Republic of Moldova

International Consultant on protection of personal data and elections

Vacancy Number: Pr13/00401

Location:	Chisinau, Moldova
Application Deadline:	04 Nov 2013, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Application Extended deadline:	06 Nov 2013, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Application Extended deadline:	10 Nov 2013, 23:59 (GMT+2:00)
Type of Contract:	Individual Contract
Starting date:	04 Dec 2013
Reference to the project:	Programme for Improving the Quality of Moldovan Democracy through Electoral Support
Expected Duration of Assignment:	10 days
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Supporting Documents: Terms of Reference Individual Consultant Procurement Notice Personal History Form (P11) UNDP General Conditions of Individual Contract

Background

UNDP Moldova “Programme for improving the quality of Moldovan Democracy through Parliamentary and electoral support” is a multi-year institutional development programme that aims to support the institutional consolidation and modernization of both Moldovan Parliament and Moldovan Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

Electoral component of the Programme (further referred as Programme) provides continuous assistance to the Central Electoral Commission towards:

• Improving the capacity of the CEC to meet European gender and human rights standards;
• Improving  the institutional environment for electoral management bodies that can deliver inclusive and modern electoral processes;
• Improving the electoral and population registration process of the Republic of Moldova.

Under the Programme activity “Improving the CEC institutional capacity to meet European standards for human rights” the Programme intends to organize a roundtable/workshop on the issue of personal data protection and elections.

The overall objective of the roundtable is to discuss international best practices of balancing personal data protection requirements with the interest to publish electronic voter lists on the internet to enhance its quality and transparency for political contestants.

The roundtable shall also discuss the current Moldovan legislative framework on data protection and elections in an effort to identify current possibilities (or limitations) to provide electronic access, verification and cross-checks to voter lists through the internet.

The participants of the roundtable shall be the Members of Parliament, CEC members and staff; representatives of Moldovan Data protection authority, other relevant state institutions, and UNDP Moldova Programme staff.

As a result of the roundtable the Programme intends to prepare a brief legal assessment of the current Moldovan legal framework on personal data protection in the context of elections with specific attention to analysis of the Law No. 133 ”On personal data protection” and the Electoral Code to identify current provisions for publication of voter list data on the internet. 

Scope of work

The Programme intends to contract an International Consultant (further referred as “Consultant”) to provide consultancy services and deliver the following two deliverables: (1) prepare and deliver detailed presentation at the roundtable and (2) draft brief legal assessment of Moldovan data protection legislation and elections.

For detailed information, please refer to Annex 1 – Terms of Reference.

Requirements for experience

I. Academic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Law or related field

II. Years of experience:

• At least 7 years of work experience in the field of democratic governance, electoral area;
• At least 5 years of experience in data protection and/or elections legal issues;

III. Competencies:

• Familiarity with relevant EU and Council of Europe standards in data protection.
• Experience in preparing and delivering trainings, presentations, speeches to large-scale events with diverse audience;
• Experience in legal drafting;
• Ability to analyse, plan, manage diversity of views, adapt to different environments (cultural, economic, political and social);
• Full professional knowledge of English; knowledge of Romanian and/or Russian would be an advantage.

Documents to be included

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

1. Proposal:

(i) Explaining why they are the most suitable for the work;

(ii) Provide a brief methodology on how they will approach and conduct the work (if applicable);

2. Financial proposal; 

3. Personal CV including past experience in similar projects, the duly filled Personal History Form (P11) and at least 3 references.

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 will include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (including travel, per diems, and number of anticipated working days).  

Travel

All envisaged travel costs must be included in the financial proposal. This includes all travel to join duty station/repatriation travel.  In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.

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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