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Recruitment of National Consultant to review and mapping of components of Ethiopia's Data Ecosystem for Africa Data Report

Location :

Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

18-May-2016

Application Deadline :

15-May-16 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

Two Months

Languages Required :

Expected Duration of Assignment :

Two Months

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 stand to generate unprecedented both in quantity and quality of data and statistics. The "leaving no one behind" principle and increased importance of monitoring sustainable development particularly imply that the world needs more data with better quality. It is with this backdrop that the Secretary General's High Level Panel (HLP) on Post-2015 Development Agenda called for actions to "improve quality of statistics and information available to people and government" in . In , world leaders pledged to intensify efforts to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries.

Application Instruction:

Download both TOR and IC Proposal Submission Form from the following link: http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=29597

Strictly follow the instructions indicated in the IC Proposal Submission Form uploaded hereto; and
Group of Individuals and/or Firms are not eligible for this consultancy assignment (open only for individual consultant)

Documents Required:

The following proposals must be prepared as per the IC Proposal Submission Instructions. The Proposals shall be submitted before application deadline May 13, 2016 via UNDP Ethiopia Secured mail address: procurement.et@undp.org

Technical Proposal in pdf under file name: ETH-IC-2016-030 – TP - [insert your name]
Financial Proposal in pdf under file name: ETH-IC-2016-030 – FP - [insert your name]

Please note that these proposals shall be submitted to the designated secured email into two files but in one email unless both Files are Greater than 9MB file size.

Important Note:

A candidate applying only by uploading CV to this job site will not be considered. Instead, both Technical and Financial Proposals shall be submitted to UNDP Secured email: procurement.et@undp.org
Those prospect consultants who fail to submit both Technical and Financial proposals as per the standard format and to the designated secured email will not be further considered for evaluation.
Please group all your documents into single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Email subject line while submitting proposal:

While submitting your proposals to procurement.et@undp.org be sure your email subject line is ETH-IC-2016-030 in order to let our Office easily locate your respective proposals from secured email and be considered in subsequent evaluations.

Duties and Responsibilities

Working under the guidance of the Steering Committee and in close collaboration with the Lead Author for the Africa Data Report 2016, the Ethiopia country researcher will undertake an assessment of the data for development ecosystem in Ethiopia. More specifically, the country researcher will be contractually responsible for undertaking national-level activities and producing agreed deliverables. These include:

Undertaking a desk review of existing literature, research and reports from data-related initiatives, laws and regulatory frameworks, to broadly capture the data landscape of stakeholders, relationships, and processes in the country;
Conduct surveys, interviews and focus group discussions as relevant and required, in order to capture detailed and precise perspectives of stakeholders;
Liaise on an ongoing basis with the Lead Author to ensure that adherence to the overall research methodology;
Produce a baseline assessment of the national data for development ecosystem, including a detailed and exhaustive mapping of the various components of the data ecosystem in the country, identification of the systemic challenges and gaps that hamper the full realization of the data revolution for sustainable development, and recommendations for follow-up actions.

Competencies

Functional Competencies:

Demonstrates excellent writing skills, and strong communications and presentation skills;
Demonstrates substantive and technical knowledge to meet responsibilities and post requirements with excellence:
Demonstrates the ability to produce high quality results following the research handbook and providing strong desk research and web search skills;
Demonstrates an understanding of open data and experience with data communities;
Demonstrates working knowledge of the country s/he is willing to research.
Demonstrates leadership, team building and coordination skills;
Good interpersonal and teamwork skills and proven ability to work in a multi-cultural setting and teams with diversity of background and skills;
Excellent understanding of statistics and strong analytical skills;
Demonstrated organizational and planning skills, and ability to meet deadlines and to manage multiple tasks effectively and efficiently;
Provides feedback and advice; responds positively to critical feedback and differing points of view;
Understanding of the evolving 2030 Agenda implementation and data for development issues.
Demonstrate technology awareness especially ability to use virtual collaboration tools.

Compliance with UN Core Values:

Demonstrates integrity by modelling the UN’s values and ethical standards
Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
Treats all people fairly without favouritism;
Fulfils all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Masters (or equivalent degree/experience) in international development, economics, international relations, statistics or a related field is mandatory.

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of experience in socio-economic analysis and research;
Knowledge and experience of national and global policies on data and statistics for implementing and monitoring sustainable development;
Demonstrated excellent analytical, writing and editing skills;
Experience in developing complex knowledge products and flagship reports.

Language

Proficiency in one official language of the country is a requirement;
Working knowledge of English is a requirement and
A second UN language, preferably French, is desirable.