Tirana, Albania
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Closing date: Thursday, 23 February 2017
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National Consultant – Software developer | |
| Location : | Tirana, ALBANIA |
| Application Deadline : | 23-Feb-17 (Midnight New York, USA) |
| Time left : | 4d 12h 43m |
| Type of Contract : | Individual Contract |
| Post Level : | National Consultant |
| Languages Required : | English |
| Expected Duration of Assignment : | 30 working days over the period of (February 23, 2017 – May 31, 2017 |
Background | |
Albania’s vocational education and training (VET) and vocational skills development (VSD) system all too often has failed to equip students with the requisite knowledge, competences and skills for a successful transition into the labour market. This has resulted in an unsuitably qualified labour force, skills shortages and soaring youth unemployment. Recognizing the need to systematically address employment by re-orienting the vocational education and training and vocational skills development system towards labour market needs, and modernizing and extending outreach of employment services, the Albanian government adopted the National Employment and Skills Strategy 2014-2020.
UNDP globally and regionally has built a strategic vision that recognizes the importance of creating employment opportunities as a means to addressing both poverty reduction and inequalities and exclusion. Indeed, the first outcome of the recently adopted United Nations Youth System Wide Action Plan focuses on Employment and Entrepreneurship with the intention to ensure greater opportunities for youth to secure decent work and income over the life-cycle, contributing to a virtuous circle of poverty reduction, sustainable development and social inclusion. To support the integration of various youth employment policy objectives through coordinated action, UNDP Albania, in collaboration with other UN agencies has designed and implemented several skill development / employment related interventions.
After six years of experience addressing labor supply interventions, UNDP Albania’s strategic vision is to contribute to building a labour-market focused skills development system that is suited to enhance the employment and entrepreneurship aspects of the unemployed in urban and rural areas, while simultaneously addressing the skills needs of those employed in the formal and informal sectors and emerging entrepreneurs.
The ambition of the Swiss funded Skills Development for Employment (SD4E) Programme is to make a systemic contribution to the modernization of Albania’s VET/VSD system by addressing several key challenges: skills mismatch and unequal access to employment and training services; labour market challenges in rural areas; insufficient governance of funding for employment and training; lack of coordination / collaboration in the system; inadequate labour market information; and insufficient quality and relevance of VET and VSD providers and their programmes. The overall goal of the programme is that “more young women and men in urban and rural areas in Albania are employed or self-employed.” In order to achieve this goal, the programme focuses on four outcomes:
Outcome 1: Improving and diversifying employment promotion measures, and advancing their governance
Outcome 2: Improved environment and regulatory framework for up-scaling work-based learning schemes (elements of dual system)
Outcome 3: Quality assurance and accreditation of VET/VSD providers
Outcome 4: Anticipating skills needs in the short and medium term
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Duties and Responsibilities | |
Scope of the assignment
One of the main programme outcomes relates to the governance of employment promotion funds and measures. In the frame of this outcome, the SD4E Programme has been supporting the National Employment Services in modernizing its services, including the computerization of some of the basic functions of its information management system. To this end a National IT expert has been contracted to carry out the assessment of the existing information at the current system in use by the National Employment Service, and to design needed system changes. The Software developer will work in close collaboration with the National IT expert, and under the supervision of the Deputy Team Leader. The consultant is expected to perform the following tasks:
More specifically:
1. Reporting System and Statistics (RSS) – 20 working days
2. Holidays and Leave Management Module (HLMM)
Deliverables
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Academic Qualifications
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Evaluation Procedure
UNDP applies a fair and transparent selection process that would take into account both the technical qualification of Individual Consultants as well as their financial proposals. The contract will be awarded to the candidate whose offer:
Technical Criteria - 70% of total evaluation – max points: 70
Criteria A: Practical familiarity with similar assignments – max points: 35
Criteria B: Educational background– max points: 15
Criteria C: Experience in complex web application development, and hand on experience in implementing national level scale .NET certification or equivalent – max points: 20
Financial Criteria - 30% of total evaluation – max points: 30
Application Procedure
The application should contain:
How to Submit the Application:
To submit your application online, please follow the steps below:
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