| Overview : TERMS OF REFERENCE Reference No | PN/FJI/004/22 | Consultancy Title | Head of Exploration | Location | Suva, Fiji | Application deadline | 18th February 2022 | Type of Contract | Individual Consultant (IC) | Post Level | National | Languages required: | English | Duration of Initial Contract: | 200 working days (Starting March 2022 and ending December 2022) |
BACKGROUND The UNDP Strategic Plan embraces the complexity of development and commits the organization to helping countries find faster, more durable solutions to achieve Agenda 2030. Important development trends like urbanization, climate change, and rising inequalities pose significant challenges on our path to achieve the 2030 agenda of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP has begun incubating several strategic initiatives aimed at ensuring UNDP is ‘fit for purpose’ to deliver a new generation of solutions in line with the challenges the world faces. One such key strategic initiatives is the UNDP Accelerator Lab Network which operates as part of UNDP’s sustainable development offering. The UNDP has already set up 91 labs supporting 115 countries, embedded within UNDP’s global architecture and country platforms. Labs use the power of the crowd, machine learning and distributed decision making to support partners to understand problems, develop new solutions, promote more inclusive decision making, and provide better oversight of what is done. It identifies grassroots solutions and stretch their potential to accelerate development. The labs apply experimentation closely with government partners to grow this as a mode of operating to reduce costs of large-scale public sector reforms. Experimentation helps the UNDP learn whether particular assumptions are accurate before deploying solutions at scale, especially in the rapidly evolving contexts that often dominate development progress. For 2022, the UNDP Accelerator Lab Pacific is focusing on five key experiments: (i) Plastics, (ii) Satellite Internet, (iii) Development Live Platform, (iv) Climate Finance and (v) Anticipatory Governance, among other innovation work taking place in the UNDP Pacific Multi Country Office. |
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Scope of Work The following tasks are required to be performed by the IC: - Initiating, designing, and helping manage activities of the Accelerator Lab
- Engagement with citizens, local communities and actors, and collaboration across global networks
- Engaging with Accelerator Lab exploration tools such as horizon scanning and collective intelligence for identifying emerging developmental signals, solutions, trends, and patterns
- Articulating insights and ideas through visual thinking
- Working out loud- writing and publish learnings using blogs, articles, Op-eds, videos, visuals, reports
Expected Outputs and Deliverables The main products to be delivered are: Deliverables (distributed over 200 days) | No. of Days | 1 | Horizon scanning and intelligence for the Accelerator Lab | 100 | | - Identify, visualize and communicate emerging development trends, data, technologies and issues with a particular focus on the edges and “below the radar screen” events, opportunities and players, and systemically map their impacts on economy, environment, society, and livelihoods of the poorest.
- Identify new sources of evidence and insights, analyze and visualize patterns in unstructured sources of data, present new insights in accessible and comprehensive ways to enable sensemaking and analysis
- Proactively explore and identify the new methods/approaches and frontier knowledge to tackle development challenges, collaborate with the Experimentation lead to turn these into learning options for addressing specific policy issues in the country
- Provide technical guidance for horizon scanning, foresight and data analysis for colleagues and partners.
- Contribute to the formulation of the Accelerator Lab service lines to the UNDP Country Programme based on findings from horizon scanning, systems’ mapping, and local knowledge
| 2 | Tapping into new data sources | 70 | | - Set up partnerships with private sector companies including mobile network operators among others to gain access to anonymized data sets that can be used for sustainable development.
- Demonstrate through exploratory tests the utility of new data sources for UNDP’s development work
- Create partnerships for analyses of real time and other data to better inform decisions and policies
- Design and deliver workshops, tools, or platforms that tap into the collective intelligence of communities and mobilize action.
- Proactively manage risks with using data and technology, including those related to ethics and privacy
- Transform unstructured data sets into insights for UNDP and partners
| 3 | Working out loud | 30 | | - Share findings from the exploration on future trends, new methodologies/approaches, potential partnership,and others within UNDP and with partners;
- Proactively use blog posts and social media to share insights, attract partners and help position Accelerator Lab at the forefront of the exploration of new trends.
- Liaise with UNDP’s global Accelerator Lab network and share learnings and insights from the country-specific experience
- Jointly with the CO, support lab partners to develop an emerging pipeline of new initiatives, support other activities related to the design and operation of the Lab
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Institutional Arrangement Under the overall guidance by UNDP’s Deputy Resident Representative, Ms. Yemesrach Workie, the consultant will work closely with Head of Community Research and Ethnographic Solutions Mapping, Mohseen Dean, the Head of Experimentation, the UNDP Pacific Office Innovation Specialist, and across programmatic teams. Duration of the Work 200 days Duty Station Suva, Fiji |
COMPETENCIES - Excellent verbal and written skills in English
- Excellent inter‐personal and communication skills
- Demonstrates integrity and commitment to UN principles and values and ethical standards
- Ability to work well as part of a multi-cultural team and displays gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
- Adept with complex concepts and challenges convention purposefully
- Generates commitment, excitement and excellence in others
- Models independent thinking and action
- Synthesizes information to communicate independent analysis
- Meets goals and quality criteria for delivery of products or services
- Catalyzes new ideas, methods, and applications to pave a path for innovation and continuous improvement in professional area of expertise
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REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Educational Qualifications Master’s degree in Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Business Intelligence, or related field and minimum of 2 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization. OR Bachelor’s degree in Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Business Intelligence, or related field and minimum of 4 years of professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization Experience - Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation;
- Demonstrated capacity in horizon scanning;
- Demonstrated capacity in data analysis and visualization;
- Demonstrated experience working in the Pacific.
Experience in following areas is desirable: - Proven professional knowledge and experience in social innovation approaches such as Systems Thinking, Ethnography, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence Design, Citizen Science, Positive Deviance, Social Network Analysis, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning;
- Professional experience in partnership building and engagement (public and private sector);
- Demonstrated capacity to use open data, mobile data, geospatial data, drone & satellite data, citizen data for informing policy making, strategic planning, or programme design;
- Proven professional knowledge and experience in at least one of the following: Future thinking and Foresight, Design Research, and Systems Mapping;
- Key awareness of key global and regional trends;
- Demonstrated access to networks of edge innovators.
Language requirements - Fluency of English language is required. Knowledge of iTaukei and/or Fiji Hindi is an added advantage.
Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments The consultant must send a financial proposal based on 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, 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 and as per below: Report outlining all the tasks assigned has been completed for each month ending. Payment is based on the number of days worked and submission and approval by UNDP of monthly report through all tasks assigned by the Accelerator Lab. 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. Evaluation Method and Criteria Individual consultants will be evaluated based on 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) - Criteria 1: Relevance of Education (Social sciences, Data science, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Business Intelligence, or related field) - Max 20 points
- Criteria 2: professional experience in development programming or policy; social innovation; partnership building; engagement (public and private sector) and/or resource mobilization. - Max 10 points
- Criteria 3: Professional experience in development programming or policy and social innovation; Demonstrated capacity in horizon scanning; Demonstrated capacity in data analysis and visualization; and demonstrated experience working in the Pacific- Max 20 points
- Criteria 4: Professional knowledge and experience in social innovation approaches such as Systems Thinking, Ethnography, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence Design, Citizen Science, Positive Deviance, Social Network Analysis, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning; Professional experience in partnership building and engagement (public and private sector)- Max 10 points
- Criteria 5: Capacity to use open data, mobile data, geospatial data, drone & satellite data, citizen data for informing policy making, strategic planning, or programme design; professional knowledge and experience in Future thinking Foresight, Design Research, or Systems Mapping; Key awareness of key global and regional trends; access to networks of edge innovators- Max 10 points
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation. Documentation required Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload maximum one document: - Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided in Annex II.
- Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references
- Financial proposal, as per template provided in Annex II. Note: National consultants must quote prices in United States Dollars (USD).
Incomplete proposals may not be considered. Only applications for whom there is further interest will be contacted. Annexes For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to Mr. Dale Kacivi at dale.kacivi@undp.org All applications must be clearly marked with the title of consultancy and submitted by 5:00pm, 18th February 2022 (Fiji Time) online via UN Jobs website https://jobs.undp.org/ or etenderbox.pacific@undp.org |
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