Squarespace Web Developer Consultant

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Background

The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) makes public and private finance work for the poor in the world’s 47 least developed countries. With its capital mandate and instruments, UNCDF offers “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources, especially at the domestic level, to reduce poverty and support local economic development. UNCDF’s financing models work through two channels: financial inclusion that expands the opportunities for individuals, households, and small businesses to participate in the local economy, providing them with the tools they need to climb out of poverty and manage their financial lives; and by showing how localized investments—through fiscal decentralization, innovative municipal finance, and structured project finance—can drive public and private funding that underpins local economic expansion and sustainable development.

By strengthening how finance works for poor people at the household, small enterprise, and local infrastructure levels, UNCDF contributes to SDG 1 on eradicating poverty and SDG 17 on the means of implementation. By identifying those market segments where innovative financing models can have transformational impact in helping to reach the last mile and address exclusion and inequalities of access, UNCDF contributes to a number of different SDGs.

Digital economies

UNCDF manages initiatives to develop inclusive digital finance ecosystems which offer a wide range of financial services specially for low income vulnerable communities. Specifically, UNCDF provides a mix of policy, technical and financial support to a range of government and private sector actors in each country, as well as invests in research and other public goods to benefit all market actors. By supporting the development of digital finance ecosystem in these countries, UNCDF aims to increase the financial security of low income and rural households through access to appropriate, affordable and secure means to receive, manage and save money.

Recently, UNCDF has formulated its strategy ‘Leaving no one behind in the digital era’ based on over a decade of experience in digital finance in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. UNCDF recognizes that reaching the full potential of digital financial inclusion aligns with the vision of promoting digital economies that leave no one behind. The vision of UNCDF is to empower millions of people by 2024 to use services daily that leverage innovation and technology and contribute to the SDGs. UNCDF will apply a market development approach and continuously seek to address underlying market dysfunctions. For more information, please see: https://www.uncdf.org/article/4567/uncdf-launches-digital-economy-strategy-leaving-no-one-behind-in-the-digital-era

Enabling policy and regulation

UNCDF has been working with national governments to improve access to financial services for over 25 years. In the last decade, we have focused specifically on the role that digital technologies play in accelerating usage of financial services by low-income people. In our role as a technical assistance provider and neutral broker, UNCDF works closely with global and national partners to build capacity and support governments to engage with industry to facilitate solutions to key market constraints at the local and regional level. For more information, please see: https://policyaccelerator.uncdf.org/

Duties and Responsibilities

Objectives of the Assignment

The overall objective of the assignment is to improve the user experience of the UNCDF Policy Accelerator website (https://policyaccelerator.uncdf.org/), which is built on the Squarespace platform.

Scope of work

Under the supervision of the Lead Policy Specialist, the Squarespace Web Developer will implement changes to the website code to achieve the desired updates to the website. These changes must be compatible with Weglot, a third-party translation software.

Expected Outputs

The Squarespace Web Developer Consultant must send a financial proposal based on a lump sum amount. The total amount quoted shall be all-inclusive and include all costs components required to perform the deliverables identified in the TOR, including professional fees, living allowance, and any other applicable cost to be incurred by the consultant in completing the assignment. The contract price will be a fixed output-based price regardless of extension of the herein specified duration.

Below are expected outputs with deliverables:

• Output 1: Review scope of proposed work and create implementation plan (~2 hours)
  • Deliverable: Short written report
• Output 2: Updates to “Policy tools” landing page (~5 hours)
  • Deliverable: Code injected into Squarespace site
• Output 3: Updates to global CSS (~5 hours)
  • Deliverable: Code injected into Squarespace site
• Output 4: Plan for ongoing maintenance of code (~2 hour)
  • Deliverable: Short written report

Scope of Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments

The interested applicants must send a financial proposal based on a lump sum amount. The total amount quoted shall be all-inclusive and include all costs components required to perform the deliverables identified in the TOR, including professional fees, and any other applicable cost to be incurred by the consultant in completing the assignment. The contract price will be a fixed output-based price regardless of extension of the herein specified duration. The term “all inclusive” implies all costs (professional fees, subscription cost related to website/platform to be developed, communications, etc.).

The consultant will submit Certificate of Payment, approved by UNCDF’s Lead Specialist which will serve as the basis for the payment of based on contractual payment terms. The consultant shall receive payments based on the following schedule:

Deliverables/ Outputs

Target Completion

Percentage (%) of Total Contract Price

Requirement for Disbursement

1. Review scope of proposed work and create implementation plan (~2 hours) Deliverable: Short written report

30 April 2021

40% of contract amount

Based on the acceptance and certification by the Lead Policy Specialist of APA project

2. Updates to “Policy tools” landing page (~5 hours) Deliverable: Code injected into Squarespace site

3. Updates to global CSS (~5 hours) Deliverable: Code injected into Squarespace site

31 May 2021

60% of contract amount

4. Plan for ongoing maintenance of code (~2 hour) Deliverable: Short written report

Implementation arrangements

The consultant will work under the primary supervision of the Lead Policy Specialist and work closely with the Agile Digital Communications Consultant.

Duration of Work

The work shall be undertaken over 3 months. The Squarespace Web Developer shall commence services on 1 April 2021, and shall conclude upon satisfactory completion of the services described above, not later than 31 May 2021.

Duty station

This is a home-based consultancy. No travel is envisaged under this assignment.

Competencies

• Ability to work in a team
• Ability to work independently with little supervision and ability to work under pressure
• Customer orientation, leadership, openness and innovation capabilities;

Required Skills and Experience

Educational qualifications

• University degree in IT, web development, computer science or related field is mandatory

Experience

• At least 5 years of experience working in web development using platforms such as Squarespace, Wordpress, Drupalis mandatory;
• Minimum three (3) years of relevant experience in development and management of dynamic websites; significant experience with online publishing, including analytics and social media, deep experience with using and supporting others in the use of content management systems is required;
• Deep expertise and hands on experience implementing, enhancing and troubleshooting with Web Applications and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and API's is required.

Language requirements

• Fluency in written and spoken English is required

Criteria for Selection of the Best Offer

Applications will be rated on both technical and financial submissions. The following selection method will be used: Highest rated proposal using the combined scoring method. The weight distribution shall be 70% technical and 30% financial.

Step I: Screening:

Applications will be screened and only applicants meeting the following minimum criteria will progress to the pool for shortlisting:

• University degree in IT, web development, computer science or related field is mandatory

• At least 5 years of experience working in web development using platforms such as Squarespace, Wordpress, Drupal is mandatory

Step II: Desk review (100% out of technical assessment)

UNCDF will technically evaluate candidates by assessing the following criteria with corresponding points (100 points). As applicable, only applicants scoring 70% or above shall be considered for financial evaluation.

Desk review scoring:

• University degree in IT, web development, computer science or related field is mandatory: 20 points
• At least 5 years of experience working in web development using platforms such as Squarespace, Wordpress, Drupalis mandatory: 20 points
• Minimum three (3) years of relevant experience in development and management of dynamic websites; significant experience with online publishing, including analytics and social media, deep experience with using and supporting others in the use of content management systems is required: 15 points
• Deep expertise and hands on experience implementing, enhancing and troubleshooting with Web Applications and programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery and API's is required: 15 points
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required: 10 points
• Quality and appropriateness of provided portfolio of previous project(s): 20 points

Step III: Financial Evaluation

Only candidates with scores above 70% of the desk review (70 points or above) will be considered.

The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal: lowest priced proposal/price of the proposal being evaluated x 30%.

Award Criteria:

The contact shall be awarded to the applicant whose offer have been evaluated and determined as: Responsive/compliant/acceptable; and Having received the highest combined weight (technical scores) 70% + financial 30%= 100%.

Both individual consultants and individual employed by a company or institution are welcome to apply.

Any individual employed by a company or institution who would like to submit an offer in response to a Procurement Notice for IC must do so in their individual capacity (providing a CV so that their qualifications may be judged accordingly). Women candidates or women-owned businesses are strongly encouraged to apply.

Recommended Presentation of Offer

Interested individuals must submit the documents mentioned below as proposals in order to demonstrate their qualifications (Note: the system does not allow multiple uploads of documents. Applicants must make sure to upload all documents in one PDF file).

All applications must contain the following information:

• Cover letter with a summary statement of competencies and motivation rationalizing how the applicant meets the qualifications and can deliver the requirements of the Terms of Reference (TOR);
• Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability and Financial proposal. Financial Proposal should indicate all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided. If an Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNCDF under Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate at this point, and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNCDF. Template for this is available at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_file.cfm?doc_id=29916);
• Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the applicant and at least three (3) professional references (Available at: http://sas.undp.org/documents/p11_personal_history_form.doc
• Portfolio of previous project on web development (at least 2 most recent).

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