REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANT: RULE OF LAW IN AN EU ACCESSION CONTEXT
All references herein are made in the context of UNSC 1244 (1999) UNDP’s engagement in Turkey and the Western Balkan countries is based primarily on supporting the countries’ objective of accession into the European Union. UNDP is particularly targeting its support in the areas that are directly related to its global strategic priorities and long-standing programmatic experience in these countries, primarily rule of law, including anti-corruption; environment; social inclusion; and regional and rural development. This development context has created a unique situation for UNDP in the region, placing a particular demand on the strategic positioning of its Country Offices vis-à-vis the local and national partners on the one side, and the European Commission/European Union on the other. The fact that several of these countries share a similar past as well as future -- through their European Union aspirations -- has resulted in requests for support by national partners to UNDP to facilitate synergies and substantive exchange of information and experiences between national and local counterparts within the region, as facilitated by the UNDP Country Offices. Additionally, UNDP is working to ensure that its programmatic work and policy advice in the aforementioned priority sectors, including Rule of Law, is anchored in the EU Accession process, to further support and facilitate national efforts in making and implementing the necessary changes to legislation and institutional frameworks. To provide the most effective support, UNDP is seeking to strengthen its support to local and national partners in an EU Accession context by bringing in high-level technical expertise available to UNDP and its partners in the region. This is in direct response to national partners requests to UNDP to make available technical advice and expertise in the context of EU Accession, drawing especially on experiences and expertise from those countries that have relatively recently concluded the Accession process to become a full member of the EU. For this purpose, UNDP is seeking a Regional Consultant for Rule of Law issues in the Accession process, to provide advice and support to UNDP’s regional and national partners on issues pertaining to Negotiating Chapters 23 and 24. Management Arrangements: The Regional International Consultant will report through a management structure anchored in the sub-region and directly accountable to the participating Country Offices from the EU Accession countries in RBEC’s Division 1 (EU Accession and new EU Member States). The Regional International Consultant will work under the direct day-to-day oversight and supervision of the UNDP Resident Representative in Croatia, including performance evaluation, based on the input and performance feedback of the participating Country Offices. In addition to day-to-day supervision provided by the UNDP/Croatia RR, the overall management of the Advisor and the development and implementation of his/her workload will be provided by a “Regional Board” which will be composed of the participating UNDP Country Office’s Resident Representatives; the Division Chief of RBEC/New York’s Division for EU Accession and new EU Member States; and RBEC’s Practice Leader for Poverty Reduction based in UNDP’s Regional Service Center in Bratislava. The Regional Consultant will provide regular updates on his/her work plan and the corresponding implementation to this Regional Board, which will meet quarterly via videoconference, with additional ad-hoc face-to-face meetings as needed. Deliverables and Payment Schedule: The Regional Consultant’s deliverables will be based on a quarterly workplan, which will be developed by the “Regional Board” based on the needs of the UNDP Country Offices that the Consultant will serve (currently envisaged as Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, FYROM and potentially Turkey). The elements of the quarterly workplan will be based on the following possible deliverables/actions, as per the “description of responsibilities” (see below). The workplan will also be established indicating inputs and deliverables to be completed. The Regional Consultant will be paid based on a monthly fee, to be paid at intervals upon submission and UNDP’s approval of a time sheet outlining the completed tasks against the Quarterly workplan. The fee will be all-inclusive
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The Regional Consultant is expected to provide strategic advice in the implementation of the UNDP technical assistance goals in the field of Rule of Law for accession and pre-accession countries in Western Balkans and Turkey. She/he will act as the regional chief technical advisor for Rule of Law in the EU context. The advisory services that the Regional Consultant will be providing are short-term in nature. The estimated duration of the advisory support to be provided will be determined ad-hoc, based on the individual requests from UNDP Country Offices to support local, national or regional partners and will be outlined in the quarterly workplan. a) at the request of UNDP’s regional and/or national partners in the Western Balkans and Turkey, provide substantive/technical advice to the relevant institutions/departments on key elements of Rule of Law, primarily on Chapters 23 and 24 of the Acquis; as well as the Rule of Law aspects of the political criteria
Strategic advice and support to regional and national partners:
Strategic advice and support to UNDP Country Offices:
Strategic positioning for substantive knowledge managements and sharing at the request of UNDP and /or national partners:
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Evaluation of Applicants: Individual consultants will be evaluated based on a cumulative analysis taking into consideration the combination of the applicants’ qualifications and financial proposal. The short-listed candidates will be requested to undergo a written test and panel interview. The award of the contract should be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as: Only the highest ranked candidates who would be found qualified for the job will be considered for the Financial Evaluation. Technical Criteria - 60% of total evaluation – max. 60 points:
Financial Criteria - 40% of total evaluation – max.40 points Application procedures: Qualified candidates are requested to apply online via this website. The application should contain:
*Please note that the financial proposal is all-inclusive and shall take into account various expenses incurred by the consultant during the contract period (e.g. fee, health insurance, vaccination and any other relevant expenses related to the performance of services...). It should also include certain travel costs, i.e. those related to the Consultant’s move to the duty Station (Zagreb, Croatia) and repatriation travel. Travel costs directly linked to the Consultant’s workplan, and the requisite to the other countries in the sub-region, will be paid separately by UNDP as per UNDP’s rules and procedures. Payments will be made only upon confirmation of UNDP on delivering on the contract obligations in a satisfactory manner. Individual Consultants are responsible for ensuring they have vaccinations/inoculations when travelling to certain countries, as designated by the UN Medical Director. Consultants are also required to comply with the UN security directives set forth under dss.un.org Qualified women and members of minorities are encouraged to apply. Due to large number of applications we receive, we are able to inform only the successful candidates about the outcome or status of the selection process.
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UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. |
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