Recruyement de 01 Sustainable procurement consultant - Markets, Supply Financing Centre (MSFC)

Recruyement de 01 Sustainable procurement consultant - Markets, Supply Financing Centre (MSFC)

Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Copenhagen
Level: Consultancy
Location: Denmark
Categories: Supply Management
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, happiness

How can you make a difference?

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
While delivering essential supplies and services for children to survive and thrive, UNICEF seeks to minimize the negative impacts on the environment that may stem from UNICEF’s supply operations, as well as promote social and economic sustainability such as job creation, local production, gender balance and disability-inclusive approaches, from procurement to implementation. UNICEF recognizes the importance of managing its own environmental impact as the largest procurement arm in the UN and with a large global operational footprint.

UNICEF actively promotes sustainable procurement in its engagement with partners, practitioners, suppliers, and donors. In February 2018, UNICEF Supply Division released its Procedure on Sustainable Procurement, which is being updated in 2023. The procedure constitutes UNICEF’s policy on Sustainable Procurement, which identifies the dimensions or pillars affected by supply and service procurements: economic, environmental, and social. The procedure is applicable across all UNICEF offices engaged in supply planning and procurement, wherever feasible and applicable, whether for goods or services, for programmes or office assets. At the same time, as UNICEF incorporated sustainability as a new core value in 2022, a part of applying sustainability to the supplies and the supply chains that we deliver for children is to better understand how our upstream supplier network and supplies can be less carbon intensive. This is being done through a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) assessment.
Hence, there is a need to support further development and implementation of the sustainable procurement agenda.

Under supervision and guidance of the Sustainability Market Research Manager, the Sustainable Procurement Consultant is responsible for the following

Scope of Work/objectives:
1. Provide strategic guidance and inputs to implementation of SP in line with the updated 2023 sustainable procurement procedure and guidelines, and scope 3 carbon emissions baseline assessment with carbon reductions hotspots.
2. Analysis of sustainable procurement practices of vendors/suppliers based on the 3 pillars i.e., Economic, Social and Environment through Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Invitations to Bid (ITBs), Requests for Information (RFIs), Requests for Expression of Interest (REOIs). This may involve research/collaborating with other UN agencies while contributing to maximum reporting utility and minimum supplier burden and cost.
3. Monitor implementation of SP by working with various procurement centres and scope out harmonization of SP across the organization. The consultant will draw on this information to foster synergies and report progress internally.
4. Identify opportunities to facilitate market response for SP while signaling intent, ensuring fairness for suppliers and promoting continued diversification and innovation by engaging with procurement centres and suppliers.
5. Recommend SP and mitigation opportunities for UNICEF.
6. Identify opportunities for sharing best practices and lessons learnt through engagement with the Supply Community (including Country Offices and Regional Offices).

Work Assignment Overview

Tasks/Milestone: 1. Sustainable Procurement (SP) research, guidance and recommendations.

Deliverables/Outputs:
a) Working with procurement centres and analyzing procurement data (ITBs, RFPs, RFIs, REOIs), identify common minimum standards (environmental, social, economic) that can be applied to all tenders and public communications to signal intent across markets and suppliers. Standards should focus on non-carbon environmental (materials and lifecycle), social and economic aspects in the initial stages, while carbon baseline is being determined. This could look like a suppliers' database of those suppliers implementing Sustainable Procurement.
b) Together with procurement centres, identify and prepare category specific sustainability (environmental, social, economic) criteria which can assist the product managers in incorporating relevant criteria in tenders. These intentional new standards might be relevant to cross-centre SP approaches and harmonise these across products as relevant. This will also feed into the SD Sustainability Roadmap.
c) Validate applicability of a common SP approach with the UNICEF legal team and Supply Division management through development of new policies and guidance documents. Such policies and guidance documents should also contain appropriate timelines to achieve certain changes that allow for market response while signaling intent now for delivery in future and ensuring proposed changes in SP criteria and standards allow for divergence in market ability to respond to maintain a level playing field, avoiding incumbency, and promoting continued diversification and innovation. This can be determined through engagement with procurement centres.
d) Potential organization of an industry consultation on the three pillars of sustainability to gather market inputs and intelligence from our major suppliers, based on results of GHG assessment.
e) Report on SP progress through internal mechanisms and standards. This could include developing/enhancing of data management as well as monitoring and evaluation framework for SP activities.
Timeline: TIMELINE FOR THIS SECTION OF DELIVERABLES 6 MONTHS
Estimate Budget:
3 months (outputs a&b) 25%
3 months (outputs c, d, e) 25%

Tasks/Milestone: 2. Recommend SP and mitigation opportunities for UNICEF

Deliverables/Outputs:
a) In support of operationalization of sustainable procurement, and as a follow up of SP research this ToR entails, propose strategies to address various sustainability concerns including carbon abatement opportunities and particular levers for SD to apply through SP and other methods to influence markets, etc.
b) Based on results of the GHG assessment and subsequently identified hotspots, together with P4 sustainability manager, establish a roadmap for carbon abatement opportunities and particular levers for SD to apply through SP and other means and methods to influence markets.
c) Identifying and consulting existing and new financing partners to help incentivize supplier change on sustainability.
d) Conducting early research mapping on the opportunities for carbon credits or other forms of hypothecated climate finance to fund projects, outline key opportunities and market segments and market demand, costing and overall business case, and project evidence needs.
Timeline: TIMELINE FOR THIS SECTION OF DELIVERABLES 6 MONTHS
Estimate Budget:
3 months (outputs a&b) - 25%
3 months (outputs c&d) - 25%

Other key activities on SP (CONSISTENTLY APPLIED WITHIN 12 MONTHS CONSULTANCY)
a) Engage collaboratively with sustainability and climate groups within UNICEF, which will include the Supply Community, Sustainability Focal Points, Country Offices, Regional Offices, as well as across the UN.
b) Perform other activities as identified as required as the project develops consistent with the objectives of this 12 month consultancy.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in Supply Chain Management, Public Procurement, Environmental Management, Sustainability or related field is required.
*A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
Experience:
a) A minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in strategic consulting, project management and data analytics, strategy development is required.
b) Experience addressing environmental sustainability connected to sustainable development goals and/or greening of industry vision is required. Experience with social and economic sustainability is required as well.
c) Experience in supply chain, planning and implementing climate change, environmental and sustainability initiatives is desirable.
d) Experience in consolidating information across multiple resources, developing and evaluating quantitative models, developing meaningful insights, structure potential solutions, present the information at a range of levels and develop recommendations for the short- and long-term strategy based on the data.
e) Advanced communication skills especially in presentations and visuals is required for senior stakeholders with quick turnaround.
Other Skills and Qualifications:
a) Ability to proactively capture information from multiple sources, engaged across an organization, and synthesize data into a framework for drawing insights,
b) Organized, self-motivated, excellent problem solver.
c) Knowledge of the environment in which UNICEF and the UN system operate
d) Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset. 
Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

  To view our competency framework, please visit  here.

  EVALUATION PROCESS:

Qualified candidates are requested to submit:

Cover letter
Financial quote in US Dollars including all taxes
Highest Education Degree (scanned copy)
UN P11
Examples of previous, relevant work
At least 3 References from previous direct Supervisors ( email and phone contact if applicable)
Applications must be submitted through the UNICEF electronic application system by 20 August 23:55 CET. Please indicate your availability and daily rate to undertake the terms of reference above. Applications submitted without a daily rate will not be considered.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

Advertised: 20 Jul 2023 Romance Daylight Time
Deadline: 20 Aug 2023 Romance Daylight Time