Empleos en el PNUD - 61064- Consultant to Develop and Implemente a Capacity Pr

Consultant to Develop and Implemente a Capacity Programme for the National Council for Women’s Citizen Reporting platform

Localidad :

Cairo, Egipto

Tipo de contrato :

Individual Contract

Fecha de comienzo del contrato :

Fecha límite de postulación :

10-Nov-15 (Medianoche Nueva York, Estados Unidos)

Nivel de puesto :

International Consultant

Duración del contrato inicial :

1 month

Idiomas requeridos :

Inglés

Duración esperada del puesto :

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Antecedentes

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) intends to support National Council for Women (NCW) in its efforts to build, deploy and operate a crowd-sourced citizen reporting platform to increase citizen engagement and participation and to improve the reporting of incidents related to violence against women (VAW). The UNDP aims to achieve this goal by building the internal capacity of the NCW’s technical staff to design, develop, implement, operate and support the citizen reporting platform. For this purpose, the UNDP intends to engage the services of a qualified consultant firm to develop and implement the capacity building programme.

Objectives

The objectives of this project are:

Build the capacity of technical staff at NCW to design, develop and operate a reporting platform to enable citizens to report VAW incidents using mobile technologies and the social web;
Coach and support the team at NCW to deploy and test the developed reporting platform;
Design the necessary technical architecture, interfaces and blueprints for building a mobile app that integrates with the reporting platform.

Deberes y responsabilidades

Scope of Work

To fulfill these objectives, UNDP is seeking to engage a technology development consultant to conduct a capacity building programme for the technical staff at NCW. The services to be rendered by the contracted consultant shall include, but not necessarily be limited to the following:

Design and develop the programme training materials;
Conduct a pre-training assessment of participants to tailor the programme delivery and maximize learning;
Deliver the training in person in Cairo using a mix of instructional, facilitation, hands-on and labs sessions to ensure participants have developed all the required skills to design, build and operate the platform. The platform will be based on the open source reporting software Ushahidi, which is considered to be the most successful reporting platform;
During the training workshop, design the reporting platform, and create a functional prototype bases on the design;
Ensure that all localisation requirements (Arabic interfaces, local maps, date formats, etc.) are considered in the design and implementation of the platform;
Train the team on the maintenance, operations and support of the reporting platform.

Platform Features

The reporting platform must:

Be web-based and conforms to major web standards;
Enable citizens to submit issue reports through the web, social media or mobile phones (through SMS/smart phone apps);
Support images and video attachments to issue reports;
Include a custom map that cover Cairo Municipality;
Support customizable categories for submitted issues;
Display reported issues on the map with color coding to indicate the category of each issue;
Provide an overlay panel to enable users to filter displayed issues based on category;
Include alerts functionality to alert relevant authorities/individuals when an issue is submitted;
Provide management reports to track activity on the platform;
Have an intuitive, easy to navigate and user-friendly interface;
Be fully Arabised, with all interface strings, messages and documentation available in Arabic.

Output/Deliverables

Workshop training materials and participant pack;
Capacity building programme plan;
All workshop hand-on labs and exercises;
Prototype of the reporting platform to be developed collectively with participants during the workshop;
Final report evaluating the capacity building programme and its achieved objectives.

Delivery Timeframe

The following is a tentative schedule of the capacity building workshop that will be conducted in Cairo from 24th to 26th November 2015. Preparation and material design and development are expected to take place throughout the period of 3 days and must be completed before November 24th, and the final project report must be submitted by December 15th. The consultant is expected to provide 2 additional days in the future for programme maintenance-related purposes.

Competencias

Corporate Competencies:

Demonstrates integrity by modeling 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 favoritism;
Fulfills all obligations to gender sensitivity and zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

Functional Competencies:

Conceptual thinking and analytical skills;
Excellent communication, technical, presentation and writing skills;
Computer literacy.

Habilidades y experiencia requeridas

Education:

An advanced degree in a field related to sustainable development, gender equality and women empowerment, ICT for development.

Experience:

At least 10 years of work experience in te a field related to sustainable development, gender equality and women empowerment, ICT for development.

Language:

Excellent English communication skills;
Working knowledge in the Arabic language is an asset.

Applications to be uploaded must include:

CV;
Technical Proposal;
Financial Proposal.

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