Background

UNDP works in nearly 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. UNDP helps countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results.

This is a critical time for the world. At UNDP, this period is seen as a huge opportunity to advance the global sustainable development agenda. Last year, world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to continue the work of the Millennium Development Goals. UNDP is working to strengthen new frameworks for development, disaster risk reduction and climate change. UNDP supports countries' efforts to achieve the new Sustainable Development Goals, or Global Goals, which will guide global development priorities for the next 15 years.

UNDP focuses on helping countries build and share solutions in three main areas:

  • Sustainable development
  • Democratic governance and peacebuilding
  • Climate and disaster resilience

In all of its activities, UNDP encourages the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women, minorities and the poorest and most vulnerable.

The annual Human Development Report, commissioned by UNDP, focuses the global debate on key development issues, providing new measurement tools, innovative analysis and often controversial policy proposals. The global Report's analytical framework and inclusive approach carry over into regional, national and local Human Development Reports, also supported by UNDP.

Duties and Responsibilities

SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED ANALYTICAL WORK

Visibility of achievement is still a concern for some UNDP country offices and their partners. Therefore, UNDP is recognizing the need to enhance the transparency of projects’ results and of their impact. The enhanced transparency will improve projects’ monitoring and reporting to donors and all stakeholders.

Although communication, monitoring and reporting teams have managed to provide timely, accurate and updated facts, security and access are inevitable constraints that still limit their expectations.

The Geo-localized maps with Satellite Images analysis will allow monitoring projects, measuring impacts and communicating results in a more visual manner. It covers a wider area with less effort, and can reach areas that involves cumbersome travel.

The objective of this project is the implementation of a satellite imagery analysis through a GIS platform. This solution should assist in enhancing overall UNDP’s planning and coordination, field monitoring, communication and donor mobilization.

The first phase will focus on communicating and monitoring UNDP’s results on the reconstruction of public infrastructures. Next phases would integrate other socio-economic and environmental changes that could be visually captured resulting on UNDP and partners’ interventions on the field.

The GIS Specialist will conduct the following activities:

Information gathering:

  • Meet with users to define data needs, project requirements and required outputs;
  • Conduct research to locate and obtain information related to specific projects;
  • Collect Projects’ geo-localized information such as photos, videos, projects’ statistics, projects’ documents and evaluation materials, and any other archives related to a better understanding of the project’s progress, achievements, and impact on communities;
  • Gather, analyze, and integrate spatial data from staff and determine how best the information can be displayed using GIS;
  • Prepare metadata and other documentation needed;
  • Analyze UNDP’s projects impact on the local communities and build a scenario of possible enhancement;
  • Analyze spatial data for geographic statistics to incorporate into documents and reports.

Impact analysis:

  • Work with raw satellite imageries and process them to be used in a GIS system;
  • Build required layers in GIS system (ArcGIS) that will show the full required satellite imagery analysis;
  • Analyze spatial data for geographic statistics to incorporate into documents and reports.

Training and communication:

  • Present information to users;
  • Frequently communicate information with UNDP country offices, UNDP Regional Bureaux, and UNDP Office of Information Management and Technology (OIMT) team;
  • Provide training to local users on the usage of final products.

Expected outputs and deliverables:

  • Efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality GIS services rendered to UNDP-OIMT, with the main foundational deliverable being a platform with layered maps, and the maps being compiled of 3 main layers:
  • Analyzed satellite imageries layer;
  • UNDP geo-localized projects’ information and statistics;
  • Geo-localized content layer (multimedia such as photos and videos taken through crowdsourcing from the ground).
  • Utilization of global best practices in GIS and remote sensing tools

Competencies

Functional competencies:

  • Analytical skills – the ability to solve problems using the GIS tools, and to analyze requirements;
  • Information gathering and analysis skills – knowing how to find information and identify essential information, and validate the information;
  • Information ordering – the ability to correctly follow a given rule or set of rules in order to arrange things or actions in a certain order;
  • Communication skills – the ability to convey GIS/spatial information to non-GIS/technical people;
  • Core competencies:

Self-management

  • Responsibility for one’s own work and actions;
  • Focusing on results for the project implementation and responding positively to feedback;
  • Interacting with others in a professional and respectful manner;
  • Pro-active, taking initiative and creatively providing solutions to problems;
  • Completing tasks efficiently and with minimum supervisory follow-up;
  • Managing own time and tasks effectively and efficiently;
  • Carefully checking own work in terms of accuracy and completeness;

Knowledge management and learning

  • Sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues;
  • Actively working towards continuing personal learning, and applying newly acquired skills;
  • Demonstrating openness to improve and ability to manage complexities.

Required Skills and Experience

The incumbent must be a dynamic and well-motivated person who supports UNDP-OIMT with professionalism, dedication, client orientation, and demonstrates the values of the UN in daily activities. The applicant should have affinity with or interest in the international development agenda as a mechanism for durable development, and the UN System.

The following qualifications are required:

Academic qualifications:

Master’s degree in geography or earth science is required.

Experience:

  • Minimum 3 months experience in geo-localized statistics, geographic information systems, remote sensing and projects’ information gathering and analysis is required;
  • Experience of GIS systems and tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS is required;
  • Experience in Satellite Imageries processing and mosaic is required;
  • Project Management experience is an asset;

Language:

  • Fluency in written and spoken is required;
  • Working knowledge of French, Arabic or Spanish is an asset;

Application Procedure

The application package containing the following (to be uploaded as one file):

  • A cover letter with a brief description of why the Offer considers her/himself the most suitable for the assignment;
  • Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects and specifying the relevant assignment period (from/to), as well as the email and telephone contacts of at least three (3) professional references;

Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document.

Shortlisted candidates (ONLY) will be requested to submit a Financial Proposal.

  • The financial proposal should specify an all-inclusive daily fee (based on a 7 hour working day - lunch time is not included - and estimated 21.75 days per month).
  • The financial proposal must be all-inclusive and take into account various expenses that will be incurred during the contract, including: the daily professional fee; (excluding mission travel); living allowances at the duty station; communications, utilities and consumables; life, health and any other insurance; risks and inconveniences related to work under hardship and hazardous conditions (e.g., personal security needs, etc.), when applicable; and any other relevant expenses related to the performance of services under the contract.
  • In the case of unforeseeable travel requested by UNDP, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between UNDP and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. 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.
  • If the 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 a 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.

The Financial Proposal is to be emailed as per the instruction in the separate email that will be sent to shortlisted candidates.

Evaluation process

Applicants are reviewed based on Required Skills and Experience stated above and based on the technical evaluation criteria outlined below.  Applicants will be evaluated based on cumulative scoring.  When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

  • Being 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 where technical criteria weighs 70% and Financial criteria/ Proposal weighs 30%.

Technical evaluation - Total 70% (70 points):

  • Criteria 1. At least 3 months’ experience in geo-localized statistics, geographic information systems, remote sensing and projects’ information gathering and analysis is required Weight = 20%; Maximum Points: 20;
  • Criteria 2. Relevant experience in GIS Systems and tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS is required Weight = 20 %; Maximum Points: 20 ;
  • Criteria 3. Relevant experience in applying geospatial solutions to development issues = 10 %; Maximum Points: 10;
  • Criteria 4. Experience in working in project management mode Weight =10 % Maximum Points :10 and

  • Interview: Weight = 10 %; Maximum Points: 10.

Having reviewed applications received, UNDP will invite the top three/four candidates having obtained 70% (42 points) of the desk review for interview. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% (49 points) of the maximum obtainable points for the technical criteria (70 points) shall be considered for the financial evaluation.

Financial evaluation - Total 30% (30 points)

The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal:

  • 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

Contract Award

Candidate obtaining the highest combined scores in the combined score of Technical and Financial evaluation will be considered technically qualified and will be offered to enter into contract with UNDP.

Institutional arrangement

The consultant will work under the guidance and direct supervision of Chief Portfolio Management Office, HQ/BMS/OOLTS/OIMT and will be responsible for the fulfilment of the deliverables as specified above.

Payment modality

  • Payment to the Individual Contractor will be made based on the actual number of days worked, deliverables accepted and upon certification of satisfactory completion by the manager.
  • The work week will be based on 35 hours, i.e. on a 7 hour working day, with core hours being between 9h00 and 18h00 daily.

Annexes (click on the hyperlink to access the documents):

Any request for clarification must be sent by email to cpu.bids@undp.org 

The UNDP Central Procurement Unit will respond by email and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all applicants.