UNDP Jobs - 61913- National/ International Consultant to Develop Docu

National/ International Consultant to Develop Documentation and Communications Packages

Location :

Kampala, UGANDA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

30-Nov-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

30 working days spread over two months

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

30 working days spread over two months

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

Uganda remains susceptible to highly devastating disasters, including hydrological, geological, climatic and human-induced that exert a significant toll on its population and impose a significant socio-economic cost and which, to some extent, affects the country’s ability to maximize the benefits from its economic growth and social development. Over the past decades, the incidences of devastating disasters have increased in frequency, intensity and geographical spread. The country remains vulnerable to a range of hazards that, if not prevented and mitigated, can once again result in disasters. With impacts of climate variability and change becoming more pronounced leading to increasing incidence of climate-induced disasters and wide-ranging impacts on the lives and livelihoods of people, the need to mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into the development planning process and to build capacities for reducing and mitigating their impacts has been recognized by the Government of Uganda (GoU) in the National Development Plan (NDP) and other policy pronouncements.

The Government of Uganda, in partnership with UNDP, has put in place a number of measures to reduce and manage disaster and climate risks, and to strengthen the resilience of people and communities to natural and climatic hazards. This includes the roll-out of a national early warning system, the establishment of the National Emergency Coordination and Operations Centre, conducting hazard, risk and vulnerability assessments to inform development planning and investments, the training of government officials, defense personal and police officers, in addition to a number of measure at the policy level to integrate disaster and climate risk and inform decision-makers.

Over the past 8 years, UNDP together with other development partners have supported the Government of Uganda in its efforts to ensure recovery and development of Northern Uganda. The support has been in the framework of the Peace Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP) which commenced implementation in July 2009 and is now in its third phase. The main objective of PRDP is to complete the post-conflict recovery process; to strengthen the foundation for development in Northern Uganda and to narrow the gap between Northern Uganda and the national average level of all socio-economic indicators. There have been different approaches and mechanisms deployed by UNDP in its support to Northern Uganda through various projects including, Local Development and Social Cohesion in Northern Uganda Project. This project that commenced in 2013 and will run until June 2016 is primarily aimed at contributing to social and economic stabilization. There is need to document the approaches, mechanisms and best practices utilized by UNDP for future reference and use in development of new programmes for Northern Uganda.

Duties and Responsibilities

Develop a package of communication products that capture UNDP’s support to Government–led efforts to strengthen Uganda’s resilience to disaster and climate risk, including early warning, capacity-building and community-level risk reduction initiatives; and
Develop a package of communications products documenting approaches, mechanisms and best practices utilized by UNDP in its support to recovery and development of Northern Uganda.

Scope of Work and Methodology

UNDP intends to engage a consultant with the requisite expertise and experience in communications relevant to support UNDP highlight its partnership with the Government of Uganda in the areas of disaster risk reduction for resilience and to document approaches, mechanisms and best practices in support to the recovery and development of Northern Uganda.

The consultant’s scope of work will consist of the following 2 packages; in consultation with UNDP, package 1 will comprise the following:

Booklet documenting UNDP’s partnership with the GoU on the areas of disaster and climate risk management and resilience;
A short animation (1 minutes) highlighting UNDP’s partnership (results) with the GoU on the area of DRM and resilience;
At least 4 case studies (500 words with photo) highlighting the impact of UNDP support for disaster and climate risk management interventions in Uganda, including national efforts, policies, long-term vision and at the community level;
At least 4 web stories on UNDP’s support to (1) the NECOC; (2) Civil-Military disaster preparedness (UPDF); (3) risk-informed district-level planning; and (4) climate risk management.
15 photos illustrating UNDP support in action; and
Advocacy support to the Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme in Uganda: An updated national project profile (to be used with donors, websites, etc.); Pilot site profiles (to be placed on UNDP’s CRM website, etc.).

In consultation with UNDP, package 2 will comprise the following:

Booklet documenting UNDP’s approaches, mechanisms and best practices in support to recovery and development of Northern Uganda;
At least 6 case studies (500 words with photo) highlighting the impact of UNDP support to recovery and development process of Northern Uganda;
At least 4 web success stories on UNDP’s support in areas of (1) community justice and security, (2) Creation of employment opportunities for youth, women and other vulnerable persons, (3) Livelihoods enhancement for youth, women and other vulnerable persons, (4) Capacity development for local authorities in civic engagement, planning and coordination for economic recovery and peace consolidation;
15 photos illustrating UNDP support in action.

Expected Deliverables

An inception report with a work plan and projected schedule at the beginning of the assignment; and
Two communications packages, as outlined above.

Working Arrangements

Institutional Arrangement

The consultant will be supervised by the respective programme managers, and the Crisis Prevention and Recovery Team Leader at UNDP. The outputs/deliverables will be presented by the Consultant to UNDP and respective Government counterparts.

The Consultant will work closely with relevant Government officials and UNDP’s Crisis Prevention and Recovery team, with the latter closely monitoring progress of the Consultant. Regular meetings will be undertaken to discuss progress and to address any issues.

Duration of the Work:

The assignment is expected to take a period of 30 working days spread over a two months period, in accordance with the scope of work and indicative period for submission of draft packages, as noted above.

Duty Station (Kampala)

Home-based with a number of meetings and field visits. Despite this, both National and International Consultants may apply for the opportunity.

Competencies

Mature judgment and initiative;
Ability to think out-of-the-box;
Ability to present complex issues in simple and clear manner;
Demonstrates integrity and ethical standards;
Ability to work under pressure and deliver high quality results on time;
Initiative and independence;
Analytic capacity and demonstrated ability to process analyse and synthesise complex, technical information from different disciplines;
Proven ability to support the development of high quality knowledge materials, as well as audio-visual communications product.

Special skills requirements

Strong communication skills; able to communicate effectively with people and able to write concisely and make presentations in a simple non-technical manner;
Excellent analytical, organizational and negotiation skills. Ability to demonstrate tact and diplomacy.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic qualifications:

A Master’s degree in a relevant field, including communications, disaster management, development studies, economics, development economics or related fields, natural resources management, social sciences and /natural science or related qualification from a recognized university.

Experience:

At least 5 years each of relevant work experience in communications;
Experience in working with international organizations on similar assignments;
Demonstrated expertise and experience in researching;

Language skills:

Fluency in written and spoken English;

Price proposal and Schedule of payments:

Price Proposal:

This shall be all inclusive (professional fees, travel costs, living allowances, communications, consumables, etc.) that could possibly be incurred by the Contractor should be factored into the final amounts submitted in the proposal). The potential consultant should thus submit an all-inclusive bid with detailed costing for professional fees, operational costs, support personnel (i.e. photographer / animator) to be deployed as well as the travel costs anticipated etc.

Note:

Individuals on IC are not UN staff and are therefore not entitled to DSAs. All living allowances required to perform the demands of the TOR must be incorporated in the financial proposal.

Cumulative analysis:

The award of the contract shall 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. Example 70%-30%.

* Technical Criteria weight; – 70%

* Financial Criteria weight; – 30%

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation

Technical Criteria– Maximum 70 points

Criteria A Relevance of Education - Max 5 points;
Criteria B Special skills, Language - Max 5 Points;
Criteria C Relevance of experience- Max 30 points;
Criteria D Description of approach/methodology to assignment - Max 30 Points.

Documents to be included when submitting proposal:

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:

Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP (Annex II);
Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and, telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references;

Technical proposal:

Brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment;
A methodology, on how they will approach and complete the assignment.

Financial proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided (Annex II)

For Annexes, please check on our Procurement Notices Website http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=26911. Please note that when you have finished preparing your application together with the annexes, put all documents into one single document, this should include your CV, methodology for the assignment, financial proposal as in Annex II and then upload (as one document).

For clarifications, please send an email to justine.naiga-bagonza@undp.org and copy agnes.kintu@undp.org as well as diana.nabbanja@undp.org .