Recrutement d’un spécialiste de la communication et de la gestion des connaissances du CIF, Côte d’Ivoire

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Climate Change and Green Growth Department

CIF Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist

1. The African Development Bank (AfDB) hereby invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in the following position: CIF Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist.

2. The selected Consultant will assist AfDB’s Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Coordination Unit in all aspects related to communication and knowledge management, and results reporting connected to the CIF portfolio under implementation.

For more details, please refer to the Tors in the annex.

3. The Bank invites Individual Consultants to indicate their interest in providing the above-described services. Interested Consultants shall provide information on their qualifications and experience demonstrating their ability to undertake this Assignment (documents, reference to similar services, experience in similar assignments, etc.).

4. The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s procedure for the acquisition of consulting services funded by the Administrative or Capital expenditure. 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.

5. The duration of services is 12 months based on performance. The expected starting date is August 2021.

6. Interested Individual Consultants may obtain further information at the address below during the Bank’s working hours: from 08:00 to 17:00 hours, Abidjan local time.

7. Expressions of interest must be received by email at the address below no later than Friday, 11^th June 2021 at 4 p.m. Abidjan local time and specifically mention: “CIF Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist”.

For the attention of Mrs. Gizaw Kidanua Abera

African Development Bank/Climate Change and Green Growth Department (PECG)

Avenue Joseph Anoma, 01 BP 1387, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Tel: (+225) 27 20 26 32 65.

E-mail:  [email protected], and [email protected]

With a copy to [email protected]

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SHORT LIST

8. 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 resume.

Annex: Terms of reference (Tors)

BACKGROUND

The African Development Bank (AfDB or the “Bank”) is a leading development institution on the continent, focused on promoting economic development and poverty reduction. It engages with the full range and complexity of development challenges in Africa. The Bank has integrated operations, lending directly from the public and private sectors through a variety of instruments.

The Climate Change and Green Growth Department assists Country Programs / Departments to manage the Bank Group’s energy operations in Regional Member Countries (RMCs). Climate change and environmental issues are addressed by incorporating them into the Bank Group supported operations and giving them the visibility required. PECG includes one division is responsible for climate finance PECG.1. Through PECG.1, the PECG department will identify, design and implement environment and climate change adaptation and mitigation programs and projects. These will either be stand alone or as components of other Bank Group support operations, in particular infrastructure.

The AfDB Climate Investment Fund (CIF) Coordination Unit, housed at PECG.1, coordinates all work related to the CIFs. The CIFs are a pair of funds to help developing countries pilot low-emissions and climate-resilient development. The two funds under the CIFs are:

• The Clean Technology Fund (CTF). The CTF promotes scaled-up financing for demonstration, deployment and transfer of low-carbon technologies with significant potential for long-term greenhouse gas emissions savings. The AfDB is channeling CTF financing to Africa’s Energy and Transport sector by focusing on renewables energies and energy efficiency projects and/or programs.
• The Strategic Climate Fund (SCF). The SCF serves as an overarching framework to support three targeted programs with dedicated funding to pilot new approaches with potential for scaled-up, transformational action aimed at a specific climate change challenge or sectoral response. The SCF finances three programs, namely, the Forest Investment Program (FIP), the Pilot Program on Climate Resilience (PPCR) and the Scaling-up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries (SREP).
• The SREP is aimed at demonstrating the social, economic, and environmental viability of low carbon development pathways in the energy sector. It seeks to create new economic opportunities and increase energy access through the production and use of renewable energy;
• The FIP aims to support developing countries’ efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation by providing scaled-up financing for readiness reforms and public and private investments. It will finance programmatic efforts to address the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation and to overcome barriers that have hindered past efforts to do so;
• The PPCR objective is to pilot and demonstrate ways to integrate climate risk and resilience into core development planning, while complementing other ongoing activities.

DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Communication

The Communication and Knowledge Management Specialist will work under the general supervision and guidance of the Manager, PECG.1 and the CIF Coordinator.

He/She will be responsible for the development of content for books, reports, covers, brochures, newsletters; custom publications for Bank’s special events (e.g., posters, flyers, awards, and memorabilia); preparation of business presentations; the simplification of results from technical analysis into user friendly text (e.g., flow, bar, line and pie charts); and the integration of text to graphics. In addition, he/she should be able to support concept development and production of web and other electronic products. His/her core duties/responsibilities will include the following:

• Providing support in development of a communications strategy;
• Ensuring media coverage of the Division’s activities in order to enhance visibility of the Divisions and the Bank’s activities on Climate Finance and CIF in particular;
• Focal point of CIF team for coordination with Communication Group at CIF AU level and within AfDB’s internal communications unit (Communications and External Relations Department – PCER) in all matters requiring communication. This include gathering data and information, placing stories, contributing to messaging and publications, making changes to the web and ensuring efficient and fast processing of CIF communication matters;
• Coordination and communication with external media in collaboration with PCER;
• Supporting document and report development including identification of success stories and other themes that can be used in communication campaigns;
• Translating client (task managers, pilot country project coordinators, etc.) needs and goals into concept development with a strong marketing orientation for production in print;
• Contributing to the production of quality contents for graphics, artwork, business presentations and desktop publishing;
• Provide stories, content, graphics for AfDB’s website as far as CIF and climate finance is concerned – Understand and apply web-based programming, html, etc.;
• Expanding readership of CIF material through several means including social media;
• Preparing submissions and contributions to partners blogs, drawing from the CIF Newsletter, Climate Finance newsletter and other material of relevance;
• Set-up a (digital) Resource Center to supply stakeholders, on request, with information and documents, and direct them to sources of information;
• Leading the design, preparation and dissemination of the AfDB CIF Annual Report; Report, a mid-year publication and the Climate Finance bimonthly newsletter;
• Work with external commercial vendors including contract design and typesetting firms as well as print service providers;
• Provide immediate support to the CIF team on publications, power points, etc.

Knowledge Management

In the area of Knowledge Management (KM), the Consultant will support the building and implementation of a Knowledge Management program with the objectives of transformational change through replication of outcomes and lessons from CIF funded operations. As such, He/ She will have the following specific duties:

  Assist in the development and implementation of KM programs for the CIF programs and sub-programs in accordance with the objectives and priorities laid out in the approved strategic framework for CIF KM.

• Work with the CIF Coordinator in monitoring the implementation of the CIF KM program, assist in the preparation of reports to the Bank’s Senior Management on status, progress and any other issues in the KM program;
• Work with AfDB task team on the development and implementation of CIF grant- financed and project-based KM components and ensure that lessons emerging from these components are captured and share in a timely manner;
• Assist in the dissemination of KM activities (e.g. reports on lessons learned, guidelines, good practice notes, tool kits etc);
• Ensure effective integration of CIF KM program components in the design and implementation of AfDB/CIF communications, stakeholder outreach program and private sector engagement activities;
• Help promote collaborative partnerships with external stakeholders for effective development and implementation of AfDB/CIF KM program;
• Ensure that AfDB/CIF KM activities, outputs, outcomes and resource requirements are appropriately considered and included in the annual CIF business planning and budgeting process.

The Communications and KM Specialist will report to the PECG.1 Manager and work directly with the CIF coordinator.

SELECTION CRITERIA

We are looking for a proactive candidate who is committed and driven to deliver quality outputs. The key selection criteria for this position are:

• Master’s degree in communications/Journalism and/or KM, Development Policy, International Relations or related discipline with a minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience; professional qualifications would be considered;

• Strong portfolio for review which should include description publications and other print outputs;
• Experience in implementing a program for managing knowledge and assessing clients’ needs in both areas;

• Familiarity with issues related to sustainable development with be an advantage;

• Demonstrably strong customer service orientation as assessed by colleagues and customers and ability to work with diverse stakeholders;

• Effective verbal and written communication skills to deal with staff, managers, clients and partners at all levels;

• High degree of initiative and strong record of performance with low supervisory requirements to function effectively;

• Strong inter-personal skills and commitment to work in a team-oriented, multi- cultural environment;
• Strong English and French language skills (verbal and written);

• The candidate should also be proficient in standard MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point). Other strong computer skills, including fluency in Adobe applications are also desirable.

CONTRACT DURATION AND LOCATION

The contract with the selected candidate will commence at the completion of the selection, upon its signing and last for a period of one-year. The duty station will be one of the Bank’s Country Offices at the approval of the PECG.1 Manager, or Head Office in Abidjan. The position may require missions outside the duty station. A detailed work program will be agreed on with the CIF Coordinator and the Manager, PECG.1 on commencement of the assignment.

REMUNERATION

The proposed remuneration will be defined based on the candidate’s financial proposal and the available budget.