مطلوب أخصائي SECAP

الوصف الوظيفي:
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

(Individual Consultants)

State of Palestine

Rural Financial Inclusion Project in Palestine (RUFIPP)

Assignment title: SECAP Specialist

Reference no. MoFP-RUFIPP-2026-07

The Palestinian Authority has received financing from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the European Union (EU), and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation towards the cost of Rural Financial Inclusion Project in Palestine "RUFIPP”, and intends to apply part of the proceeds for the recruitment of consulting services provided by an individual consultant as part of the post of SECAP Specialist.

The use of any IFAD financing shall be subject to IFAD’s approval, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the financing agreement, as well as IFAD’s rules, policies and procedures. IFAD and its officials, agents and employees shall be held harmless from and against all suits, proceedings, claims, demands, losses and liability of any kind or nature brought by any party in connection with RUFIPP.

The consulting services (“the services”) provides technical leadership and quality assurance for environmental, social, and climate safeguards under RUFIPP, ensuring full compliance with IFAD’s SECAP standards, project agreements, and national regulations.

This request for expressions of interest (REOI) follows the general procurement notice that appeared on the IFAD website on April 30, 2026.

The attention of interested consultants is drawn to IFAD’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Policy[1] and the Revised IFAD Policy on Preventing Fraud and Corruption its Activities and Operations[2]. The latter sets forth IFAD’s provisions on prohibited practices. IFAD further strives to ensure a safe working environment free of harassment, including sexual harassment, and free of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) in its activities and operations as detailed in its IFAD Policy to Preventing and Responding to Sexual Harassment, Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.[3] By entering in this document, you certify to have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Privacy Policy of IFAD.[4]

Interested consultants shall not have any actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict of interest. Consultants with an actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict of interest shall be disqualified unless otherwise explicitly approved by the Fund. Consultants are considered to have a conflict of interest if they a) have a relationship that provides them with undue or undisclosed information about or influence over the selection process and the execution of the contract, or b) have a business or family relationship with a member of the client’s board of directors or its personnel, the Fund or its personnel, or any other individual that was, has been or might reasonably be directly or indirectly involved in any part of (i) the preparation of the REOI, (ii) the selection process for this procurement, or (iii) execution of the contract. Consultants have an ongoing obligation to disclose any situation of actual, potential or reasonably perceived conflict of interest during preparation of the EOI, the selection process or the contract execution. Failure to properly disclose any of said situations may lead to appropriate actions, including the disqualification of the consultant, the termination of the contract and any other as appropriate under the IFAD Policy on Preventing Fraud and Corruption in its Projects and Operations.

The following conflict of interest rules shall apply with respect to recruitment of government/client staff within the consultant’s proposed team:

(a) No member of the client’s board of directors or current employees of the client (whether part time, or full time, paid or unpaid, in leave status, etc.) shall be proposed or work as, or on behalf of, any consultant.

(b) Except as provided in sub-clause 8.6(d), no current employees of the government shall work as consultants or as personnel under their own ministries, departments or agencies.

(c) Recruiting former client or government employees to perform services for their former ministries, departments or agencies is acceptable provided no conflict of interest exists.

(d) If a consultant proposes any government employee as personnel in their technical proposal, such personnel must have written certification from the government confirming that: (i) they will be on leave without pay from the time of their official proposal submission and will remain on leave without pay until the end of their assignment with the consultant and they are allowed to work full-time outside of their previous official position; or (ii) they will resign or retire from government employment on or prior to the contract award date. Under no circumstances shall any individuals described in (i) and (ii) be responsible for approving the implementation of this contract. Such certification shall be provided to the client by the consultant as part of its technical proposal.

(e)       In the case where a consultant seeks to engage the services of any person falling under ITC sub-clauses 8.6(a) – 8.6(d), who may have left the client within a period of less than twelve (12) months of the date of this RFP, it must obtain a written “no-objection” from the client for the inclusion of such a person, prior to the consultant’s submission of its proposal.

The Ministry of Finance and Planning now invites eligible Individual consultants (“consultants”) to indicate their interest in providing the services. Interested consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services in the form of a curriculum vitae (CV). A consultant will be selected in accordance with the individual consultant selection (ICS) method set out in IFAD’ Project Procurement Handbook that can be accessed via the IFAD website at www.ifad.org/project-procurement. Interviews will be conducted as part of the selection process.

[1] The policy is accessible at https://www.ifad.org/en/document-detail/asset/41942012.

[2] The policy is accessible at www.ifad.org/anticorruption_policy.

[3] The policy is accessible at https://www.ifad.org/en/document- detail/asset/40738506.

[4] The policy is accessible at https://www.ifad.org/en/privacy. 

متطلبات الوظيفة:
The shortlisting criteria are

Minimum qualifying score for shortlisting: 70 out of 100 points based on CV and submitted samples. Only shortlisted consultants will be invited for an interview.

Final selection will combine document-based scoring with interview results.
تفاصيل الوظيفة:
المسمى الوظيفي: SECAP Specialist
آخر موعد للتقديم: 30.08.2026.
المكان: رام الله والبيرة
طبيعة العمل: عن بُعد
نوع الوظيفة: العقود والاستشارات
المستوى المهني: متوسط الخبرة
الدرجة العلمية: الماجستير
الخبرة: 8 سنوات
التصنيف: الزراعة والبيئة الأمن والسلامة التنمية الاقتصادية والتعاون الدولي
آلية التقديم:
The selected individual consultant shall provide the following documents as a prerequisite for the processing and settlement of payments:

Zero-VAT Invoices: Issued by the consultant in coordination with the VAT Department of the Ministry of Finance.
Valid Tax Clearances: Issued by the Income Tax, Property Tax, and VAT departments.
Any request for clarification on this REOI should be sent via e-mail to the address below no later than Monday August 24, 2026. The client will provide responses to all clarification requests by Wednesday August 26, 2026.

Please refer to the assignment's Terms of Reference via this link for detailed information regarding the consulting service

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Expressions of Interest, including the CV, cover letter and two samples, must be submitted in electronic format to the email address provided below by COB Sunday, August 30, 2026 (Jerusalem Time)

The email subject line should clearly state: "SECAP Specialist – MoFP-RUFIPP-2026-07".

Attn: RUFFIP Project Management Unit

E-mail: RUFIPP@pmof.ps