Consultancy - Digital project manager for Website Development, Data and Analytics (D&A) Section, DAPM NYHQ (remote based)

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Consultancy Title: Digital project manager for Website Development Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Data and Analytics (D&A) Section, DAPM NYHQ (home-based)

Duration: 31 October 2022 – 30 June 2023 (part-time)

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a future

UNICEF believes that the right data in the right hands at the right time is critical for supporting development initiatives and service deliver for children. Both the UNICEF Strategic Plan and the UN Data Strategy recognize the value of “doing more” with existing routine data systems. UNICEF has an extensive history of supporting national governments to strengthen sectoral management information systems.

The value of administrative data sources has particularly been highlighted during the current Covid-19 pandemic. Well-functioning systems that are able to deliver continuous, reliable, information on the provision, use and users of national services are invaluable to governments and partners in order to understand the impacts of such events and adjust service provision accordingly.

During 2019, UNICEF developed an Administrative Data Maturity Model (ADaMM) to benchmark the functioning of the national administrative data landscape at a cross-sectoral level, and prioritizing investments for improving this functionality. The model is built on three main elements:

1. It is child focused: putting the best interests of children and their families at the centre of system design and operation.
2. It is built from the community up: recognizing the importance of local engagement in supporting development outcomes and the collection of high-quality data.
3. It recognizes the need for strong cross-sectoral foundations at the national level to support the effective and sustainable functioning of administrative data systems.

Under each element, the outcomes that a mature administrative data landscape should deliver are prioritized and defined, along with the system and landscape characteristics required to achieve these. This provides both a benchmark for what “good practice” looks like, helps identify critical investments that are required to improve administrative data capacity at the national level across sectors.

UNICEF is seeking to develop an Interactive web tool for the Administrative Data Maturity Model.

To support the usability of the maturity model and ensure that it is easily accessible to country teams wishing to undertake a maturity assessment and/or address identified priorities – it is envisaged that there will be an “interactive” website developed incorporating material from the maturity model, the current excel worksheet to support completion of the model, and the associated resource guide. The intent is that countries will be able to enter their results and that this will both allow them to visualize their administrative data landscape maturity, flag key investment areas, and directly access existing resource materials that address those issues (dashboard plus linked materials).

UNICEF is seeking a digital project manager (part-time) to oversee the development of the Interactive web tool for the Administrative Data Maturity Model. The consultant will be responsible for supporting the recruitment process to identify a suitable vendor for the project, and serving as a liaison between the project team, vendor and other relevant stakeholders to ensure common understanding of expectations during the development and testing phases. During the development phase the consultant is expected to support the vendor to adapt the available material to work in the online environment, design (both in regards to style, ease of navigation, and technical specifications), as well as the technical build, testing and refinement of the final product.

How can you make a difference?

Under the overall supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (Data Strategy), the Consultant will be responsible for Project Management and act as a liaison between the UNICEF project team and relevant stakeholders, and the vendor. Key deliverables include:

1. Support recruitment of vendor for development of the online web tool (by 11 November 2022)

Learn project owner’s requirements for the site, and lead the recruitment, vetting, and final selection of a vendor capable of executing the project

2. Support vendor to pull together detailed requirements for the solution architecture and design, and to develop and agree on an implementation plan. (by 9 December 2022)

In coordination with the project team, vendor and key stakeholders, development of a final draft list of detailed requirements and implementation plan.

3. Support vendor through wireframing and design. (by 31 January 2023)

Review interim deliverables and channel feedback to the vendor. Wireframe complete and approved by project owner, and design concept complete and approved by project owner.

4. Support vendor through testing of the project, including to improve user experience and collect feedback from potential users. (by 31 March 2023)

Write a feedback report on the user experience.

5. Support vendor through complete delivery of website (by 30 April 2023) Quality Assurance completed, with corrections and improvements implemented as needed, and site launched and handed over successfully

It is estimated that this consultancy will be on a part-time basis. Payments will be made based on successful completion of the above deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree; At least 4 years working experience in digital project management, Agile software development, interactive digital media communication, interactive marketing or web metrics analysis
• Excellent project management skills, with accreditation (e.g., PRINCE2, APM) or Scrum Master experience preferred
• Experience selecting and procuring third-party web agencies and managing contracts
• Experience working with enterprise-level websites with localization and multiple users and groups
• Knowledge of: Wordpress, Drupal, PHP, MySQL, Python, Django, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, Search Engine Optimization, Google Analytics and/or other web analytics technologies and tools, website QA is an advantage
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and presentation skills

Ability to serve as an intermediary between vendor and project team: can communicate technical feedback to non-technical partners and can translate user requirements into technical specifications.

Requirements****:

• Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and provide Personal History Form (P11) Upload copy of academic credentials, and written references.
• Financial proposal that will include:
• Your daily rate (in US$) which could be the basis for costing each of the deliverables
  • Indicate your availability
• Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission and satisfactory evaluation of agreed and costed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

• No travel is foreseen.
• Consultant should have its own ICT equipment.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.