P.O. BOX 10-9024
1000 MONROVIA 10, LIBERIA, WEST AFRICA
TEL: (231) 226-858, FAX: (231) 226-281
Liberia Accelerated Electricity Expansion Project (LACEEP)
Credit No. IDA 5252-LR
Request for Expressions of Interest
Project Coordinator at the Ministry Of Lands Mines and Energy (MLME)
Reference No. MLME/LACEEP/PC/07/01/2015
The Government of Liberia has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Liberia Accelerated Electricity Expansion Project (LACEEP), and it intends to apply part of the proceedstoward payments for the services of a Project Coordinator.
The objectives of this assignment are to ensure an efficient and timely preparation and implementation of the components of the Liberia Accelerated Electricity Expansion Project (LACEEP) that are under the direct responsibility of the MLME, and ensure a smooth coordination with LEC on these components and on the component of LACEEP that is under the responsibility of LEC. Thus, the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy (MLME), The Employer, now requires the services of a Project Coordinator to coordinate all activities of LACEEP.
Reporting to the Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy (MLME),the Project Coordinator will bear the overall and executive responsibility for the implementation within time, scope and budget of the components of the LACEEP Project that are under the responsibilityof MLME. The Project Coordinator will coordinate and follow-up all project activities.
As the executive head of the Project Management Team (PMT), the Project Coordinator will also have to provide leadership to the unit and be a motivating factor for the unit staff.
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This contract is time based contract for a period of one year. The LACEEP Project is a five year project, therefore will be an option of extending this one year contract subject to satisfactory performance.
TheMinistry of Lands, Mines and Energy (MLME), now invites eligible individual consultants to indicate their interest in providing the required services as described above and to provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services, including CVs, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, etc.
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 dated January 2011 ("Consultant Guidelines"), setting forth the World Bank's policy on conflict of interest.
The short listing criteria are:
i. University degree in Engineering, Project Management or related fields;
ii. Ten years of work experience, with at least a year managing energy project(s) in Liberia is required;
iii. Experience in working with GoL entities and international organizations (particularly MLME, LEC, MoF, World Bank, AfDB, EU, etc.) is required
iv. Proven record of successfully coordinating activities on energy related projects is required;
v. Advanced degree in Project Management is an added advantage
vi. Contract administration and different forms of standard contract provisions related to energy projects
vii. Procurement and corporate procedures and governance
A consultant will be selectedfor the position in accordance with the Individual Consultants selection procedures set out in the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (2011).
Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours from Monday to Friday between 0900 hrs and 1700 hrs during working days.
Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form to the address below (in person, or by mail, or by e-mail) by 5PM GMT on 6th March 2015.Onlyshort listed candidates will be contacted.
The address referred to above is:
The Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy
Liberia Accelerated Electricity Expansion Project (LACEEP)
Capitol Hill
Monrovia, Liberia
Tel. (231) 0886534774, 0880641948
E-Mail: siehsyl1971@yahoo.com, and copy to jlayteh@yahoo.com