Chemonics International Inc.

USAID Pakistan Investment Promotion Activity (IPA)

SOW- Technical Expert for Evaluation of Grant Applications

SOW # IPA Fund 04

1.     Position Title& Department:

Technical Sector Expert (STTA) – IPA Fund Component

2.     General Summary:

The USAID Investment Promotion Activity (IPA) is a five-year project that is helping to strengthen Pakistan's business enabling environment, build the capacities of Pakistani institutions focused on investment promotion, improve the ecosystem of foreign direct investment (FDI), and increase United-States-Pakistan bilateral trade and investment. The project is also helping to remove barriers to investment and trade by facilitating Pakistani-led improvements in government regulations and improving the overall investment climate.

Within the project, the IPA Fund Grants component aims to support Pakistani registered firms leverage Pakistani private sector investment (PSI) to support Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and increase U.S.-Pakistan bilateral trade/investment. The IPA Fund will support firms registered in Pakistan to scale-up their business solutions through innovative approaches to improve business processing standards.

3.     Objective of the Consultancy:

4.     Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Under the given assignment, the expert will be responsible for performing each task / activity related to the assignment as directed by the IPA Fund team lead (Senior Grants Manager) and/or his designee. All the activities performed by the expert must be in line with the awarded contract and scope of work. The expert will perform the activity by keeping in view the business protocols/scope and quality parameters defined in the contract as per Chemonics policies.
• The experts will be responsible to furnish filled scoring sheets for each grant under review within the allocated time.

5.     Specific Tasks of the Consultant:

The specific tasks under this consultancy include;

1. The expert should be willing to sign-off the Non-Disclosure Certificate (NDC) to protect and uphold the confidentiality and should have a functional understanding to make the necessary declaration of Conflict of Interest (COI).
2. Conduct a desktop review of the grant applications to assess sector specific aspects
3. Provide detailed comments on the proposed grant activities for individual grant application and assign reasonable scores as per the predefined technical evaluation criteria established in the RFA document.
4. Participate in grants evaluation meeting amongst the evaluation panel members consisting of technical sectoral experts and financial expert for essential deliberation on the evaluations and finalize the score.
5. Submit the finalized scoring sheets to IPA fund team for needful consolidations and ranking.

6.     Job Qualifications

7.     Duty Station:

The experts are expected to attend the grants technical evaluation meetings organized in Islamabad; however, the desktop review of grant applications can be done remotely.

8.     Workspace and Use of Personal Laptop and Software(s):

 The experts will be required to use his/her own personal laptop. Thus, he/she must certify that all software used is genuine and licensed

9.     Reporting:

The experts will report to the IPA Fund Manager or any other designated staff. He / She will work closely with relevant members of the IPA Fund team.

10.  Duration of the Assignment:

This job is planned to take place as per a start date of on or around June 1, 2023, and end date of on or before Oct 31, 2023, hereto for a total of upto20 days LOE.

11.  Deliverables:

The timeline for the LOE assigned for each activity as mentioned in the following table will be discussed and agreed with the IPA Fund Grants Team and the expert. Final deliverables under this assignment will be the grant evaluation and scoring sheets filled for each grant application under review.