UNDP Jobs - 66635- Individual Consultancy for Technical Expert

Individual Consultancy for Technical Expert – Local Government Capacity Building Support

Location :

Harare, ZIMBABWE

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

20-Jun-2016

Application Deadline :

07-Jun-16 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

100 days over a Six Months period

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

100 days over a Six Months period

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

The Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing (MLGPWNH) and Ministry of Rural Development, Promotion and Preservation of National Culture and Heritage (MRDPPNCH)) with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have initiated a 5-year Programme to strengthen the Local Government (LG) Sector capacities and improve service delivery to the people. The Programme focus areas comprise harmonization of policy and legislative frameworks, institutional capacity building, fiscal and management transfer system, civic participatory and service delivery.

The previous capacity building efforts registered progress in the alignment of local government legislation to the Constitution; design and Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer Framework and Institutionalization of the Integrated Results Based Management (IRBM) system in the sector, amongst others. These initiatives are at various critical stages of finalization to ensure the full realisation of the programme focus areas. The attainment of the catalytic programme actions requires support to the strategic enablers such as alignment to the constitution, service level benchmarking, service level delivery monitoring and evaluation, as well as development of baselines.

The delivery of these strategic enablers requires specialized knowledge, skills, and experience in capacity building of sub-national governance institutions; as well abilities to relate to the highest levels of government. To this end, the Ministry requires the technical and support services of a Technical Expert- Local Government Support to support the execution of these catalytic programme actions.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Technical Expert- Local Government Support will be expected to deliver the following results:

Develop strategic concept papers for the rural development strategy, service level benchmark, Capacity Assessment and Service Delivery Monitoring and Evaluation Frameworks;
Draft Rural Development Strategy for the Ministry Rural Development to guide the implementation of rural development programmes;
Design a Service Level Benchmark (SLB) framework to enable the Government to assess the quality and quantity of service delivered by the local authorizes;
Design a Service Delivery Monitoring and Evaluation Framework to facilitate the monitoring and evaluation of service delivery by local authorities;
Assess the capacities of at least two selected local authorities to create a baseline and identify capacity gaps to guide the capacity development interventions;
Evaluate revenue collection and generation efficiency of at two local authorities.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
Advocates and 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.

Functional Competencies:

Professionalism

Good public relations, communication and advocacy skills;
Ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner;
Knowledgeable of UN financial, human resource, procurement, management and general operations policies is an asset and able work in a multi-cultural and/or international environment.

Communication

Excellent communication and training (spoken and written) skills including the ability to convey complex information management concepts and recommendations to staff at all levels, both orally and in writing, in a clear, concise style that can be readily understood by non-information management practitioners.

Teamwork

Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals;
Places team agenda before personal agenda; supports and acts in accordance with final group decision.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Master’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences or related field.

Experience:

A minimum of 10 (ten) years of progressively responsible experience in democratic governance, especially in local government sector (proven track record of substantive development policy and management expertise required);
A clear and comprehensive understanding of the political social and economic context (challenges and opportunities) of Zimbabwe;
Demonstrated ability to prepare Programme proposals, concept notes, design frameworks and conduct assessments and evaluation;
Experience in designing capacity building training programmes and providing technical advisory support.
Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web based management systems.

Language

Fluency in English, both oral and written

Timeline, Reporting & Quality Control for the Assignment

The Technical Expert- Local Government Support will work under the overall guidance and supervision of the MLGPWNH Director (Urban Local Authorities) and in close collaboration with the MRDPPNCH Director (Rural Local Authorities), as well as with the UNDP CO programme team.

To facilitate the work of the Technical Expert- Local Government Support, the MLGPWNH will provide office space and other requisite equipment.

Application procedure

Applicants are requested to upload a copy of their latest updated P11 Form which can be downloaded from this website - http://www.sas.undp.org/Documents/P11_Personal_history_form.doc.

Incomplete applications will not be given consideration.

Please group all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document;

Please note that only applicants who are short-listed will be contacted.

Evaluation:

The Consultant will be evaluated based on the qualifications and the years of experience, as outlined in the qualifications/requirements section of the ToR. In addition, the Consultant will also be evaluated on the following methodology:

Cumulative analysis: When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the 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%.

The award of the contract shall be made to the 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 ToR.

Selection Criteria:

Technical Evaluation: 70% of total evaluation (maximum 70 points):

Criteria A: Education (maximum 10 points);
Criteria B: Experience (maximum 50 points, divided into 40 points for substantive and technical expertise in the area of democratic governance, especially in local government sector, in particular with specific substantive development policy and management expertise 10 points for experience within the UN system and/or inter-agency settings);
Criteria C: Language (maximum 10 points).

Final selection: Only the candidate with the highest ranked will be selected.

Note:

Only the highest ranked candidates who have obtained a minimum of 49 points (70%) on the technical evaluation will be considered for the financial evaluation.