Sida Environment and Climate Change Portfolio Support Consultant Tender, USA - 35695469

Procurement Summary

Country : USA

Summary : Sida Environment and Climate Change Portfolio Support Consultant

Deadline : 02 Sep 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 35695469

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Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
One United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017
USA
URL :https://www.undp.org

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for UNDP Sida Environment and Climate Change Portfolio Support Consultant

Background

UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP-s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.

Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP-s Strategic Plan. BPPS-s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP-s Crisis Bureau (CB) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP-s development programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results-based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.

Based in UNDP-s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, Sustainable Development Cluster, the Natural Capital and Environment Team, including the UNDP-Global Environmental Finance Unit (UNDP - GEF Unit) has an objective to help countries achieve the simultaneous eradication of poverty and significant reduction of inequalities and exclusion by assisting Country Offices in accessing environmental finance for sustainable development. UNDP is an accredited implementing entity for the following environmental vertical funds: (i) funds managed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF): Global Environment Facility Trust Fund (GEF TF), Nagoya Protocol Implementation Fund (NPIF), Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF); (ii) Adaptation Fund (AF); and (iii) Green Climate Fund (GCF). As an Implementing Agency, UNDP offers countries technical services for eligibly assessment, programme/project formulation, due diligence, mobilization of co-financing, project implementation oversight, results management and evaluation, performance-based payments and knowledge management.

The UNDP - GEF Unit is organized into five substantive technical teams which include Regional Technical Advisers (RTAs) based in UNDP-s four regional hubs who work closely with UNDP Country Offices and partners. These five teams cover: Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Water and Oceans, Climate Change, Energy, and Chemicals. UNDP-s Natural Capital Team also manages several other global and country programmes.

The Government of Sweden, through Sida, has agreed to fund a four-year, USD$40m global Strategic Collaboration Framework designed to strengthen UNDP capacities to achieve its overall SD vision for poverty eradication through a more integrated, coherent approach to the environmental and climate dimensions of the UNDP Strategic Plan. Sida funds will be used to hire new staff and consultants in each region and as well as to finance country programming in ways that leverage synergies across UNDP work on biodiversity, climate change, and energy, as well as cross-cutting themes of gender equality, safeguards, sustainable food systems, resilience, DRR, and green financing. This work will also have a strong communications and knowledge management focus with targeted support to ten pilot countries.

UNDP would like to engage a portfolio coordination support consultant to carry out a number of tasks needed to prepare for and start implementing the Sida Strategic Collaboration Framework and broader UNDP Natural Capital and Environment portfolio as described within these TOR.


Duties and Responsibilities

The portfolio coordination support consultant will provide support to the Natural Capital and Environment (NCE) to prepare for and start implementation of the Sida Strategic Collaboration Framework and linked NCE programming.

Scope of work:

1. Portfolio Coordination

Assist with the generation and maintenance of Sida Framework information system;
Assist with provision of timely quality information on the Sida Framework and its activities to country offices and regional hubs;
Assist with quality assurance of Sida grant funding initiation plans including the preparation of the Framework project document, revised results framework indicators, workplan, budget and organogram;
Support identification and sourcing of technical expertise and support including assisting with the preparation of Terms of Reference (TORs), identification and evaluation of experts and drafting/reviewing of reports;
Support the Natural Capital and Environment (NCE) team to organize global and regional meetings and planning calls for the Framework;
Assist with alignment of the SIDA activities with the rest of UNDP-s work on the vertical funds and thematic areas including Natural Capital and Environment, Climate Change and Energy.
2. Knowledge management, data, and communications

Support the NCE team on Sida Framework related communications work, e.g. drafting press releases, conducting research for op-ed, preparing UNDP Management tweets, blogs and video messages, text and photos for UNDP website, photo essays, etc.;
Support the NCE team in drafting briefing notes, and create Power Point presentations on the team-s work and lessons learnt from the portfolio to support a variety of Framework-related meetings and workshops;
Support NCE team to populate, maintain and begin to moderate content for a revised knowledge management system drawing upon UNDP-s vertical fund portfolio;
Support the design and conducting of a rapid assessment of existing UNDP NCE, Climate Change, and Energy programming in the ten Sida pilot countries.
Anticipated Key Deliverables:

All internal UNDP documents needed to receive Sida Framework funds prepared within one month;
Updated timeline of key milestones during the Sida start-up phase prepared within one month;
Master table and organogram of all Sida-fund staff and consultancies prepared and updated- within two months;
Set of prioritized ToR for initial staff and consultancy positions drafted and finalized within two months;
Rapid mapping of UNDP programming in 10 Sida pilot countries prepared within three months;
Revised Framework Results Framework, budget and 2020 annual work plan drafted within three months;
Other tasks as need to ensure the smooth implementation of the start-up phase of the Sida Framework within three months.



Application Deadline: 02-Sep-19 (Midnight New York, USA)

Additional Category: Climate & Disaster Resilience

Type of Contract: Individual Contract

Languages Required: English

Starting Date: (date when the selected candidate is expected to start)
16-Sep-2019

Duration of Initial Contract :
66 days over 3-month period

Duration of Initial Contract: 66 days over 3-month period

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