Historique

UNDP has been appointed Principal Recipient of a Global Fund in Guinea Bissau for malaria and TB Grants. One of the most important results of Malaria Grant is meeting universal target for access to mosquito bed nets LLIN. The implementation of a LLIN distribution and mass media campaign is scheduled for February 2014. UNDP will work closely with national partners on this campaign and will coordinate drafting of the campaign macro plan, the micro-planning, supply and logistics, communication, the distribution proper and monitoring & evaluation aspects. UNDP is looking for an external consultant to manage the entire campaign plan comprising supply, logistics and technical components which would have to be validated by national partners. The project aims at distributing 942 025 in 8 regions including islands in Guinea-Bissau. 2011 mass media bed nets distribution campaign in Guinea Bissau will be used as reference and all existing documentation can be used for planning and execution of this campaign.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Under the supervision of the Global Fund Manager and in close collaboration with the Procurement Specialist of UNDP, the consultant will carry out the following tasks:
  • Collect all documentation related to 2011 mass media bed nets distribution campaign and lessons learnt;
  • Work with the national campaign coordination committee to ensure effective coordination of the implementation of the campaign chronogram, initiating relevant revisions;
  • Coordinate the work of all committees and subcommittees put in place for the campaign;
  • Organize field visits to regions, sectors and health areas to interact with partners to assess preparedness for LLIN distribution campaign, identify bottlenecks and help addressing these;
  • Support the preparation and conduct of micro planning at the local level;
  • Coordinate with the logistics team leader the pre-positioning of the LLINs on distribution sites;
  • Review campaign budget and propose relevant budgetary revisions in accordance with the campaign action plan.
  • Review training plans for the campaign and participate in the organization of the training activities;
  • In collaboration with the communication subcommittee, prepare and propose material for high level advocacy for the campaign;
  • Put in place an appropriate strategy to monitor and report on the distribution and hang-up of the LLINs;
  • Document the entire campaign process with milestones and lessons learnt;
  • Submit a detailed report of the campaign with lessons learnt and recommendations.

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.
Functional Competencies:
  • Knowledge Management and Learning;
  • Promotes knowledge management in UNDP and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example;
  • Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills;
  •  Development and Operational Effectiveness;
  • Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;
  • Ability to lead formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development program and projects, mobilize resources;
  • Ability to formulate and manage budgets, manages contributions and investments, manage transactions, conduct financial analysis, reporting and cost-recovery;
  • Ability to implement new systems and affect staff behavioral/ attitudinal change;
  • Ability to apply development theory to the specific country context to identify creative, practical approaches to overcome challenging situations;
  • Strong IT skills, web-based management systems;
  • Excellent knowledge of financial rules and regulations, accounting;
  • Excellent knowledge of Results Based Management;
  • Management and Leadership;
  • Builds strong relationships with implementing partners, focuses on impact and result for the implementing partners and responds positively to feedback;
  • Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
  • Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills;
  • Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
  • Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure;
  • Excellent negotiation, managerial and analytical skills;
  • Sensitivity to a changing political and economic environment and to the range of professional perspectives of the supervised staff;
  • Good leadership skills with ability to oversee a diverse and multicultural team;
  • Ability to work under stress and pressure.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:
  •  Master’s degree in public health or related area.
Experience:
  • At least 5 years of experience in health sector;
  • Experience in designing and coordination of mass media health national campaigns in African countries;
  • Logistics experience in distribution of Heath Product is desirable;
  • Previous experience in logistics or health area in Guinea Bissau will be an asset;.
  • Good communication skills and ability to coordinate team.
Language:
  • French or Portuguese and working knowledge of English.
Application procedure:

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
Proposal:
  • Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work.
Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work (if applicable)
  • Financial proposal;
  • Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references.
Contracts based on daily fee
 
The financial proposal will specify the daily fee (estimation of days at 150 days), travel expenses to Bissau and out of Bissau after assignment and per diems quoted in separate line items, and payments are made to the Individual Consultant based on the number of days worked.
 
Travel:
 
All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.
 
In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodologies:
 
Evaluation
 
Cumulative analysis
 
When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose 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 specific to the solicitation;
  • Technical Criteria weight; [70%];
  •  Financial Criteria weight; [30%].
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70 points would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

Note:

Availability from October 2013 to June 2013 for various phases of assignment.