Estimated Duration: 35-40 calendar days from contract signing

Location: Azraq and Zarqa - Jordan

** This opportunity is only open for national individual consultants. Companies or non-Jordanians are not eligible to apply.

About Mercy Corps

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About the Project

As one of the world’s most water-scarce countries, Jordan is at a critical juncture, grappling with escalating climate-related disasters that pose a challenge to its humanitarian efforts, economic stability, and environmental integrity. Flash floods and heatwaves have emerged as two of Jordan’s major hazards, affecting water resources, agriculture, and livelihoods. Mercy Corps Jordan’s project, Tabeaa: Strengthening Climate Resilience in Jordanian Communities, is funded by the Z Zurich Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The Tabeaa project works at both national and local community levels, driving systemic change through policy localization and DRR/CCA strategy enforcement at the national level, while supporting five communities across Jordan to build adaptive capacity at the local level. The project’s approach concentrates on three program systems: Community Empowerment, Policy Localization, and Private Sector Engagement.

Background and Rationale

Azraq district, located in Jordan's eastern desert, is among the areas most severely affected by climate change. Rising temperatures and prolonged droughts are diminishing an already scarce rainfall, lowering groundwater levels, and accelerating desertification across the district.

In 2025, as part of its inception phase, the Tabeaa project conducted an assessment using the Climate Resilience for Communities (CRMC) framework across its target communities, including Azraq, to identify climate resilience gaps and inform effective intervention design. Findings for Azraq revealed gaps in two indicators related to heatwave resilience; tree cover and permeable surfaces. Tree cover, made up of native, adapted species that shade the landscape and cool the air beneath it, eases the heat communities are exposed to, while permeable surfaces such as soil, vegetation, and open water let heat dissipate rather than build up. Together, these two elements allow a landscape to regulate its own temperature, making their scarcity a contributor to Azraq's heat vulnerability. Building on these findings, the project convened a prioritization session with community members and local government representatives in Azraq to identify the most pressing gaps to address within the implementation window, followed by co-design sessions with the same stakeholders to generate ideas for closing the identified gaps.

In Azraq, the Ministry of Agriculture owns a 40-dunum plot of land with an existing groundwater well and desalination plant. This existing infrastructure presents an opportunity to address the identified tree cover and permeable surface gaps by rehabilitating what's already in place into a public green space on one half of the site, and a restored plant nursery on the other. A Community-Based Organization will operate the completed project under continued Ministry of Agriculture ownership, with operations designed to be financially self-sustaining.

Consultant Objectives

The project is seeking an experienced consultant to validate and refine the intervention design. The consultant will lead the design process across two phases, based on the concept outlined above, and will be responsible for the following:

• Review and validate the proposed intervention design.
• Assess the intervention's commercial, operational, and financial viability.
• Develop a sustainability plan for the intervention.
• Design a fully costed, implementation-ready public green scpace and greenhouse nursery (Phase 2.1, optional).
• Assess site infrastructure and soil conditions to inform the design (Phase 2.2, optional).
• Review deliverables with Tabeaa project team and incorporate feedback as necessary
• Deliver outputs based on Tabeaa project templates and reporting guidelines.
• Address reasonable requests from the Tabeaa focal point related to the intervention.

Consultant Activities

Phase 1: Intervention refinement

1. Attend a kick-off meeting with the Tabeaa focal point to align on scope and expectations.
2. Review all relevant programme documents and studies.
3. Conduct field visits to the site as needed.
4. Review and validate the proposed intervention design.
5. Conduct a rapid market assessment to capture demand.
6. Assess the intervention’s commercial and operational viability.
7. Assess the business case, including its financial sustainability.
8. Develop a sustainability plan for the intervention.

Phase 2.1: Intervention realization (optional)

Note: Phase 2 is optional. Mercy Corps reserves the right to proceed with this phase following award, at its discretion. Regardless, Phase 2 must be fully priced and included in the offer submission, as pricing will be part of the evaluation.

1. Design a public green space that meets international safety standards and is compatible with the area's environment (minimum two designs), including:

• Underground irrigation system for plants.
• Related signage.
• Recommended plants suited to the space that support heatwave resilience.

2. Design an operational greenhouse nursery with an irrigation system, including:

• • Recommended plants and propagation methods for the nursery.
  • Maintenance and sustainability plan for plants.

3. Prepare a Bill of Quantities covering all works, including nursery rehabilitation and any required repairs to the groundwater well and desalination plant.
4. Prepare a realistic exit/ handover strategy for the implemented intervention design, to match the proposed sustainability plan

Phase 2.2: Site testing (optional)

1. Assess site infrastructure, covering the operational status of the existing groundwater well and desalination plant.
2. Provide groundwater and desalination plant repair plans, if needed.
3. Conduct soil testing, covering:

• Scientific soil survey analysis.
• A soil rehabilitation plan, if needed.

4. Determine suitable plant types for the public green space, covering:

• Testing is required to identify appropriate plant types.
• Recommended plants based on soil survey data and the area's environment.

Consultant Deliverables:

Consultant is expected to deliver the following:

• A detailed proposal validating and refining the intervention, including: (1) rapid market assessment findings, (2) assessment of its commercial, operational, and financial viability and (3) a sustainability plan for the intervention. The proposal should include sufficient details for implementation purposes, based on the findings.
• Full detailed designs for the public green space and nursery, including the handover/ exit strategy with an accompanying budget (Phase 2.1, optional).
• A Bill of Quantities covering all proposed works, including nursery rehabilitation and any required repairs to the groundwater well and desalination plant (Phase 2.1, optional).
• A site assessment report covering soil testing, groundwater well and desalination plant status, and recommended repairs, if needed (Phase 2.2, optional).

Timeframe / Schedule:  All deliverables must be delivered within 35-40 calendar days of signing the contract.
Phase 1: 15 calendar days of signing the contract
Phase2: 25 calendar days of finalizing phase 1

The Consultant will report to: Community Outreach & Resilience Officer

The Consultant will work closely with: Mercy Corps Program Teams, and other related stakeholders for the project.

Required Experience & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in fields of environmental science, horticulture, landscape architecture with proven knowledge of ecological restoration or related skills.
• At least 10 years of experience in related fields.
• Knowledge of native, adaptive, and invasive species, as well as plant physiology
• Proof of work in related interventions or similar projects.
• Experience in working with communities and local authorities in Jordan.
• Strong skills in reporting and preparing simple, implementation-ready designs.
• Fluency in Arabic and good English (written and spoken).
• Experience in relevant design software (AutoCad..) is preferred.

Application: 

Interested consultant(s) must submit a technical proposal covering, but not limited to the following:

➔    Consultant Experience and Qualifications 

• • Short cover letter summarizing the applicants relevant experience, and ability to use relevant software such as (AutoCAD, IrriCAD ... etc.).
  • Portfolio of relevant projects, including short project briefs with samples (drawings/maps/photos)
  • Updated CVs
     

➔    Financial Offer: Applicants must provide details of the financial offer as a lump sum amount per phase (Phase 1 and Phase 2) and a fixed price per deliverable, consistent with the proposed work plan, and inclusive of all costs for resources, travel expense, communication, and data collection activities.

Offers will be evaluated against the MC's cost-effectiveness and efficiency standards. 
The selected applicant must be able to provide invoices through The National Electronic Invoicing System (Fawtara).
 

• References: The applicant must share the information of five Recent References, including name, email, phone number, and address.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the world’s most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives. 

We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening, and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.

Equal Employment Opportunity
We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics
Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. By applying for this role an applicant confirms that they have not previously violated an employer’s sexual misconduct, sexual exploitation and abuse, child safeguarding or trafficking policy. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct e-learning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.

 As an applicant, if you witness or experience any form of sexual misconduct during the recruitment process, please report this to Mercy Corps Integrity Hotline (integrityhotline@mercycorps.org).

How to Apply

Please submit the following at jo-procurement@mercycorps.org, mentioning the consultancy title in the subject line. Offers must be submitted maximum by Monday 7 September, 2026 at 4:00 pm Amman time:

1. All the documents requested in the “Application” section above.
2. A copy of your Jordanian ID or passport.
3. A screenshot showing the applicant’s active account on Jo Fawtara system.
4. A filled & signed copy of the NIC Data Form in this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1XByAzzzrWO1OSZNfAQmFCKLYJjL1As6D?usp=sharing

** Mercy Corps has the right to disqualify any late offers.

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