Emplois au PNUD - 50606- Consultant to Deisgn, Facilitate and Conduct Regio

Consultant to Deisgn, Facilitate and Conduct Regional Trainings on Topics Required by the Basel Convention Regional Center-Egypt for 2014-2015

Lieu :

Cairo, EGYPTE

Type de contrat :

Individual Contract

Date de commencement :

Date limite de candidature :

27-Oct-14 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

International Consultant

Durée du contrat initial

Langues requises :

Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

Le PNUD s’engage à recruter un personnel divers en termes de genre, de nationalité et de culture. Nous encourageons de même les personnes issues des minorités ethniques, des communautés autochtones ou handicapées à postuler. Toutes les candidatures seront traitées dans la plus stricte confidentialité. Le PNUD ne tolère pas l’exploitation et / ou les atteintes sexuelles, ni aucune forme de harcèlement, y compris le harcèlement sexuel, et / ou toutes formes de discrimination. Tous/tes les candidats/tes selectectionnes /ées devront ainsi se soumettre à de rigoureuses vérifications relatives aux références fournies ainsi qu’à leurs antécédents.

Historique

Basel Convention on the control of trans-boundary movement of hazardous waste and their disposal (BC) was adopted in 1989 and entered into force in May 1992. Egypt has been a party since 1993. The core objectives of the convention focus on: minimizing transboundary movement of hazardous waste, reduction of its generation, and as appropriate disposal near its sources. Parties to this convention are obliged to effective implementation of such objectives through establishing the necessary measures for controlling trans-boundary movement of hazardous waste and the development of criteria for environmentally sound management of this waste.

Article 14 of the Basel Convention provides the basis for the establishment of regional support centers to assist Parties to this convention in achieving its objectives. The core functions of the Regional Centers are to promote environmentally sound management of hazardous waste through Training, Capacity building, Technology Transfer, Information sharing & exchange, Consulting services, and Awareness-raising programmes.

The conference of parties of the Basel convention adopted decision VI/9 to establish the Basel Convention Regional Center in Egypt (BCRC-Egypt) for Training and Technology Transfer for Arab States. The Government of Egypt has signed the framework agreement with the Secretariat of the Basel Convention for the legal establishment of the center, and it is now hosted by Cairo University.

Inadequate hazardous waste (HW) management in most of the 22 Arab countries served by the BCRC-Egypt generates considerable public health and environmental problems, including contamination of soil and water. It also prevents the countries of the region from meeting their obligations under the Basel Convention. The Government of Finland has previously supported the BCRC-Egypt through the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 2006-2010 to develop the institutional capacity of the Center and explore the challenges concerning hazardous waste in the Arab countries.

Now a project financially managed by UNDP Egypt is proposed to be implemented in 2013-2015 with the overall objective of improving the environmentally sound management of hazardous waste and regional cooperation in controlling trans-boundary movements of this waste between the Arab countries. The purpose of the project is to develop BCRC-Egypt into a sustainable regional knowledge and service centre on hazardous waste issues for the Arab countries, as well as to consolidate the achievements of the previous phase of the project.

The project is again financed by the Government of Finland and the Implementing Partner responsible of project activities and outputs will be BCRC-Egypt. BCRC-Egypt is now looking to contract an International Consultant to design, facilitate and conduct 3-days Regional Trainings on any of the topics required by BCRC-Egypt for 2014-2015. The trainings shall be conducted in the English language.

The trainings topics:

Oil and Gas Waste Management;
Environmentally sound management of electrical and electronic wastes (e-waste);
Safe management of POPs;
Mercury activities;
Asbestos activities;
Bioremediation of hydrocarbon contaminated soils;
GHS (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals);
Health care waste management.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Identification of training needs and training agenda. The consultant will assist BCRC-Egypt in identifying training needs, drafting and circulating the training agenda based on information on the training participants which will be communicated by BCRC-Egypt;
Preparation of the training material. The training material will be prepared in due time before training start. Tentatively, the training material should be delivered at least 2 weeks in advance before training. It will contain both multimedia presentations (computer slides, hyperlinked electronic text as necessary) as well as 3 hardcopies of the relevant material to be distributed during the training. In the course of the development of the training materials, the information received by BCRC-Egypt on training needs will be duly taken into account to ensure that the training fits the specific training needs of the participants;
Preparation of materials and methodology for assessing training effectiveness; as one of the main difficulties of training is to ensure its effectiveness, a methodology for the evaluation of the training effectiveness will be established and submitted for approval of BCRC-Egypt before start of the training. This will include: a preliminary test, based on questionnaires with closed-ended questions specific for each training topic; a final test, based on desk exercises based on real cases as well as questionnaires; and a feedback form to be distributed to the participant for evaluating the trainers and for providing suggestions for improvement of the training. The evaluation material will be prepared along with the preparation of the training materials, however it will be obviously released only at starting of training activities;
Conducting Training and Training Content. 2 sessions, around six hours each, of classroom training shall be delivered;
Assessment of training effectiveness, including the performance of the trainers. Based on the outcome of the preliminary and final tests and exercitation, and adopting the methodology approved by BCRC-Egypt for training evaluation, the training effectiveness will be assessment. The assessment will include: quantitative increase in the level of knowledge of the participants, before and after the training, based on the analysis of closed-ended questionnaires; capability of the trainee to address e-waste issue and to elaborate e-waste policies, as from the exercitation outcome. On the side of trainer evaluation, the scoring and areas of weakness / strength will be assessed based on the analysis of feedback forms returned by the participants to BCRC-Egypt;
Reporting and certification. A final training report shall be delivered after training closure. It will include the preparatory material, training material, outcome of training need assessment based on questionnaire delivered before the training, assessment of training effectiveness, assessment of trainers performance, proposal for further improvement, and attendance sheets. A training participation certificate will be prepared by the consultant and released by BCRC-Egypt to all the participants who have attended all the three days training and who have participated and passed in tests and exercitation.

Deliverables of the Consultancy:

Training plan and agenda;
Training materials;
Three days Training;
Training Report including test and assessment results.

In this respect, please observe the following requirements for application:

Candidates are not required/expected to apply to all training topics. Please only apply to topic(s) within your scope of experience and qualification.

Compétences

Corporate Competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Functional Competencies:

Conceptual thinking and analytical skills;
Excellent communication, technical, presentation and writing skills;
Computer literacy.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

An advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in environmental management and/or policy with a specific focus on the training topic.

Experience:

At least 10 years of work experience in the environment related training.

Language:

Excellent English communication skills;
Working knowledge in the Arabic language is an asset.

Please observe the following requirements for application:

Candidates are not required/expected to apply to all training topics. Please only apply to topic(s) within your scope of experience and qualification.

Applications to be uploaded must include

A proposed training agenda (to be tailored to the candidate's topic(s) of choice)
CV;
Letter of Motivation outlining how your experience, skills, qualifications and professional networks fit with the required deliverables (one page maximum);
Financial Proposal for the training.

N.B. Since the candidate is only allowed to upload one document, please be sure to merge all requirements into one file.

Besides applying via this website, please also send your application via email to Dr. Mostafa Kamel, the project Regional Director, at kmostafa@sci.cu.edu.eg