Dialogue Facilitation expert (GPN ExpRes roster)

POSTULACIÓN

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Considere por favor que la vacante cierra 30-ene.-2022 bajo horario de New York (2 horas antes de la medianoche en Perú)

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Duties and Responsibilities

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

Support the development of a framework for structured dialogues, including design and testing of qualitative methods for consensus building, to define parameters for acceleration options and a bespoke methodology to weigh options and trade-offs to drive the implementation of the SDG acceleration diagnostic tool.
Lead on coordination and facilitation of dialogues for each pilot country, tailored for national needs and contexts. Engage actors including governments, national stakeholders and partners in structured dialogues.
Report on findings, insights and recommendations identified through stakeholder dialogues in pilot countries
Support the development of dialogue resources relevant to the Diagnostic process to be published on the SDG Acceleration Diagnostic website (currently under development).
Contribute into SDG Acceleration Compact for each pilot country with approaches identified through dialogue phase.
Expected outputs and deliverables:

Deliverables/ Outputs
Target Due Dates
Review and Approvals Required
% of total contract value
Support development of framework for structured dialogues, including innovative methodology
January 2022
To be reviewed by Global Policy Advisor of the SDG Integration
15%
Facilitate multistakeholder dialogues for pilot countries
End-March 2022
To be reviewed by Global Policy Advisor of the SDG Integration
45%
Support development of short reports on findings, insights and recommendations from dialogues
April 2022
To be reviewed by Global Policy Advisor of the SDG Integration
15%
Support development of dialogue resources relevant to the Diagnostic process
May 2022
To be reviewed by Global Policy Advisor of the SDG Integration
10%
Input into SDG Acceleration Compact
June 2022
To be reviewed by Global Policy Advisor of the SDG Integration
15%
Institutional Arrangements:

The Consultants will work under the guidance and direct supervision of Global Policy Advisor of the SDG Integration, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support/Global Policy Network and will be responsible for the fulfilment of the deliverables as specified above.
The Consultants hired for this project will work closely together with a Dialogue Sensemaking Consultant to design and implement the dialogues in pilot countries
The Consultants will be given access to relevant information necessary for the execution of the tasks under this assignment.
The Consultants will engage with relevant UNDP colleagues and national stakeholders, as appropriate.
The Consultants will be responsible for providing her/his own laptop.
The Consultants are expected to be reasonably flexible with his/her availability for consultations with various stakeholders who may be based across different time zones.
Duration of the work:

The consultancy is expected to span across three (3) months through part-time support to the SDG Acceleration Diagnostic project.
Duty Station:

This assignment will be home-based.

Competencies

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.
Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.
Functional Competencies:

Proven networking skills, demonstrating ability to build strategic partnerships by maintaining a network of contacts for general information sharing and being up-to-date on partnership-related issues.
Demonstrated ability to interact effectively with a diverse set of stakeholders.
Strong negotiating skills.
Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
Strong initiative-taker.
Focuses on impact and results for client.
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic qualifications:

Advanced University Degree in social sciences, management, or relevant area, required.
Experience:

At least 5 years of substantive international experience in designing/facilitating workshops, intergroup processes and implementing team building exercises, required.
Well-developed skills and at least 4 years’ experience in facilitation, consensus-building, multi-stakeholder dialogue processes, mediation, or negotiation, required.
Knowledge of the SDGs and their application at the national level, required.
Understanding of innovative dialogue methodologies, such as sensemaking, desired.
Experience in event organization, desired.
Experience in facilitating strategic planning workshops and/or other events for the UN or governments, desired.
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 shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around the specific and measurable deliverables of the TOR. Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR, and deliverables accepted and certified by the technical manager.
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.
This consultancy is a home-based assignment, therefore, there is no envisaged travel cost to join duty station/repatriation travel.
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. Relevance of International experience in designing/facilitating workshops, intergroup processes and implementing team building exercises (minimum 7 years); max. 15 points.
Criteria 2. Relevance of experience in facilitation, consensus-building, multi-stakeholder dialogue processes, mediation, or negotiation (minimum 5 years); max. 15 points.
Criteria 3. Experience with innovative dialogue methodologies, such as sensemaking; max. 5 points.
Criteria 4. Experience in facilitating strategic planning workshops and/or other events for the UN or government; max. 5 points.
Interview; max 30 points
The top three candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% of the maximum obtainable points for Criteria 1-4 will be invited for the interview. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Only those candidates who obtain 21 points or more in the interview will be considered for 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

The candidates 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.

Payment modality

Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified above and deliverables accepted and upon certification of satisfactory completion by the manager.

Language:

Fluency in English, required
Knowledge of another UN language, desired.