Communication Adviser - Ramallah

Academic Qualifications:

Degree in Communications, Media, Journalism or a related Social Science-Humanities degree.

Experience:

At least seven (7) years of experience working in communications related work in general;Communications work inside Palestine is a plus.

Language Requirement:

Fluency in English and Arabic required;Additional languages preferred.  

Documents comprising the Technical Proposal / Documents required for application:

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information, which comprises the Technical Proposal:

Provide Professional CV including all qualifications and past experience in similar projects;Submit at least two (2) up-to-date recommendation letters;Explain why you are the most suitable for the work;Provide a brief methodology and/or work-plan on how you will approach and conduct the work;Submit sample report/project document or relevant deliverables.

Evaluation Process

Preliminary examination

UNDP/PAPP will examine the Proposals to determine whether they are complete, and whether they are substantially responsive to the qualification and experience minimum requirements. A Proposal determined as not substantially responsive will be rejected by UNDP/PAPP and may not subsequently be made responsive by the Applicant by correction of the non-conformity.

Detailed examination

A two-stage procedure is utilized in evaluating the proposals, with evaluation of the technical proposals prior to any financial proposal being opened and compared.

The technical proposals are evaluated on the basis of its responsiveness to the Terms of Reference (TOR).

Below please find the evaluation form for the technical proposals. The obtainable number of points specified for each evaluation criterion indicates the relative significance of weight of the item in the overall evaluation process.

Evaluation Criteria           

Qualification and Experience (40 points)

Communications, Media or Journalism degree (8 points);related Social Science – Humanities degree (6 points);General experience (26 points).

Level of Expertise (30 points)

Relevance of:

Specialized Knowledge (10 points);Experience on Similar Programme / Projects (20 points).

Proposed Methodology (5 points each):

To what degree does the Applicant understand the Type of input needed?Have the important aspects of the work required been addressed?Is the conceptual framework adopted appropriate for the type of work?Is the scope of work well defined and does it correspond to the TOR?Is the presentation clear and is the sequence of activities and the planning logical?Is the presentation realistic and promise efficient implementation to the project?

Total obtainable points =100

In the Second Stage, UNDP/PAPP will open and compare the Financial Proposals received from applicants who attained the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the evaluation of the technical proposals.

Financial Proposal

Your financial offer in USD shall specify a lump sum figure (monthly salary) all inclusive, and shall take into account various expenses incurred during the contract period and shall form the amount of the resulted contract between the winning Consultant and UNDP. No other entitlements will be considered after submission of financial proposals.

The financial proposal shall include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (number of anticipated working days, all envisaged travel (such as but not limited to all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel), per diems/daily allowances). Fee Breakdown should be attached under a separate sheet.

Candidate is requested to submit the quotation on or before 10:00 a.m. on 17 November 2014 (Jerusalem Time). Submissions should be made either via/to e-mail address:  quotation.papp@undp.org or to Fax No. 02-6268257 (If will be sent thru Email: File/Email size should not exceed 5 MB in a single email - quotation could be send by multiple emails as needed). Any submission of the financial proposal via any other mean will cause the whole application from the candidate to be rejected and disregarded.

Payments will be paid-out in equal monthly installments upon certification by the responsible officer.

Award of Individual Contract

The procuring UNDP entity reserves the right to accept or reject any Proposal, and to annul the solicitation process and reject all Proposals at any time prior to award of contract, without incurring any liability to the affected applicant or any obligation to inform the affected applicant or applicants of the ground for the UNDP’s action.

The procuring entity will award the Individual Contract to the applicant who attained the Highest Combined Technical and Financial weighted score.

However, final selection and contract award decisions are subject to the result of an interview (carried out by the evaluation committee) with the potential successful candidate.

The Combined score will be calculated as follows:

The total technical score is simply calculated by summing the scores attained for each evaluation criterion in the “evaluation criteria” table shown above.

The price/financial score for the financial proposal will be calculated in the following manner:

Where “x” is the price of the lowest proposal

And “y” is the price of any other proposal,

The percentage score for price allocated to the lowest priced proposal will be 100 points, and to any other proposal x/y times 100

The General mark or combined score for each proposal will be arrived as follows:

The total score of the Technical proposal multiplied by 70% will be added to the Financial Proposal score multiplied by 30%. The candidate whose proposal received the highest combined score will be the successful applicant.

This IC is subject to Individual Consultant General Terms and Condidions available on http://jobs.undp.ps/.

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