Monitoring tools developer, Beirut, Lebanon (11 months' consultancy)

Beirut

Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund
Location: Beirut
Grade: Consultancy - International Consultant - Internationally recruited Contractors Agreement
Occupational Groups:
- Information Technology and Computer Science
- Monitoring and Evaluation
Closing Date: Closed

UNICEF Lebanon Country Office is seeking to recruit a consultant to provide technical support for country offices in the maintenance and development of the next phase of the Engagement Monitoring System. The development will include expansion to new countries, operationalize the entrepreneurship engagement component and develop any new reports as identified by partners.

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 Champion...

The MENA Regional Office in collaboration with LCO Innovation/SPPME is supporting MENA country offices in monitoring Adolescent and Youth led Social, Civic and Economic Engagement through the development of a systematic data collection and analysis system, called the Engagement Monitoring System (EMS). The purpose of this routine monitoring system is to support country offices in obtaining data that will inform programmes progress, strengths and bottlenecks. In this regard, EMS data collection tools have been designed, tested, revised and operationalized in Jordan, Palestine and Syria Country offices in collaboration with their implementing partners.

MENARO has been the technical lead for the EMS and MENA country liaison in the operationalization of EMS and the LCO Innovation team has supported the development and maintenance of the online EMS.

The EMS involves low-cost innovative technology which aims at replacing paper based data collection at the partner and UNICEF COs levels with a secure online database. This system integrates KoBo as a user-friendly data entry tool and Power BI as an analytical tool in a web based platform.

The current state at country level is that the data entry component has been operationalized with Jordan, Syria and Palestine. This also includes the feature for exporting and assessing the data entry, however the connection between the data entry and the data analysis systems has yet to established.

The objective of the consultancy is to provide technical support for country offices in the maintenance and development of the next phase of the Engagement Monitoring System. The development will include expansion to new countries, operationalize the entrepreneurship engagement component and develop any new reports as identified by partners.

The consultant will work in close collaboration with:

UNICEF ADAP RO team
UNICEF Country Offices (Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Libya, and other MENA country offices which will roll out EMS)
UNICEF Partners

How can you make a difference?

You will assist the Innovations team LCO in maintaining and ensuring smooth operation of the current EMS (this includes addressing country requests and solving technical bugs in the currently deployed EMS) and support the development of the next phase of the EMS (includes linking the data analytical and data entry tools, operationalizing the entrepreneurship and the next tier of tools, expanding to additional countries..)

Activities	Expected Outcomes	Timeline
*Maintaining and ensuring smooth operation of the current EMS* - Implement feedback and changes from RO and MENA COs into the EMS - Support in COs and partner capacity building trainings - Address technical bugs that impact the system functioning - Ensure data entry review - Test new features in controlled, real situations before deploying them online - Participate in monthly/regular meeting with EMS focal points - Support in creating profiles for new COs who want to join the EMS *Hosting and Quality Assurance* - Ensure compliance with UNICEF guidelines and processes - Ensure database hosting, data protection etc in compliance with UNICEF guidelines and norms - Capacity Development of country and NGO focal persons to support transition to Country teams	Smooth operationalization of the existing EMS EMS Hosted and Data Protected as per UNICEF guidance	Ongoing (and will be included in every months deliverables)
*Development of the next phase of the EMS* - Develop, test and deploy the revised civic engagement initiative feature - Implement feedback and changes from RO and MENA COs into the initiative feature - Initiate the development of partner level and country level dashboards based on CO and partner needs: dashboards on the partner, CO and RO level - Have a basic dashboard available for summarizing and analysing data at country level (Jordan, Syria and Palestine) and Regional Level	Full deployment of initiative feature Plan and initiate the development of the dashboards	First month
- Continue the upgrading of partner level and country level dashboards based on CO and partner needs: dashboards on the partner, CO and RO level - Finalize the development of partner level and country level dashboards based on CO and partner needs: dashboards on the partner, CO and RO level		Second month
- Develop, test and deploy the Entrepreneurship tools included in the EMS framework	Finalization of dashboards	Third month
- Develop, test and deploy the observation, FGDs and other triangulation tools included in the EMS framework - Edit dashboards on the partner, CO and RO level based of feedback		Fourth month
- Develop, test and deploy new features based on CO and partner needs - Develop, test and deploy the entrepreneurship feature - Implement feedback and changes from RO and MENA COs into the entrepreneurship feature		Fifth month
- Integrate KOBO form values labelling in the export		Sixth month
- Integrate Registration assessment into the platform		Seventh month
- Exploring the multi-language structure		Eighth month
- Support addition of additional tools based on CO feedback and lessons learned - Implement feedback and changes from RO and MENA COs - Support in COs and partner capacity building trainings - Support COs in migrating the data from EMS to COs systems	Smooth development and operationalization of the next phase EMS	Ninth month
- Support in the transition of ownership of the EMS to COs		Tenth month
- Support in the transition of ownership of the EMS to COs	COs are able to manage the EMS	Eleventh month

To qualify as a Champion, you will have…

A minimum of a degree-level qualification (BSc in Computer Science or related field such as Information Technology, Information Systems or other engineering discipline).
At least 5 years’ experience with demonstrated results
Excellent software development skills with Python, Django, GitHub and similar technologies.
Excellent understanding of web application development.
Strong knowledge of Business Intelligence tools and analysis databases (OLAP).
Background experience with the UN is desirable.
Fluency in English and Arabic

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

Remarks:

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

Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

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