Background

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) works to support the ongoing peace and confidence building process by promoting initiatives that encourage dialogue and cooperation between the communities of Cyprus.

With funding from the EU and implementation by UNDP the “Support Facility to the Bi-Communal Technical Committees" provides financial, conceptual, and operational support in the preparation and realization of small, ad-hoc activities as well as more substantive projects and interventions.

The Bi-Communal Technical Committee on Crime and Criminal Matters, in collaboration with Bi-Communal Technical Committee on Education is now implementing a bi-communal Action, “Prevalence, Correlates and prevention of conventional bullying in schools and cyberbullying”. Implementation of this Action will include the following activities:

Collection and Analysis of Data: Random sampling of primary and secondary schools will be conducted in the two communities with sample around 1000 within each community. The data will be utilized to:

• Calculate the prevalence of bullying, victimization, cyberbullying and cyber victimization among Turkish- Cypriot and Greek-Cypriot primary and secondary school pupils.
• Identify both the major risk and protective factors of bullying, victimization, cyberbullying, cyber victimization, as well as collect systematic data on stereotypes, prejudice, trust, school climate, in-group norms, and intergroup contact.
• map out the extent and nature of the phenomenon and, also, provide knowledge to be utilized in the training of teachers.

Teachers’ Training Workshops: Two bi-communal teacher’s training workshops will be conducted for Greek-Cypriot and Turkish- Cypriot teachers.

A half- day conference for dissemination of results: A bi-communal conference will be organized to disseminate results and key findings of the study and project outcomes.

Within this context, UNDP is seeking a Research Assistant (Turkish Speaking) to work jointly with a Greek Speaking Research Assistant (who is planned to be deployed though a separate recruitment / procurement process) on a part time basis for the coordination, promotion, administration, analysis, and reporting of the questionnaires.

Duties and Responsibilities

Competencies

Professionalism

• Shows pride in work and in achievements.
• Demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter.
• Is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results.
• Is motivated by professional rather than personal concerns.
• Shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; remains calm in stressful situations.

Communication

• Speaks and writes clearly and effectively.
• Listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately.
• Asks questions to clarify and exhibits interest in having two-way communication.
• Demonstrates openness in sharing information and keeping people informed.

Planning & Organizing

• Identifies priority activities and assignments; adjusts priorities as required.
• Allocates appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work.
• Foresees risks and allows for contingencies when planning.
• Monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary.
• Uses time efficiently

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• B.A. Degree in Psychology or in another relevant Social Science is required
• Master’s Degree in Psychology, School Psychology or in another relevant Social Science will be considered an advantage

Experience:

• Knowledge of SPSS is required
• Previous experience of minimum 1 year with questionnaire surveys and data coding, analysis and write-up will be considered an advantage
• Previous experience in bi-communal projects will be considered an advantage

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Turkish is required

Other Requirements:

• Valid driving license
• Ability and willingness to travel island wide

Application:

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

• CV or Personal History (P11): Applicants are required to submit CV or a P11 Form. The UNDP P11 Form can be downloaded from:

 http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/corporate/Careers/P11_Personal_history_form.doc

• Reference; Contact details of 3 references
• Financial Proposal: Applicants are requested to submit an output based financial proposal in Euro by filling in the table provided below. Please note that the financial proposal is all-inclusive, and shall cover all expenditures incurred by the consultant including fees, health insurance, vaccination, international (all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel) or local travel (place of residence to office and office to place of residence), personal security needs, cost of living and any other relevant expenses related to the performance of services. All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. Leave benefits (annual, sick, paternity, maternity) are not applicable to Individual Contractor and absent days including weekends and office holidays are not payable.

Logistics of the Assignment:

The Consultant shall arrange her/his own local travel. The consultant  will need to work remotely, and will be required to provide his/her  own laptop, mobile phone and other relevant equipment for working purposes.

Evaluation / Selection Process

All applicants will be screened against qualifications set above. Candidates fully meeting the requirements will be further evaluated based on the criteria below.

Technical Criteria (CV review and interviews/desk review) – 70% of total evaluation– max. 70 points

CV review: 20 points:

• Educational qualification as defined in the ToR (10 points)
• Experience as defined in the ToR  (10 points)

Only candidates who obtained at least 70% of points from the CV review (who will score at least 14 points) will be eligible to be invited for an interview/desk review.

Interview/Desk review: 50 points

• Master’s degree (8 points)
• Knowledge of SPSS (20 points)
• Previous experience with questionnaire surveys and data coding, analysis and write-up  (16 points)
• Previous experience in bi-communal projects  (6 points)

Only those individual consultants who obtained at least 70% of points from the CV review and Interview/desk review (49 out of 70) will be considered for financial proposal evaluation.

Financial Criteria - 30% of total evaluation – max. 30 points.

Financial scores will be calculated using the formula [lowest offer / financial offer of the candidate x 30].

UNDP applies the “Best value for money approach” – the final selection will be based on the combination of the applicants’ qualification and financial proposal.

Payment Term:

Payments will be made in five instalments upon the submission of the certification of payment form and the completion and approval of the following sets of outputs by UNDP:

• Output / Deliverable 1
• Output / Deliverable 2
• Output / Deliverable 3
• Output / Deliverable 4
• Output / Deliverable 5