International Consultant on Smart City

Consultant

Overview

Assist in developing smart, sustainable, and inclusive city plans

You have:

• Master's degree or PhD in relevant field such as smart city, urban planning, human settlements, social sciences, development studies, and related fields
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in areas related to smart, inclusive and sustainable city, human settlements, urban development, and community organization
• Fluency in oral and written English is essential
• Experience in formulating concept notes and project development based on assessment and data analysis
• Good interpersonal, communication, teamwork skills to collaborate with stakeholders and donors
• Sound experience in project implementation, monitoring and report writing
• Working experience in Cambodia and UN System is an asset

Contract

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Background

UN Resident Coordinator Office in Cambodia together with OHCHR and UN-Habitat have proposed a project called “Sihanoukville for All: Promoting a Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive City” which should be implemented from August 2020 to July 2021.

The overall purpose of this project is to conduct a comprehensive assessment, in line with the United Nations Human Security approach and Cambodia’s United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), and propose policy and programmatic solutions for the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) and national authorities to capitalise on the surge of investments and improve the living standards of the Cambodian population, including vulnerable groups, in Preah Sihanouk province. The assessment will be implemented through a partnership between the UNCT, led by OHCHR and UN-Habitat with support of the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office, and the Royal Government of Cambodia in consultation with the private sector, local communities, civil society and selected research institutions.

The comprehensive, people-centered, context-specific and prevention-oriented assessment will be designed to identify challenges and opportunities in Preah Sihanouk province and provide local and national authorities and other relevant stakeholders with evidence and analytics to define risk informed strategies, programmes and policy options. This aims to promote the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Royal Government of Cambodia’s vision to make Sihanoukville a smart, sustainable and inclusive city, and address socio-economic issues faced by local population, particularly the most vulnerable groups.

There are three outputs have been proposed under this project: 1.1. A standing inclusive consultation process for all relevant stakeholders is established to discuss the impact and opportunities of rapidly growing economy in Preah Sihanouk province; 1.2. The concept of “Sustainable, Inclusive and Smart SHV city” is defined and codified through inclusive and participatory stakeholder consultations and expert advisory service; 1.3. The concept of “Sustainable, Inclusive and Smart SHV city” is defined and codified through inclusive and participatory stakeholder consultations and expert advisory service

One of them is on smart city strategic development, which led by UN-Habitat. Therefore, we are looking for an appropriate international expert on smart city to assist this project implementation. The identified expert could work from home during this COVID-19 crisis and will travel to Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, Cambodia when time permits. It will be two to three working-month out of one year’s project implementation (Aug 2020 – July 2021).

The identified consultant will be responsible of the following: • Conduct capacity need assessment on smart city and develop training package and capacity building to smart city working group • A succinct lessons-learned analysis from other sustainable, inclusive and smart cities in the region and the world is produced. • The concept of ‘Sustainable, Inclusive, Smart SHV City’ is developed and in accordance with the UN guidance on Human Rights Based Approach to Data, with advisory support from external experts who have facilitated similar processes in the Asian and other regions and beyond. • The ‘Sustainable, Inclusive, Smart SHV City’ concept is consulted and validated by the working group and other stakeholders. • The HS/HSBP framework “case study” (outputs 1.1; 1.2 and 1.3) is codified for action-oriented, multi-stakeholder assessments and dialogue to inform programming and policymaking towards sustainable and inclusive cities. • The tool / “case study” (activity 1.2.5) and guiding document(s) on how to develop a comprehensive, people-centered, context-specific and prevention-oriented smart city model is produced and widely disseminated at the province and national level, within the UNCT in Cambodia and relevant regional forums, such as ASEAN. • Facilitating efficient project implementation in liaise with UN agencies, partners, stakeholders and beneficiaries • Participating in resource mobilization and new concept notes and project development within related fields to this project • Performing other relevant tasks required by the HPM and project colleagues.

Duties and Responsibilities

During the project implementation, the individual contractor is expected to participate in all activities listed in the project document and produce the expected outputs. The Individual contractor will work in close coordination and following instructions of relevant colleagues within the UN-Habitat, OHCHR and RCO Cambodia.

1) Inception report, capacity need assessment and training package on smart city 2) Succinct lessons-learned analysis report from other sustainable, inclusive and smart cities in the region and the world 3) The concept of ‘Sustainable, Inclusive, Smart SHV City’ – Smart city strategic plan 4) The Human Security/Human Security Business Partnership Framework (HS/HSBP) framework “case study” 5) The tool / “case study” and guiding document(s) on how to develop a comprehensive, people-centered, context-specific and prevention-oriented smart city model is produced and widely disseminated at the province and national level, within the UNCT in Cambodia and relevant regional forum, such as ASEAN. 6) Knowledge management product including lessons learned from the project 7) Progress and completion report to donor

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=72028 for more detail information about term of reference, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

Competencies

• Good understanding of UN-Habitat’s mandate, human rights, and human security principles
• Computer literate in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Knowledge of architectural design software is an advantage; and

Required Skills and Experience

Academic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree/or PhD in relevant field such as smart city, urban planning, human settlements, social sciences, development studies, and related fields

Years of experience:

• Minimum 10 years of professional experiences in the areas of smart, inclusive and sustainable city, human settlements, urban development, and community organization
• Sound experience in project implementation, monitoring and report writing
• Experience in formulating concept notes and project development based on assessment and data analysis
• Good interpersonal, communication, teamwork skills to collaborate with stakeholders and donors
• Working experience in Cambodia and UN System is an asset

Language Requirement:

• Fluency in oral and written English is essential.

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. Technical proposal outlined approaches and methodologies to deliver the tasks outlined in the ToR if applicable

3. Financial proposal

4. 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 chanpisey.ky@undp.org 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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