AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Experienced Individual Consultant for the revision of the Guidelines on Individual

Consultants’ Remuneration (CHVP/CHSA)

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Headquarters-Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)

Office of the Corporate Services & Human Resources Vice Presidency (CHVP/CHSA)

Avenue Joseph Anoma

01 BP. 1387, Abidjan 01

Cote d’Ivoire

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The African Development Bank hereby invites qualified Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in the following Assignment: Experienced International Individual Consultant for the revision of the Guidelines on Individual Consultants’ Remuneration (CHVP/CHSA).

The Termes of Reference of the assignment are as follows:

TERMS OF REFERENCE

For the revision of the remuneration of individual consultants

Background

THE BANK:

Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. There are 80 member states, including 54 in Africa (Regional Member Countries). The Bank’s development agenda is delivering the financial and technical support for transformative projects that will significantly reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable economic growth. In order to sharply focus the objectives of the Ten Year Strategy (2013 – 2022) and ensure greater developmental impact, five major areas, all of which will accelerate our delivery for Africa, have been identified for scaling up, namely; energy, agro-business, industrialization, integration and improving the quality of life for the people of Africa.

THE COMPLEX:

The Vice-Presidency, Corporate Services and Human Resources (CHVP) Complex ensures the delivery of efficient, people-centered, client-oriented, corporate services to ensure overall institutional effectiveness in all aspects of the Bank’s corporate services. The complex leads efforts to ensure the competitiveness of the Bank as the employer of choice and is responsible for providing leadership in the formulation and implementation of Bank’s strategies on people, IT, general services and institutional procurements, language services, business continuity, and health and safety strategies.

In relation to this role, the Complex key responsibilities include:

  • Enhancing and mainstreaming the recruitment process for corporate consultants into the Bank’s operations ;
  • Developing policy and monitoring compliance on the use of consultants by the Bank’s organizational Units, using the Administrative or Capital Expenditure Budgets of the Bank;
  • Reviewing the recruitment of consultants by the Bank’s departments for corporate purposes;
  • Setting and reviewing the fee scales for individual consultants based on skills and experience;
  • Preparing annual reports on consultants’ recruitment for the Bank’s management;
  • Providing training to all Bank user Units on consultant recruitment and management.

 

Objectives

CHPV/CHSA wishes to hire an INTERNATIONAL INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT to review and update the remuneration guidelines for the individual consultants followed by the Bank’s organizational departments.

  • The objective of this guide is to provide a comprehensive range of fee rates for individual consultants. This Guide gives suggested fee scales for all the Regional Member Countries of the Bank ;
  • The fee rates from these guidelines are to be used either as the maximum thresholds reference for the calculation of fees within a specific assignment budget, or as a benchmark against which a fee rate proposed by a consultant can be evaluated ;
  • The Guide shall give suggested fee scales for international IC based on the location, the number of years of experience and the professional grouping.

Scope of Works

  1. The Guide shall apply to individual consultants only. Prior to selecting a fee rate, it is necessary to identify the profession/specialization and experience of the consultant to be contracted and the approximate assignment duration.
  1. The fee scales shall be based on the seniority of consultants to distinguish between the different levels of experience, qualifications management capabilities and overall profile possessed by consultants. The decision regarding the level of consultant seniority should be based on the complexity and demands of the assignment. The default qualification for the Bank is a Post-Graduate degree with at least five years of relevant experience or an Undergraduate degree with at least ten years of relevant experience may also be accepted.
  1. The consultant shall review and update the existing remuneration guidelines in order come up with new fees proposed structures.
  1. Based on international best practices the consultant shall independently do a research on applicable rates for individual consultants with other International institutions like Multilateral Development Banks and the UN System.

Duration and Timetable for the Assignment

The consultant shall report directly to the COORDINATOR OF WORK PROGRAMMES CORPORATE SERVICES & HUMAN RESOURCES VICE-PRESIDENCY, CHSA. The intended commencement date is 25 August 2021.

  • The total duration of the assignment is 90 Days spread over a period of 4 months. The Consultant will be expected to work from his home Country during the period of time of the contract.
  • The Consultant shall sign his Contract prior to start working. All travel arrangements if required and payments shall be in accordance with the Bank’s Travel Policy.

Bank Contribution and Supervision 

Consultant will be supervised by the Chief Procurement Officer in CHVP/CHSA.

The Bank will provide the Consultant with existing necessary documentation for his activities. However, the consultant should do the necessary research on information regarding other international public institutions such as MDBs, international private sector financial institutions and United Nations System.

The sources of information in the Bank for conducting this assignment include the following:

  • The existing remuneration guidelines for individual consultants;
  • Other documents related to this assignment.

Deliverables Expected 

The Consultant shall prepare three Reports as follows;

  • An Inception Report Ten (10) days after starting the Assignment, setting out the details, strategy and methodology and work plan for execution of the work;
  • A Draft Final Report, detailing the data collection, analysis, findings, conclusions and recommendations with in Fifty (50) days; and
  • A Final Report, incorporating all the comments from the Bank and including a new remuneration structure, in addition to a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the main findings, conclusions and recommendations Thirty (30) days

Essential Specialized Skills/Knowledge/Competencies/Selection Criteria

  • At least a Masters’ degree in a relevant discipline (economics, finance, business administration or commerce). He shall justify of at least 10 years of general experience in economic studies, out of which 3 years of specific experience in Salary Market Data analysis and projection.
  • Nationality of a Bank Member Country;
  • Mastery of English, with good knowledge of French;
  • Solid writing skills;
  • Excellent analytical, multi-tasking, and assessment skills;
  • Mastery of Bank standard software, in particular, Excel, Word, PowerPoint Languages required
  • Good knowledge of fiduciary policies within the Multilateral Development Banks will be an asset.

The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s Rules and Procedure for the Use of Corporate Consultants. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include him/her in the shortlist.

Interested Individual Consultants may obtain further information at the address below during the Bank’s working hours: 8:00 to 17:00.

Remuneration

The remuneration will be an all-inclusive monthly fee to be negotiated upon contract signature, and in compliance with the Bank’s stablished remuneration scale considering requisite qualifications and experience.

Expressions of interest must be received at the email addresses below no later than 13 August, 2021  at  16:00  local  time  in  HQ,  Abidjan,  Côte  d’Ivoire  and  specifically  mentioning  “  :

Experienced Individual Consultant for the revision of the Guidelines on Individual Consultants’ Remuneration – CHVP/CHSA”.

E-mail: FOFANA, ANZOUMANA ([email protected]); NDOUNGA, AYMAR CEDRIC

[email protected].

Establishment of the Short List

A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established at the end the request of expressions of interest. The consultants on the shortlist will be judged on the following criteria on the basis of their updated and comprehensive resume.

Level of education in general 20%

Education relevant to the consultancy 20%

General experience 20%

Experience relevant to the consultancy 40%