Republic of Moldova

National consultant to develop the entrepreneurship advisors’ handbook and beneficiary’s task book as part of the Entrepreneurship Program of Career Advisory Center in Comrat

Vacancy Number: Pr16/01409

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	03 Oct 2016, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	12 Oct 2016
Reference to the project:	Innovative Entrepreneurship Phase II Support to Agriculture and Rural Development Programme
Expected Duration of Assignment:	not to exceed 10 w/d in total, October 2016
Submission Instructions: Proposals should be submitted by by pressing the "Apply Now" button no later than October 03, 2016. Requests for clarification only must be sent by standard electronic communication to the following e-mail: dumitru.vasilescu@undp.org. UNDP will respond by standard electronic mail and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all applicants.
Supporting Documents: Terms of Reference Individual Consultant Procurement Notice Personal History Form (P11) UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract

Contacts:

Mr. Dumitru Vasilescu.

Background

The Career Advisory Center in Comrat, part of Support to Agriculture and Rural Development for the regions of Gagauzia and Taraclia (SARD) Project, as well as part of the Network of Career Advisory Centres in the Republic of Moldova, aims at promoting relevant employment and self-employment in Moldova through the development of soft skills of unemployed to develop and execute substantive individual job search and employment plans, as well as entrepreneurial skills of highly motivated beneficiaries to start-up new businesses at local level. In doing so, the Career Advisory Center from Comrat is implementing two distinct but inter-linked components, i.e. employability and entrepreneurship.

As it regards the employment component, the SYSLAB methodology is applied. It includes trainings, coaching, simulation and other tools to develop the soft skills of qualified unemployed to search and get relevant employment, making best use of their skills, knowledge, academic background, previous work experiences, competencies and interests. It nevertheless includes a specific training module on generic business planning (BPS), that is stimulating creative thinking towards potential self-employment pathway.

As it regards the entrepreneurship component, the Project is implementing a tailored methodology that includes trainings and coaching for motivated beneficiaries. Such component is open towards potential beneficiaries with or without specific business ideas, with different levels of understanding of entrepreneurship and different skills. It aims to provide a company-style enabling environment for individual and group work that starts with theoretical trainings, combined with practical business and financial planning exercises, and coaching. It further permits access, on a competitive basis, to a seed-fund for matching support towards the initiation of new start-ups.

Both components are under implementation by a network of 5 Career Advisory centers located in Chisinau, Rezina, Balti, Comrat and Cahul, each having a dedicated team. 

STRATEGY

The Entrepreneurship Program intends to support aspiring entrepreneurs to develop entrepreneurship knowledge and skills and start-up their own micro-enterprise. It also aims at promoting innovative entrepreneurship, whereby the new businesses or start-ups would be based on innovative ideas with considerable market and growth potential, generating jobs and income at local level. The specific objectives of the Program are: (a) Promote entrepreneurship at local level through self-employment of highly motivated clients and (b) Ease access to funding for innovative start-up. In doing so, the Project will ensure the permanent exchange of best practices amongst the advisory centers that are part of the network.

Scope of work

The scope of the assignment is to support the Project in the development of support tools for the Entrepreneurship Program, the aim of which are to facilitate the implementation of the Program through an easier and guided orientation in the whole content and support exercises of the Program, both for trainers and for beneficiaries. The competition seeks to hire a national consultant who will develop the entrepreneurship advisor’s handbook and the beneficiary’s task book based on the available Entrepreneurship Program content.

Requirements for experience

Education:

• University degree in business administration/economics, communication or similar. Additional training and certification in consulting SMEs in business planning and administration and/or training/coaching for start-ups is a strong advantage.

Experience:

• At least three (3) years of progressively responsible experience is required at the national or regional levels in developing training materials and training for start-ups; area consultants shall demonstrate such experience under the specific LOT;
• At least three (3) years of progressively responsible experience in consulting or facilitating business start-ups;
• Previous experience in development assistance or related work for a donor organization, governmental institutions, NGO/think-tank or private sector / business consulting firm is a strong advantage;
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Office and similar).
• Proven commitment to the core values of the United Nations, in particular, respecting differences of culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, language, age, HIV status, disability, and sexual orientation, or other status

 Language Requirements:

• Fluency in both oral and written Romanian and Russian is a must. Knowledge of English is a strong advantage.

Documents to be included

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications:

1. Proposal: explaining why they are the most suitable for this position;
2. Financial proposal (LUMP SUM) in USD, specifying in a total requested amount per day, including all related costs, travel, phone calls etc.;
3. Personal CV or P11, including past experience in similar projects and the contact details of at least 3 reference persons;

Financial proposal

The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around specific and measurable (qualitative and quantitative) deliverables (i.e. whether payments fall in installments or upon completion of the entire contract). Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR. In order to assist the requesting unit in the comparison of financial proposals the financial proposal shall include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including fee, taxes, travel to join duty station, per diems, and number of anticipated working days).

 Travel

All envisaged project related travels through Moldova will be ensured by PIU. In the case of unforeseeable travel, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between the respective business unit and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed.

 

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