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MiDL-National Consultant on Construction Engineering and Spatial Planning.

Vacancy Number: Pr17/01655

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	17 Dec 2017, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	22 Dec 2017
Reference to the project:	Integrated Migration Local Development Project
Expected Duration of Assignment:	Estimated workload up to 104 working days during 8 months
Submission Instructions: Proposals should be submitted on-line by pressing “Apply on-line” link, no later than 17 December 2017. Requests for clarification only must be sent by standard electronic communication to the following e-mail: olesea.cazacu@undp.org. UNDP will respond by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all applicants.
Supporting Documents: Terms of Reference-EN Terms of Reference-Ro Individual Consultant Procurement Notice-En Individual Consultant Procurement Notice-Ro Offeror's Letter confirming Interest and Availability Personal History Form (P11) UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract

Ms. Olesea Cazacu.

Background

The ‘Migration and Local Development Project’s’ (MIDL) overall objective is to support the communities affected by migration in improving essential local public services namely water and sanitation, health, social and education services, as well as increasing the access of citizens to income-generating opportunities, including improved employment reintegration support for returnees. In this regard, a total number of 40 urban and rural communities from Moldova were selected (in two phases) as target localities under this project for piloting a comprehensive assistance package, aiming to creating viable national models of successful (re)integration of migrants/returnees and mainstreaming of norms and methodologies for migration considerations into  sustainable local development.

In this context, MiDL is financially supporting the implementation of 9 pilot community projects related to construction works (15,000$ grants per project), developed and co-financed in partnership by local authorities and Associations of Natives (”Asociații de Băștinași). The community projects are already selected and the granting process in on-going.

Scope of work

The overall objective of National Consultant on provision of engineering assistance for community development projects (hereinafter Consultant) assignment is to provide technical assistance during the entire cycle of the implementation of community projects co-financed by MiDL/UNDP.

For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1 – Terms of Reference.

Requirements for experience

1. Qualifications:

• University Degree in civil engineering, and / or architecture / construction or other relevant fields;

 2. Experience:

• At least five years of professional working experience in the civil engineering, urbanism and spatial planning;
• At least five years of work within the specific of local development context;

• Previous experience in civil engineering, local construction norms and standards, building laws;
• Proven experience in spatial planning national regulation framework;
• Practice and abilities in implementation of community development programs;

 3. Competencies:

• A strong client-service orientation;
• High level of responsibility and organization capacities;

• Computer proficiency, including knowledge of MS Office products (Word, Excel, Power Point) and spatial planning software;

• Proficiency in Romanian and Russian;

• Sensitivity and respect for sustainable development, human rights and gender equality;
• Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy;

• Ability to achieve results and deadlines in a timely manner, maintaining a high standard throughout;
• Proven commitment to the core values of the United Nations, in particular, respecting differences of culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, language, age, HIV status, disability, and sexual orientation, or other status.

Documents to be included

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

1. Proposal explaining why they are the most suitable for the work;

2. Financial proposal (USD, specifying a total lump sum amount) as described below;

3. Personal CV including past experience in similar projects and at least 3 references, or dully filled Personal History Form P11

Financial proposal

The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR.  In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals, the financial proposal will include a breakdown (fee per consultancy day in office * days; fee per consultancy day in field * days) of this lump sum amount (including fee, taxes, per diems, and number of anticipated working days).

Travel

All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel.  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.

In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.