INTERNATIONAL INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT

TERMS OF REFERENCE  (to be completed by Hiring Office)

Hiring Office:

UNFPA Timor-Leste

Purpose of consultancy:

To organize a training workshop on monitoring and evaluation for the National Council for Youth in Timor-Leste

Background

According to the National Youth Policy, the National Council for Youth in Timor-Leste (CNJTL) has the responsibility to ensure the monitoring and evaluation of the Policy on a regular basis. In order to make sure the members of CNJTL have the technical capacity to undertake this work, the present consultancy proposes to conduct training for them.

Scope of work:

(Description of services, activities, or outputs)

The consultant will organize the M&E training for CNJTL members, developing the content and delivering it.

The training language is Tetum to 25 CNJTL members, all Timorese nationals. No previous knowledge of M&E is to be expected from participants.

The training should be very practical with a lot of exercises and use the National Youth Policy, the draft National Action Plan for Youth and the plan M&E Framework for the NAP as training material

Duration and working schedule:

The training should be for 5 days. The consultancy also includes the preparatory time

Place where services are to be delivered:

The training will be delivered in Dili.

Delivery dates and how work will be delivered (e.g. electronic, hard copy etc.):

Planned delivery dates are from 4 to 8 December 2017. Training will be delivered face to face.

Monitoring and progress control, including reporting requirements, periodicity format and deadline:

The consultant is expected to liaise with UNFPA, CNJTL and SSYL during the preparatory time to make sure what is prepared is according to what is needed.

After the training, the consultant is expected to write a report on the training delivery and the results achieved.

Supervisory arrangements:

The consultant will be hired by UNFPA and supervised by UNFPA.

Expected travel:

none

Required expertise, qualifications and competencies, including language requirements:

·         5 years relevant experiences.

·         Advanced university degree in population studies, demography, statistics, anthropology, public health, youth studies, social policy, ethnology, sociology or other relevant field.  

·         Solid expertise in monitoring and evaluation

·         Fluency in English and Tetum (Both written and oral)

·         Experience in planning, developing and delivering M&E trainings for various audiences

·         Previous experience of working in Timor-Leste in training, capacity building or mentoring

·         Good communication skills, cultural sensitivity, flexibility and easy to work with people

Inputs / services to be provided by UNFPA

Other relevant information or special conditions, if any:

Candidates are expected to send

-       CVs

-       P11

-       an application letter, stating their interest, highlighting their expertise and mentioning their daily consultancy rates to jossoares@unfpa.org, cassabalian@unfpa.org and register your profile in the following link below: http://www.unfpa.org/unfpa-consultant-roster

Deadline of submission of application is 20 November 2017

Signature of Requesting Officer in Hiring Office:

Date: approved.