UNDP Jobs - 40712- National Consultant for Metal Conservation for Dar

National Consultant for Metal Conservation for Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah (DAI)

Location :

Kuwait, KUWAIT

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

14-Oct-13 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

Languages Required :

Arabic English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

3 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

Technical support of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development (SCPD) has been a central element of UNDP work in the state of Kuwait. Several UNDP assisted projects were implemented in support of enhancing the national capacities of public enterprises. Within the framework of the conversation and display of selected artifacts from the Dar Al-Athar Al-Islamiyyah (DAI) collection at the Kuwait national museum (KNM), both government of Kuwait represented by SCPD as the executing agency and DAI as the implementing agency, have indicated their desire to extend the technical assistance of UNDP to DAI for the training of conversation of the collection for the KNM in accordance with the UNDP Country cooperation framework for Kuwait (2009-2014).

The DAI collection contains a wide range of material including metals, jewelry, numismatics, architectural and decorative wood, ivory, ceramics and glass, books and manuscripts, textiles and carpets, stone and leather.

Objectives:

The international expert will assist DAI in the conservation of selected artifacts in metal from the DAI collection of the Kuwait National Museum and will provide training and advice to the assistant conservators of DAI. The successful candidate will work with and be under the direction of the objects conservator.

Duties and Responsibilities

Assist DAI to undertake conservation work on the collection for KNM and undertake any other work pertaining to the conservation of the collection as requested by the concerned authorities.
Train and advise the DAI assistant conservators in conservation work on the collection, with specific emphasis on ivory artifacts.
Liase with curatorial and exhibition staff.
Coordinate with collection office to meet expected output and guarantee quality work.
Coordinate with conservation office to meet expected output and guarantee quality work.• Undertake any other tasks pertaining to the consultancy deemed appropriate to DAI and UNDP.

Expected Outputs:

Kuwaiti nationals / DAI appointed staff trained in conservation of metal artifacts.
Support to DAI collection and conservation offices in implementing the methodology of conservation for the artifacts in ivory.
Monthly and final reports to assess to progress and the results of the mission.

Competencies

Knowledge and familiarity with the DAI collection.
Knowledge and familiarity with the DAI cultural mission and vision.
Excellent exhibition installation knowledge and experience.
Excellent teaching skills to help develop Kuwaiti nationals.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to exercise considerable individual judgment and initiative in conducting the necessary operations within the program.
Ability to coordinate project activities with diverse groups and individuals.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Degree in conservation from a recognized university (or equivalent institution);
Membership of recognized professional bodies.

Experience:

10 years minimum of proven experience in the field of ancient artifacts conservation, specifically in metal, at national or international level.

Language:

Fluent English.

Duration:

3 months.

Documents to be included when submitting the proposals
Applicants shall submit the following documents:

Letter of interest/proposal, providing brief methodology on how the work will be conducted and/or approached.
Personal CV, including information about past experience in similar projects / assignments and contact details for referees;
Financial proposal;
Reference to or copies of previously developed knowledge materials, including analytical reports, research papers, case study materials, etc.

Lump sum contract

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).

Travel costs

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.
Evaluation method:

Cumulative analysis

Contract award shall be made to the incumbent whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

Responsive/compliant/acceptable; and
Having received the cumulative 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 70% from the maximum available technical score (70 points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

The maximum number of points assigned to the financial proposal is allocated to the lowest price proposal and will equal to 30. All other price proposals will be evaluated and assigned points, as per below formula:

30 points [max points available for financial part] x [lowest of all evaluated offered prices among responsive offers] / [evaluated price].

The proposal obtaining the overall cumulatively highest score after adding the score of the technical proposal and the financial proposal will be considered as the most compliant offer and will be awarded the Individual Contract.

Payments will be made only upon confirmation of UNDP on delivering on the contract obligations in satisfactory manner.
Individual Consultants are responsible for ensuring they have vaccinations/inoculations when travelling to certain countries, as designated by the UN Medical Director. Consultants are also required to comply with the UN security directives set forth under dss.un.org
Qualified women and members of minorities are encouraged to apply.

Due to large number of applications we receive, we are able to inform only the successful candidates about the outcome or status of the selection process.

Please attached any/all related documents in one file along with the CV.