International Lead Consultant: Biodiversity Conservation Planning and GEF Specialist .Vacancy Number: Pr13/00423
Background
The Government of Moldova has requested support from GEF to prepare the medium-sized project “Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation into Moldova’s Territorial Planning Policies and Land-Use Practices” intended to remove, in an incremental manner, the existing barriers for mainstreaming biodiversity priorities into district territorial planning policies and land use practices. More specifically, at the national level the project aims to establishing an enabling environment for mainstreaming biodiversity into land use planning, compliance monitoring and enforcement and test at the local level models of biodiversity compatible spatial planning and land-use. Capacity building for successful mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation envisaged by the project shall also ensure proper participatory spatial planning (including conflict resolution). The Preparation Grant for the Project “Mainstreaming Biodiversity Conservation into Moldova’s Territorial Planning Policies and Land-Use Practices” shall establish the baseline, collate and analyze the primary and secondary information and outline the GEF increment for the project through a number of relevant studies and stakeholders consultation with a view to further develop the approved project concept into a fully formulated project document. The final output of the project preparation phase will be an UNDP-GEF project document and GEF CEO Endorsement request and relevant baseline GEF Tracking tool ready for submission to UNDP and GEF. Scope of work
The responsibility of the international lead consultant is to develop the relevant project’s documentation and the Project Document that will be acceptable to the GEF and submit these to GEF review not later than end-August 2014. In doing this, the international consultant will work and guide a team of consultants to be hired to deal with such areas as biodiversity monitoring, land use and pasture management, and forest management. It is envisaged that the international consultant will need to make two missions to Moldova, one at the beginning of 2014 and another one in the second quarter of 2014. The key products to be delivered are as follows:
For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1 - Terms of Reference. Requirements for experience
Academic Qualification:
Experience:
Competencies:
Language requirements:
Documents to be included
Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:
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 of this lump sum amount (including travel, 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 does 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 UNDP Moldova and the Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. Two travel missions are envisaged under this assignment - one at the beginning of 2014 and another one in the second quarter of 2014. | |||||||||||||||||
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