Empleos en el PNUD - 49488- International Consultant

International Consultant – Project End Evaluation of CSSED Project

Localidad :

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Tipo de contrato :

Individual Contract

Fecha de comienzo del contrato :

28-Sep-2014

Fecha límite de postulación :

15-Sep-14 (Medianoche Nueva York, Estados Unidos)

Nivel de puesto :

International Consultant

Duración del contrato inicial :

Idiomas requeridos :

Inglés

Duración esperada del puesto :

15 working days

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Antecedentes

The Election Commission Bangladesh (ECB) has recently registered over 92 million voters electronically, capturing photographs and fingerprints digitally in addition to basic voter information. As per the legal provision the Commission needs to update the list each year following nationwide voter information update drive. Currently the commissions update the voter list manually visiting voters door to door, which is a very costly and time consuming effort for the commission to continue each year.

Against this backdrop to decentralize voter registration functions the commission had decided to construct regional, district and upazila server stations to provide cost and time efficient voter registration services to the people and take the support to the doorsteps of the people. The Construction of Server Stations for the Electoral Database (CSSED) project is helping to secure the sustainability of the democratic wins of recent years by assisting the Election Commission Bangladesh (ECB) to find, design and build the server stations that facilitates the decentralization of voter registration and enhance voter access to the electoral process. The project as per plan has so far constructed 448 server stations out of total 464 server stations. The project aims to construct 394 Upazila Server Stations, 10 Thana Server Stations, 51 District Server Stations and 9 Regional Server Stations.

The project, as per the agreement with the government will complete its tenure on 31 December 2014, therefore, a project end evaluation is required to capture the activities, achievements, challenges and lessons learned.

Deberes y responsabilidades

Objectives:

The specific objectives of this End-Term Evaluation are to assess, and make recommendations with regard to, the following areas:

Are the project outcomes consistent with the ECB priorities?
Weigh the project impact in terms of national priority;
How much the project could benefit the citizens of the country?
Has this project been able to reduce the time and cost of registering new voters;
How best the outcome of the project can be utilized by the ECB to foster citizen-state engagement;
How the project ensured best value for money?
Weigh the project achievements against the financial expenditure;
Are the project maintained the standard construction procedures and managed the administration in an effective way.

Scope of work and expected outputs / deliverables:

The International Consultant will work as a team leader of the evaluation team comprised with another national evaluator;
The scope of the evaluation will include the entire project period;
The evaluation will capture all activities conducted during the period, achievements, challenges and lessons learned.

The individual contractor will deliver below specific functions:

Assess operational and financial management of the project in terms of tendering procurement and monitoring of various activities across the country;
Review the management arrangement between different governments departments involved in implementation of the activities;
Provide recommendations to the ECB to ensure the sustainability of the activities;
Provide recommendations on how best the ECB can utilize these establishments to engage with the voters and other relevant stakeholders.

Expected deliverables:

An action plan to complete the evaluation, this may include field visit and meeting with relevant government departments;
Presentation of the draft evaluation plan to the cluster and senior management;
Final evaluation based on inputs received from different stakeholders and UNDP management.

Supervision and Performance Evaluation:

The consultant will work under the direct supervision of the Project Manager and National Project Director of the project and under the overall guidance from the Programme Specialist – Political Governance Cluster;
The consultant needs to regularly update cluster about the progress.

Timeframe and deadlines:

The assignment will be for 15 working days commencing from 28 September till 15 November 2014;
The consultant will have to stay at Dhaka, Bangladesh for 20 days and the rest of days will be home-based.

Reports:

The consultant will report to the programme officer of Political Governance Sub-cluster on day-to-day issues and all reports produced by the consultant will be reviewed by the sub-cluster and the ACD before wider circulation;
The International Consultant will produce a mission end report and submit to the sub-cluster.

Inputs:

The consultants will be provided with office space within the project and all necessary meetings and discussion will be arranged by the project;
However, the consultant is highly recommended to bring his/her own laptop;
Any, necessary field visit will also be arranged by the project with food, accommodation and other logistics.

Tentative Payment Schedule:

30% of the contract amount upon review of relevant documents;
70% of the contract amount upon submission of final report.

Competencias

Corporate Competencies:

Serves and promotes the vision, mission, values, and strategic goals of the UN;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability plans, prioritizes, and delivers tasks on time;

Functional Competencies:

Job Knowledge & Expertise:

Demonstrates substantive and technical knowledge to meet responsibilities and post requirements with excellence;
Demonstrated sound judgment in resolving issues/problems;
Ability to proactively seek and recommend sound policy initiatives and high-level advice.

Creativity:

Ability to actively seek to improve or offer new and different options to solve problems/meet client needs, and promote and persuade others to consider new ideas.

Communications:

Excellent and effective communication (verbal and written) skills, including ability to make recommendations;
Diplomacy and tact; present information in a concise and accurate manner;
Ability to convey difficult issues and positions to senior officials.

Teamwork:

Excellent inter-personal skills with an ability to foster teamwork, work in a multi-cultural, mixed gender environment with sensitivity

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

Education:

Must have a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering or Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering with MBA.

Experience:

At least 10 years of relevant professional engineering experience;
Prior evaluation experience of construction project of development organizations;
Experience evaluating projects following Result-Based Management and value for money methodology;
Experience with multilateral or bilateral donor supported projects;
Prior working experience with UN/UNDP would be considered as an advantage;
Knowledge of government procurement procedure is essential.

Language:

Fluency in speaking and writing in English.

Evaluation of the Candidates:

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology.

Cumulative analysis:

The candidates will be evaluated through Cumulative Analysis method.

The award of the contract will 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 a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points in the technical evaluation would be considered for Financial Evaluation.

Technical Evaluation Criteria (Total 70 marks):

Overall experience in the provision with services (30 marks);
Specific experience in the provision with similar service (20 marks);
Adequacy of the proposed methodology and approach in responding to the TOR (20 marks).

Financial Evaluation (Total 30 marks)

All technical qualified proposals will be scored out 30 based on the formula provided below. The maximum points (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals received points according to the following formula: p = y (µ/z), where:

p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated;
y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal;
µ = price of the lowest priced proposal;
z = price of the proposal being evaluated.

Documents to be included when submitting the proposals:

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

Technical proposal explaining why he/she is the most suitable candidate for the assignment;
Updated P11 with name and address of three referees.