Background

UN Women is the UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women.  A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women, among other issues, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; empowerment of women; and achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

Under the Ending Violence against Women Programme (EVAW), UN Women started the -Combating Gender Based Violence in Bangladesh (CGBV) – Project, funded by Global Affairs Canada. This initiative intends to create a holistic framework of integrated and mutually reinforcing interventions to address the underlying causes of violence against women and girls, improve their access to educational and economic opportunities, and promote their equal status in society. CGBV will enhance the capacity of civil society to design, implement and sustain primary prevention of gendered violence, while also strengthening government mechanisms and strategies identified under Bangladesh’s 7th Five Year Plan and the National Women Development Policy. The project will generate evidence to build knowledge on prevention strategies. The CGVB will engage and capacitate local stakeholders and high-level leadership of key institutions such as local government, civil society organizations, women’s organizations, education institutions and workplaces.

Against this background, UN Women Bangladesh is seeking to recruit a National Consultant to provide the required administrative support to the members of the Programme Team in the development and implementation of the programme in line with UN Women rules and regulations. Further details of the expected roles and responsibilities for the consultant are found below

Duties and Responsibilities

The Consultant will work under the direct supervision of Programme Specialist –EVAW, UN Women Bangladesh, in close consultation with the Programme Analyst, to ensure achievements of following tasks:

• Provide support on the implementation of Programme “Ending Violence against Women (EVAW)” in Bangladesh;
• Assist documentation on the procurement of goods and services, and support contract tracking;
• Support programme implementation partners on Funding Authorization and Certificate of Expenditures (FACE) reporting ;
• Support to organization of procurement processes including preparation of RFQs, ITBs or RFPs documents, receipt of quotations, bids or proposals, their preliminary evaluation
• Support fund management and travel arrangement;
• Provide administrative support to the programme team in the organization of meeting , events, workshop;
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload
• Ability to take initiative and good interpersonal and organizational skills;
• Create and organize hard and electronic files for easy access and retrieval.

Deliverables:

Deliverables Linked with Payment Milestone: 

Payment will be processed at the end of each month for the number of days worked based on submission of progress report on tasks completed during the month with deliverables produced.

Duration of Assignment and Duty Station:

The consultant is expected to be based in UN Women Bangladesh in Dhaka from 01-Mar-2020 – 31 July  2020. The consultant may be required to travel on mission as assigned by hiring unit.

Supervision and performance evaluation 

The Consultant will be directly supervised by UN Women Programme Specialist, Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW). 

Travel:

In the case of unforeseen travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, and living expenses will be covered by UN Women travel policy.

Competencies

Competencies

Core Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UN Women;
• 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.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/about%20us/employment/un-women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf?la=en&vs=637

Required Skills and Experience

Eligibility Criteria or Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Public Administration or social science related field.

Experiences

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in programme administration, programme management support;
• At least 02 years of experience in working for UN Women, and/or other UN Agencies is essentials;
• Knowledge of UN Women and/or other UN corporate monitoring tools (ATLAS, etc.) is desirable;
• Knowledge of gender issues is an asset.

Language Requirements:

Fluency in English and Bangla (high quality written and spoken). 

Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments
Consultant must send a financial proposal based on Lump Sum Amount. The total amount quoted shall be all-inclusive and include all
costs components required to perform the deliverables identified in the TOR, including professional fee, travel costs, living allowance (if
any work is to be done outside the SSA's duty station) and any other applicable cost to be incurred by the SSA in completing the assignment.
The contract price will be fixed output-based price regardless of extension of the herein specified duration. Payments will be done upon
completion of the deliverables/outputs and as per below percentages

Evaluation Method and Criteria:
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology.

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;
Only candidates obtaining a minimum 70% mark in technical evaluation will be considered eligible for financial evaluation.
Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points out of 100)

Criteria-01; Educational Qualification and diversification - Max Point 10
Criteria-02; Experience in office management and Partner (RP) management.-Max Point 15
Criteria-03; Knowledge of UN Women and/or other UN corporate ERP monitoring tools (ATLAS, etc.)- Max Point 15

Criteria-04; Experience in working for UN Women, and/or other UN Agencies- Max 15

Criteria-05; Experience in assets and services procurement including travel support- Max Point 15

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 70. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points (70) will be considered as technically-qualified candidate.

Interested candidates will submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications.
 

To be included as part of the proposal:
•    A brief expression of interest: a brief narrative presenting your suitability for this assignment and proposed action plan for carry out of this assignment;
•    UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from: http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment
•    Sample work;
•    Personal CV (of no more than 4 pages);
•    Financial proposal for the full assignment as lumpsum amount, which may include fees for total assignment; expenses for materials and any other practical expenses.

Only applications including all items mentioned above will be considered.

NOTE: Documents required before contract signing:

UN Personal History Form;
Full medical examination and Statement of Fitness to work and travel for consultants with travel involved. (This is not a requirement for RLA contracts);
Security Certificate BSAFE: EN: https://agora.unicef.org/course/info.php?id=17891;
Individual subscribers over 65 years of age are required to undergo a full medical examination including x-rays at their own cost and obtaining medical clearance from the UN Medical Director prior to taking up their assignment;
Release letter in case the selected consultant is government official.
Only applications will all items mentioned above will be considered

All applications must include (as an attachment) the CV and the financial proposal. Applications without financial proposal will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment. “Personal History Form - P 11” can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/en/about-us/employment

Note: The individual consultant who does not meet the above eligibility criteria shall not be considered for further evaluation. Necessary documentation must be submitted to substantiate the above eligibility criteria.