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Resilience Expert

Copenhagen

  • Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
  • Location: Copenhagen
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Environment
    • Crisis Response
  • Closing Date: Closed

Background

Background

Since 2011, nearly 200,000 people have lost their lives in Syria, with over 7.6 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and 12.2 million Syrians in need of humanitarian assistance in Syria. In addition, over 4 million Syrian refugees were registered in neighboring countries-Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. 

The Syria crisis is not only a humanitarian crisis – it is also a human development crisis. Syria has fallen from a middle-income country to one with 75 percent poverty. 4.4 million live in extreme poverty and most livelihoods have been disrupted. Vital infrastructure has been destroyed, leaving millions without access to basic services such as water, electricity, sanitation, health services and education.

Vulnerable in their own respect, neighboring countries are severely strained, with development imperiled, unemployment on the rise and increasing competition for scarce resources including water and access to school and health services. The crisis is the deepest threat to long-term development in this region – and the threat of wide-ranging and long-term impacts grows daily.

As the crisis prolongs and becomes more complex, development efforts in the region require a new outlook. Resilience means helping the most vulnerable communities to cope with the crisis by providing immediate life-saving responses, support to recover livelihoods, and helps sustain their return to a path of longer-term development. People affected by conflict need food, shelter, water, medicine and protection; but they also need support in rebuilding livelihoods, educating their children and rebuilding health services and social cohesion in fragmented communities.

The 3RP, launched three years ago, addresses refugee protection and humanitarian needs, whilst building the resilience of vulnerable and impacted communities and strengthening the capacity of national delivery systems. It is a strategy to address the adverse social, humanitarian and economic impacts resulting from the Syrian conflict and an unprecedented ‘demographic and economic shock’ arising from large refugee inflows.  Introduction of the resilience lens to the 3RP has strengthened partners’ capacity to identify and programme resilience building activities.  In 2015, “State of Resilience Programming” was published, which contains case studies from 3RP countries.  Various attempts were made to strengthen resilience programming among 3RP partners resulting in increased resilience programming (from 28% in 2015 to 41% in 2017), while the funding received for resilience programming has not yet increased at the similar rate. 

There is a need for collecting emerging resilience programme experiences among 3RP countries to better present an evidence-base that demonstrates partners’ efforts in building resilience among targeted populations, communities and institutions.  There is also a need to provide partners with a practical toolkit for resilience programming, based on best practice, that supports their programming efforts. Finally, there is also a critical need to improve resilience M&E and reporting, especially in presenting how resilience programmes are implemented and achievements were made across different sectors.

Project Description

Consultant to enhance resilience programming in the 3RP by conducting resilience case studies, drafting “State of Resilience II” Report, producing a resilience toolkit and facilitating a resilience M&E workshop.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the Supervision of the Policy and Crisis-Coordination Specialist, this consultant  will be responsible for 1)  conducting field visit to collect good practice of resilience programmes implemented by 3RP partners and draft document based on the collected information with the analysis of progress made since the State of Resilience I, 2) based on the resilience case studies collected, draft resilience toolkit for 3RP partners, 3) facilitate resilience M&E workshop in January 2018.

Scope of Work:

  • Draft State of Resilience Programming II
  • Prepare outline of the study with methodology for case collection and drafting state of resilience II
  • Draft case studies
  • Complete draft of “State of Resilience Programming II”

Resilience Toolkit

  • Prepare outline of the resilience toolkit
  • Draft resilience toolkit
  • Finalize the toolkit based on the comments provided by UNDP

Facilitate Resilience M&E Workshop

  • Facilitate 3RP resilience M&E Workshop organized by UNDP in the region.

Competencies

Corporate competencies

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

Functional Competencies

  • In-depth knowledge on development and humanitarian issues;
  • Ability to advocate and provide policy advice;
  • Capable of working in a high-pressure work environment with frequent urgent deadlines;
  • Ability to multi-task;
  • Ability to handle confidential and politically sensitive issues in a responsible and mature manner;
  • High level logical and methodical organizational skills;
  • Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting.
  • Ability to lead formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of joint development programs and projects, mobilize resources.

Management and Leadership

  • Focuses on impact and result for the client
  • Interacts effectively with all levels of the organization
  • Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
  • Builds strong relationships with clients and external actors
  • Demonstrates exceptional ability to remain calm, in control and good humored even under pressure and tight deadlines
  • Demonstrates openness to change
  • Responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

  • Master's Degree required in Development Studies, Public Administration, International Affairs, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences or related field.

 Professional Experience:

  • At least 5 years of relevant professional work experience, with at least 3 year working in development.
  • Experience conducting field research, including survey design and implementation, focus groups and qualitative interviews, previous work in resilience research is preferable.
  • Effective communication skills and ability to establish good working relationships with national and local authorities, various UN agencies and local communities
  • Familiarity with the Regional Resilience and Refugee Plan (3RP) is an asset
  • Experience in preparing quality reports and documents; good drafting skills

 Language Skills:

  • Fluency in English, and Arabic language is an asset

TRAVEL PLAN

This assignment is Home-based with possibility to travel to countries in the region. In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal ex-penses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.

DOCUMENTS TO BE INCLUDED WHEN SUBMITTING THE PROPOSALS.

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Candidates that fail to submit the required information will not be considered.

  • Duly accomplished using the template provided by UNDP;
  • 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;
  • Financial Proposal that indicates the all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of costs, as per the table given in section D. template provided. 

All necessary information including: Complete Procurement Notice, The Selection Criteria, and Annexes are found on the following link under Procurement http://procurement-notices.undp.org/

Interested candidate shall apply the CV/P11 to Job advertisement website, hence consultant should submit to email:  Proc.contract.rscjo@undp.org : not later than Monday 27 October -   2017

  • CV/P11
  • Confirm availability and financial proposal
  • Brief description of why you consider yourself as the most suitable for the assignment

FINANCIAL PROPOSAL

Interested candidates should provide lump sum fees for requested services with detailed breakdown (consultancy fees, round travel tickets, travel cost, living allowances during the missions., etc.) as per travel plan above

EVALUATION

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 criteria will progress to the pool for shortlisting:

  • Master’s Degree required, in Development Studies, Public Administration, International Affairs, Economics, Political Sciences, Social Sciences or related field (as per mentioned above);
  • At least 5 years of relevant professional work experience, with at least 3 year working in development.

Shortlisted Candidates will be then assessed and scored against the following evaluation criteria.

Evaluation of Candidates (max 100 points):

  • At least 5 years of relevant professional work experience, with at least 3 year working in development. 25%
  • Experience conducting field research, including survey design and implementation, focus groups and qualitative interviews, previous work in resilience research is preferable. 25%
  • Effective communication skills and ability to establish good working relationships with national and local authorities, various UN agencies and local communities 20%
  • Familiarity with the Regional Resilience and Refugee Plan (3RP) is an asset 15%
  • Experience in preparing quality reports and documents; good drafting skills 15%

Step II: Final evaluation

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

  • Shortlisting: 70%;
  • Financial proposal: 30%
UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.
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