Required Consultant For UNDP Support To The State - State Audit Bureau in Kuwait

The State Audit Bureau (SAB) has effectively practiced its role as an oversight body over the entities within the government, providing independent financial and recently performance audit of those entities. It is envisioned that the performance audit function will be significantly increased and strengthened with the establishment of a solid proven performance audit framework based on international leading practices that will allow it to more effectively audit the performance of the various entities with the government though more emphasis of capturing key performance indicators, internal controls, governance, transparency, and quality of the services provided by those entities to the wider community. This includes the entities' compliance with internal anti-corruption regulations promulgated by various transparency-promoting and regulatory bodies and ensures more alignment to the recently signed international treaties and the Kuwait national reform agenda.
Currently, no clear key performance Indicators (KPI) have been developed by those entities and reported on in a consistent and automated manner. The current process of capturing, aggregating, reviewing, and reporting on KPIs is largely manual and a time consuming process that lacks the standers of data governance and accuracy for reporting. Areas of improvements lie in the comprehensiveness and value of reporting, ensuring data quality, improved process efficiency, transparency, governance, reliability and the mechanisms to sustain those improvements.
UNDP is seeking to support the State Audit Bureau in the design and implementation of a national performance management framework with the purpose of enhancing governance, accountability and the performance of governmental organizations within Kuwait and increasing the effectiveness of the State Audit Bureau in exercising it's monitoring and control activities of the performance of the different governmental entities.
    
Within the framework of the Kuwait development plan project implementation for some of the policies related to developing and modernizing the state administrative system to support mechanisms and measurement system of the government sector institutional performance, propose awards for the quality of institutional performance to encourage efficiency, excellence and institutional productivity improvement, and the interest in supporting research activities necessary for the reform and development of the State public administration.
The State Audit Bureau adoption of professional guidelines related institutional performance efficiency audit will contribute to issuing many recommendations on public administration development, which are currently considered the worldwide trend to support performance control and institutional performance evaluation at the audit institution level and give it the utmost importance in audit programsme that are adopted by such institutions.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Writing a terms of reference and request for proposal from specialized companies and consultants to provide technical support for SAB for the design, planning, application, monitoring and controlling the performance of a National Performance Management System in the state entities, which leads to developing the administrative body and rationalization of developing schemes, enabling SAB to audit administrative systems in all stages, means, and methods and approaches of government performance in a more efficient  way, based on some advanced countries experience in developing a system of performance indicators according to quality standards, and to provide SAB staff with the appropriate skills, expertise and capacitates to perform that;
• Reviewing and evaluating the proposals submitted by companies or consultants and arranging the results in accordance with the established terms and conditions and submitting findings to the Project Committee.

• A minimum of 10 years prove practical experience in management of similar projects.
• Experience in Performance Management, Performance Evaluation & Governance;
• Experience in Business Process Reengineering, Training, Development/ Management, Organizational Reform and Information Technology is highly desirable;
• Thorough & proven understanding of common business and project management practices;
• Experience in international organizations filed such as World Bank is preferable;
• Knowledge of UNDP programme policies & procedures is an added advantage.

Advanced degree in Business Administration, Administrative Information System & Organization or similar major / specialty.
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