Request For Expressions Of Interest - 
 (Local Individual Consultant)

 
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(LOCAL INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT)
 
 
ALBANIA
CITIZEN – CENTRIC SOCIAL DELIVERY PROJECT
Loan Agreement
Project ID No.8521
 
Assignment Title: PMU Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
 
Ref. No. 4.07
 
 
The Government of Albania has received a Loan in the amount of 6 millionEuro, equivalent from the World Bank toward the cost of the Citizen – CentricSocial Delivery Project, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds to payments for consulting services for the project’s “PMU Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist”.
 
The Citizen Centric Social Delivery Project entails a multilayered reform that focuses on key administrative central government public services to reduce the time and burden for citizens and businesses and improve service delivery quality, transparency and efficiency by using innovative solutions and ICT. Its key pillars are i) the establishment and management of an integrated nationwide model of service delivery whereby, the front office is focused on the relation with the public and is separated from back office processing, including the implementation of the one-stop-shop and in-one-place approach of the Citizen Service Center; (ii) service provision standardization, simplification through business process re-engineering and digitization, with a focus on online services; iii) citizen feedback and performance monitoring on service delivery for ongoing improvement.
 
The M&E system will incorporate mechanisms to monitor project implementation, and achievement of project performance indicators. Monitoring instruments include bi-annual progress reports on project implementation, output and performance indicators, and targeted annual “third party”assessment of compliance with Disbursement Linked Indicators (DLIs)
 
The Project Management Unit  now invite eligible “Individual Consultants” to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the Services.
 
The consultant is expected to have the following qualifications:
 

• Post-graduate degree.
• At least seven years work experience, including consulting in M&E
• Experience in the design and implementation of an M & E system, preferably with WB development projects
• Good understanding of change management concepts and approaches.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills.

• Excellent fluency of written and spoken English language.

• Fully proficient in the Microsoft applications like: Word, Excel, Access and Power point.

 
The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to paragraph 1.9 of the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits & Grants by World Bank Borrowers (January 2011 edition,revised July 2014) (“Consultant Guidelines”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. 
 
The Consultant will be selected in accordance with Individual Consultant (IC) method set out in the Consultant Guidelines.
 
An interview may be scheduled for shortlisted individuals.
 
Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours from 08:00 to 16:00, Mondays to Thursdays, and from 08:00 to 14:00 on Fridays
 
The complete Terms of Reference is posted on the website of the Agency for the Delivery of Integrated Services in Albania (ADISA): www.adisa.gov.al. 
 
Expressions of interest (CV, Cover letter and documentary evidence for fulfilling the qualifications) must be delivered in a written form to the address below in person, or by mail, or by e-mail by April 14, 2016, 12.00 o’clock local time
 
Project Management Unit
Blvd: Zhan d’Ark,
Ish shtepia e oficerave, Kati V-te
Tirana, Albania
E-mail: [email protected]; 
and [email protected]