Background

The Private engagement approach of the UNDP Bangladesh country office takes into account the Private sector's crucial role in development and in advancing the SDGs. The objective of the private sector partnerships is to support private sector innovations and business models that promotes inclusive and sustainable economy for the people and the planet.

An international consultant will be engaged to support UNDP private sector team in the provision of technical advisory services and test engagement modalities via Innovation Hub. Through 2018, Innovation Hub supported UNDP Bangladesh to grow its network and accumulate over 200 companies in its database. Services tested included: the roll-out of Business Call to Action services and membership; support to youth entrepreneurship; testing financial management capacity building; and plugging private sector partners into existing UNDP projects, among others. It also served as the focal point for regional and global private sector initiatives in Bangladesh on country level and in national context.

Overall, all existing private sector activities can be regrouped into three pillars. (1) SDG management: planning for and measuring impact through thought leadership and advisory services and toolkits; (2) SDG invest: building capacity and connecting both supply and demand side of SDG-aligned businesses and investments; (3) SDG capacity building: skills development to facilitate access to capital by SDG-aligned businesses, start-ups, and Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The consultant will support consolidating and expanding the above through the following finalizing the country office private sector strategy; supporting UNDP projects to integrate private sector components; consolidating Innovation Hub services that demonstrated higher impact and uptake; and guide UNDP team that is providing private sector services (i.e. Business Call to Action membership, youth entrepreneurship, supporting UNSIF regional team on the ground, etc).

Under the supervision of the Assistant Resident Representative and Advisor Business Development, the International consultant will support the implementation of UNDP Bangladesh’s private partnership strategy in line with the global private sector strategic plan.

Duties and Responsibilities

Objective

The primary objectives of the consultant will be to:

• Support private sector engagement of country office under the guidance of partnerships and business development unit.
• Provide private sector engagement support to the United Nations task team and SDG financing efforts.
• Provide support towards designing private sector investment UNDP platforms and identify potential engagement of private sector for SDG financing for the projects.

Scope of Work

• Identify and assist Partnerships in Private sector partnership development beyond philanthropy, to channel private sector resources towards SDGs in systematic and scalable way.
• Defining the role of Private sector in SDG achievement: day to day support and Private sector strategic support for ‘SDG monitoring and implementation project’ and SDG Financing and Localization Platform (SFLP)
• Support clusters to look at Private sector Engagement in relation to the existing portfolio of projects/pipelines and initiate innovative activities to pilot through the Innovation Hub.
• Provide support to youth co-lab initiatives.
• Prepare formulation and implementation of private sector strategy.
• Supporting Private sector growth in alignment with SDGs, such as building inclusive and sustainable business model and practices, providing products and services designed for Bottom of the Pyramid, creating and decent work.
• Supporting private sector engagement in private-public partnership and advocacy for an enabling environment for SDG-aligned business practices.
• Exploring public sector and development sector’s role in creating an ecosystem of SDG-aligned business practitioners, innovators, entrepreneurs.
• Supporting investors with appetite for sustainability in identifying pipeline, vehicles, and methods for investment.
• Mapping and collecting quantitative and qualitative data of Private sector contribution to SDGs in Bangladesh.
• Closely coordinate with United Nations Social Investment Fund (UNSIF)team, government policy makers, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support Country Office to design SDGs Impact Finance strategy for Bangladesh, based on national priorities and important initiatives and liaise with UNSIF team in consultation with Government and other relevant stakeholders.
• Develop strategic partners, advisory offers, and contribute to the development of viable and bankable impact investment pipeline; provide training to partners and team members
• Contribute to the impact measurement methodology and monitor the implementation and evaluation process of Build-Bangladesh-UNDP SDG Impact Fund and other projects.
• Engage with Financial Institutions and relevant Development Partners to collect information reflecting the SDG financing, environmental and social benefits of a selection of assets that could be funded through SDG-bonds – inclusive of recommendations of which assets could the SDG bonds be tested on.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables

• Inception Report containing detail plan of actions with timeline, inclusive of planning of entrepreneurship engagement in particular to youth
• Organize and provide training on strategic partnerships with private sector to programme and project staff
• Share the draft and final Private sector strategy with the Country Office private sector working group
• Develop and submit draft SDG-measurement and management toolkit.
• Submit guideline for SDG-aligned investment brokerage between investors and ventures/initiatives
• Submit business analytics of UNDP private sector Engagement and client relationship management strategies
• Include private sector component in at least two UNDP projects
• Submit quarterly report based on the quarterly work plan on the progress of the assignment
• Submit final report on the overall tasks incorporating feedback from UNDP with regard to the scope of work.

Deliverable Target date and Payment Milestone:

Institutional Arrangement

The consultant will closely work with both thematic clusters in the formulation and implementation of the Country Office private sector strategy and with the two (to be ) identified project teams under the overall supervision of the Assistant Resident Representative and Advisor, Business Development, UNDP Bangladesh.

Duration of the Work

The assignment will be completed over 120 working days over a period of 6 months

Duty Station: Dhaka, Bangladesh

TRAVEL:

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.

Competencies

Partnerships

• Maturity and confidence in dealing with the staff of government institutions and private sector;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Results

• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
• Good team player who has ability to maintain good relationships.

Functional skills

• Demonstrated leadership, facilitation and coordination skills, ability to manage technical team and long term strategic partnership;
• Excellent communication (both oral and written) and partnership building skills in multi-stakeholder projects; interpersonal skill for conflict resolution and negotiation;
• Computer proficiency, especially related to professional office software packages (Microsoft Office);
• Excellent written communication skills, with analytic capacity and ability to synthesize relevant collected data and findings for the preparation of case studies and progress reports;
• Excellent coordination skills and result oriented collaboration with colleagues;
• Ability to work rapidly

Required Skills and Experience

Educational Qualifications:

• A post-gratuate degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Project Management, international relations or in any relevant field

Experience

• A minimum of 5 years of progressively relevant professional experience in external relations with public and private sector entities.
• Relevant experience in UN organizations/ International Organizations/ Multi National Corporation.
• Proven working experience in the Asia Pacific Region/ Bangladesh context, in particular for partnerships and private sector engagement.
• Proven strong experience, with extensive network among private sector companies, and skilled in working with different public-sector entities
• Proven record of designing innovative initiative and private sector engagement models

Language requirements

Fluency in English required;

Cumulative analysis-

The award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant up on Cumulative Analysis/evaluation and determined as:

1. Responsive/compliant/acceptable; and
2. 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 marks. Only candidates obtaining a minimum 49% mark in technical evaluation will be considered eligible for financial evaluation.

Technical Evaluation (70 Points):

Financial Evaluation (Total 30 marks)

All technical qualified proposals will be scored out 30 based on the formula provided below. The

maximum points (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals received

points according to the following formula:

p = y (µ/z)

where:

• p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated
• y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal
• µ = price of the lowest priced proposal
• z = price of the proposal being evaluated

DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Proposers who shall not submit below mentioned documents will not be considered for further evaluation.

1. Technical proposal, including a brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment including methodology.
2. Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP;
3. Personal CV or 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; P11 can be downloaded from the link below: http://www.bd.undp.org/content/bangladesh/en/home/operations/jobs/ 
4. Financial Proposal: Financial proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided. If an Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate this at this point and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP. Financial Proposal has to be submitted through a standard interest and availability template which can be downloaded from the link below:

 http://www.bd.undp.org/content/dam/bangladesh/docs/Jobs/Interest%20and%20Submission%20of%20Financial%20Proposal-Template%20for%20Confirmation.docx

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