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National Consultant for Disaster Risk Management Strategy.

Vacancy Number: Pr20/02031

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	17 Jun 2020, 15:00 (GMT+2:00)
Application Extended deadline:	24 Jun 2020, 16:00 (GMT+2:00)
Application Extended deadline:	26 Jun 2020, 16:00 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	29 Jun 2020
Reference to the project:	Advisory Services for Programme Development
Expected Duration of Assignment:	up to 45 wds
Supporting Documents: Terms of Reference Procurement Notice OFFEROR’S LETTER TO UNDP CONFIRMING INTEREST AND AVAILABILITY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTOR (IC) ASSIGNMENT UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract

Ms. Silvia Pana-Carp.

Background

Moldova’s economy, population, and environment are highly exposed and vulnerable to climate variability and change and different kinds of natural hazards, including drought, floods, severe weather, earthquakes, and landslides. Average annual losses from hydrometeorological hazards comprise around three percent of GDP (if the 2007 drought is factored into the annual average).  They have a severe impact upon the rural population of Moldova, which makes up around 60% of the total and depends largely upon agriculture for their livelihood. Overall annual losses from geophysical hazards account for 0.9% of GDP. These primarily threaten infrastructure, homes, and public buildings.

Disaster risk reduction is a common thread in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, calling for more coherent and integrated management of disaster and climate risks. 

UNDP presence in the disaster and climate risk reduction area focuses on supporting the government capacities to respond better to climate change and disasters with adequate policies, institutional set up and coordination mechanisms. At the local level, the effort is placed on assessing and reducing climate risks by incorporating those into local development planning frameworks in a participatory and inclusive manner, but also by piloting community based DRR practices.  

In 2015, in Moldova UNDP supported development of the draft Disaster Risk Management Strategy which requires updating and alignment with the latest national and global development objectives.

Scope of work

The National Consultant is expected to provide support in updating the draft National Disaster Risk Management Strategy in line with the tasks described in the Terms of Reference.

The National Consultant will work with the National Consultant of Disaster Risk Assessment and a team of International Experts towards updating the draft National Disaster Risk Management Strategy of Moldova (DRMS). Also, the National Consultant will work closely with National Inspectorate for Emergency Situations, and relevant national partners, including state institutions, local authorities, civil society, and international organizations. He/she will be responsible for the organization of missions for the International Consultants, conducting interviews/workshops together with an international consultant, provide advice on all aspects of the DRR system, and the DRM Strategy.

The National Consultant will work under the guidance of the Lead International Consultant for DRM and under supervision of the Environment, Climate Change and Energy Cluster Lead and Analyst.

The selected Consultant will work outside the project premises and will participate in all assignments related to working meetings organized by UNDP.

For detailed information, please refer to the Terms of Reference.

Requirements for experience

Academic Qualifications:

• University degree in civil protection, economics, law, public administration, or other relevant/similar field.

Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience working with the national authorities and/or public administration;
• At least 3 years of experience in civil protection and/or disaster risk management;
• Experience with the DRR related legal framework in Moldova and experience in development of legal documents is desirable;
• Proven experience in organization of multi stakeholder consultation processes.

Competencies:

• Excellent negotiation, leadership and diplomatic skills;
• Excellent facilitation and public presentation skills;
• Proven experience of work in multicultural environment;
• Excellent and proven analytical and writing skills.

Language requirements:

• Medium level of written and spoken English
• Romanian, and good command of Russian is required for this assignment.

Personal qualities:

• Proven commitment to the core values of the United Nations; in particular, is respectful of differences of culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, language, age, HIV status, disability, and sexual orientation, or other status;
• Responsibility;
• Flexibility;
• Punctuality.

The United Nations in Moldova is committed to workforce diversity. Women, persons with disabilities, Roma and other ethnic or religious minorities, persons living with HIV, as well as refugees and other non-citizens legally entitled to work in the Republic of Moldova, are particularly encouraged to apply.

Documents to be included

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

1. Proposal: a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work;
2. CV and at least 3 names for a reference check;
3. Financial proposal (in USD), specifying a fee per day and total requested amount including all related costs, e.g. fees, per diems, travel costs, phone calls etc.;
4. Offeror's Letter confirming Interest and Availability.

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.

Payments are made to the Individual Consultant based on the number of days worked and will be disbursed in instalments, upon submission of approval of deliverables, and certification by UNDP, that the services have been satisfactorily performed.