Project coordination and partnerships consultant

Consultant Leadership

Overview

Support partnership engagement and rollout of the Global Facility project.

You have:

• Masters-level qualifications in international affairs, development, business administration, economics, or related fields, or undergraduate qualifications with at least 10 years of professional experience
• At least two years of experience in partnerships with the private sector in development in the UN System
• Familiarity with and experience supporting public-private partnerships in a development context
• Experience in managing digital platforms for e-learning
• Proven record of producing articles, blogs and communications products using software, online platforms and CMS
• Excellent writing, editing, and oral communication skills in English
• Knowledge of other UN languages is an advantage, but not a requirement

Contract

This is a International Consultant contract. More about International Consultant contracts.

Background

UNDP launched in March 2019 a Sustainable Finance Hub as a finance and innovation platform that draws on a critical mass of UNDP expertise, initiatives, and partnerships to support the mobilization and leveraging of resources for the SDGs and lead the implementation of the new private sector strategy and other initiatives. The Hub is an integral part of both the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) and the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (BERA), as part of the Global Policy Network (GPN).

The Finance Hub includes the global private sector team located at the Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD), established in 2011 as a partnership between UNDP and the Turkish Government. In this new set-up, the Sustainable Finance Hub brings together UNDP’s work on public finance to the SDGs and on the private sector, as a way to better link all sources of finance for the SDGs. The IICPSD will lead the implementation of the new private sector strategy. Therefore, the IICPSD will be tasked with the implementation and coordination of the private sector engagement and development strategy and its services lines working with other teams located in regional and central bureaux.

The Centre efforts is a leading center of excellence on engaging the private sector in development globally and will align and create synergies with the work of UNDP’s Country Offices, Regional Hubs and Finance Sector Unit , by focusing on the following objectives: (i) Support the development of inclusive markets and inclusive business models that engage poor people into value chains as producers, employees, consumers and entrepreneurs, with the end goal of poverty alleviation; (ii) Creation of a demand driven set of tools and guidelines for engaging the private sector in development, in key markets that will be used as best practices guidelines; (iii) programmatic private sector partnership for SDG implementation across UNDP, by designing, establishing and monitoring concrete global and national public private partnerships that creates results for development; and (v)global Centre of excellence for dialogue on private sector development by convening business and supporting actors. This could especially have a focus on South-South dialogue.

As part of UNDP’s technical leadership on COVID-19 socioeconomic recovery for the UN system, it launched – along with initiating partners the UN Global Compact and the International Chamber of Commerce and strategic partners DHL, Microsoft and PwC – the COVID-19 Private Sector Global Facility. The Global Facility is a coherent mechanism for engaging, collaborating with, and supporting the private sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, guided by the Sustainable Development Goals as well as the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact.

As the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been vast, especially for micro- small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) around the world, UNDP with its partners at the Global Facility is working to enhance the resilience of MSMEs. Driven by the vision of empowering MSMEs as the principal agents of economic transformation to recover better towards more equitable and greener economies, the Global Facility provides support to MSMEs through three distinct solution areas. Through these three strategic areas of support, the Global Facility will provide capacity building and preparedness to MSMEs to help bridge the crisis and seize the opportunity for an economic transformation towards resiliency and sustainability, with MSMEs as the foundation for the new economy.

1. Empower MSMEs with digital capabilities, and support them in this period of accelerated digital transformation
2. Connection to markets, including trade facilitation, sustainable public procurement, and bridging the gap for upstream projects targeting MSMEs
3. Lowering the barriers for accessing capital, including addressing information deficits between financial institutions and MSMEs

In operationalizing this vision, the Global Facility has refined its approach as an innovative partnership platform – under the guidance of an Operations Management Committee composed of the initiating partners – where public and private actors can convene to co-create novel, integrated solutions to address complex challenges requiring a diversity of perspectives, expertise, and domains of action.

Based on an agreed workplan, the Global Facility requires support for the secretariat and partnerships engagement.

Duties and Responsibilities

The overall objective of the assignment for the Knowledge Management and Partnership Consultant is to support the partnership engagement, maintenance, and rollout of the Global Facility project across countries with the digital solutions and content packages developed by the Global Facility.

Under the supervision of the UNDP Global Facility manager and the IICPSD Director, the Knowledge Management and Partnership Consultant will:

• Facilitate and align with Global Facility’s partners at the bi-weekly Operational Management Committee on the work of the Global Facility
• Provide assistance to the Global Facility’s country level and partnerships with presentations and strategic alignment for implementation of Global Facility programme support service offer
• Manage the Global Facility’s e-learning platform including content implementation, rollout and monitoring and evaluation in Global Facility countries and solutions

• Support IICPSD Director on day-to-day systematization (e.g., facilitation of meetings, preparation of briefing notes and presentations, minutes writing, etc.)Description of deliverables

  Target delivery dates

  Payment schedule

  Deliverable 1

  • 2 Operational Management Committee presentations
  • 3 facilitation products (e.g., briefing notes, presentation decks, etc.)

  1 month after contract signature

  15% of the total contract amount

  Deliverable 2

  • 4 partnership facilitations workshops with the Global Facility partners on the country level and e-learning platform service offer.
  • 2 Operational Management Committee presentations

  3 months after contract signature

  25% of the total contract amount

  Deliverable 3

  • 2 Operational Management Committee presentations
  • Facilitation of 6 partnership workshops and meetings
  • Producing 6 facilitation products (e.g., briefing notes, presentation decks, etc.)

  4 months after contract signature

  25% of the total contract amount

  Deliverable 4

  1 monitoring and evaluation dashboard for e-learning platform.

  5 months after contract signature

  10% of the total contract amount

  Deliverable 5

  1 curated package of content developed and integrated into the e-learning platform

  6 months after contract signature

  25% of the total contract amount

Competencies

Corporate competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
• Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment

Functional competencies:

• Strong interpersonal skills, communication and diplomatic skills, ability to work in a team
• Openness to change and ability to receive/integrate feedback
• Ability to work under pressure and stressful situations
• Strong analytical, reporting and writing abilities
• Excellent public speaking and presentation skills

Required Skills and Experience

1. Qualifications

I. Academic Qualifications/Education:

• Masters-level qualifications in international affairs, development, business administration, economics, or related fields, or
• Undergraduate qualifications in international affairs, development, business administration, economics, or related fields with at least 10 years of professional experience

II. Experience:

• At least two years of experience in partnerships with the private sector in development in the UN System required
• Familiarity with and experience supporting public-private partnerships in a development context
• Experience in managing digital platforms for e-learning, proven record of producing articles, blogs and communications products using software, online platforms and CMS (i.e. InDesign/Photoshop, MailChimp or other HTML editors, Drupal/WordPress, Visualize and other infographic makers)
• Demonstrated interest and knowledge in the field of private sector’s role in sustainable development
• Excellent analytical, writing, and communication skills

III. Language skills:

• Excellent writing, editing, and oral communication skills in English
• Knowledge of other UN languages is an advantage, but not a requirement.

1. Evaluation of Applicants

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on a cumulative analysis taking into consideration the combination of the applicants’ qualifications and financial proposal.

The award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

a) responsive/compliant/acceptable, and

b) Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical (P11/CV and cover letter desk review and interviews) and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

Please ensure that your experience related to criteria A-F and above-mentioned competencies is very well documented in your P11/CV and cover letter.

Candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% (490 points) of the maximum obtainable points for the technical criteria (700 points) shall be considered for the financial evaluation.

Financial Criteria - 30% of total evaluation - max 30 points.

The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal:

p = y (µ/z), where

p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated

y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal

µ = price of the lowest priced proposal

z = price of the proposal being evaluated

Criteria

Weight

Max. Points - 1000

Technical

• Academic qualifications:

10%

100

Masters****-level qualifications in international affairs, development, business administration, economics, or related fields OR Undergraduate qualifications in international affairs, development, business administration, economics, or related fields with at least 10 years of professional experience

10%

100

• Professional experience:

48%

480

At least two years of experience in partnerships with the private sector in development in the UN System required

10%

100

More than two years of experience in partnerships with the private sector in development in the UN System required – 10 points for each additional year, but not more than 40 points

4%

40

Experience supporting public-private partnerships in a development context

3%

30

Experience in managing digital platforms for e-learning, Proven record of producing articles, blogs and communications products using software, online platforms and CMS (i.e. InDesign/Photoshop, MailChimp or other HTML editors, Drupal/WordPress, Visualize and other infographic makers) -at least 3 samples of previous work must be provided with links*

7%

70**

Demonstrated interest and knowledge in the field of private sector’s role in sustainable development*

6%

60**

Excellent analytical, writing, and communication skills*

6%

60**

Methodology (evaluation of the brief approach on how the candidate would approach and conduct the activities (shall be uploaded by the applicant during online application)

9%

90**

• Competencies

12%

120

Fluency in written and spoken English is required (language courses, university diploma mentioning English studies, training abroad etc.)*

3%

30**

Knowledge of other UN languages is an advantage, but not a requirement

6%

60

Financial

30%

300

Unit price as per Financial Proposal

300

*Will be evaluated during the interview.

** Applied scoring system:

Degree of compliance of the candidate with the required competence

Degree of compliance Supporting Evidence Scoring scale (% from maximum available score for the given sub-criteria)

% from maximum available score for the given criteria

Excellent

Excellent evidence of ability to exceed contract requirements

80-100%

Good

Good evidence of ability to exceed contract requirements

60-80%

Satisfactory

Satisfactory evidence of ability to support contract requirements

40-60%

Poor

Marginally acceptable or weak evidence of ability to comply with contract requirements

10- 40%

Very poor

Lack of evidence to demonstrate ability to comply with contract requirements

0-10%

No submission

Information has not been submitted or is unacceptable

0%

1. Application procedures

The application submission is a two-step process. Failing to comply with the submission process may result in disqualifying the applications.

Interested candidates must include the following documents when submitting the applications (Please group all your documents into one (1) single PDF attachment as the system only allows upload of one document):

• Cover letter explaining why you are the most suitable candidate for the advertised position. Please paste the letter into the "Resume and Motivation" section of the electronic application.
• Filled P11 form or CVs including past experience in similar projects and contact details of referees (blank form can be downloaded from http://www.eurasia.undp.org/content/dam/rbec/docs/P11_modified_for_SCs_and_ICs.doc );
• A brief methodology (no more than 2 pages) describing the proposed approach to this assignment;
• Links to at least 3previous work samples.
• Copies of language certificates, if available
• Payments will be made only upon confirmation of UNDP on delivering on the contract obligations in Submission of Financial Proposal attached as Annex I

a satisfactory manner.

Annexes:

Annex I – Letter to UNDP Confirming Interest and Availability including Finance Proposal

Annex II – Individual Consultant Contract Form

Annex III –Individual Consultant General Terms and Conditions

Annex IV – Statement of Good Health

Apply now

Potential interview questions

Added 4 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: jobs.undp.org