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National IT Consultant to assist the Central Electoral Commission of Moldova in expansion of the State Automatized Information System “Elections” and further implementation of the Voters Registration roadmap.

Vacancy Number: Pr14/00760

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	26 Dec 2014, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Application Extended deadline:	05 Jan 2015, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	12 Jan 2015
Reference to the project:	Programme for Improving the Quality of Moldovan Democracy through Electoral Support
Expected Duration of Assignment:	8 months
Submission Instructions: Proposals should be submitted online by pressing the "Apply Online" no later than 26 December 2014 Requests for clarification only must be sent by standard electronic communication to the following e-mail: beatricia.revenco@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 Individual Consultant Procurement Notice Personal History Form (P11) UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract

Ms. Beatricia Revenco.

Background

UNDP Moldova Democracy Programme/Elections (further referred as Programme) is a multi-year institutional development programme that aims to support the institutional consolidation of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) as well as the modernization of the Moldovan electoral process towards:

• Improving the capacity of the CEC to meet European gender and human rights standards;
• Improving  the institutional environment for electoral management bodies that can deliver inclusive and modern electoral processes;
• Improving the electoral and population registration process of the Republic of Moldova.

 In May 2008 the Parliament of Moldova approved Law No. 101 on the Concept of the State Automated Information System “Elections” (SAISE) for the development of an integrated automated system for elections management, including a register of voters. SAISE is a comprehensive election management system which integrates key IT tools and functions needed by an Election Management Body to conduct elections. One of the Programme’s objectives is to assist the CEC with further development and deployment of the SAISE.

Scope of work

At this regard, the Programme intends to contract a local IT consultant to support CEC IT department in further expansion of SAISE, development of the remaining modules, such as “Financial controls” and “Document Management System” modules, support with facilitation of the processes related to development of the Address Register and its further integration with other state IT systems relevant to the voters registration.

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

Requirements for experience

Academic Qualifications:

• Bachelor in IT, system analysis or related field of information technology;

Years of experience:

• At least five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in planning, design, development, implementation and maintenance of information systems or related area;
• At least 1 year of experience in working with databases maintained by public authorities and electoral processes;
• Experience in Microsoft SQL Server 2008;
• Experience in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010;
• Experience in ASP.NET;
• Experience in web technologies;

Competencies:

• Familiarity with the national context (legal and policy framework) related to the Electoral System in Republic of Moldova;
• Ability to analyze, plan, manage diversity of views, adapt to different environments (cultural, economic, political and social);
• Gender sensitivity;
• Fluency in English, Romanian and Russian languages.

Documents to be included

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

• Proposal: explaining why they are the most suitable for the work including past experience in similar Projects (please provide brief information on each of the above qualifications, item by item);
• Financial proposal (in USD, specifying a total requested amount per working day, including all related costs, e.g. fees, phone calls etc. );
• Duly completed and signed P11 Form, personal CV and at least 3 references

Financial proposal

The financial proposal should specify the daily fee, travel expenses and per diems quoted in separate line items. Payments are made to the Individual Consultant based on the number of days worked.

All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel. UNDP shall not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket.

The financial proposal will specify the daily fee in USD. The timeframe for the work of the Consultant is planned between January and August 2015. During this 8 months period the consultant is expected to work full time, 144 working days (average of 18 working days per month).