| Ministry of Tourism, Trades, Commerce & Ni-Vanuatu Business |
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Industry:
Government Department
Location:
The assignment will be based in Port Vila, Vanuatu, with field investigations envisaged to Tanna, Espiritu Santo, Malekula, Efate, Ambrym and Epi.
Job Hours:
Contract
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The Office of the Registrar of
Cooperatives and Business Development Services (ORCBDS) is seeking the services of an international expert to draft the National
Cooperative Policy 2017-2022 alongside a national expert with input and
direction from the Director of the ORCBDS. The policy will guide cooperative
development from 2017 and onwards.
The international expert will provide the
following services over two missions:
First mission:
- Review relevant documents, see preliminary list
attached as Annex 1. (Refer to TOR)
- Carry out necessary consultations and field
investigations to identify the key barriers to increase cooperative business,
including assessment of existing cooperatives in retail, finance (savings and
loans) and production. Together with the literature review, the findings will
form the basis of a situational analysis
- Based on the information in the above documents and
further discussion with the ORBDS Director, draft a concept note for the
policy. The policy should include (but not necessarily be limited to):
- Strategies to overcome the barriers identified in the
situational analysis (to be included in the policy as an implementation matrix)
- Identify how the ORCBDS should be organised to
implement these strategies and
- Identify how the ORCBDS should fund the projects to
implement the policy.
The concept note should also include a policy document outline with
instructions for the ORCBDS and the national consultant for what information
must be provided in the drafting.
Following the delivery of the draft concept note, there will be a 2 weeks break to the mission, or as otherwise agreed when finalising the work schedule
tentatively outlined in Section 4.4.
Based on the draft concept note, in the cessation, the national
consultant will provide the following services:
- Consult all
stakeholders on the concept note; make necessary changes; and validate the
content with the NCP Committee
- Collect the
specific information outline in the concept note together with the responsible
staff in the ORCBDS.
Second mission:
- Prepare the first draft of the policy and the
implementation matrix
- Prepare necessary material for workshop, and, together
with the national consultant, support the Director ORCBDS in presenting the
draft NCP to a workshop of stakeholders for further input
- Incorporate relevant comments from the workshop and
finalise the NCP
- Support the national consultant in drafting the Corporate Plan
- Reviews the draft corporate plan prepared by the
national consultant, and provides recommendations for further drafting and
finalisation
- Prepare necessary material for final validation
workshop, and together with the national consultant, support the Director
ORCBDS in presenting the draft NCP and the corporate plan to a workshop of
stakeholders for final inputs
- Incorporate inputs from the validation workshop and
submit final versions of the outputs to the Director of the ORCBDS.
The ORCBDS estimates that the above tasks will
require 60 working days over two missions starting in September 2016 (or when
the contract is signed) through December, 2016.
Criteria:
The successful applicant will possess
the following qualifications, experience and skills:
Education
- A minimum of a Master’s degree in Economics or a relevant discipline,
business, management, agribusiness. Alternatively, a bachelor degree in a
relevant field with additional 8 years of relevant experience.
Experience
- At least 5 years of experience with administration of cooperatives
either as a manager or advisor. Or alternatively, a demonstrably relevant
experience
- Experience in agricultural value chain development
- Demonstrated competency in government planning, with experience in
policy drafting and facilitation of corporate planning preferably related to
cooperative development
- At least 3 years in a developing country context, preferably in the
Pacific
- Experience interfacing with private and public sector at various levels.
Language skills
- Proficiency in spoken and written English is essential.
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There is no
restriction on the nationality, citizenship or current residence of the
candidate. Interested applicants should fill in the Request for Expression on
Interest (REOI) – Documents will include all REOI requirements and response
forms and copy of the full Terms of Reference (TOR) can be downloaded from:
http://trade-vanuatu.gov.vu/index.php/vacancies
Responses for EOI
can be emailed to the Secretary, Central
Tenders Board Office on yhughes@vanuatu.gov.vu by latest Thursday 25 August 2016 (11:00 local Port
Vila time [GMT +11]) and hard copy can be dropped or to be send by post to the
Secretary, Central Tenders Board, Ministry of Finance & Economic
Management, S.I.P Building, PMB 9058, Port Vila in sealed envelope and be
clearly marked “REOI Ref: MTTCNVB S1601
Recruitment of International Expert to Draft the National Cooperative Policy
2017-2022”
For
clarifications of the content of this Request for Expression of Interest, and
any further information contact: Director of Cooperatives, Mr. Ridley
Joseph via email: rjoseph@vanuatu.gov.vu or The Project Officer, Mr James Tatangis on this email address jtatangis@vanuatu.gov.vu
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| Mr Ridley Joseph | Mr James Tatangis |
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Address:
Ministry of Finance & Economic Management, S.I.P Building, PMB 9058, Port Vila, Vanuatu |
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Source:
08-August-16 Direct from Employer |
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