Consultant IT Resource person
Description
Closing date:February 24, 2023
TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGE RESOURCE PERSON.
Background and rationale for the assignment
The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) brings together human, financial and technical resources to address some of the challenges faced by the poorest and most marginalized communities in the world. Special emphasis is placed on investing in human potential, expanding opportunity and improving the overall quality of life, especially for women and girls.
Foundations for Education and Empowerment (F4EE) is a new partnership between Government of Canada and AKF that will improve educational systems at the pre-primary and primary level, in addition to strengthening women’s empowerment and gender equality. F4EE is active in five countries: Kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania and Uganda.
AKF under the F4EE is putting in place a data and records managements systems that will support and ensure all the project data and information is storage in one place for easy accessibility and usability. To this end, F4EE needs the services of a resource persons to work with the MERL team in Uganda to design and deploy a reporting form that will be used by the team for reporting in project activities. This form will be developed in Kobo or any other software that should be integrated with the platform already developed.
2. Objective of the assignment
The aim of this assignment is to support the MERL team in East Africa to design and deploy an online and offline activity reporting system platform in Kobo. This system/platform will complement and expand the already designed system for F4EE.
3. Resource person Responsibilities:
Hold a planning meeting with the team to review the reporting templates and process against the F4EE PMF
Design and review the reporting model with the project team.
Develop configure and customize the forms.
Deploy the reporting forms for testing and iteration.
Train and support the staff on data entry.
Support the entry of reports for 2022.
4. Deliverables
Reporting forms deployed in Kobo
Reporting forms updated up to December 2022
5. Period of the assignment
Between 7th - 24th March 2023*.*
6. Number of days and planning / timeline
The resource person will have a total of 15 working days to complete the assignment.
7. Place of the assignment
Any of the project implementing areas in Kampala, Arua, or Yumbe.
8. Supervision and communication
During the assignment, resource person will work with and be supervised by AKF EA MERL Coordinator.
9. Qualities of the resource person.
The resource person should have the following qualifications, experience and skills:
Qualification in computer science
Experience in the designing and developing data management systems.
Experience using KOBO, survey CTO.
Attention to detail!
Ability to prioritize workload to meet their objectives.
Solution-oriented
Excellent listening and questioning skills.
