Team Building Consultancy, UNFPA Libya Country Office

Introduction

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

Context:

UNFPA has been experiencing several organizational changes and compelling programmatic priorities and operational challenges over the last three years.

In fact, Libya CO team operates in challenging circumstances related to the specificity of the mandate, the Libyan context instability, the distant collaboration with implementing partners and the complex operational environment.

Following the conflict escalation in 2019 and 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemics, in-person contact between staff members become very limited and remote management intensified laying the ground for stressful interpersonal situations.

In this context, the CO management has prioritized conducting a three-day retreat to discuss and resolve conflicts, listen to each other needs and reach a better performance together.

Duration:

The staff retreat should take place during the 13th to 15th October 2022  in a hotel in Monastir, Tunisia. The duration of the staff retreat is three days.

Scope

The overall purpose of this assignment is to improve staff productivity and performance at the work place by conducting various informal activities to strengthen team spirit, trust and collaboration among staff members. The assignment also includes improving staff communication, conflict resolution, team morale and adapting to the organizational changes.

Participants:

UNFPA Libya CO staff members participating to the retreat are 34 women and men from different nationalities (mainly Libyans).

Deliverables:

• Conduct a situation analysis through interviews and desk reviews.
• Prepare and conduct informal and productive activities involving all staff (both indoor and outdoor) that promote team spirit and encourage an understanding of the role of teams in the work environment.
•  Facilitate discussions and formation of recommendations on improving interpersonal communication skills (internal communications, external communications, and confidentiality).
• Prepare and submit a team building report with follow-up activities/ recommendations.
• Staff equipped with suitable solutions to deal with on-going organizational changes i.e. Re-alignment of the office to the new Strategic Plan.
• Staff morale boosted.

Duration of the consultancy:

The consultancy will be for two days, under the supervision of the Human Resources Officer.

Qualifications and experience:

• The lead consultant should have an advanced degree preferably in Organizational Psychology/Organizational Development/Human Resource management.
• Proven experience of organizational change management, organizational development and team building.
• Demonstrated knowledge and advanced skills and at least 5 years of previous experience in the preparation of Team Building for medium and large-scale organizations
• Fluency in both written and spoken English and working knowledge of other UN language, preferably Arabic.
• Excellent reporting and analytical skills necessary for capturing the reviews and suggestions that will emerge from the interactive sessions during the retreat.
• Flexible nature and ability to adapt to changing directions/thinking that may occur during the retreat.
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Budget:

The estimated total cost for this assignment should cover professional fees, and any other costs related to the assignment including field travel from and to the retreat site.

UNFPA will provide accommodation and the required stationary for the retreat.

6. Submission Requirement

Interested International Consultants should apply by presenting the following documents:

• Letter of Application, briefly describing the motivation behind the application and outlining the consultant’s suitability for the assignment, comprehensive methodology on how the consultant will approach and complete the tasks, etc.;
• CV of the consultant, indicating educational background and professional qualification, copies of degrees/diploma and letters of reference
• Certificates of good completion proving that the consultant has carried out similar assignments.
• Technical and financial offer is required. 
• Kindly submit all the requirements to Ms. Manal Suliman on Suliman@unfpa.org  and Mr. Moamar Halab on halab@unfpa.org