Training on Access to Finance Consultant (Open to National and International)

Contract

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Background

The UN programme on Unlocking Cambodian Women’s Potential through Fiscal Space Creation, known as credit guarantee scheme for women enterprises (CGS). The objectives of CGS are to support the women owned M/SMEs, predominantly operating in the informal sector, for their recovery from the COVID-19 and their turning into the driving force for accelerating Cambodia’s recovery from COVID-19 and the SDG achievement. The programme has been delivered through components: [1] support the policy design and the operational roll-out of the credit guarantee facility, which targets the marginalized groups from the first phase of the RGC’s support, particularly the women owned M/SMEs in informal sector; [2] quick action research on women’s economic empowerment (WEE), employment, poverty alleviation and reducing inequality aspects of the credit guarantee scheme

Capacity building for MSMEs especially women entrepreneurs is one of CGS’s activities to assist MSMEs in gaining practical knowledge, skills set, tools, and capable of surviving and sustaining their business operations and growths through expanding their access to finance given available options and sources, which in the end, they can cope with business challenges especially impacts caused by Covid19 pandemic.

CGS in collaboration with another UNDP’s Incubation Program on Business Digitalization And E-Commerce Acceleration will provide a capacity building focusing on Access to Finance for MSMEs especially women entrepreneurs.

Incubation Program on Digitalization aims to increase MSME's capacity and understanding of digital technologies' adoption, improve business operations' efficiency and effectiveness, and strengthen its competitiveness. It promotes digital technologies' adoption to support Cambodian MSME's business model.

The expected participants are mixed in nature of business types and different level of business annual turnovers ranging across MSMEs, of which majority are women entrepreneurs. The followings types of businesses should be engaged as part of the training programme, but not limited to:

• Agricultural commodities
• Eco-friendly products
• Garments
• Digitization transition and introduction of new technologies with a focus on readiness for export
• Fin-Tech, Agri-tech, food-tech, or any technology for agriculture promotion
• Agriculture product,
• Handmade/Handicraft,
• Digital business solutions, or any automation of business processes
• Trade solutions in payment or logistics, smart retails/wholesale innovation

In addition to the overall arrangement of the training on Access to Finance, UNDP will invite representative from CGCC to present a credit guarantee schemes as an information sharing session (30-60 minutes long) currently available in Cambodia.

Duties and Responsibilities

The consultant is expected to deliver the following within the duration of this assignment:

• Develop a training curriculum, methodology, tools and materials, and assessment criteria in English/Khmer
• Develop work plan, concept note and agenda for facilitation and training in consultation with UNDP’s team in English/Khmer
• Facilitate online training sessions in Khmer or English with Khmer translation for two cohorts/groups of trainees (two days training for each cohort)
• Assess improvements of trainees’ knowledge upon completion of the training
• Collect and report feedbacks from participants
• Produce final training report inclusive of trainees’ assessment report in English
• Meetings with UNDP’s team upon request and on-going consultation with UNDP when needed
• Provide coaching and mentoring supports post training upon request from trainees

Competencies

Functional competencies:

• Capacity to relate and engage with large and mixed audience
• Ability to promote interactions and participations during the training session
• Ability to solve the problems effectively
• Superior written/ oral communication skills, with the ability to convey complex development concepts and recommendations.
• Positive and results-oriented attitude, able to meet targets/deadline.

Corporate competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards.
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.
• Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in business administration, finance and banking, financial management, development finance, or similar field

Experience:

• At least 5 years of relevant work experience in designing training curriculum, tools and materials, and assessment on financial aspects in business operations especially access to finance and credit guarantee
• Experience in facilitating the trainings with mixed groups of MSMEs especially women entrepreneurs
• Experience of similar assignments in similar international or Cambodian development contexts

Language Requirement:

• Fluency in written and spoken English

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=86781 more detail information about term of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

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

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 online applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an email 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.

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

1. Proposal:

(i) Letter of intertest explaining why they are the most suitable for the work

(ii) A written sample to prove superior written communication skills

2. Financial proposal (Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP)

3. Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email pheara.lek@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).