Consultant for The Economic Model Evaluation for

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
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**Consultant for the Economic Model Evaluation for the Domain Registry Operation**

**Vacancy notice no**: 1846
**Sector**: BDT
**Department**: Regional Offices
**Country of contract**: Remote
**Duty station**: Home Based

**Position number**: positionNumber
**Grade**: PositionGrade
**Type of contract**: Consultant
**Duration of contract**: 120 working days to be developed in several months
**Recruitment open to**:External
**Application deadline (Midnight Geneva Time)**: 11 November 2024

ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT

The Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) is responsible for the organization and coordination of the work of the Telecommunication Development Sector of the Union. BDT deals mainly with development policies, strategies, programming, projects, as well as technical cooperation activities to enable and foster universal access to affordable, high-quality and secure telecommunications/ICTs and Foster equitable and inclusive use of telecommunications/ICTs to empower people and societies for sustainable development. To effectively and efficiently serve the needs of Member States, BDT is organized into four functional areas:

- Operations Coordination Department (Office of the Deputy to the Director) (DDR)
- Projects, Partnerships & Digital Skills Department (PPS)
- Digital Networks & Environment Department (DNE)
- Digital Knowledge Society Department (DKS)

The regional offices provide assistance to the ITU Member States of the Region, ensuring a close relationship and collaboration. To implement the agreed programs and projects, in accordance with the ITU Strategy Plan and the BDT Action Plan, with the active support of all Departments, providing timely information about their development. To provide proper line management and support, the Regional Directors report to the Director of the BDT.

**BACKGROUND INFORMATION**:
Under the guidance of the International Telecommunication Union Area Office for South America, the work to be developed will offer and complement the activities necessary for the structuring of specifications technical, commercial and financial necessary in a contractual process aimed at the promotion and operation of the Registry of Country Code Top Level Domain Names (ccTLD).

**TERMS OF REFERENCE**:
Under the direction of the Programme Officer of the Area Office for South America, located in Santiago, the consultant will:

- Prepare and deliver an implementation road map, a Gantt Chart aligned to the specific deadlines, expected reports, a presentation of the reports, KPIs, and a description of the scope.
- Economic Model/Valuation: Develop an economic/valuation model and the corresponding recommendations. The model should be based in on efficient service delivery model of economic compensation necessary for the selection process of the contract for operation, promotion, maintenance, marketing, mitigation of abuse cases, generation of reports, and control panels of the Top Level Domains ccTLDs and gTLD. It must include financial analysis, operational cash flow model, estimation model, iteration, sensitivity, and prospective for the time horizon in which it is intended to transfer its operation.
- Evaluate the current economic model, include efficiency factors, current valuation of the backend, and include the obtained cash flows, in which its advantages and disadvantages are identified.
- Develop the economic model and recommendations, based on an efficient provision model of economic compensation for the selection process of the operation contract, promotion, maintenance, mitigation of cases of abuse and generation of reports, reports and control panels of the Registry of Country code top-level domain names ccTLDs and gTLDs. It should include financial analysis, operating cash flow model, market profitability, project profitability, estimation model, iteration, sensitivity and foresight, and technical supports of the projected model.
- Calculate the initial value and/or the economic contribution to the State that must assume a potential new Registry Operator for the operation, promotion, maintenance, mitigation of abuse cases, generation of reports, and control panels of the Top Level Domains ccTLDs and gTLD.
- Compare the new proposed compensation model and the current one, highlighting its benefits.
- Deliver the Economic Model/Valuation and t