Antecedentes

Deberes y responsabilidades

• Providing support to the MoP in general and the Socio-Economic Planning Department (SEPD) in particular in areas pertaining to expert advice on the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of national socio-economic policies, programmes and plans;
• Providing technical support to the SEPD in the preparation of periodical socio-economic reports including analysis of trends, indicators of growth and development of policy recommendations to the Ministry’s leadership;
• Providing technical support for the SEPD staff to design, conduct and coordinate social and economic studies either with the relevant government counterparts or with academia and think tanks in Libya and abroad;
• Providing technical support, advice and assistance to the SEPD to develop national development plans. This includes training of the staff and development of guidelines in accordance to best international standards, while adapting them to the Libyan context;
• Providing technical support to SEPD on understanding, developing and analyzing socio-economic indicators; including GDP, life expectancy, literacy and levels of employment as well as supporting the staff in the identification of specific factors particular to the Libyan context and that can have a direct or indirect impact on national socio-economic conditions;
• Conduct specific training for the staff in specific areas as above, mainly socio-economic analysis, strategic planning, policy formulation, national development, use of econometrics and statistical analysis in analyzing and measuring economic performance;
• Providing support to SEPD in assessing the country’s macro-economic policies and their impact on socio-economic performance;
• Providing support in developing specific national guidelines pertaining to socio-economic analysis and policy development;
• Ensuring that there is an on-going training and technical development process for SEPD staff;
• Providing Expert advice to the Minister of Planning on specific areas pertaining to the capacity development of SEPD staff, development of specific national policies and guidelines required to institutionalize the work of the department and to improve the performance of its staff;
• Sharing of best practices and lessons learned on successful capacity building programming for socio-economic planning and monitoring in post conflict countries;
• Developing and institutionalizing strategic partnerships with the Libyan counterparts, including the Ministry of Planning, the respective ministries and departments directly linked to SEPD tasks and national and international academia and think tanks working in the relevant field;
• Any other business the Ministry of Planning and the SEPD may need.

Competencias

• Promotes the vision, mission and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favoritism.

Functional Competencies:

• Demonstrates a strong understanding of best international practices in macro-economics, development of socio-economic indicators, economic modeling and applied econometrics;
• Demonstrates openness and ability to understand socio-economic issues and challenges in Libya;
• Displays a good understanding of economic reform in post-conflict contexts;
• Demonstrates a good knowledge of capacity building and policy formulation;

• Promotes knowledge sharing and learning culture in the UNDP Libya Country Office;
• In-depth conceptual and practical knowledge of macro-economics and post-conflict development issues;
• Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.

• Ability to communicate complicated ideas to multi-constituencies in areas of macro-economics, econometrics, statistical analysis and capacity building.

• Ability to lead development of economic models;
• Ability to lead the formulation of specific policy recommendations;
• Ability to formulate and analyze socio-economic indicators and statistical analysis;
• Ability to lead capacity development and building of new systems (business side), and affect staff behavioral/attitudinal change.

• Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and results for the client and responds positively to feedback;
• Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive and constructive attitude;
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
• Ability to lead effectively, mentoring as well as conflict resolution skills;
• Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities;
• Ability to lead effectively, mentoring as well as conflict resolution skills;
• Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills;
• Remains calm, in control and good humored even under pressure;
• Proven networking, team-building, organizational and communication skills;

• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, excel, power point presentations, etc.,) and advance knowledge of spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web based management systems;
• Strong writing skills including technical reports, general reports, proposals and preparation of budgets;
• Extensive background experience working in and knowledge of at least one or two economic areas (macro-economics and econometrics);
• The ability to train and mentor staff.

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

• An advanced university degree (Ph.D.) in Development Economics, Economics, or other related field.

• A minimum of 15 years of work experience at national or international level, related to macro-economic analysis, policy analysis, advisory services, policy forecasting and development of economic indicators;
• Strong experience in economic model building and macro-economic analysis;
• Strong experience in applied policy analysis, policy forecasting and scenario building, and research on development issues with focus on socio-economic analysis and development of indicators;
• Strong experience in providing specialized advice on policy formulation, and economic reform in post-conflict context; 
• Strong capacity in analyzing complex national context and data across the various sectors
• Strong capacity in conceptualizing and designing research techniques;
• Proven intellectual and practical capacity in supporting post-conflict socio-economic recovery;
• Proven capacity to develop technical and analytical capacities of national staff;
• Proven experience with coaching, advisory and capacity development of national government counterparts in post-conflict recovery process;
• Experience with national ministries and specialized international agencies ;
• Experience with universities, research institutes, preferably doing research in macroeconomics and socio-economics would be an asset;
• Experience with UN Agencies is an asset.

• Fluency (both spoken and written) in English and Arabic

• Motivation Letter describing their interest in the assignment and why they are the most suitable for the work;
• Curriculum Vitae and Personal History Form (P11) including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references;
• Financial Proposal Form (Annex 3- offeror's letter to UNDP)  providing a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including travel, per diems) is to be provided by the offeror;
• Additional documents referred in the Evaluation section of IC procurement notice.

• Applications with No financial offer or Missing P11 form or the required documents for the technical evaluation will NOT be considered for evaluation;
• Financial proposal should be on provided format (i.e Annex 3- offeror's letter to UNDP);
• Incomplete proposals will not be considered.