Senior Public Finance Advisor
Procurement Process
IC - Individual contractor
Office
Fiji - FIJI
Deadline
29-Aug-22
Published on
14-Aug-22
Reference Number
94566
Overview
Objective The overall objectives of this assignment are to support the partner countries of the Governance for Resilient Development in the Pacific (Gov4Res) project in risk informing planning and budgeting functions. The Expert will also provide strategic guidance, capacity building and training to the Gov4Res project team and contribute to project implementation and reporting
Background The Governance for Resilient Development in the Pacific (Gov4Res) project works with Pacific governments to ensure that countries adapt their decision making and governance systems towards more resilient development. The project’s theory of change rests on a core assumption that Pacific Island people will be more resilient to the impacts of climate change and disasters if countries manage all development through a risk informed approach. This is consistent with the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific which calls for the ‘mainstreaming’ of climate and disaster risk, treating risk management as fundamental to all development decisions. The Gov4Res project has three outcome areas: 1) government planning and financing systems enable gender and socially inclusive risk-informed development; 2) country oversight and accountability systems require gender and socially inclusive risk-informed development; and 3) regional organisations, policies and practices are actively supporting gender and socially inclusive risk-informed development. The project is being delivered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Pacific Office, in partnership with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the United Kingdom’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
LTA CONTRACTING MODALITY AND CALL-OFF MECHANISM
Payments will be made upon satisfactory achieved deliverables under each assignment and submission of time sheet in accordance with number of days worked. Final payment shall require a signed performance evaluation of the consultant(s).
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Scope of work/Expected Output Outcome 1 of the Gov4Res project focuses on supporting systems reform within central government agencies including ministries of finance and planning. The Gov4Res project has commenced initiatives to mainstream climate change, disaster risk and gender and social inclusion issues into PFM processes by engaging Ministries of Finance and other relevant ministries in Fiji, Tonga (MEIDECC, NPD), and Solomon Islands (MECDM). Undertaking a ‘from-within’ approach, the project intends to build on current systems and processes, to create ownership for the reform agenda under the rubric of risk informing development. Preliminary support for climate change integration, through climate budget tagging processes has commenced through advocacy and consultations, including the development of policy briefs and options paper and consultative dialogues with the governments. With the governments in these 3 countries set to adopt system-based changes to integrate CC into PFM systems, the responsibilities of the Senior Public Finance Advisor are anticipated at two levels – 1. With Senior Ministry staff and 2. With programmatic staff. The capacity support to the programmatic staff at MoF will include designing expenditure tracking solutions, preparation of periodic reports and inclusion of this data into government budgets. At a more senior level, the Advisor will support the higher authorities in the government to analyse the data for informed policy making. Finally, the Advisor is expected to provide capacity support to the Parliamentarians in the use of this data for enhancing budget oversight. More specific actions under each responsibility area would include:
3.1 Develop options paper to design conditional grants mechanism to institutionalize the financing mechanism for community level development programs in the government’s core fiscal allocation system.
Institutional Arrangement
Duration of Contract For 2 years contract with a maximum of 510 days
Long term Agreement Consultancy International -IC LTA
Duty Station
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COMPETENCIES
Core competencies Innovation -Ability to make new and useful ideas work Leadership - Ability to persuade others to follow People Management -Ability to improve performance and satisfaction Communication - Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform Delivery -Ability to get things done
Technical / Functional Competencies Strategic Planning -Ability to make decisions that align with strategy, vision, and mission Results-based Management -Ability to manage programmes and projects with a strategy aimed at improved performance and demonstrable results Risk Assessment / Management - Knowledge of risk assessment methodologies and ability to determine degree of risk and apply to strategic and/or practical situation; Ability to identify and prioritize risks, and organize action around mitigating them
Secondary Competencies Project Management - Ability to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals Data Measurement - Ability to set goals and indicators and to interpret and synthesize results into usable information to inform policy, strategy, and/or action
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REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Educational Qualifications:
Experience
Language requirements
Other requirements
Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments
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 and any other applicable cost to be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment. The contract price will 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 percentages:
Payment Schedule
Fees to be paid based on monthly invoice submitted by consultant with progress report of outputs certified by UNDP. 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 the following methodology. 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)
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.
Shortlisted candidates may 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/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload maximum one document:
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. The successful consultant shall opt to sign an Individual Contract or a Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA) through its company/employer with UNDP.
Annexes
For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to pts.fj@undp.org Please visit UNDP job site link:UNDP Jobs and find the Job title under Climate & Disaster Resiliance section to submit your online application. |