Senior consultant – Leading the data management and cleaning work for gender-environment surveys in Tonga and Samoa

Consultant

Overview

Support gender-environment surveys in Tonga and Samoa.

You have:

• Master's degree in the field of mathematics, statistics, computer science, development affairs or related area.
• Minimum of 10 years professional experience in design and implementation of questionnaire scripting for CAPI survey rollout.
• Mastery knowledge of CAPI survey methods, CSPro or Survey Solutions and script writing for implementation of a national survey.
• Knowledge about gender data and statistics on gender equality and the empowerment of women is desirable.
• Experience working with the United Nations in the area of statistics and scripting.
• Experience working on countries in Asia and the Pacific is desirable.
• Excellent command of English.

Contract

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Background

I. Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. The purpose of this consultancy is to support the implementation of the Building Back Better programme, as well as the Making Every Woman and Girl Count programme in Asia and the Pacific by, in particular, supporting the implementation of gender-environment surveys in Tonga and Samoa, by adjusting CAPI scripts to national specificities (in survey solutions or CSPro, as preferred by each country), monitoring data collection through monitoring reports as needed, providing technical support on CAPI to national counterparts and supporting the data management and cleaning of the data once collected.

II. Scope of consultancy

To support member states in coping with, and recovering from, the COVID-19 crisis through evidence-based decision-making, UN Women’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific is implementing the programme “Building Back Better: Promoting a gender data-driven response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Pacific and South-East Asia”, with the generous support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The programme supports countries to generate gender data to measure the impact of the crisis and the resilience of women and men in the Pacific and South-East Asia. It also supports evidence-based decision making to ensure policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis are gender-responsive. In this regard, the programme is supporting the roll out of gender and environment/resilience surveys in countries in the Pacific. These surveys utilize methodology recently developed by UN Women under the Making Every Woman and Girl Count programme.

To support member states in implementing the 2030 Agenda, UN Women’s Flagship Programme Initiative, “Making Every Woman and Girl Count (MEWG)” aims to affect a radical shift in the availability, accessibility and use of data and statistics on key aspects of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The Asia-Pacific regional component of the MEWG Programme encompasses a multi-year and multi-country programme of work with particular focus on implementing and supporting regional and country-specific activities in Asia and the Pacific. This includes work in the three inter-related key areas: (1)Building a supportive policy and institutional environment for the localization and effective monitoring of the SDGs; (2)Increasing the quality, comparability and regularity of gender statistics to address national data gaps and meet reporting commitments under the SDGs; and (3)Ensuring that gender statistics are accessible to users in governments, civil society, academia and the private sector, to strengthen adequate demand for their production.

Within the context of implementing both these programmes in Asia and the Pacific, and with the ultimate goal of making the methodology on measuring the gender-environment nexus more user-friendly for countries to enhance the quality, availability and use of gender-environment statistics, UN Women is looking to hire two consultants that will support with adjusting the syntax for implementing the model questionnaire on gender and the environment in CAPI in Samoa, monitor the data collection (quality checks) in Samoa, and support both Samoa and Tonga with the data cleaning.

Duties and Responsibilities

III. Roles and responsibilities

Scripting and monitoring (Samoa)

• Lead the work to adjust the scripting for the use of the model questionnaire on gender and the environment for CAPI surveys, per Samoa’s national adaptation of the Model Questionnaire, using Survey Solutions, including by liaising with other consultants working on scripting
  • Review the draft script produced by other consultants.
  • Provide feedback for refinement of the script
  • Ensure the quality of the script, it’s full adherence to the Excel version, along with the inclusion of attached metadata and other background information as needed.
• Lead the monitoring work for the survey implementation in Samoa, including by monitoring the daily reports produced by other team members, identifying emerging issues with survey implementation, and flagging issues that may require corrective action.
  • Review the monitoring reports produced by other consultants.
  • Analyse the information and identify any potential issues, to inform government
  • Ensure the quality of the daily reports.
  • Suggest corrective action, as needed, to ensure the timely and thorough implementation of the survey.

Data cleaning (Tonga, Samoa)

• Undertake data cleaning for two gender-environment surveys

• Check for completeness of the data sets

• Provide technical guidance to national counterparts for follow-up as required
• Run summary statistics to check for non-response and outliers.
• Calculate household and individual weights.
• Ensure data quality is in place (using data cleaning checklist).

Produce standard data cleaning checklist for Gender-Environment Surveys

• Prepare a draft checklist for guidance on data cleaning for Gender-Environment surveys

• Prepare a first draft of the data cleaning checklist, including all steps countries should follow to perform the data cleaning of Gender-Environment Surveys

• Prepare a final draft of the data cleaning checklist, including by incorporating UN Women’s comments

Competencies

IV. Tasks and Deliverables

No.

Key Tasks

Deliverables

Target date

1. Lead the work to adjust the scripting for the use of the model questionnaire on gender and the environment for CAPI surveys, per Samoa’s national adaptation of the Model Questionnaire, using Survey Solutions, including by liaising with other consultants working on scripting

• Reviewed and thoroughly checked draft script in Survey Solutions for the model questionnaire on gender and the environment in CAPI surveys.

13 March 2023

2.

Lead the monitoring work for the survey implementation in Samoa, including by monitoring the daily reports produced by other team members, identifying emerging issues with survey implementation, and flagging issues that may require corrective action.

• Daily monitoring reports are reviewed to guarantee their quality.
• Corrective action is suggested where needed, through direct technical support to government partners.

15 May 2023

3.

Undertake data cleaning for two gender-environment surveys

• Incomplete data sets identified for both Tonga and Samoa
• Technical guidance is provided to national counterparts in Tonga and Samoa as required, to achieve data cleaning
• Two quality final data files are produced; one for Tonga and one for Samoa.
• Household weights variables are produced and integrated with the data files for each of the two countries.

30 March 2023 for Tonga

15 June 2023 for Samoa

4.

Prepare a draft checklist for guidance on data cleaning for Gender-Environment surveys

• First draft of a data cleaning checklist, including all steps countries should follow to perform the data cleaning of Gender-Environment Surveys
• Final draft of the data cleaning checklist, including by incorporating UN Women’s comments

15 May 2023

Required Skills and Experience

V. Required qualifications

• Master’s degree in the field of mathematics, statistics, computer science, development affairs or related area.
• A minimum of 10 years professional experience in design and implementation of questionnaire scripting for CAPI survey rollout.
• Mastery knowledge of CAPI survey methods, CSPro or Survey Solutions and script writing for implementation of a national survey.
• Knowledge about gender data and statistics on gender equality and the empowerment of women desirable
• Experience working with the United Nations in the area of statistics and scripting.
• Experience working on countries in Asia and the Pacific desirable.
• Excellent command of English.

VI. Contract duration and duty station

The consultant will be home-based. In the event of necessary travel on mission, travel costs and Daily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) will be provided. Travel Authorization will be granted to the consultant prior to the travel date. The contract period will be for four months (March to June 2023). It is expected that the consultant will have to travel to Samoa at least once in March 2023.

VII. Evaluation

Applications will be evaluated based on the cumulative analysis.

• Technical Qualification (100 points) weight; [70%]
• Financial Proposal (100 points) weight; [30%]

A two-stage procedure is utilised in evaluating the applications, with evaluation of the technical application being completed prior to any price proposal being compared. Only the price proposal of the candidates who passed the minimum technical score of 70% of the obtainable score of 100 points in the technical qualification evaluation will be evaluated.

Technical qualification evaluation criteria:

The total number of points allocated for the technical qualification component is 100. The technical qualification of the individual is evaluated based on following technical qualification evaluation criteria:

Technical Evaluation Criteria

Obtainable Score

A) Education

• Master’s degree in the field of mathematics, statistics, computer science, development affairs or related area.

  20 %

  B) Experience and skills

• A minimum of 10 years professional experience in design and implementation of questionnaire scripting for CAPI survey rollout.

• Mastery knowledge of CAPI survey methods, CSPro or Survey Solutions and script writing for CSPro or Survey Solutions.
• Knowledge about gender data and statistics on gender equality and the empowerment of women desirable.

• Experience working with the United Nations in the area of statistics and scripting.

  60 %

  C) Language and report writing skills

• Experience working on countries in Asia and the Pacific desirable.

• Excellent command of English.

  20 %

Total Obtainable Score

100 %

Only the candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% of total points will be considered as technically qualified candidates who may be contacted for validation interview.

Financial/Price Proposal evaluation******:

• Only the financial proposal of candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation will be considered and evaluated.
• The total number of points allocated for the price component is 100.

The maximum number of points will be allotted to the lowest price proposal that is opened/ evaluated and compared among those technical qualified candidates who have attained a minimum of 70% score in the technical evaluation. All other price proposals will receive points in inverse proportion to the lowest price.

VIII. Submission of application

Interest candidates are encouraged to submit electronic application to hr.bangkok@unwomen.org with -cc to Rotcharek Limkitisupasin r.limkitisupasin@unwomen.org , no later than 3 March 2023, 23:59 Bangkok, Thailand time.

Submission package includes:

• Personal History Form(P11)
• Writing sample
• Sample of communication project
• Financial proposal: the financial proposal shall specify a lump sum total amount breaking down the daily professional fee, proposed number of working days and travel related cost (i.e. airfare from the consultant’s home location to Bangkok, visa fee). Please see the financial proposal template as below:

Items

Amount (USD)

1. Lump Sum fee (equivalent to daily fee x no. of days)

• Reviewed and thoroughly checked draft script in Survey Solutions for the model questionnaire on gender and the environment in CAPI surveys.

  • Daily monitoring reports are reviewed to guarantee their quality.

  • Corrective action is suggested where needed, through direct technical support to government partners.

  • Incomplete data sets identified for both Tonga and Samoa

  • Technical guidance is provided to national counterparts in Tonga and Samoa as required, to achieve data cleaning
  • Two quality final data files are produced; one for Tonga and one for Samoa.

  • Household weights variables are produced and integrated with the data files for each of the two countries.

  • First draft of a data cleaning checklist, including all steps countries should follow to perform the data cleaning of Gender-Environment Surveys

  • Final draft of the data cleaning checklist, including by incorporating UN Women’s comments

  2. Others (please provide details as applicable)

Total Financial Proposal

IX. Payments

Payments for this consultancy will be based on the achievement of each deliverable and certification that each has been satisfactorily completed. Payments will not be based on the number of days worked but on the completion of each stated deliverable within the indicated timeframes.

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel 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.)

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