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Project Title Support to Peacebuilding and Normalization (SPAN)
Project Description The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GPH), through the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), partnered with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to implement a project entitled “Support to Peacebuilding and Normalization” or Project SPAN. The Project aims to contribute towards sustaining the gains of the Government’s peace process, and in ensuring peace and security in conflict-affected areas by (a) accelerating the implementation of the security and socio-economic aspects of the Normalization Annex of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) that was agreed upon by the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF); and (b) strengthening the enabling environment for peace, recovery and development. The Project was supposed to be implemented over a period of one year but a change in OPAPP’s administration delayed the implementation of activities and the Project was extended. Subsequently, the Covid19 Pandemic caused further delay and the project implementation was further extended to 31 December 2021. It was agreed that while closure is in December 2021, the Project will still be allowed to complete the remaining deliverables and the closure activities such as Terminal Evaluation and Final Report writing including the Financial Report. The financial reporting for Project SPAN was a role that was assigned to the Programme Assistant of the Peace Team when the Project’s Financial Officer resigned. Unfortunately, the Programme Assistant has also decided to pursue her career in another agency and will be leaving the project by April. Thus, the project will require the services of a Project Finance Associate to complete financial reporting during the project closure stage, particularly in validating the financial transactions of the project and in coordinating with the Finance Unit of OPAPP.
Institutional Arrangement The Project SPAN Finance Associate will work under the direct supervision of the SPAN Officer-in-Charge or OIC. The SPAN OIC will monitor and track the Project Finance Associate’s performance and delivery of expected outputs in accordance with the indicated schedules. Release of payments will only be triggered after issuance of certificates of acceptance for the outputs and deliverables of the Project Admin and Finance Associate.
Duration of the Work 87 working days spread out from April to September 2020.
Duty Station The duty station of the consultant is in Manila, Philippines. However, as this is an output-based engagement, the IC will not be required to report for work daily. The engagement will include travels within Mindanao and if need be and will be shouldered under the SPAN Project. Medical/health insurance must be purchased by the individual at his/her own expense, and upon award of contract, the consultant must be ready to submit proof of insurance, which should remain valid under the contract duration.
Scope and Price Proposal and Schedule Payments. The Project Finance Associate will receive a total amount in a lump sum amount commensurate to the scope of work. The amount indicated in the Offeror’s Letter will be released in tranches upon the satisfactory performance of agreed deliverables based on the schedule provided below:
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Duties and Responsibilities |
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Scope of Work Under the overall guidance of the Team Leader of the Peace Programme Team and under the direct supervision of the SPAN Project Manager, the Project Admin and Finance Associate will undertake the following tasks:
Finance Associate of the Results and Quality Team and Finance Analyst of UNDP. As required, the IC will also coordinate with the Finance Unit of OPAPP.
Expected Outputs and Deliverables In addition to the functions mentioned above, the IC is expected to deliver the major outputs and specific deliverables on the target due dates indicated in the matrix below. The review and acceptance of these outputs shall be done by the indicated authorities.
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Competencies |
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Corporate competencies
Functional and technical competencies
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Required Skills and Experience |
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Offers will be evaluated based on the combined scoring method :
For the evaluation of the Technical Proposal, the selection of the successful consultant must be based on the following qualifications (with the appropriate obtainable points):
Applicants who will only receive 70 points from the assessment of the CV will be qualified for the assessment of the Financial Proposal.
Recommended Presentation of Offer Interested applicants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications. Please group them into one (1) single PDF document as the application only allows to upload of a maximum of one document.
Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document.
Interested applicants to note that personal Medical/health insurance (to be purchased by the individual at his/her own expense) is mandatory for the issuance of contracts. Upon award of the contract, the consultant must be ready to submit proof of insurance valid during the contract duration. The following templates / Annexes and IC General Terms & Conditions can be downloaded from http://gofile.me/6xdJm/bE9TCw8fU:
In view of the volume of applications, UNDP receives, only shortlisted offerors will be notified. |
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