Consultancy: To Support the Education Management and Information System in Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

UNICEF Cambodia seeks to hire a consultant to support the education management and information system in Cambodia. If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.

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, education.

UNICEF began providing assistance to Cambodia in 1952 and has been working since then to improve the wellbeing of Cambodian children. UNICEF established its first country office in 1973 in the capital of Phnom Penh. More information on what we do in Cambodia is available at https://www.unicef.org/cambodia/.

How can you make a difference?

The overall objective of the consultancy is to develop the capacity of the Department of EMIS under the Directorate General for Planning and Policy within the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS), at national and sub-national levels for the management, use and development of EMIS.

The consultancy will support the Department of EMIS under the DGPP, to develop a system to collect data regarding children’s enrolment and learning outcomes in education institutions under relevant line ministries. The consultancy will also support the implementation of medium-term operational plan for the development of EMIS, including hard and software needs. The consultancy will also support the expansion of the newly integrated web-based system to include school-level indicators as well as other cross-cutting education indicators. The consultant will also work closely with national, regional and international technical partners to integrate the Education 2030 roadmap and relevant SDG4 indicators into the EMIS system.  It will also provide technical support departments to analyse trends in EMIS data to diagnose sector performance. Support will also be provided to improve the EMIS master plan for 2017-2021. It will provide training support so that EMIS staff can develop the capacity of MoEYS officials at sub national levels. The consultancy will also provide support on the development of School Report Cards and QEMIS system.

To achieve the objectives of the consultancy, under the Deputy Director for EMIS and close collaboration with UNICEF Education Specialist, the Consultant will undertake the following tasks

1. Planning and Analysis related to EMIS:

• Support the localization of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators relating to EMIS through one collaborative workshop with UNESCO, MoEYS and the Ministry of TVET resulting finalization of a report on Data Quality Assessment and a Plan for Reporting against national and SDG Indicators. This activity will build on the work undertaken by MoEYS in 2017 on work with SDG Indicators and Means of Verification
• Support dialogue and further revision of an Information strategic plan 2018-2022 for MoEYS to help harmonise, integrate and decentralize the disparate data collection systems. This activity will build on the work undertaken in 2017 on mapping of departmental EMIS data collection
• Review Policy briefs using EMIS and QEMIS data and other data sources: Review EMIS to identify the key statistics (KPI’s) that are needed by senior managers and policy makers in MoEYS to ensure that appropriate information is available for management decisions, policies and planning for all sub-sectors

2. Development of EMIS and QEMIS systems:

• Provide assistance to pilot the revised school report cards for use in the school planning process - This will also include revisions to the data capture tools and development of a guide for use of the school report cards in school development planning. This activity will build on the work undertaken in 2017 on the revision to the school report card design
• Recommendations based on the review of the reporting requirements from EMIS for districts and provinces and detail the reporting requirements for implementation in EMIS. Based on the review of MoEYS information systems undertaken in 2017, the adviser will make recommendations for the standardization of data capture and reporting for all concerned sub-sector line departments including Monitoring and Evaluation, ECD, Primary, and Secondary departments
• Develop data and software standards for MoEYS. The data standards should specify coding standards for all entities such as schools, students, teachers as well as entity standards including formats for capture of student, teacher and institution (school) data.
• Further revise EMIS and other data capture forms and make recommendations for changes based on best international practice, information requirements of District and Province. This should include recommendations for revision of sub-sector data capture forms for the Departments of ECD, Primary, Secondary and Monitoring.
• Continue to assist the Ministry to work with the Line Ministries such as Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, Ministry of Cult and Religion, and Ministry of Culture and Fine Art to share education data, in particularly concerning TVET and TVET training institutions. Continue to support to the development of data standards and a shared agreement between MoEYS and line ministries shall be provided by the Consultant, to promote improved coordination and data sharing on education
• Assist the child protection section of UNICEF Cambodia in their efforts to support the Ministry of Social Affairs to establish the child protection information management system for Cambodia, including based on “learning from EMIS” of MoEYS. This will include providing technical backstop to Cambodia child protection section and partners, conducting a rapid assessment of the key actors engaged in collecting child protection information in Cambodia and their capacity assessment and an international literature review of CPIMS. This assessment is expected to guide a future in-depth assessment that will be undertaken by a Cambodia-based consultant.  

To qualify as a/an [champion or advocate] for every child you will have…

• An advanced University degree (Masters) in a relevant field such as education planning, management, statistics or IT
• At least ten to fifteen years of experiences on Education Statistics and Indicators Analysis and International Education Management Information System Establishment.
• High competency in using Visual dBase, my-SQL Server, Web-based Technology and Statistical Software Packages
• Relevant experience of national, sub-national, and school-level education sector issues, preferably in Cambodia or the region.
• Experience of sectorial planning and reporting arrangements, including working in professional teams and use of results frameworks, logical frameworks and work planning arrangements.
• Excellent interpersonal, mentoring, facilitation and communication skills.
• Able to work to meet deadlines.
• Fluency in English language is required. Knowledge of Khmer is an asset.
• Computer literacy and presentation skills.

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.

View our competency framework at

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

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:

Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate (in USD) 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.

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

 ToR _Consultant to Support EMIS_Final.pdf