Background

The UN Development Group (UNDG) website (www.undg.org) is a development coordination portal managed by the Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO).  DOCO is tasked with working with UNDG agencies to communicate information on UN coherence, including the Delivering as One UN pilot initiative, high-level policy statements, technical guidelines on programming, and operational tools and procedures.

To support this effort, the UNDG website, www.undg.org, has a new look, feel and structure to make it more visually engaging and user-friendly, with better organized content and easier navigation.

Duties and Responsibilities

Scope of Work

With the new design and content management system (CMS), DOCO is seeking an individual contractor to develop the content management system, assess the Coordination Practice network including a review of users, and create tools for a social media strategy for UN DOCO.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

Please refer to the Terms of Reference: http://webapp3-docs.undp.org/procurement_notices/notice_doc_22084_201023514.pdf

Institutional Arrangements

The consultant will report to the Knowledge and Innovation Team and consultancy is expected to begin on July 20th 2015 with estimated completion date of 30 October 2015.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

  • Drive for results, accountability, developing professional expertise;
  • Innovative;
  • Teamwork;
  • Communicating for impact.

Functional Competencies:

  • Applying Technical Expertise;
  • Planning and Organising;
  • Excellent writing skills;
  • Good interpersonal and teamwork skills with ability to work with minimum supervision as well as in a team.

Required Skills and Experience

Only proposals from individuals demonstrating the following skills and experience will be considered:

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Information Technology and web project management;
  • Strong familiarity with in content management systems, specifically WordPress, and other web technologies.

Language:

  • Fluency (oral, written) in English is required;
  • Spanish/French an asset.

Submission of Proposals

Proposals must be received by 10 July 2015 and interested applicants should submit:

The Confirmation of Interest & Submission of Financial Proposal: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_file.cfm?doc_id=49145

Financial Proposal that indicates the daily fee.

  • The Daily fee must be “all-inclusive ”; and
  • A Time Sheet must be submitted by the Contractor, duly approved by the Individual Contractor’s supervisor, which shall serve as the basis for the payment of fees.

Evaluation

Shortlisted candidates will be rated according to the following technical criteria:

  • Technical background on CMS or WordPress: (50);
  • Previous experience with editing and presenting texts in English for online communication: (20);
  • Graphic/photo editing skills: (20);
  • Web content management experience with the United Nations: (10).

A combined scoring method will be used in determining the best candidate for this assignment. When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract is made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as acceptable, and having received the highest score out of the above technical criteria combined with the financial proposal, as follows:

Technical Criteria weight: 70%

Financial Criteria weight: 30%

Terms of Reference: http://webapp3-docs.undp.org/procurement_notices/notice_doc_22084_201023514.pdf.