Background

The Royal Government of Cambodia has adopted a National Strategic Development Plan 2019-2023. A cornerstone of this strategy is to improve the environment and protect Cambodia’s nature, in line with the global Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs). In order to have a clear baseline for the environmental agenda, the Ministry of Environment (MoE) is seeking technical support from development partners including UNDP to produce a State of the Environment (SoE) report.

The purpose of the SoE report is to present a stocktaking on the environment covering air, water and land. Drawing on international examples, the SoE in Cambodia is envisaged to include the following chapters (see Annex 1 for more information about the proposed content of the SoE report for Cambodia):

1. Introduction

2. Air Quality

3. Climate Change

4. Water

5. Waste

The production of the State of Environment report will be led by the General Department of Environmental Knowledge and Information (GDEKI) of the MoE and in close cooperation with relevant departments of the MoE and the National Council for Sustainable Development (NCSD), holding key information and data to be used in the report.

Duties and Responsibilities

Throughout the assignment, the consultant is to work under the guidance of the GDEKI of the MoE as well as the UNDP Country Office and to work closely with relevant departments of the MoE and the NCSD and UNDP projects, holding key information and data to be used in the report. A list of UNDP related projects is as follows.  

Interested offeror must  read  the Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice, which can be viewed at http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=59787 for more  detail information about term  of references, instructions to offeror, and to download the documents to be submitted in the offer through online.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

• Strong analytical skills, proven ability to synthesize diverse data combining quantitative and qualitative methods, technical report-writing in English as well as ability to develop policy recommendations based on scientific data (to be evaluated based on a list of publication record)

Corporate Competencies:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability; Treats all people fairly without favoritism;

Required Skills and Experience

Education: 

A master’s degree in environment management and policy, international development policy, law or related, relevant field(s).

Experience:

• At least 7 years of prior relevant work experience including environmental policy and research, technical report-writing at the nexus of environmental science and policy.

• Experience drafting and editing policy documents

Language Requirement:Fluency in English mandatory. Knowledge of Khmer language is a plus

UNDP reserves right to reject any applications that is incomplete.

Please be informed that we don’t accept application submitted via email.

Interested individual offeror must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

1. Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work

2. Financial proposal

3. Personal CV including experience in similar projects, list of publication written by Candidate and at least 3 references.

Interested Offerors are required to submit application via UNDP jobsite system as the application screening and evaluation will be done through UNDP jobsite system. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file. Your on-line applications submission will be acknowledged where an email address has been provided. If you do not receive an e-mail acknowledgement within 24 hours of submission, your application may not have been received. In such cases, please resubmit the application, if necessary. Please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Any request for clarification/additional information on this procurement notice shall be communicated in writing to UNDP office or send to email sereyvattana.chan@undp.org and cc procurement.kh@undp.org . While the Procurement Unit would endeavor to provide information expeditiously, only requests receiving at least 5 working days prior to the submission deadline will be entertained. Any delay in providing such information will not be considered as a reason for extending the submission deadline. The UNDP's response (including an explanation of the query but without identifying the source of inquiry) will be posted in Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice page as provided above. Therefore, all prospective Offerors are advised to visit the page regularly to make obtain update related to this Individual Consultant (IC) Procurement Notice.