strong communication skills and the ability to listen and take direction and leadership from others.

Self-Management & Emotional Intelligence

• Creating synergies through self-control, and tolerates conditions of stress, uncertainty or ambiguity and continues to maintain a positive outlook to work productively.

Other Corporate competencies

• Ability to establish effective working relations in a multicultural team environment.
• Excellent supervisory, team building, diplomatic and interpersonal skills.
• Resourcefulness, initiative, and maturity of judgement.
• Strong communication and advocacy skills.
• Ability to work in a complex environment requiring liaison and collaboration with multiple actors.
• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and negotiation skills, especially resource management skills.
• Excellent networking skills.

9. Required Skills and Expertise

Education

• Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Public Administration/ Governance, Law, Political Science, Sociology, International Development, and/or related Social Science fields. 

Experience

• 4-8 years’ experience in designing, planning, developing and analyzing policies of operations and programme for non-state actors (national organizations/ civil society organizations)
• Experience in NGO management, working with innovation hubs and their organizational development 
• Experience in gender sensitive evaluation and analysis of organizational policies. 
• In-depth knowledge of anti-fraud, anti-corruption, whistle blower, Sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse in project management and operations of non-governmental organizations 
•  Experience in engaging with partners and stakeholders using participatory and consultative approaches and ability to manage diversity of views in different cultural contexts.
• Familiarity with the local political, economic, social, and local governance system in South Sudan
• Experience in using a range of quantitative and qualitative data gathering and analysis techniques related to policy review and development and experience in facilitating consultation workshops with good presentation and IT skills. 
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English and good report writing skills.

Languages

• Fluency in spoken and written English.
• Knowledge of Arabic is an asset.

10. Institutional arrangements

• The consultant will be based in Juba, South Sudan. The consultant is expected to use their own computer/laptop and cell phone. However, depending on availability of physical facilities (e.g., working space, computer, printer, telephone lines, internet connection etc.) and at the discretion of GoGirls, such facilities may be provided at the disposal of the Consultant.
• The consultant will be contracted for 20 full-time working days.
• The consultant will report to the GoGirls Executive Director who will review and approve delivery of outputs. 
• The Executive Director will also be responsible for liaising with the Consultant to provide all relevant documents, set up stakeholder interviews and workshops, and arrange visits to the office.