Inclusive Digital Transformation Junior Consultant

Background

Emerging and future digital technologies and the opportunities they offer will profoundly improve the lives of those furthest behind. Recognizing this potential, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched an organization-wide digital transformation that will splice digital into its DNA—harnessing its potential to do good for more people, better and faster. UNDP’s 2019-2021 Digital Strategy has created a new UNDP Digital Unit, charged with leading the next wave of innovation in sustainable development.

UNDP Digital Strategy 2022 – 2025 aims to support our partner countries to unlock the power of digital to tackle these pressing issues. The strategy lays out UNDP’s ambition to use a rights-based approach to digital technologies to improve our development results and help build inclusive digital ecosystems globally that leave no one behind. These aims are supported by the transformation of our internal and operational systems and the building of an agile, digitally capable workforce.

Duties and Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

The Consultant will support UNDP Chief Digital Office in the following key areas of work:

Project support for the UNGA 77th side-event on digital public infrastructure. The consultant is expected to carry out the following activities:

1. Attendee/speaker onboarding and communication

Prepare speaker invitation letters and incorporate partner inputs
Liaise with UNDP country offices on distributing invitation letters, ensuring timely sending to invitees
Track confirmation status of key attendees and follow up with their teams and UNDP COs as appropriate

2. Support event design and framing

Support the framing of the event including alignment of key messages
Integrate partner inputs on key documents such as event concept notes
Lead on the development and alignment of the agenda
Support development of talking points and speaker briefs

3. Lead alignment with key partners from foundations, donor governments and the United Nations

Prepare weekly coordination calls with core team, including tracking and sending out action items
Prepare and manage recurring coordination calls with all co-hosts, including tracking and sending out action items
Identify and manage event risks
Develop and track event project plan

4. Post-event organization and follow-up

Manage follow-ups with speakers/attendees
Develop documentation as required

Support the Chief Digital office on technical assistance coordination of countries. Specific responsibilities include:

Provide targeted support to countries seeking DPGA membership and other related activities for capacity building

Design UNDP's digital transformation support process, service architecture and project management tools.

Support the Chief Digital office in partner engagement, including funders. Specific responsibilities include:

Organize co-creation sessions on key areas of inclusive digital transformation, focused on DPIs
Support concept development process.

Expected Outputs and Deliverables
Deliverables Number of Days Deliverable Date
Event Design & Workplan reports 10 September 21 2022
2 Technical Assistance Workflow reports for Countries 20 October 30 2022
Co-creation 2 workshops with partners 25 November 15 2022
3 Proposal drafts For digital transformation and digital public infra for inclusion 30 December 20, 2022
Final Report on UNDP's digital transformation support process, service architecture and project management tools. 25 February 28 2023

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results: : Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
Think Innovatively: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
Learn Continuously: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
Adapt with Agility: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
Act with Determination: : Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
Engage and Partner: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
Enable Diversity and Inclusion: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination

Technical

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to deliver in a high-pressure environment
Ability to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously, mixing long-term projects with the urgency of immediate demands.
Ability to collaborate with and achieve actionable results
Promotes a knowledge-sharing and learning culture within teams
Ability to facilitate meetings with high-level officials
Excellent knowledge of project management skills
Knowledge of how IoT works and ability to advise on the opportunities and challenges for governments and society
Ability?to develop effective strategies and prioritized plans in line with UNDP's objectives, based on the systemic analysis of challenges, potential risks and opportunities; linking the vision to reality on the ground, and creating tangible solutions
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
Is action-oriented and focused on deliverables and timeframes

Required Skills and Experience

I. Academic Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in fields related to Public Policy, Business, Science, Development, Communications, or equivalent

II. Years of experience:

Minimum two years of relevant experience in a management consulting or industry, Non Profit role with digital and/or innovation exposure

Experience in the private sector or Non-profit technology companies

Experience in organisational change management and management frameworks

III. Language:

Fluent in English

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 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 total lumpsum amount; (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 the Individual Consultant, before 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 in a higher class, he/she should do so using their own resources.
The Consultant will be given access to relevant information necessary for the execution of the tasks under this assignment;
The Consultant will be responsible for providing her/his workstation (i.e. laptop, internet, phone, scanner/printer, etc.) and must have access to a reliable internet connection;

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 the 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 weigh 70%, and Financial criteria/ Proposal weighs 30%.

Technical evaluation - Total 70% (70 points):

Criteria 1. Minimum two years of experience in Digital /emerging technologies Maximum Points: 40.

Criteria 2. Understanding international organizations functioning, including processes, planning, and procedures.Maximum Points: 10.

Criteria 3. Experience in development research, drafting and designing documents or similar documents in related fields with international organizations Maximum Points: 20.

Candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% (49 points) of the maximum obtainable points for the technical criteria (70 points) shall be considered for the financial evaluation.

Financial?evaluation - Total 30% (30 points)

The following formula will be used to evaluate the 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

Candidates obtaining the highest combined scores of Technical and financial evaluation score will be considered technically qualified and offered to enter into a 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.