UNDP Jobs - 64182- International Consultant on a Review of Provisions

International Consultant on a Review of Provisions Related to Human Rights in the Draft Penal Code of Lao PDR

Location :

Vientiane Capital, LAO PDR

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

05-Mar-16 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

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

In September 2009, the Legal Sector Master Plan was officially adopted by the Government of Lao PDR. The Master Plan lays out a framework for the country’s first broad-ranging legal reform in order to achieve its ultimate goal of establishing a rule of law state by 2020. It is a comprehensive and candid statement of the current needs of the legal system as well as a series of guiding principles for developing a rule of law state and action plan to achieve this goal. The Plan represents an effort at coordinated legal system development consistent with the guidance of the political report of the 9th Party Congress.

In order to support the implementation of the Master Plan, UNDP, together with other donors, launched the Support Project for Implementation of the Legal Sector Master Plan in January 2014. As the first attempt towards a programme-based approach in the legal sector of Lao PDR, the SPLSMP is expected to deliver the following 6 key outputs:

Enhanced capacity, procedures, and standards for legislative development and implementation in Lao PDR;
Improved capacity, structure, and arrangements further improved at legal and judicial institutions for more effective and responsive judicial process;
More systematic development of legal and judicial professionals enabled through the establishment of a unified judicial training institute;
Increased public understanding of legal rights and information, and increased participation in the legal system towards full realisation of their rights;
Lao PDR’s further integration into regional and international communities enabled through adoption, implementation, enforcement, monitoring, and reporting of international legal instruments;
Enhanced capacity of the Secretariat for more effective coordination in the legal sector and implementation of the LSMP.

Duties and Responsibilities

The primary inputs of the consultant will be produced in close cooperation with all the concerned including Ministry of justice, the Program Manager and the Chief Technical Advisor.

The consultant is also expected to work closely with other development partners (such as UN agencies, EU, France, etc.) and apply participatory methods to this work. It will be important for the consultant to obtain appropriate feedback and involvement, and general agreement from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), members of the judiciary, offices of the Public Prosecutor, and other identified stakeholders.

A Penal Code Task Force convened by UNDP/SPLSMP, consisting of Lao government officials and legal experts located in Lao PDR will provide coordination support and contextual guidance to the consultant.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Shares knowledge and experience;
Plan and prioritizes work activities to meet organizational goals;
Builds and sustains relationships with key constituents (international/external/bilateral/ multilateral/public/private/civil society);
Conceptualizes and analyzes problems to identify key issues, underlying problems, and how they relate;
Demonstrates excellent and effective written and oral communication skills;
Demonstrate respect to knowledge and culture and religion in a multidisciplinary working environment;
Applies the required depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise to meet job demands;
Uses information technology effectively as a tools and resource;
Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability in taking on this type of consultancy.

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;
Treats all people fairly without favoritism;
Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master’s degree in Law, specialization on criminal law with specific focus human rights.

Experence:

At least 15 years of experience in the criminal justice system;
Extensive experience in the applications of criminal laws;
Excellent knowledge of criminal law systems, including experience in working with governments and institutions;
Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability in taking on this type of consultancy;
Familiarity with the country or the region an asset.

Language:

Fluency in spoken and written English including excelling drafting skills.

Requirements for submission of proposals

All interested and qualified institutes should apply on-line using the following links:

UNDP Lao PDR Country Office website at http://www.la.undp.org/content/lao_pdr/en/home/operations/jobs/

Or UNDP Jobs at http://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_jobs.cfm

In order to make submission please read the attached relevant documents which are also available on our website:

TOR (Annex I)
Individual Contract & General Terms and Conditions (Annex II);
Offeror's letter to UNDP confirming interest and availability (Annex III)

Documents to be included when submitting the proposals:

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

Technical and Financial Proposal as per Annex III “offeror's letter to UNDP confirming interest and availability”

Explaining why you are the most suitable for the work.

Providing a brief methodology on how you will approach and conduct the work including the work schedule for the delivery of outputs/deliverables;
Some samples of teaching syllabus that you have used in the past.
CV including past experience in similar projects and contact reference of at least 3 references for whom you have rendered preferably the similar services.

Note: 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). All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. UNDP accept travel costs not exceeding of an economy class air ticket.

Cumulative analysis: The award of the contract will be made to a consultant who 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;
Technical Criteria weight; [0.7];
Financial Criteria weight; [0.3].

Only a consultant obtaining a minimum of 70% (49 points) in the technical rating would be considered for the financial evaluation.

Note: Any request for clarification must be sent in writing to the following e-mail: viengmala.phomsengsavanh@undp.org with CC to oudorn.phanekham@undp.org

UNDP Lao PDR will respond in writing by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all consultants.

The copies of the response will be also placed on our web-site at: http://www.la.undp.org/content/lao_pdr/en/home/operations/jobs/ and linked to the current Procurement Notice.

All interested institutes are encouraged to visit the above web-site for updates.

Please note that only short-listed institutes will be notified.

For more detailed information about UNDP Lao PDR please visit our website at http://www.la.undp.org/lao_pdr/en/home.html