[newdevjobsindo] Save the Children Indonesia Vacancy : Individual Consultant for Waliku MEAL & Data Science - Learning Never Stops

Maret 17, 2021   Comment  

 

SCOPE OF WORK

Waliku MEAL & Data Science Consultant LEARNING NEVER STOPS
Background Waliku is an innovation project of Save the Children implemented on a pilot scale in Sumba Barat, Indonesia since 2018. Waliku addresses challenges of school-communities in low resource contexts to recognize and act on critical student absences, illnesses and concerns in a timely manner. It digitizes and simplifies daily tasks of schools – to manage the school population, communicate with parents/guardians, link with referral services, and report to school districts. Waliku’s vision is to ensure every child meets their right to education and well-being. After two years of pilot, Waliku is transitioning its operating model from a donor-funded project to a Save the Children social venture. It will address the needs of its customers - governments and development partners – with products and services that facilitate children’s access to education, as well as health and welfare services. COVID-19-related school closures have caused significant disruption to the education of all children, particularly those marginalized. As schools reopen, it is crucial to ensure that all children return without delay. Schools need tools like Waliku to know they have been effective in bringing students back and respond to those who have not returned. In order to be accessible to many schools, Waliku is diversifying its solution and scaling, initially in Kabupaten Sumba Barat and Bandung, followed by other locations in Eastern Indonesia and West Java. Through this paradigm shift in Waliku’s operating model, and scaling our solution in Sumba Barat and introducing it in Bandung, Save the Children Indonesia seeks a Waliku Monitoring, Evaluation, Accounting and Learning (MEAL) Data Analyst for managing Waliku data for both districts. S/he will help the Waliku Coordinator with developing tools for school mapping exercises, formative assessments, and data collection, as well as support MEAL plan development, Waliku Dashboard and tools development for district and community stakeholders. S/he will adhere to child safeguarding and data privacy policies of Waliku, Save the Children and Government of Indonesia. A MEAL Data Analyst will support the Waliku Global Team’s efforts with making Waliku a more customizable solution and in digitally linking schools with other service providers in the community. The role of this person will be to contribute to the upgrades in the database, maintain a district education dashboard, and develop tools and dashboards that allow links between schools, clinics and child welfare providers. Additionally, this person will develop a dashboard for visualizing absence information for schools that use a simpler solution called Waliku Remote.
Time line, Detailed  Activity and  Deliverables	Timeline
1. Work with the Waliku Global team to support with re-organizing database structure for Indonesia	March- April 2021
2. Finalize and maintain District Education Office (DEO) Dashboard, using Power BI using user-led consultative process, with the Waliku Field Team (Waliku Coordinator, Officers, Assistant) and the District Education Offices in Sumba Barat and Bandung.	Finalize: March 2020, Maintain: April 2020 onwards
3. Work with the Waliku Global and the Waliku Field Team as well as ultimate users in local government and schools, following a user centered design process to prototype the digital tools, dashboard and data tables for sharing data between schools and health, child welfare service, COVID- taskforce and vice versa.	March-June 2020
4. Routinely analyze the Waliku database for team’s necessity to fill any data gaps, cleaning, inconsistency and for accuracy checks.	March 2020 onwards
5. Support the Waliku Global and Waliku Field Team with preparing any local data connections, calculation and analysis and dashboard for Waliku Remote, as needed.	May- June 2020
6. Adhoc testing of the Waliku apps (web and mobile) to understand impact on the database, data accuracy (point 4 above)  and to understand the needs for dashboards and schools.	March onwards
7. Actively participate in Waliku Field Team meetings with both Bandung and Waikabubak every week, and with the Global team as well to support the Waliku Coordinator.	March onwards
8. Support the Waliku Coordinator with managing the Waliku Logframe and in the monitoring and evaluation plan for national as well as project purposes in Sumba Barat and Bandung	March onwards
9. Produce any reports or infographics for fundraising or donor reporting or project monitoring purposes for field team and global team purposes OR for local government.	March onwards
Consultancy period April- December 2021   Criteria for Consultant Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related subject Have minimum 5 years of monitoring, evaluation and data science experience in a development project/ research project Experience with developing and implementing logframes and MEAL plans Mastered and Advanced user of MS Excel, and Power BI, with DAX, and R knowledge and skills. Knowledge and experience in other data visualization software is a bonus (Tableau, highcharts etc) Interest and experience in using various digital prototyping tools (eg. Lucid chart, Glide) Experience in designing assessment tools (surveys) and analysis data using Excel, Microsoft Forms, KoBo Toolbox etc Excellent spoken and written communication in English Experience working in teams to writing analytical report for donors, project stakeholders and other stakeholders and beneficiaries for decision making purposes. Familiar and interested in latest technology, and cloud based data management on Azure/ AWS/Google Cloud or other.   Behavioral Competencies: Good team facilitator and member, with a positive attitude and outlook. Possess self-discipline, integrity and accountability. Highly organized and analytical, with an attention to detail. Problem-solving mindset, highly curious and solution-based approach to work Always striving for high quality of work, effectiveness and work efficiency in self and team. Dependable and reliable with time-management and contactable during work hours Adaptable and openness to change expected of an innovation venture Excellent communicator, who can easily explain difficult data/ MEAL concepts to various audiences. Occasional travel during COVID 19 and similar circumstances to project site in Waikabubak for long stay (weeks) Embrace working with a multi-cultural team, both Indonesian and International with an unbiased approach to people’s nationality, cultural background, gender, or abilities.
11. TERMS AND CONDITION SOLICITATION   Notice of Non-Binding Solicitation Save the Children reserves the right to reject all bids received in response to this solicitation and is in no way bound to accept any proposal. Additionally, we reserve the right to negotiate the substance of the finalists’ proposals, as well as the option of accepting partial components of a proposal if appropriate. Quantities provided are estimates only at this time and will be subject to change. Confidentiality All information provided as part of this solicitation is considered confidential. If any information is inappropriately released, Save the Children will seek appropriate remedies as allowed. Proposals, discussions, and all information received in response to this solicitation will be held as strictly confidential, except where noted otherwise. Notification Prior to the expiration of the validity of the proposal, Save the Children shall notify in writing the successful company that submitted the highest-scoring proposal and will invite them for contract negotiations. Save the Children reserves the right to invite the second ranking company for parallel negotiations. Right to Final Negotiations Save The Children reserves the option to negotiate final costs and final scope of work, as well as reserves the option to limit or include third parties at Save the Children’s sole and full discretion in such negotiations.  Upon failure to reach agreement on the contents of the contract as stipulated in this document, Save the Children has the right to terminate the negotiations and invite the next best-rated company for negotiations. Communication All communication regarding this solicitation shall be directed to appropriate parties at Save the Children. Contacting third parties involved in the project, the review panel, or any other party may be considered a conflict of interest and could result in proposal disqualification. Acceptance Award of a proposal does not imply acceptance of its terms and conditions. Save the Children reserves the option to negotiate on the final terms and conditions

 

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