Consultant for development of incubation guidebook and after-programme capacity support for youth startups (International Consultant Residence in Cambodia)

Consultant

Overview

Develop incubation guidebook and support youth startups in Cambodia

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration management, specialized in strategic management, entrepreneurship, or international development with relevant work experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience in working with both national and international organizations, governments, and private companies
• Demonstrated experience in designing and running incubation programme to support youth startups in Cambodia
• Proven experience in managing project activities or coordinating entrepreneurship programs, events, communications, and building partnerships with stakeholders
• Strong experience in working with young entrepreneurs
• Demonstrated experience in building and managing partnerships with different groups of stakeholders
• Fluency in English

Contract

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Background

Cambodia remains a young and growing nation; people under the age of 30 represent two-thirds of its population, which continues to grow at around 1.6% per year. Youth also constitute about 43% of the total working-age population. Whether Cambodia can unleash the potential of its youth, however, is dependent on youth's access to decent and higher value jobs and their ability to start and sustain their enterprises, as well as to successfully respond to rapid technological change driven by the digital economy and the Industry 4.0.

To address these critical issues and support Cambodia to promote skill development and employment for young Cambodians, UNDP is executing a project on Promoting Youth Employment in Cambodia with three key objectives: 1) Contribute to the improvement of sectoral and national policies related to youth skills development and employment through policy-oriented researches and advocacy which includes an analysis of the threats and opportunities presented by Industry 4.0 for youth employment and a co-design of appropriate policy responses following the analysis; 2) Increase human capital for decent and better employment to support Cambodia’s Industry 4.0 transition through enabling young working-age Cambodians to participate in the dynamics of rising income from higher value-added manufacturing and services; 3) Increase young entrepreneurs’ capability by equipping them with entrepreneurial skills that will allow them to start-up businesses in both rural and urban areas that are responsive to changing industry needs and coordinate efforts and leverage resources from key stakeholders including government, development partners and private sector to promote social impact investment by young entrepreneurs.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant will be taking the lead in developing and implementing the detailed plan of action for supporting startups in the UNDP programme and developing entrepreneurship guidebook between 01 February 2021 and 31 August 2021. Specifically, the consultant is expected to perform the following tasks:

Startups Support

• Co-develop a 6-month workplan (Feb-July 2021) to ensure continued support for growing startups after the programme ended. The consultant will work collaboratively with the UNDP youth employment team and UNDP Accelerator Labs to identify key activities needed to support youth founders in Bluetribe and beyond.
• Deliver the agreed activities in above workplan which include at least 2 follow-up workshops and 3 sharing/learning sessions for startups supported by UNDP.
• Provide ongoing mentorship and networking support to startups and entrepreneurs who completed Bluetribe/SHE/National Dialogue with an aim to sustain their development and increase the chance of success for the startups. This includes the facilitation of their attempt to get formal registration and investments and co-host of at least 2 startup networking events for Bluetribe founders and potential investors, funders and donors including corporation’s CSR, marketing unit or Venture Capitalists (VCs).

Revision of Bluetribe Programme Structures

• Grounded on the lesson learnt, and feedback collected from founders and advisory committee and partners, revisit the design and structures of the Bluetribe programme aiming to adjust its purpose, priorities, the selection criteria for youth startups/entrepreneurs and make changes to the detailed curriculum in response to the revised programme structures.
• Conduct reflection sessions with implementing partners to collect feedback and potential supports for next phase of the programme.
• As a contribution to promoting access to finance for youth start-ups, the consultant will work on injecting critical investment criteria and mapping investor network including angel investors, VCs and impact investors for future programme investment pipelines.

Incubation Guide and Knowledge Sharing

• Organize at least one learning and sharing workshop for ecosystem stakeholders, including government agencies working entrepreneurship development, to share case studies and lesson learned including but not limited to Bluetribe, SHE Incubation and National Dialogue;
• Through learning workshop and stakeholder interviews, collect additional input and lessons for identified key focuses to be included in the guidebook and improving the usefulness of the prospective guidebook.
• Build on lessons learned collected from ongoing programmes, develop an entrepreneurship programme guidebook which is accessible to ecosystem stakeholders who are working to support entrepreneurs and startups in Cambodia and Accelerator Lab Network across the world. This guidebook will be then turned into a Digital Playbook that can be accessed from any stakeholders.
• Hosting at least two updates sessions to UNDP employees at the country office about startup ecosystem in Cambodia and how can UNDP play a role to support directly or indirectly.

Interested offeror must read the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=73959 for more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online

Competencies

• Ability to conduct research and draft report, curriculum and knowledge product.
• Knowledge of youth’s situation in Cambodia, including youth’s roles in realizing SDGs, skills development, employment, and youth entrepreneurship.
• A highly organized person, sets priorities, produces quality outputs, meets deadlines and manages time efficiently;
• Ability to present complex issues in a simple and clear manner;
• Ability to facilitate workshops/meetings with diverse groups of participants;
• Ability to think out-of-the-box and works toward creative solutions by analyzing problems carefully;
• Projects a positive image and is ready to take on a wide range of tasks;
• Shares knowledge and is willing to provide support to others who request advice or help;
• Works well in a team to advance the priorities of this project and UNDP as a whole;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality, age sensitivity and adaptability, and is committed to UNDP gender equality strategy; and
• Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in business administration management; specialized in strategic management, entrepreneurship, or international development with relevant work experience.

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in working with both national and international organizations, governments, and private companies;
• Demonstrated experience in designing and running incubation programme to support youth startups in Cambodia.
• Proven experience in managing project activities or coordinating entrepreneurship programs, events, communications, and building partnerships with stakeholders;
• Strong experience in working with young entrepreneurs;
• Demonstrated experience in building and managing partnerships with different groups of stakeholders.

Language Requirement:

• Fluency in English

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

Interested individual offeror must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

1. Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work

2. Financial proposal

3. Personal CV including experience in similar projects, list of publication written by Candidate and at least 3 references.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email [email protected] and cc procurement.kh@undp.org . While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice

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