Antecedentes

In September 2009, the Legal Sector Master Plan was officially adopted by the Government of Lao PDR. The Master Plan lays out a framework for the country’s first broad-ranging legal reform in order to achieve its ultimate goal of establishing a rule of law state by 2020. It is a comprehensive and candid statement of the current needs of the legal system as well as a series of guiding principles for developing a rule of law state and action plan to achieve this goal. The Plan represents an effort at coordinated legal system development consistent with the guidance of the political report of the 9th Party Congress.

In order to support the implementation of the Master Plan, UNDP, together with other donors, launched a new project (“Support Project for Implementation of the Legal Sector Master Plan”) in January 2014. As the first attempt towards a programme-based approach in the legal sector of Lao PDR, the SPLSMP is expected to deliver the following 6 key outputs:

  • Enhanced capacity, procedures, and standards for legislative development and implementation in Lao PDR;
  • Improved capacity, structure, and arrangements further improved at legal and judicial institutions for more effective and responsive judicial process;
  • More systematic development of legal and judicial professionals enabled through the establishment of a unified judicial training institute;
  • Increased public understanding of legal rights and information, and increased participation in the legal system towards full realisation of their rights;
  • Lao PDR’s further integration into regional and international communities enabled through adoption, implementation, enforcement, monitoring, and reporting of international legal instruments;
  • Enhanced capacity of the Secretariat for more effective coordination in the legal sector and implementation of the LSMP.

Deberes y responsabilidades

The expert/institute will be expected to develop curricular to suit the requirements of the Peoples Supreme Court (beneficiary organization) targeting three different levels; namely advance, intermediary and beginners. The beneficiary organization will identify the extent of their needs and will act as the sole authority to certify and acknowledge the completion of the course by its officials in consultation with the expert /institute.

Expected Deliverables and Timeframe (3 days/week, over 8 months (4:00pm-7:00pm)

There are outlined below:

  •  Develop work plan, detail work arrangement and evaluation system;
  •  Develop placement exam for all level;
  •  Develop curricular for basic  English;
  •  Roll out training beginners;
  •  Develop curricular for intermediary English;
  •  Roll out training for the intermediary level;
  •  Develop  curricular for advanced English;
  •  Roll out training for advanced level English.

Competencias

Functional Competencies:

  • Shares knowledge and experience;
  • Plan and prioritizes work activities to meet organizational goals;
  • Builds and sustains relationships with key constituents (international/external/bilateral/ multilateral/public/private/civil society);
  • Conceptualizes and analyzes problems to identify key issues, underlying problems, and how they relate;
  • Demonstrates excellent and effective written and oral communication skills;
  • Demonstrate respect to knowledge and culture and religion in a multidisciplinary working environment;
  • Applies the required depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise to meet job demands;
  • Uses information technology effectively as a tools and resource;
  • Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability in taking on this type of consultancy.

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.

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

Education:

  • Advanced university degree in English or related relevant fields.

Experience:

  • Minimum of 10 years of work experience as an English teacher.

Languages:

  • Excellent command of written and spoken English.

Requirements for submission of proposals

All interested and qualified candidates should apply on-line using the following links:

UNDP Lao PDR Country Office website at http://www.la.undp.org/content/lao_pdr/en/home/operations/jobs/

Or UNDP Jobs at http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_jobs.cfm

In order to make submission please read the attached relevant documents which are also available on our website:

  • TOR (Annex I
  • Individual Contract & General Terms and Conditions (Annex II);
  • Offeror's letter to UNDP to  UNDP confirming interest and availability(Annex III).

Documents to be included when submitting the proposals

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

  • Technical and Financial Proposal as per Annex III “Offeror's letter to UNDP confirmin interest and availability”;
  • Explaining why you are the most suitable for the work;
  • Providing a brief methodology on how you will approach and conduct the work including the work schedule for the delivery of outputs/deliverables;
  • Some samples of teaching syllabus that you have used in the past;
  • CV including past experience in similar projects and contact reference of at least 3 references for whom you have rendered preferably the similar services;

Note:

The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR.  In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including travel, per diems, and number of anticipated working days). All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. UNDP accept travel costs not exceeding of an economy class air ticket.

Please kindly refer to the Terms of Reference Annex I for detailed information on:

Project’s background

Scope of work and Responsibilities

Deliverables

Requirements for Experience and Qualifications

Evaluation of Proposals:

Cumulative analysis: The award of the contract will be made to a consultant who offer has been evaluated and determined as Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and

Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria:

  •  Technical Criteria weight; [0.7];
  •  Financial Criteria weight; [0.3].

Only a consultant obtaining a minimum of 70% (49 points) in the technical rating would be considered for the financial evaluation.

Note:  Any request for clarification must be sent in writing to the following e-mail: kazuo.fukuda@undp.org with CC to phadthakone.sophavilay@undp.org.

UNDP Lao PDR will respond in writing by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all consultants.

The copies of the response will be also placed on our web-site at:   http://www.la.undp.org/content/lao_pdr/en/home/operations/jobs/ and linked to the current Procurement Notice.

All interested candidates are encouraged to visit the above web-site for updates.

Please note that only short-listed candidates will be notified.

Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

For more detailed information about UNDP Lao PDR please visit our website at http://www.la.undp.org/lao_pdr/en/home.html