Historique

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme contributes to peace and development through volunteerism worldwide. UNV works with partners to integrate qualified, highly motivated and well supported UN Volunteers into development programming and promote the value and global recognition of volunteerism. UNV is active in around 130 countries every year. With field presences in over 80 countries, UNV is represented worldwide. UNV is administered by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). UNV is headquartered in Bonn, Germany, with a field presence through 6 regional offices and 50+ field units.

UNV in partnership with other UN Entities (UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP) supports the establishment of national schemes to promote national volunteerism. For example in Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt UNV will support the implementation of the UNICEF National Youth Volunteer Platforms  aiming at: 1) promoting a culture of volunteerism; 2) instill a generation of young people with the skills and opportunities required to realize their full potential, positively engage in their communities, and become partners for innovative change to create systemic impact; and 3) support national Volunteers who are actively engaged in the platforms in developing a professional career path and scale up their skills and competencies. As part of the mentioned partnership, UNV is relied upon to contribute to developing Capacity building and skills development for youth volunteers, especially in areas related to instilling the concept of volunteerism and equipping youth with soft skills necessary to enhance their experience during their assignment. It is expected that besides the youth volunteers from programs established with partners the training would also benefit National Youth UN Volunteers in relevant countries.

The UNV Regional Offices (RO) provide oversight and strategic guidance to the UNV Field Units in their respective geographical assignments and are mainly accountable for the placement of UN Volunteers mobilized for UN Agencies, Funds, and Programmes focused on peace, development and humanitarian needs.  Furthermore, the Regional Offices represent, and strategically position, UNV and bring UNV’s services and solutions closer to its partners from governments, UN entities, civil society and private sector. The Regional Offices also lead in scoping and delivering UNV’s advisory service offer on volunteer infrastructure.

At UNV Headquarter level, the Capacity Development team, as part of the Human Resources Section (HRS), leads the design and delivery of all learning activities for UN Volunteers serving with UN agencies globally.

UNV will provide youth volunteers an access to several Learning Programmes and Services which include package of trainings on Volunteerism, code of conduct, Values and Ethics and soft skills trainings (intercultural communication, conflict mediation, career development). Workshops and learning programmes are delivered onsite and/ or virtually to National youth volunteers in Arab region. Depending on business priorities, learning programmes in support of strategic initiatives or UN partners might be delivered as well. It is expected that the training would be delivered either by UNV Field Unit in the country, or serving UN Volunteers, or Online Volunteers or partner agencies.

It will therefore be important that the training package (instructor guide, handout, guidelines, master powertpoint) be as comprehensive as possible.

Devoirs et responsabilités

The assigned consultant will work remotely (home-based) reporting to the Portfolio Manager at UN Regional Office for Arab States.

The consultant will contribute to the work of the UNV Programme in the Arab States region by supporting the design of learning programmes for National youth volunteers. Including 2 components: 1) virtual learning programmes; and/ or 2) onsite learning programmes; depending on evolution of COVID-19 pandemic in 2021. The consultant will be briefed on the National youth volunteering initiatives in the Arab region countries.

The consultant main tasks include the following:

• Set specific learning objectives for the targeted groups, with considering a specific context or knowledge domain for participated countries by consulting with UNV internally but also partners from the region (contacts will be provided by the Regional Office in Amman);

• Support the design of learning programmes by drafting a full Trainer guide;

  Develop the learning methodologies for both onsite and online delivery, along with the conditions under which it occurs, and the activities performed by the trainers and participant volunteers in order to best achieve the required learning objectives

• Communicate with participants, and collaborate with external trainers and vendors;

• Develop the workshop materials, handouts, master power point

Duties and Responsibilities

EXPECTED OUTPUTS AND DELIVERABLES

Compétences

Corporate

•             Demonstrates integrity and fairness, by modeling the UN/UNDP’s values and ethical standards;

•             Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

•             Demonstrated experience in content writing;

•             Excellent research skills; an ability to sift through large amounts of information to identify the relevant material;

•             Sound understanding of regional humanitarian, security and development issues;

•             The ability to liaise with country officers and UNV partners to collect relevant information

Functional

•             Time management and organizational skills, with the ability to undertake multiple tasks and deliver under pressure;

•             Ability to work independently and achieve quality results with limited supervision and within tight schedules;

•             Ability to write in a clear and concise manner;

•             Good teamwork and interpersonal skills;

•             Excellent computer skills especially word processing software, and online collaboration platforms/tools.

Knowledge Management and Learning

•             Seeks and applies knowledge, information and best practices from within and outside of UNV;

•             Demonstrates a strong capacity for innovation and creativity in providing strategic policy advice and direction.

Qualifications et expériences requises

Academic Qualification

1. University bachelor’s degree in education, Human Resources, Social Sciences, or other relevant areas.

Work experience:

• Minimum 5 years work experience in designing, planning, coordinating and/or delivery capacity development initiatives, projects or training for international audiences.

• Demonstrated experience in working in development or humanitarian environments such as with the United Nations, International organizations, NGOs or similar entities and /or in the area of volunteerism
• Prior experience in using virtual collaboration tools;

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in written and spoken English is a requirement. Fluency in Arabic is desirable.

INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

• The individual is required to exhibit his or her full-time commitment with UNV regional office (UNVROAS)

• S/He shall perform tasks under the overall guidance and direct supervision of the Portfolio Manager for UNV Regional Office Arab States.

• The supervision will include approvals/acceptance of the outputs and deliverables as identified in the previous section; 

• The individual is expected to liaise and collaborate in the course of performing the work with other consultants, suppliers and UN colleagues; 

• The individual is required to provide periodical bi-weekly progress reports and when requested on any period of time throughout the assignment to monitor progress;  

• The individual is required to maintain close communication with UNVROAS on regular and needed basis at any period throughout the assignment in order to monitor progress. In the event of any delay, S/he will inform UNV promptly so that decisions and remedial action may be taken accordingly; and 

• Should UNV deem it necessary, it reserves the right to commission additional inputs, reviews or revisions, as needed to ensure the quality and relevance of the work. 

DURATION OF THE WORK

The duration of this assignment is 40 days. The expected start date is 1st September 2021.

DUTY STATION

This is a home-based assignment.

TRAVEL PLAN (OPTIONAL)

If any unforeseen travel outside the individual home-based city is requested by UNDP and not required by the Terms of References (ToR), such travel shall be covered by UNDP in line with applicable rules and regulations and upon prior written agreement. In such cases, the individual shall receive living allowances not exceeding the United Nations (UN) Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) rate for such other location(s).

SCOPE OF PRICE PROPOSAL AND SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS

The contractor will be paid an all-inclusive Deliverables/Outputs based lump sum amounts over the assignment period, subject to the submission of Certification of Payment (CoP) duly certified or an invoice and confirmation of satisfactory performance of achieved work (deliverables/outputs) in line with the schedule of payments table hereunder:

RECOMMENDED PRESENTATION OF OFFER

Interested individual consultants must submit documents under point 1&2 to demonstrate their qualifications. Candidates that fail to submit these documents, the application will not be considered.

1. Duly accomplished Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by UNDP;

2. 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.

3. Financial Proposal: Please do not submit financial proposal in this stage. Financial proposal shall be requested from Candidates who are considered technically responsive

When the financial proposal is requested it should indicate the all-inclusive Deliverables/Outputs based total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per template provided. The terms “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, travel costs, living allowances, communications, consumables, etc.) that could possibly be incurred are already factored into the final amounts submitted in the proposal. 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 at this point, and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP.

Interested candidates shall submit required documents to Job Advertisement Website (https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_jobs.cfm) as one document not later than 4th of August, 2021

Interested candidates can find Procurement Notice, Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability and P11 templates on the following link: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/

CRITERIA FOR SELECTION OF THE BEST OFFERS

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodologies:

Step I: Screening and desk review:

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodology.

Applications will be first screened and only candidates meeting the following minimum requirements will progress to the pool for shortlisting:

• University bachelor’s degree in education, Human Resources, Social Sciences, or other relevant areas.

• Fluency and working proficiency in written and spoken English.

• A Minimum of 5 years work experience in designing, planning, coordinating and/or delivery capacity development initiatives, projects or training for international audiences.

Step II: Technical Review

Shortlisted candidates will undergo a technical evaluation and a submission of a proposal to tackle the assignment.

Technical evaluation Criteria max 100 points (Weighted 70):

• University bachelor’s degree in education, Human Resources, Social Sciences, or other relevant areas.(15 points)Prior experience in using online collaboration tools (20 points);

• Minimum 5 years work experience in designing, planning, coordinating and/or delivery capacity development initiatives, projects or training for international audiences. (30 points);

•  Demonstrated experience in working in development or humanitarian environments such as with the United Nations, International organizations, NGOs or similar entities and /or in the area of volunteerism . (20 points);

• Fluency and working proficiency in written and spoken English. (15 points)

Financial Criteria - 30% of total evaluation

For those offers considered in the financial evaluation, the lowest price offer will receive 30 points. The other offers will receive points in relation to the lowest offer, based on the following formula: (PI / Pn) * 30 where Pn is the financial offer being evaluated and Pl is the lowest financial offer received.

Step III: Final evaluation

The final evaluation will combine the scores of the desk review and the financial proposal with the following weights assigned to each:

Individual consultants will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis methodology (weighted scoring method), where the award of the contract will be made to the individual 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 technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

  Technical Criteria weight: [70%]

  Financial Criteria weight: [30%]

Only Individual Consultants obtaining a minimum of 49 points (70%) on the Technical evaluation would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.