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Fundraising and Engagement Expert-the Pacific Resilience Facility

Background

1. The Forum Secretariat seeks to recruit a professional fundraising and engagement expert with experience in securing significant public sector, corporate and philanthropic support for causes. The consultant/company would work with the Forum Secretariat (PIFS), the Pacific Resilience Facility-Technical Working Group (PRF-TWG), and Forum Members to secure US$1.5 billion of regional and international financial commitments/pledges to capitilise the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF).

2. To build Pacific resilience in the face of more frequent and severe disasters and ongoing climate change threats, the Pacific Islands Forum has endorsed the establishment of PRF, a regional financing facility in 2019 with a goal of US$1.5 billion. The PRF will provide predictable, sustainable, accessible and accountable grant funding for disaster preparedness and climate risk resilience-building in vulnerable Pacific communities. It fills a significant financing gap in the regional financing landscape in the Pacific by providing small-scale grants upfront for community resilience building before disasters hit communities.

3. Forum Economic Ministers have agreed that the PRF will be capitalised through a global pledging event to be convened at a suitable time. The UN Secretary General has agreed to support such an event.

Purpose

4. The objective of this role is to support the Pacific Islands Forum in mobilising regional and international commitments/pledges towards the capitilisation of the PRF through ensuring a strategic and proactive approach to donor engagement and marketing the PRF regionally and globally. Specifically, this activity requires reaching out to and engagement with development partners, the global private sector and philanthropic foundations to solicit support in the lead up to and through the convening of a global pledging event in 2022.

Scope of Work

5. The scope of work includes the following:

i. Design and delivery of engagement and marketing plan for the PRF;
ii. Solicit and secure financial support and commitment of regional and international partners, as well as global private sector and philanthropic organisations;
iii. Support PIFS in convening the PRF global pledging event; and
iv. Provide expert advice, technical support and guidance to PIFS and Forum Members, as required, on mobilising regional and international support for capitalisation of the PRF, which will include technical briefs, advice, and presentations, as required.

More details on scope of work are included the Terms of Reference (TOR) document which can be downloaded from www.tenders.net/forumsec.

HOW TO APPLY

Submissions should be entitled:

REQUEST FOR TENDER - Fundraising and Engagement Expert-the Pacific Resilience Facility

Method of Submissions:

Submissions must be forwarded in PDF format following the instructions at www.tenders.net/forumsec

Note: Tenders must be submitted with clear labelling of the technical offer and the financial offer. The Technical Offer documents must be saved and submitted clearly labelled “A. Technical Offer” which should also include proposed methodology and indicative timeframe/schedule of key activities. Financial Offer documents must be saved and submitted clearly labelled “B. Financial Offer”.

The electronically submitted documents should be converted to the PDF format.

Deadline for Submissions:

Submissions need to reach the Secretariat by 4pm Friday 12 November 2021.

Late or incomplete tenders will not be considered.

Questions and Answers

All queries or request for information must be submitted via the Question and Answer Forum at www.tenders.net/forumsec . Tenderers may submit questions in writing to the mentioned Question and Answer Forum before the stated “deadline for requesting clarifications” 5 November 2021. The Secretariat has no obligation to provide clarification after this date.

Note: The Secretariat will not be responsible for non-receipt/non-delivery of the Bid documents due to any reason whatsoever.

Any complaints regarding the Secretariat’s tender must be directed to the following email: Tender.Complaints@forumsec.org. This email address will forward your complaint to a person that is independent and removed from the tender process. Complaints must be well founded and should not be used as a mechanism for notifying displeasure with the outcome of a tender award. Further information on making a complaint can be found on the Policies & Information page at http://tenders.forumsec.org.

In the event that further information is required by the Secretariat in relation to the tender for consultancy, the Secretariat reserves the right to seek the required information without the need for calling for resubmission of proposals.