Background

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) operates as a global network with programmatic initiatives in nearly 170 countries. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results. Inclusive growth, better services, environmental sustainability, and democratic governance are fundamental to development progress. We offer our expertise in development thinking and practice, and our decades of experience at country level, to support countries to meet their development aspirations and to bring the voices of the world’s peoples into deliberations.

The Bureau of Policy and Programme Support has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. The climate change and disaster risk reduction team within BPPS (CDT) is responsible for leading the organizations policy and programme work in a range of integrated agendas, including climate mitigation, energy, disaster risk reduction and recovery.

Scope of the work

Increasingly the work of the BPPS climate and disaster team is inter-connected with the private sector and one area of growth is that of impact investment that connects private sector investment to tackling climate change at the country level.

As part of this development CDT needs to increase the capacity and widen the expertise of its external work, allowing us to broaden and deepen our work with the private sector in the area of investments.

As part of this assignment, the Consultant will work with the Special Advisor on External Engagement in the Geneva Office of UNDP, and other senior managers of the team, and in particular with various private sector partners, working to deliver an inter-related set of objectives as below.
Under the overall guidance of the Special Advisor for External Engagement, the consultant will support partnerships, resource mobilization and advocacy activities with private sector entities.

Duties and Responsibilities

Output 1 – Lead on the General Development of UNDP’s Climate/Energy/Disaster Investment ‘Offer’ and contribute to the advocacy of UNDP’s position in this space. Specific deliverables include:

• Develop UNDP’s ‘offer’ on investment, one that articulates country, regional and global elements;
• Prepare a core set of promotional and advocacy materials to communicate that offer to partners, donors, the private sector etc;
• Support the preparation of and implementation of a plan of advocacy in this space.

Output 2 – Lead on the development of a major investment ‘event’ at COP23 that brings private sector investment together with bankable projects from the country level (and coordinate the development of related longer-term initiatives). Specific deliverables include:

• Work with our partners to develop all aspects of such an event (concept, advocacy, promotion, partnerships);
• Lead the successful delivery of the event;
• Follow up the event with a clear articulation of what can come next for this initiative.

Output 3 – Support the development of UNDP’s role within the Insurance Development Forum, specifically within the investment working-group (which is co-chaired by UNDP and Black Rock) and help secure both short-term and long-term objectives established by the group. Specific deliverables include:

• Provide advice on both the short and long-term strategy of the working-group, with a strong focus on the creation of a stand-alone ‘mechanism’ at the centre of the group’s investment work;
• Help develop and deliver a strong advocacy component of the working-group, one that especially targets industry investment managers;
• Work to develop inter-connections with other related potential industry partners, such as from the banking and pension sectors.

Output 4 – Support the broad development of private sector investment opportunities with partners, and contribute to the corporate position on private sector investment across climate/disaster/energy and related areas of work. Specific deliverables include:

• Provide a general supporting role to all private sector investment engagements for the climate/disaster/energy team.

Institutional Arrangements

Under the overall guidance of the Director / Chief of Profession, the Consultant will be directly supervised by the Special Advisor for External Engagement. The Consultant is expected to report the level of advancement of his work on a monthly basis.The reporting is expected at the end of each month.

Duration of Work & Duty Station

This is an office-based assignment and the duty station is in Geneva, Switzerland. It will be conducted over a 7-month period, from May to December 2017. Occasional travel may be required but this has not been determined at this stage. In the event of any travel, UNDP will cover and reimburse all the travel costs including the airfare and per diem allowance/terminal expenses as per UN standard.

The Consultants will be given access to relevant information necessary for execution of the tasks under this assignment. The Consultants will use his/her own laptop access to communication facilities and the internet.

Payment Modalities

Payments will be made based on the agreed upon daily rate of professional fees and released upon submission of a detailed timesheet and certificate of payment indicating outputs/deliverables achieved and days worked to be verified and cleared for payment by the supervisor.

Competencies

Core Competencies:

Innovation:

• Ability to make new and useful ideas work.

Leadership

• Ability to persuade others to follow.

Communication:

• Ability to listen, adapt, persuade and transform.

Delivery:

• Ability to get things done.

Technical/Functional:

• Building Strategic Partnerships: Identifying and building partnerships;
• Effectively networks with partners seizing opportunities to build strategic alliances relevant to UNDP’s mandate and strategic agenda;
• Sensitizes UN Partners, donors and other international organizations to the UNDP’s strategic agenda, identifying areas for joint efforts.

Organizational skills:

• Has ability to handle effectively multiple tasks without compromising quality, team spirit and positive working relationships with all colleagues

Resource Mobilization:  Implementing resource mobilization strategies:

• Analyzes information on potential bilateral donors and national counterparts to recommend a strategic approach;
• Identifies and compiles lessons learned.

Required Skills and Experience

This work will demand understanding of, and experience of working with, the private sector, financing mechanisms (including leveraging, blended finance), the insurance, banking and investment sectors. Practical experience of working across development and private sectors is highly recommended. The incumbent will also have the ability to quickly analyze and understand the full context of UNDP (and partner’s) work at both global and country level, and have the ability to connect our country-level work to private sector investment.

Minimum requirements are as follows:

Education:

• Relevant qualifications and experience in private sector/development collaborations, resource mobilization and/or marketing, with at least an advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in business, economics, management law or related.

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience working both in the private sector and in sustainable development for a multilateral, governmental and/or non-governmental agency;
• Experience in banking and/or the insurance sector is considered an asset, as is consulting on investments;
• Proven track-record in resources mobilization from private and public sources is considered an asset;
• Knowledge of impact investment and corporate social responsibility principles;
• Proven ability to manage and coordinate initiatives with multiple public and private stakeholders & partners.

Language:

• Fluency in both oral and written English;
• Good working knowledge of French is an asset.

Recommended Presentation of Offer

The application is a two-step process. Failing to comply with the submission process may result in disqualifying the applications.

Step 1: Interested individual consultants must include the following documents when submitting the applications in UNDP Job Site (Please note that only 1 (one) file can be uploaded therefore please include all documents in one file)

• Personal History Form (P11), indicating all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3) professional references (the template can be downloaded from this link: www.sas.undp.org/Documents/P11_Personal_history_form.doc. Alternatively, an updated CV can be uploaded however UNDP may later request a P11 form to be completed.
• Brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable candidate for the assignment. Indicate available start date.

Step 2: Submission of Financial Proposal. Applicants are instructed to submit their financial proposals in US Dollars for this consultancy to mahmood.zahir@undp.org, using the financial proposal template available here: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_file.cfm?doc_id=45780. The proposals should be sent via email with the following subject heading: “Financial Proposal – 71962 - Private Sector Partnerships Consultant: Impact Investment” by the deadline of this vacancy.

In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal should be all-inclusive and include a breakdown. The term ‘all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, transport related expenses, communications, utilities, consumables, insurance, etc.) that could possibly be incurred by the Contractor are already factored into the financial proposal.  Please note that UNDP will cover travel expenses for any official missions that will come up during the course of the assignment and should therefore not be included in the financial proposal.

NOTE: Proposals not submitted as instructed and/or received after the deadline will be rejected.

Criteria for Selection of the Best Offer

Only those applicants who meet the minimum level of education, relevant years of experience and language requirements will be considered for the technical evaluation.

The selection of the best offer will be based on a Combined Scoring method – where the technical evaluation will be weighted a maximum of 70% of the final score, and combined with the price offer which will be weighted a maximum of 30%.

Technical Evaluation (70% of the final score)

The technical evaluation consists of a desk review, followed by an interview for those candidates who quality. The breakdown is as follows:

Desk Review (30 points out of 70)

• Proven experience working both in the private sector and in sustainable development for a multilateral, governmental and/or non-governmental agency. Experience in banking and/or the insurance sector is considered an asset, as is consulting on investments (15 points).
• Proven track-record in resources mobilization from private and public sources (5 points).
• Knowledge of impact investment and corporate social responsibility principles (5 points).
• Proven ability to manage and coordinate initiatives with multiple public and private stakeholders & partners (5 points)

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 21 points out of 30 points at the desk review will be invited for an interview.

Interview (40 points out of 70)

The interview will be for a total of 40 points with the following breakdown:

• Technical competencies in the subject area (32 points);
• Suitability of methodology for undertaking the assignment (8 points).

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 points out of 70 at the technical evaluation will be considered for the Financial Evaluation.

Financial Evaluation (30% of the final score)

The following formula will be used to evaluate each candidate’s financial proposal: p = y (µ/z) where:

p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated

y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal (30 points)

µ = price of the lowest priced proposal

z = price of the proposal being evaluated

Award of Contract: The award of contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as responsive, compliant, and acceptable; having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to this solicitation.

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.

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's Individual Consultant's General Terms and conditions are provided here: www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/documents/procurement/documents/IC%20-%20General%20Conditions.pdf