HR Consulting Services for MCAs   2

MCC and its country partners have identified several, key issues related to staffing and managing human resources (HR) at MCAs. These include: maximizing technical capacity, setting and managing compensation, engaging staff with appropriate experience, managing performance, practicing sound ethics, preventing sexual and other types of harassment or inappropriate bias, managing disputes, mitigating conflicts and staff grievances, dealing with staff dismissal and retention, and ensuring development of sound HR policies and practices relevant to labor market conditions in MCC partner countries. MCC's Department of Compact Operations (DCO), in collaboration with MCC's Department of Policy and Evaluation (DPE), oversees and works directly with the MCAs on a variety of development, implementation, and closeout issues, including MCA administration, and HR management. MCC currently has a global standard, developed with the support of a MCA Human Resources consultant, by which individual MCAs use to develop country specific human resources. By continuing to support MCAs in these areas, MCC aims to strengthen HR management at MCAs, and to make DCO's support and oversight of HR management at MCAs more systematic and consistent, reducing overall risk.

To this end, MCC seeks the consulting services of a professional services firm with significant experience developing, implementing, advising, and monitoring HR management issues and programs in international, multi-cultural contexts with a specific focus on international development and/or project finance.