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Grant Thornton was presented with the Halo Foundation’s Corporate Citizen Award 2020 by Sir Rodney and Lady Williams on Jan. 21 at Government House.
The award was received by the company’s Managing Partner Charles Walwyn.
It is bestowed each year upon a business entity based in Antigua and Barbuda that has extended charitable assistance to the benefit of those in need.
Economic Advisory Services – Project Management Consultant Terms of Reference
Antigua and Barbuda
Terms of Reference
 
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Project Management Consultant |
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Date of Issue
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September 25, 2020
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Deadline for application
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December 1, 2020
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To Apply |
Suitable candidates are invited to submit the following documents: cover letter and a curriculum vitae (CV) with contact information for three (3) references. Email the copy of the above referenced documents to [email protected] or mail to the following address: Procurement Officer NDC Partnership Support Unit c/o World Resources Institute 10 G St NE, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20002 Please use email subject line: “Project Management Consultant”
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Contracting Authority |
Department of Environment |
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Duration of Contract
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Short-term contract for 1 year
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Country
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Antigua and Barbuda
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BACKGROUND
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda (GOAB) is to receive funding from the NDC Partnership to enhance its economic planning and recovery efforts and its response to both the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. The GOAB recently established an Economic Recovery Commission (ERC) in the wake of the pandemic. It comprises public-private stakeholders, who advise the Cabinet of Antigua and Barbuda on the long-term economic recovery of Antigua and Barbuda, including avenues to stimulate development and create jobs. The support of the NDC Partnership and its implementing partners will complement the work of the ERC.
Funding from the NDC Partnership will go towards the operationalization of a Project Management Unit (PMU) for the Ministry of Finance and Corporate Governance that will help the country to design and implement low-
carbon and climate resilient projects in line with the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the ParisAgreement. This assistance will strengthen the country’s capacity to develop and execute interventions that address the adverse effects of climate change and improve its ability to attract climate finance.
The PMU within the Ministry of Finance will be tasked with coordinating the implementation of transformative projects for the building, road and finance sectors; and adaptation interventions. The PMU has to implement projects with oversight from the Department of the Environment (DOE) — an Accredited Entity (AE) to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The PMU must also work with Executing Entities (EE) and other implementing partners. The PMU will consist of one or more Project Managers, one or more Project Coordinators, Project Component Coordinators, a Financial Officer, a Procurement Officer, an Environmental and Social Safeguards Officer, a Knowledge Management Officer, a Monitoring and Gender Officer, and an Administrative Officer.
Objectives of the Assignment
The objective of the assignment is to acquire the services of an experienced and qualified Project Management Consultant, who will be responsible for setting up and operationalizing the PMU. The Consultant will be required to set up and prepare for the operation of new projects while the project staff are being hired. The Project Management Consultant should have a proven track record of supervising and managing relevant projects. The Consultant will take responsibility for building the PMU’s capacity for planning, coordinating, and implementing low-emission and climate resilient projects. Also, the PMU will be required to carry out monitoring and evaluation and reporting functions. The Consultant will be based in the Ministry of Finance. The contractual period is expected to last for 12 months at which time the PMU should be established, and any new projects assigned will be in full operationalization and implementation phase.
Scope of Work
The Project Management Consultant will carry out specific duties and responsibilities under the general direction of the Ministry of Finance. The Project Management Consultant will:
Economic Advisory Services – Project Management Consultant, Antigua and Barbuda 2 October 2020
monitoring and reporting
Develop
provide initial oversight for the PMU staff in the execution of their respective duties, including
During this contract period, if the PMU has to implement a project, the Project Management Consultant will be provided with more detailed tasks.
Indicative Deliverables |
Timeline |
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Detailed Workplan |
Within 2 weeks of signing contract |
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PMU structure and work programme |
December 2020 |
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Training and capacity building plan |
Within 1 month of signing contract |
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Four (4) training workshops conducted |
November 2020 December 2020 February 2021 March 2021 |
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Draft Project Operations Manual with policies, procedures and a fuctional project management system |
July 2021 |
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Final Project Operations Manual |
August 2021 |
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Final report on achievement of the objective of the consultancy and status of deliverables
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September 2021
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Institutional Arrangements and Reporting
The Project Management Consultant will work under the guidance and supervision of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. The Project Management Consultant will provide oversight of the Project Management Unit and shall liaise with the government, NDC Partnership, donor agencies and other key stakeholders. The Project Management Consultant shall also collaborate with the Economic Advisor and the Climate Finance Analyst during the execution of his/her tasks and responsibilities.
Education, Experience, Skills and Abilities
The Project Management Consultant should possess the following qualifications:
Economic Advisory Services – Project Management Consultant, Antigua and Barbuda 4 October 2020
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
(CONSULTING SERVICES – INDIVIDUAL SELECTION)
OECS MSME Guarantee Facility Project
Loan No.: IDA-62670, IDA-62660, IDA-62640, IBRD-88830, IDA-62650
Assignment Title: Senior Operating Officer (SOO)
Reference No. KN-ECPCGC-207852-CS-INDV
The Governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines have received financing in the amount of US$10 million equivalent from the World Bank towards the cost of establishing a partial credit guarantee scheme, and they intend to apply part of the proceeds to payments for goods, and consulting services to be procured under this project.
The consultant will serve as the “Senior Operating Officer (SOO)” for the ECPCGC and should possess extensive knowledge of MSME lending with some direct experience lending to Micro, small and medium-sized businesses, knowledge of the internal control processes necessary for a lending operation and the ability to design and implement risk mitigation procedures. The ideal candidate should possess an Undergraduate Degree from a reputable college or university, preferably in Business, Accounting, Banking or related field, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in lending, inclusive of MSME lending. The initial employment period will be for two years on a contractual basis. Renewal of the contract will be subject to a performance evaluation at the end of the contractual period. The assignment is expected to begin on September 30th, 2021. The consultant will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the ECPCGC.
The detailed Terms of Reference (TOR) for the assignment can be viewed by following the attached link below.
https://bit.ly/3iVannm
The Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECPCGC) now invites eligible “Consultants” to indicate their interest in providing the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have:
The attention of interested Individual Consultants is drawn to Section III, Paragraphs 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers July 2016, [revised November 2017] (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Approved Selection Method for Individual Consultants set out in the clause 7.34 of the World Bank Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers.
Further information can be obtained at the address below during office hours 0800 to 1700 hours:
Eastern Caribbean Partial Credit Guarantee Corporation
Brid Rock, Basseterre,
St. Kitts.
Expressions of interest must be delivered in a written form by e-mail by August 11th, 2021, to [email protected].
For further information, please contact:
Carmen Gomez-Trigg Bernard Thomas
Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer
Tel: 868-620-8144 Tel: 869-765-2385
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
4 responses to “Grant Thornton is Best Corporate Citizen 2020”
“A PROPHET HAS HONOUR, EXCEPT IN HIS OWN COUNTRY”. GRANT THORNTON SHOULD NOT BE IN THE CATEGORY OF “CORPORATE CITIZEN”, BEING AN INTERNATIONAL AUDIT FIRM, WHICH IT WOULD BE RARE TO FIND BEING INCORPORATED AS A COMPANY.
THE ENTIRE ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING PROFESSION SHOULD IN LOCAL ANTIGUAN HANDS, JUST LIKE IN THE CASE OF ATTORNEYS (LAWYERS). THE TIME HAS LONG PAST FOR ALL FOREIGN ACCOUNTANTS TO PACK THEIR BAGS AND LEAVE THIS COUNTRY, SO THAT LOCAL ANTIGUAN ACCOUNTANTS CAN THRIVE.
ALL SUCH FOREIGN PARASITES NEED TO PACKUP THEIR BAGS AND GO HOME.
ROY R. JACKSON, PH.D, B.SC. ICAEC
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
In December, 1970, I resigned my position of Supervisor of Current and Savings Accounts with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, after benefitting from a Training Seminar in Human Relations and Salesmanship at the bank’s Head Office at Bridgetown Barbados, to take up the position of Night Auditor / Trainee Hotel Accountant with the former Anchorage Hotel then owned by the late American investor, Andrew Homes.
But, I had out other job applications and attended two (2) interviews with Jolly Beach Hotel who offered to employ me as a Trainee Hotel Manager. I declined their offer, but soon accepted a job offer from Pannell Fitzpatrick & Company – affiliated to Pannell Kerr Forster – as an Auditor’s Clerk / Trainee Accountant. I started this employment in February, 1971. While at the bank, I was doing a Correspondent Couse with the School of Accountancy and Business Studies in the United Kingdom (UK), But my new employer requested I commence training with the Chartered Association of Certified and Corporate Accountants (ACCA), since it was their policy that their employees should endeavour to write such examinations.
I progressed rapidly in my on the job training, and in 1972 was sent to Montserrat to deputize for the Manager, the late Mr. Vernon Lewis, in that affiliated Office for one (1) month, while he went on vacation to North America. My immediate Supervisor in Antigua, then, was the Audit Manager, Mr. Jack Bently from the United Kingdom. He was very pleased with my work, and I was always very thorough in carrying out my audit assignments. I was sent all over Antigua to carry out audit assignments singlehandedly, including the following:
1) Sugar Mill Hotel – Part Assignment
2) George W. Bennett Bryson – Part Assignment
3) Joseph Dew, Division of Dantzler West Indies Limited – Interim Audit Only, American Auditor
4) Stephen R. Mendes (Antigua) Limited – Part Assignment
5) Antigua Distillery Limited – Complete Job
6) Mill Reef Properties – Part Assignment
7)Half Moon Bay Hotel – Part Assignment
8) Jose Anjo Enterprises Limited – Complete Job, Plus Budget Assistance
9) Refrigeration Services Limited – Complete Job
10) Linton Mark Contractors Limited – Complete Job
11) Bottlers Antigua Limited – Complete Job
12) Antigua Slipway Limited – Part Assignment
13) Antigua Dairy Company Limited – Complete job
14) A. S. Bryden & Co Limited – Complete Job
15) Horizons Hotel Limited – Complete Job
16) Court Line Hotel- Dickenson Bay – Secondment As Accountant
17) St. John’s Terminal Operating Company – Complete Job
18) Antigua Port Authority – Complete Job
19) Social Security – Part Assignment
Most of the above jobs had to be repeated each year. In December, 1976, after five (5) years and eleven (11) months of employment with PF & Co, I resigned my job to accept the position of Accountant with Antigua Port Authority. However, I soon realized that the employment offer was a trick to get me off the audit, and quickly resigned after just seven (7) months with the Port. I was now without work, and set up, for the first time, my own Public Accounting Office in St. John’s, Antigua. Business was slow.
I was soon recommended by the Manager of the Jose Anjo Group for employment with the Hutchinson’s Group of Companies in Antigua. Meanwhile, I was attending First Year University Courses at the local Extramural Department (University Center) of the University of the West Indies (UWI). I was successful in these studies, and won a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) scholarship to complete my Degree at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI). I graduated in 1988 with the Bachelor of Science in Accounting Degree (B. Sc.).
All of the above, is just to show that Antiguans and Barbudans have been making significant strides in the field of Accounting and Auditing. I also excelled in Business Planning.
Since my time, many young Antiguans and Barbudans have been qualifying in the Accounting Profession. Unfortunately, our Government never seem to know when is the “right psychological moment” to put local people in charge, except when the politicians themselves can derive direct benefits. Look islands like Dominica and St. Lucia, their own people always been in charge of the Accounting and Auditing functions in their countries. Why is it that our own Government can never trust the citizens to control anything in our own country. Shame!, Shame!!, Shame!!!.
ROY R. JACKSON, PH. D, B. SC., ICAEC
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
All ALP / ABLP Governments over the years have walked on Antigua and Barbuda people like if they are nothing more than the dust of the earth. All you stupid, that you don’t demand your rightful place in your own country?
This is definitely Curry Favour at the higest level.