Education:
- Master’s degree in international development, with specific academic background related to social and environmental sustainability or other closely related field;
Experience:
- At least 10 years of experience related to Climate Change, and/ or social and environmental standards and impact assessment in an international development context;
- Demonstrated knowledge of climate change adaptation; inter-governmental climate change processes; and sustainable development environmental management issues, adaptation, vulnerability and impacts of climate change and other related sustainable human development issues;
- Demonstrated experience in project development, implementation and management.
- Experience developing and conducting training related to social and environmental screening and assessment is an asset;
- Familiarity with the UN System, in particular UNDP, and development banks is an advantage.
Language:
Excellence in English language is required.
Price Proposal and Schedule of Payments:
Consultant must send a financial proposal based on Daily Fee.
Consultant shall quote an all-inclusive Daily Fee for the contract period. The term “all-inclusive” implies that all costs (professional fees, communications, consumables, etc.) that could be incurred by the IC in completing the assignment are already factored into the daily fee submitted in the proposal. If applicable, travel or daily allowance cost (if any work is to be done outside the IC’s duty station) should be identified separately. Payments shall be done on a monthly basis based on actual days worked, upon verification of completion of deliverables and approval by the IC’s supervisor of a Time Sheet indicating the days worked in the period.
In general, UNDP shall 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.
In the event of unforeseeable travel not anticipated in this TOR, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and the Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.
Payment of travel costs including tickets, living allowance, terminal expenses and other travel related cost should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel. The consultant may need to arrange air ticket cost and it shall be reimbursed at actual but not exceed the price quoted by UNDP‘s travel agent. The provided living allowance will not be exceeding UNDP DSA rates. Repatriation travel cost from home to duty station in Bangkok and return shall not be covered by UNDP.
Evaluation Method and Criteria:
Individual consultants will be evaluated based on Cumulative analysis.
The award of the contract shall be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as
a) responsive/compliant/acceptable; and
b) having received the highest score out of set of weighted technical criteria (70%) and financial criteria (30%).
Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 500 points) :
- Cirteria 1 : Education - max 75 points;
- Cirteria 2 : Experience related to Climate Change, and/ or social and environmental standards and impact assessment in an international development context - max 125 points;
- Cirteria 3 : Demonstrated knowledge of climate change adaptation; inter-governmental climate change processes; and sustainable development environmental management issues, adaptation, vulnerability and impacts of climate change and other related sustainable human development issues - max 75 points;
- Cirteria 4 : Demonstrated experience in project development, implementation and management - max 75 points;
- Cirteria 5 : Experience developing and conducting training related to social and environmental screening and assessment is an asset - max 50 points;
- Cirteria 6 : Familiarity with the UN System, in particular UNDP, and development banks is an advantage - max 50 points;
- Cirteria 7 : Language - max 50 points.
Financial score shall be computed as a ratio of the proposal being evaluated and the lowest priced proposal received by UNDP for the assignment.
Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 350 points (70% of the total technical points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation.
Only the top 3 candidates obtaining at least 70% or more of the total technical points (education, experience, and languages) will be considered for the interview and financial evaluation.
Documentation required:
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload maximum one document:
- Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability 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;
- Brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment, and a methodology, on how they will approach and complete the assignment;
- Financial Proposal, as per template provided in Annex 2.
Incomplete proposals may not be considered.
Please click on the link below to download the required :
http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=33082
For any clarification regarding this assignment please write to brh.gef.procurement@undp.org
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