UNDP Jobs - 67071- Recruitment of Individual International Consultant

Recruitment of Individual International Consultant to Undertake Program Evaluation - Entrepreneurship Development Programme

Location :

Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

13-Jul-2016

Application Deadline :

08-Jul-16 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

2 months

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

Two Months ( 60 days)

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

The EDP program aims to achieve the following major goals:

Institutional capacity of the Government to deliver comprehensive support services to MSEs and entrepreneurs enhanced
Entrepreneurial knowledge and skills with MSEs and potential entrepreneurs developed
Establishment of new MSEs and development of existing small and medium businesses assisted or facilitated by the project
Greater awareness on entrepreneurship development and partnerships among the Government, private sector and other stakeholders promoted
Establish Centres of Excellence for Entrepreneurship (CoEE) in 5 public universities to enable students attain entrepreneurial mindset and skills, become innovative and help incubate their ideas so that they become “job creators”.

Major activities performed by EDP are:

Establishment and capacity development (facilities, human resources, etc.) of EDC offices in Addis Ababa and the 4 regions
Provision of training on entrepreneurship and management skills to MSEs and entrepreneurs
Provision of business development services (BDS) to MSEs and medium enterprises
Capacity development of national entrepreneurship trainers through training (TOTs)
Capacity development of national business advisors through training for sustainable BDS provision
Policy dialogues and awareness raising activities to promote entrepreneurship development and partnership for sustainable support provision.

Application Instruction:

Download both TOR and IC Proposal Submission Form from the following link: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=30836;
Strictly follow the instructions indicated in the IC Proposal Submission Form uploaded hereto; and
Group of Individuals and/or Firms are not eligible for this consultancy assignment (open only for individual consultant)

Documents Required:

The following proposals must be prepared as per the IC Proposal Submission Instructions. The Proposals shall be submitted before application deadline July 8, 2016 via UNDP Ethiopia Secured mail address: procurement.et@undp.org

Technical Proposal in pdf under file name:ETH-IC-2016-0462 – TP - [insert your name]
Financial Proposal in pdf under file name: ETH-IC-2016-046 – FP - [insert your name]

Please note that these proposals shall be submitted to the designated secured email into two files but in one email unless both Files are Greater than 9MB file size.

Important Note:

A candidate applying only by uploading CV to this job site will not be considered. Instead, both Technical and Financial Proposals shall be submitted to UNDP Secured email: procurement.et@undp.org
Those prospect consultants who fail to submit both Technical and Financial proposals as per the standard format and to the designated secured email will not be further considered for evaluation.
Please group all your documents into single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Email subject line while submitting proposal:

While submitting your proposals to procurement.et@undp.org be sure your email subject line is ETH-IC-2016-046 in order to let our Office easily locate your respective proposals from secured email and be considered in subsequent evaluations.

Duties and Responsibilities

The specific duties of the consultant will include the following but not limited to:

Prepare a work plan/inception report showing the data collection tools and lay-out of the report as well as a clear schedule of activities to be approved by MoUDHo/FeMSEDA/UNDP/DFATD
Review and analyze the project proposals, cost sharing agreements, approved annual work plans and reports
Design and employ gender sensitive data collection instruments with all stakeholders in Addis Ababa and the specified regions where most of the outputs are implemented
Facilitate validation workshop to get comments from relevant stakeholders to enrich and finalize the report

Competencies

Positive and constructive approaches to work with energy;
Demonstrate openness to change and ability to receive and integrate feedback;
Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
Strong time management and meet established time lines;
Capacity to facilitate and communicate with different stakeholders ;
Computer skills: full command of Microsoft applications (word, excel, PowerPoint) and common internet applications;
Excellent knowledge of English, including the ability to write reports clearly and concisely and to set out a coherent argument in presentation and group interactions.Flent

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master’s Degree or above in Economics, Business, or related social science fields.

Experience:

Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience.

Language Skills:

Fluent in written and spoken English.