Educational Qualifications: - Minimum Diploma in Business Management studies or relevant field.
Experience & skills - Minimum of 5 years of progressively administrative responsible work, finance and logistics and programme work
- Project support within the development sector
- Experience with international /regional organization
- Experience in providing a streamlined financial service role to a project management team, including experience in developing and delivering financial reports
- Demonstrate initiative in carrying out his/her duties and ability to work independently to tight deadlines
- Experience and ability to operate standard office equipment, usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel etc) and advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems.
Other 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
Functional Competencies: Knowledge Management and Learning - Promotes a knowledge sharing and learning culture in the office
- In-depth knowledge on development issues
- Ability to advocate and provide policy advice
- Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more practice areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills
Development and Operational Effectiveness - Strong IT skills
- Ability to lead implementation of new systems (business side), and affect staff behavioral/ attitudinal change
Management and Leadership - Focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback
- Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
- Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills
- Builds strong relationships with clients and external actors
- Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure
- Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities
Language requirements and Computer skills - Fluency of English language
- Proven experience in the use of office IT applications, incl. MS Office packages;
Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments The IC shall quote an all-inclusive daily fee for this consultancy work. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees and Medical insurance cots.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal for a total of 152 days . If applicable, travel or daily allowance cost (if any work is to be done outside the IC’s duty station) should be identified separately. Payments Payments shall be done monthly and based on actual days worked, and upon verification of completion of deliverables and approval by the IC’s supervisor of a time sheet indicating the days worked in the period. - Deliverable 1: Report outlining the tasks undertaken in Oct.
Payment is based on number of days worked and submission and approval by UNDP of monthly report indicating all administration, HR, Programme and Finance work assigned. - Deliverable 2: Report outlining the tasks undertaken in Nov.
Payment is based on number of days worked and submission and approval by UNDP of monthly report indicating all administration, HR, Programme and Finance work assigned. - Deliverable 3: Report outlining the tasks undertaken in Dec.
Payment is based on number of days worked and submission and approval by UNDP of monthly report indicating all administration, HR, Programme and Finance work assigned. - Deliverable 4: Report outlining the tasks undertaken in Jan.
Payment is based on number of days worked and submission and approval by UNDP of monthly report indicating all administration, HR, Programme and Finance work assigned. - Deliverable 5: Report outlining the tasks undertaken in February.
Payment is based on number of days worked and submission and approval by UNDP of monthly report indicating all administration, HR, Programme and Finance work assigned. - Deliverable 6: Report outlining the tasks undertaken in March.
Payment is based on number of days worked and submission and approval by UNDP of monthly report indicating all administration, HR, Programme and Finance work assigned. - Deliverable 7: Report outlining the tasks undertaken in April.
- Payment is based on number of days worked and submission and approval by UNDP of monthly report indicating all administration, HR, Programme and Finance work assigned.
- Deliverable 8: Report outlining the tasks undertaken in May.
Payment is based on number of days worked and submission and approval by UNDP of monthly report indicating all administration, HR, Programme and Finance work assigned. Evaluation Method and Criteria Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the Cumulative analysis The award of the contract shall 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 set of weighted technical criteria (70%). and financial criteria (30%). Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced proposal received by UNDP for the assignment. Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points) - Minimum Diploma in Business Management studies or relevant field. - 15%
Experience & skills - Minimum of 5 years of progressively administrative responsible work, finance and logistics and programme work 20%
- Project support within the development sector 5%
- Experience with international /regional organization 10%
- Experience in providing a streamlined financial service role to a project management team, including experience in developing and delivering financial reports 10%
- Experience and ability to operate standard office equipment, usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel etc) and advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems.5%
- Fluency in English Language 5%
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation. Shortlisted candidates shall be called for an interview which will be used to confirm and/or adjust the technical scores awarded based on documentation submitted. Documentation required Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents; - CV including names/contacts of at least 3 referees.
- A cover letter indicating why the candidate considers himself/herself suitable for the required consultancy;
- Completed template for confirmation of Interest and Submission of Financial Proposal.
Consultancy proposal should be sent via email to (https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_jobs.cfm?cur_rgn_id_c=RAS no later than 23rd October 2020 (Fiji Time) clearly stating the title of consultancy applied for. Note: Successful individual will be required to provide proof of medical insurance coverage before commencement of contract for the duration of the assignment. Incomplete and joint proposals may not be considered. Consultants with whom there is further interest will be contacted. Individuals applying for this consultancy will be reviewed based on their own individual capacity. The successful individual may sign an Individual Contract with UNDP or request his/her employer to sign a Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA) on their behalf by indicating this in the Offerors letter to Confirming Interest and Availability.
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 fee(Daily fees to include IC’s medical insurance costs), travel costs, living allowance (if any work is to be done outside the IC´s duty station) and any other applicable cost to be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment. The contract price will be fixed output-based price regardless of extension of the herein specified duration. Payments will be done upon completion of the deliverables/outputs. In general, UNDP shall not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources In the event of unforeseeable travel not anticipated in this TOR, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to procurement.fj@undp.org. |