Local Consultants: T4D Consultant - 9 Months (Deadline Extended: 23 May2022)

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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 fair chance

UNICEF has been an active partner of the Government of the Philippines and civil society in realizing the rights of every Filipino child, in line with priorities to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. UNICEF efforts have been focused on the most vulnerable regions identified by the Government of the Philippines Development Plan, particularly in the regions of Visayas and Mindanao. To ensure that interventions are sustainable and scaled up, UNICEF will support primarily local government units (LGUs) as the main instruments of delivering services and building systems. The level of engagement with government institutions will take into account capacities, economies of scale and sector issues.

It has a field office in Cotabato City, the second largest city in Mindanao, southern Philippines, with some 300,000 population. The city is the regional administrative centre of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and over 80 percent of the population is Muslim. Mindanao is both conflict-affected and prone to frequent earthquakes and typhoon storms.

Visit this link for more information on Philippine Country Office: https://www.unicef.org/philippines/

How can you make a difference

The Consultant reports to the Deputy Representative, Programmes and works under the day-to-day supervision of the Knowledge Management Officer.

Scope of Work (Work Assignments/Tasks)

Provide technical support to the RT-VaMA toolkit development:

• Contribute to project management processes, review of terms of reference and vendor selection, and supervision of service providers.
• Support and assist in the design, development, roll-out, scale-up and sustainability planning of the RT-VaMA deployment toolkit.
• Assist the review of technical outputs generated by the development of the RT-VaMA toolkit to ensure UNICEF standards are followed.
• Provide technical oversight, troubleshooting, and the documentation of challenges and resolutions throughout RT-VaMA toolkit development and related activities.
• Support adherence of RT-VaMA development and testing with the Principles for Digital Development (http://digitalprinciples.org/) and UNICEF T4D best practices.

Advisory and Quality Assurance to Technology-enabled Programming:

• Support implementation of real-time data monitoring and analysis technology for the country office and, where able, other country offices in collaboration with the Regional Office for East Asia and the Pacific Islands (EAPRO).
• Identify opportunities for real-time data monitoring and analysis in support of the Philippines Country Office’s priorities.
• Identify and assess opportunities for expanded use cases for data systems strengthening in the Philippines Country Office using real-time monitoring and analysis tools, best practices, and technologies from the RT-VaMA toolkit.

Support engagement and maintenance of partnerships and networks:

• Provide advice and support to programme partners on best practices, standards, and norms on real-time data monitoring and analysis.
• Support the capacity building and the transfer of knowledge, skills, and tools to foster and facilitate handover and uptake of the RT-VaMA toolkit by relevant stakeholders.
• Support advocacy and awareness raising activities as requested.

Knowledge Management:

• Help identify, capture, synthesize, and share lessons learned from the development and roll-out of RT-VaMA.
• Work with PME to ensure documentation and clear monitoring of RT-VaMA KPIs.
• Contribute and share RT-VaMA and real-time monitoring technology updates with country office, regional, and global T4D networks and activities.

Capacity Building:

• Work directly with programme teams and partners to adopt RT-VaMA and, more broadly, real-time monitoring solutions appropriate to their sectoral priorities.
• Participate as resource person in capacity building initiatives.

Deliverables

• Consultant’s Workplan based on TOR.
• Project management board (e.g. Microsoft Planner) and assets (e.g. Teams Channel and collaboration site) to document project status, progress, bottlenecks, risks, mitigative measures, lessons learned, way forward, recommendations.
• Monthly high-level project update presentation for management.
• Meetings minutes.
• RT-VaMA Workplan updates.
• Preparation of documents for contractors’ billing (e.g. evaluation, payment endorsement).
• TOR drafting of future service providers as needed.
• Draft proposal to potential adopters on the use of RT-VaMA.
• User acceptance testing schedule and coordination.
• Scenario-based budget/resource mapping tool or investment roadmap for RT-VaMA adopters.

Review of, feedback, and UAT supervision on the following outputs by the contracted RT-VaMA toolkit developer:

• Desk Research

• Inception Report

• Toolkit content outline
• SharePoint Site content outline
• SharePoint Site design
• Sharepoint Sitemap
• Annotations on all materials for better readability, user-friendliness, and cohesiveness
• Recommendations for any conversions in method of presentation of materials
• Development and standardization of the provided content based on the agreed method/style
• Packaged toolkit
• Toolkit contents uploaded to SharePoint Site
• User acceptance testing and user feedback log
• Repository of content, documentation, and resources attendant to development of the toolkit
• Initial training and job aid/user manual/Read Me
• Communication channels and feedback mechanisms
• Enhancement of the toolkit based on user feedback

Review of, feedback, and UAT on the following outputs by the contracted RT-VaMA data tools developer:

• Pre-filled but editable or configurable standard XLSForms for data collection during immunization campaigns
• Standard data visualization dashboards in PowerBI, Tableau, and Superset, including relevant data wrangling, cleaning, and ETL, ready to be deployed and customized by country offices
• Training materials for and access to any attendant software (ODK, data visualization software)
• Technical guide on how to plan for data portability and interoperability with other open health information systems at national level, or for facilitative migration to or inclusion in bespoke health information systems, including a catalogue and documentation of relevant APIs.
• XLSForms and Superset dashboard in InForm, UNICEF’s hosted version of ODK and Superset
• Documentation of user feedback on the data tools
• Enhancements or revisions based on user feedback
• Repository of content and resources attendant to development of the data tools
• Data Tools ReadMe
• Desk review and report mapping opportunities for use of the RT-VaMA deployment toolkit
• Contact list of potential adopters, stakeholders, and partners (government, private, CSOs, etc.)
• Desk review and report mapping sectoral use cases outside of vaccination that can using real-time monitoring and analysis tools, best practices, and technologies from the RT-VaMA toolkit
• Participation in broader thematic/sectoral meetings on real-time data monitoring and analysis
• Presentation of the problems and challenges that RT-VaMA is trying to address at relevant webinars/meetings
• Maximum of three (3) web article entries on RT-VaMA
• Presentation deck for RT-VaMA
• Participation in the development of other comms materials where relevant (podcast, webisodes)
• Proposal of advocacy materials for RT-VaMA
• Finalization of RT-VaMA toolkit KPIs

RT-VaMA updates as needed for the following existing materials/platforms:

• T4D Case Study
• INVENT Innovation Inventory
• Regional and global meetings

Qualifications and Competencies of Successful Consultant

• Advanced university degree in Business Analysis, ICT Management, Data Science, Computer Science, Innovation, Digital Development, International Development or another relevant technical field.
• A minimum of five years of professional experience in information communication technology for development (ICT4D), technology for development, open source development, or digital innovation in a large international organization and/or corporation.
• A first-level university degree in a relevant field combined with seven years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
• Experience identifying, designing, and implementing solutions for large-scale projects with technical components – including supervising external vendors and software developers; responsibility for business analysis, budgets, contracts, project management and procurement, etc. Experience in conducting capacity development activities and mentorship programmes for innovators is required
• Experience with ICT, mobile and web-based technologies, particularly designing or deploying tools appropriate to Asia and Pacific.
• Experience in Open Source, mobile and emerging technology applied to UNICEF programme areas
• Exposure to UNICEF, UN or other INGO programmatic areas, including (but not limited to) health, nutrition, child protection and/or education, and experience in applying technical solutions to address programmatic issues.
• Strong demonstrable knowledge of information and data management systems and technologies; knowledge of XLSForm development and data visualization highly desirable
• Experience in coordination with multiple stakeholders like government agencies, academic institutions, research organizations, private sector, etc. in implementing ICT projects and exploring space for collaboration and partnerships.
• Experience in capacity building and training for ICT-supported projects
• Project management skills including task prioritization, workflow coordination, and results-driven strategies.

HOW TO APPLY

Qualified candidates are requested to complete an online candidate profile in http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/ by 11 May 2022. Only applications sent through the e-recruitment portal under Job Number: 550706 will be considered.

All candidates are requested to submit a COVER LETTER, and the duly filled P 11 form which can be downloaded from our website at http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc indicating three (3) previous supervisors. Please indicate your area of assignment, ability, availability and daily/monthly rate to undertake the terms of reference above. Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

Only shortlisted consultants will be contacted.

By applying through our Talent Management System (TMS) you agree to our privacy statement which is in line with the Philippines Data Privacy Act. You are strongly advised to read carefully through the privacy statement before submitting your application.

"UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles."