Terms of Reference
for the Warehouses Consultant
Under Jordan Water Governance Activity (WGA)
Assignment Subject | Procuring the services of a seasoned consultant (to evaluate the status of currently operating warehouses in Jordan Valley Authority (JVA), provide a future business operating model, and estimate a budgetary cost for planned works under the purpose of improving this future business operating model as per the international best practices). |
Reports to: | WGA expert of JVA warehouses and WGA utility systems manager (or whom shall be mandated for this purpose whether at WGA or JVA or both). |
Prime Project Name: | Jordan Water Governance Activity |
Prime Project Number: | 72027821C00006 |
Location: | At JVA premises (including Amman as a center and other relevant geographical locations and organizational unit as aforementioned depicted). |
Anticipated Period of Performance: | May 8, 2022 – June 30, 2022 |
LOE: | Up to 20 days |
BACKGROUND
The Water Governance Activity (WGA) program is a multi-year project funded by USAID, which aims to support the Government of Jordan (GoJ) to achieve measurable improvements and greater sustainability of the water sector by providing technical assistance to strengthen the GoJ’s reform, policy development and implementation, and capacity-building efforts. WGA will support the following objectives: support the GoJ to define and resolve water sector strategy and policy issues; improve water entities’ performance by reducing network losses, increasing conveyance efficiencies, and improving utility cost recovery; and specific, cross-cutting objectives related to support to gender, youth, persons with disabilities (PWD), and private sector engagement.
POSITION SUMMARY
The technical assistance will support the GOJ to define and resolve water sector strategy and policy issues. In addition, WGA will Improve water entities’ performance by reducing network losses, increasing conveyance efficiencies, and improving cost recovery. Furthermore, the project will focus on private sector engagement by identifying new approaches and preparing strategies and plans to enhance and improve their engagement.
The warehouses consultant will work closely with Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) officials under the warehouses department and pertinent Water Governance Activity (WGA) team to prepare a report detailing the status of the warehouses and inventories management in JVA across its service area at the following locations:
Capital Governorate (Amman – The Center / Administration Building)
Work Components
Work components that will be a basis for preparing the study, evaluation, recommendations, and required needs assessment including submitting (a financial plan of the new works, rehabilitation, and re-engineering of JVA warehouses, and rough budgetary estimated cost elements) will be constituted of the following:
No. | Components | Categories | Elements |
1 | Infrastructure | Outdoors |
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Indoors |
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2 | Operations | Supply Chain Management |
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Monitor, Transactions Control, and Computerization |
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3 | Resources | Machinery (Forklifts, Heavy Weight Stations and Tankers, Carriage and Conveyance Trolleys, etc.) |
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Instrumentation (Devices, Equipment, Tools, etc.) | |||
Human Energy (Capabilities and Qualifications) |
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4 | Integration | External | Interfacing with Governmental IT Systems (if required), like:
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Internal | Integration (Natively) with Human Resources, Procurement, Accounts Payables, Budget, Fixed Assets, Capital Projects, etc. |
DELIVERABLES
No. | Title | Description | Due Date |
First Phase | |||
1 | Work Plan | A work plan showing the activities, deliverables, suggested models, and proposed scenarios to create a role work model, priorities, risks, and other related work elements to complete this assignment. | 10.05.2022 |
2 | Warehouses Status Report (Draft) | A preliminary report showing the evaluation and description of the current warehouses as per the work components described before, in addition to present the results of the report. | 22.5.2022 |
3 | Warehouses Status Report (Final) | A final report demonstrating the current warehouses situation after discussing and approving the comments and feedback of JVA relevant staff and WGA team. | 29.05.2022 * |
Second Phase | |||
4 | Business Operating Model (Draft) | A preliminary report showing the business operational and functional model to activate warehouses in the envisioned future and corresponding rough budgetary cost elements to build up this model (as per applied international best practices) | 12.06.2022 |
5 | Business Operating Model (Final) | A final report demonstrating the followed business operating model to activate the warehouses in its future status while listing the rough budgetary cost items (as per international standards) after discussing and approving the notes and feedback of JVA officials and WGA team. | 19.06.2022 * |
Across the whole journey of the consultancy assignment | |||
6 | Timesheet and monthly progress Reports | Exerted working hours elapsed to achieve the consultancy assignment and a brief monthly progress reports supported with specific work products resulting from support under this scope. | Monthly |
* This is a tentative suggested date only; it is a floating one based on the date of receiving the notes and feedback from JVA officials and WGA team and the workload needed to complete the report / deliverable.
QUALIFICATIONS
Chemonics is committed to the goal of equal employment opportunity. Chemonics recruits, hires, trains, and promotes people in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, or any other category specified by labor laws. All employment decisions will be consistent with the principle of equal employment opportunity. All personnel actions such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, return from layoff, company sponsored training, education, tuition assistance, social and recreational programs will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, or any other category specified by local labor laws.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews. The selection of this post will be on a rolling basis.
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