ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

• Master’s Degree or equivalent in Journalism and Mass Communication, Development Communication, Development Studies, Environmental Science, Social Science or any closely related field.

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Knowledge Management for the environment, climate change, development or relevant fields or relevant field.
• Experience in conducting KM related capacity needs assessment and developing guidelines, toolkits and strategic documents will be added advantage.
• At least 2 assignments completed training design and facilitation for UN agencies/international organizations/government organizations.
• Experience in crafting knowledge management strategies for international organizations in nature, environment, and climate change.

Language

Excellent command of English and Bangla is a key requirement.

SUPERVISION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

The consultancy will be home-based and will report directly to the Climate Change Specialist, UNDP. S/he will also closely coordinate tasks with UNDP Country Office through other team members. S/he will also work closely with other national consultants from the project team recruited by UNDP. S/he will also engage with the global KM expert in the SIDA Programme to align with UNDP’s relevant corporate strategies. S/he will conduct training for UNDP Staff and officials from UNDP’s counterpart organizations.

The consultant will be given access to relevant information necessary for the execution of the tasks under this assignment. The consultant will be responsible for arranging her/his workstation (i.e., laptop, internet, phone, scanner/printer, etc.) and must have access to a reliable internet connection. The consultant is expected to be reasonably flexible with his/her availability while completing the assigned tasks;

Payments will be made upon submission of a detailed timesheet and certification of payment form, acceptance and endorsement by the Supervisor on days worked (with a “day” calculated as 8 hours of work) and outputs delivered.

DUTY STATION AND DURATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The duty station will be based in Dhaka. The consultant needs to support UNDP in facilitating Knowledge Management training for the UNDP staff and government counterparts. Logistics arrangements for training and list of particiapnsts will be provided by UNDP.

40 workdays intermittently over 4 months from October 2022 – end of January 2022. The consultant will use his/her personal PC or laptop and other required equipment, and UNDP will provide temporary office space if required. 

 TIMEFRAME AND DEADLINES

PAYMENT METHOD

The consultant will submit a financial proposal that includes daily professional fee and associated costs to be incurred (i.e. travel accommodation, communication etc.) in completing the assignment need to be reflected in the financial proposal breakdown form. The contract price will be a fixed output-based price regardless of the extension of the herein specified duration. Payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e., whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract).

FINANCIAL PROPOSAL

Lump-sum contracts

The financial proposal shall specify the daily professional fee/ rate of service (in Bangladeshi Taka) and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e., whether payments fall in instalments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e., upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. To assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown of daily rates (including domestic travel, per diems, and of several anticipated working days, etc.). Payments will be made in tranches based on the following milestone deliverables upon invoice submission and upon certification of the work completed.

Note: Due dates of some deliverables might be changed according to the training programme schedule.

DOCUMENTS SUBMISSION

The consultant shall prepare and submit the documents mentioned above during the assignment period. The outlines of each deliverable should be agreed upon at the beginning of the assignment and cleared by UNDP. Further work or revision of the documents may be required, if the documents do not meet the ToR, contain an error of facts or the documents are incomplete or not of an acceptable standard.

EVALUATION

Individual Consultants will be evaluated based on the following methodologies:

1. Cumulative analysis

When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

1. Responsive/compliant/acceptable, and
2. Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

• Technical Criteria weight: 70%
• Financial Criteria weight: 30%

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 49 pointsor 70% would be considered for the Financial Evaluation

Technical Criteria for Evaluation (Maximum 70 points)

FINANCIAL EVALUATION

(Total obtainable score – 30)

All technically qualified proposals will be scored out of 30 based on the formula provided below. The maximum points (30) will be assigned to the lowest financial proposal. All other proposals receive points according to the following formula:

 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

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: Maximum size per email is 7 MB.

• Letter of Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided in Annex II.
• 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.
• Technical proposal: including a) a brief description of why the individual considers him/herself as the most suitable for the assignment; and b) a methodology, on how they will approach and complete the assignment.
• Financial proposal: Financial Proposal has to be submitted through a standard interest and availability template which can be downloaded from the link:  Procurement | United Nations Development Programme (undp.org)

       Note: National consultants must quote prices in BDT 

1. Provide support to cloud Azure server environment

• Create staging for cloud deployment and migration

• Deploy, maintain, and manage cloud system

• Migrate applications to the Azure cloud server

• Create technical documentation includes of build, release, and configuration management

2. Create application or Upgrade existing applications to prepare for future adoption, include the following results:

• Design and implement new systems and features 

• Modify and maintain existing systems for adaptation to business and/or technology changes. 

• Change request design, 

• database design, 

• development, 

• bug fix,

• and testing procedure

3. The Digital application is expected to upgrade framework system, include the following results:

• Improve its algorithms and report, 

• Using front-end framework and codes (HTML, CSS, Laravel,  PHP)

• Improve of search speeds function

• Revamp applications appreance (responsive design desktop, Tabs, Mobile phone)

4. The Digital application  is expected to upgrade and tune up the database, include the following results:

• Boost the framework system

• Improve its algorithms and increase data search speeds, send data to the server (submit) and improve the UI/UX.

5. The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that:

• Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;

• Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”;

• Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender is respected within all implementations including data production;

• Differentiated needs of women and men are considered;

• Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created;

• Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc. introduced.