UNDP Jobs - 50465- Consultant to Formulate a Post Disaster Recovery

Consultant to Formulate a Post Disaster Recovery Project

Location :

Jakarta, INDONESIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

20-Oct-14 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

2 months

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

2 months

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

During the last five years, following the establishment of the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), the GOI has made impressive progress towards mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into post disaster recovery measures. A UNDP- assisted project entitled Disaster Risk Reduction based Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (DR4) has contributed significantly to the formulation and implementation of an Indonesia Post Disaster Recovery Framework and the components within the framework. Through the Department of Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of BNPB, the project has helped BNPB build the foundations needed for recovery planning and implementation. This has been done through identifying, developing and enacting needed rehabilitation and reconstruction guidelines; fulfilling partnership agreements and implementing improved practices.

DR4 has recently undertaken a mid-term evaluation that produced the following relevant recommendations to strengthen post disaster recovery framework in the country:

BNPB to develop and rollout a systematic training and orientation programme for PBD officials in disaster-prone provinces to familiarize them with the use of key tools for assessment, planning, implementation and monitoring of recovery;
The DR4 project needs to facilitate discussions within BNPB structure on clarifying roles and accountability for early recovery planning and programming and it links with both relief, and rehabilitation and reconstruction phase;
UNDP and BNPB to review tools like longitudinal study and recovery index and adapt these suitably to link them with existing tools and data (VIS, social audit) that the local authorities/BNPB are already using as this will give the tools greater ownership; and
Going into the future, while there is need for continued support to BNPB on its capacity development, IMDFF-DR steering committee needs to examine if it is best redesigned to take on a broader policy advocacy and knowledge management role as a platform to promote national and international engagement, and take forward the DR4 agenda in future.
BNPB and the other members of the Project Board of DR4 Project, namely National Development Planning Agency and Ministry of Home Affairs deliberated on the recommendations, resulting in the GOI’s requests for UNDP to continue providing support in rehabilitation and reconstruction measures following the completion of the DR4 project scheduled to finish by 31 December 2014.
To respond to the recommendations and keen requests from the Government of Indonesia, UNDP is mobilizing an international expert to develop a document for a project succeeding the DR4 Project, which will expire on 31 December 2014. This TOR describes the scope of work and responsibilities of the international expert.

Duties and Responsibilities

The International Expert, further called the consultant will be required to develop a new project document on post disaster recovery. The Consultant will work with the Post Crisis Recovery Cluster of CPRU, under the supervision of the CPRU Head. The consultant is expected to base the new project document on lessons learned, recommendations and evaluation findings, which includes verifying the relevance of the DR4 Mid Term Evaluation in the most current context. The objective of this assignment is to produce initially a Project Concept Note (PCN) and, following the approval of BNPB and UNDP, further develop the PCN into a full-fledged Project Document on Post Disaster Recovery.

The above objective will be attained following consultations with relevant stakeholders at national and local level, i.e. National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), Ministry of Home Affairs-MoHA, prospective donors in Indonesia, UNDP, Early Recovery Cluster members, and relevant practitioners and proponents of in disaster management especially post crisis recovery.

The Consultant is expected to undertake the following activities to meet the above mentioned objective:

Identify and collect relevant data, information, opinions related to the recovery measures in Indonesia through desk reviews and interviews with key stakeholders;
Extract useful and related knowledge from lessons learned documents and other products generated by the DR4 Project and other relevant initiatives;
Verify and update insights and recommendations from the mid-term evaluation report of DR4 Project to validate their relevance or otherwise with the current context;
Produce a Project Concept Note (PCN) on post disaster recovery; addressing the relevant initiatives to strengthen the post disaster recovery system in Indonesia;
Present and discuss the PCN to and with UNDP and BNPB;
Following the endorsement of the PCN from UNDP and BNPB, produce a draft Project Document on the prescribed template of a GOI-UNDP Project Document by expanding and elaborating the PCN to include broader programmatic framework with relevant objectives, baseline indicators; outcomes and outputs; implementation strategies; monitoring and evaluation framework; partnership building; and required resources;
Explore the potential funding opportunities to identify prospective donors;
Present and discuss the draft Project Document to and with UNDP, BNPB, relevant national and local counterparts, and the donors; and
Produce a final draft of the Project Document for disaster recovery.

This assignment will be supported by the on-going Disaster Risk Reduction based Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (DR4) Project, which will end on December 2014. The assignment is expected to start on 20 October 2014 or any sooner date and to be completed by 30 November 2014.

UNDP’s Post Crisis Recovery Cluster of CPRU is responsible for monitoring the work of the Consultant as specified in the Chapter IV of Expected Results.

Competencies

Strong analytical and communication skills;
Strong English writing skills, especially in developing project documents
Demonstrable expertise in the areas of crisis recovery responses including rehabilitation and reconstruction and capacity development.
Understanding of the cultural and socio-economic context and development challenges in Indonesia is an advantage;
Strong experience and understanding in post-disaster recovery work;
Understanding Indonesian government systems, especially policy and budget development at the district and provincial level is an advantage;
Good interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills;
Ability to work efficiently and independently even under pressures,
Ability to negotiate and troubleshoot relationships with national and international stakeholders; and
Advanced proficiency in operating Microsoft office applications.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master degree or higher in development, disaster management or other relevant fields.

Experience:

Minimum of 15 years working experiences in design, monitoring, management and evaluation of development, especially post disaster recovery, projects;
Of most importance is experience in formulating successful UNDP assisted project documents;
Direct experience in working in Indonesia is an asset.

Language:

Strong English spoken and written skills.