Senior Expert to Develop the Competition Protection Authority Bylaws - UNDP - Kuwait

Location: Kuwait, KUWAIT

Application Deadline: 24-Jan-13

Type of Contract: Other

Post Level: Other

Languages Required: Arabic   English 

Expected Duration of Assignment: 6 months

Background

The Government of Kuwait has intensified its efforts to promote pro-competitive acts and promote the principles of good governance and fair trade, including transparency, accountability, participation, and equal opportunity and a competitive market and in 2007 the Kuwaiti government and the parliament approved the competition protection laws 10/2007, which stated the establishment of an independent authority to establish, monitor trade and regulate the market for any anti competition acts known here are the Competition Protection Authority (CPA). Within this perspective, UNDP Kuwait has recently initiated its partnership with the Competition Protection Authority which is expected to lay the ground for a long-term partnership in the establishment, design and implementation of effective anti-competition and protection activities. The Project aims in particular at i) establishment of the CPA authority policy and procedures, ii) creation of an organizational chart, departments and job qualification for every position iii) supporting the market by facilitating there claims for any anti-competitive behaviors and the creation of a penalty structure. To this end the project is expected to contribute to the development of a common understanding of what is the role of the CPA activities and allow better inter-agency cooperation between the Capital Market Authority and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI) and the market as a whole by introducing of standardized implementation mechanisms and tools, including administrative and procedural instructions, control requirements, monitoring and oversight systems. To this end, the Project is expected to recruit an international or national expert to achieve the following outputs: Output 1: Organization chart, management structure of the authority and job qualification and description for all the positions/departments within the CPA. Output 2: Policy and procedure for administrative and procedural instructions, control requirements, monitoring and oversight systems and penalty structure.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Key Expert shall support the implementation of UNDP & CPA interest in establishing the above objectives and over all bylaws. In that respect, the Key Expert will work closely with the project partner (CPA) and relevant stakeholders including MOCI and Capital Market Authority. In specific terms the Key Expert will be responsible for the following: Provide strategic advice and technical inputs for proper implementation of the bylaws. Develop each department of the CPA and allocate their functions, tasks and documentation. Develop organizational structure with qualification of each position. Use law 10/2007 to stipulate the bylaws from and establish the policy and procedures. Review all the technical outputs (e.g. reports etc.) to be generated within the scope of the Project, and improve and/or ensure improvement of such reports in accordance with the expectations of the Projects partner CPA  and UNDP The Key Expert will report to the UNDP’s Program Manager (Private Sector Development). To provide best practice on how to apply and monitor competition laws and anti-competitive behaviors in other countries and in comparison to other authorities or similar organizations, Plans to be drawn on how to train senior management and prepare the roles and activities in relevant competition issues. Determine IT and security needs for the CPA

Competencies

Functional Competencies: Ability to design and develop time plans and resource schedules for complex tasks and task groups, Ability to work in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams, Ability to work under pressure against strict deadlines, Ability to think out-of-the-box, Ability to present complex issues persuasively and simply. Ability to contextualize global trends in accordance with the dynamics of the operating (working) environment. Core Competencies: Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards; Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP; Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability Treats all people fairly without favouritism; Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Qualifications: Advanced university degree in public administration, law, international law, and or international trade; Full computer literacy Experience: Preferable 15 years of professional experience in the fields relevant to anti-competitiveness, anti-dumping and anti-trust laws. minimum of 10 years of professional experience is required, Preferable 15 years of international experience, but a minimum of 5 years of international experience in the fields relevant to the international and/ or national Projects on anti-corruption is required. Specific experience in provision of technical assistance on implementation of national anti-competition/dumping/trust laws and strategies, Experience in anti-competition/dumping/trust processes in both continental Europe and Anglo-Saxon country contexts , In-depth knowledge of different country practices on anti- competition/dumping/trust and of best practices, Experience in key expert positions in at least 2 international projects of similar scope, experience as team leader is an asset.   Language Requirements: English and Arabic are required.

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

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