Technical Support for Finalizing Programming

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Job Description

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.
Goal and objective: Under the supervision of the Education Specialist – Data and Research / Education Section, the consultant will build on the existing partly-completed Excel profile builder to finalize a Profile Builder Template that automates production of school, community, municipality, province, and national profiles. The consultant will also develop materials and deliver training to build the capacity of UNICEF ESARO and Angola to support the MoE in Angola in effectively utilizing the Profile Builder.
Provide details/reference to AWP areas covered: This assignment contributes to the advancement of ongoing DMS technical support to countries, an activity identified under Key Intervention 5.4 in the ESARO Education 2023 workplan, which is to “support strengthening education information systems development (including EMIS and learning assessment systems) and utilization in the region (DMS, Positive Deviant component).”
Activities and Tasks:

The consultant will be responsible for the following activities
Finalise programming of primary school profile and primary community profile based on MoE clarifications and requests
Program the secondary school profile, secondary community profile, municipality, provincial, and national profiles
Complete testing of profile builder and profile outputs
Draft high-level user manual and prepare and deliver an initial training session on file use
Adjust the profile builder (Excel and VBA) for new data shapes from 2024 EMIS data collection onwards
Update and draft the full content of the user manual, documenting the programming completed, how it works, and how to update it when making future changes to the profiles
Prepare and deliver a remote training on use of the updated file to UNICEF and MoE staff to build their capacity on the advanced Excel programming utilized for the profiles
Ongoing: time to be allocated to meetings for updates, brainstorming, trouble-shooting etc
Work relationships: The Education Specialist – Research & Data will oversee the assignment and provide guidance. Some consultation with colleagues from UNICEF Angola and the Angolan MoE may also occur.

Desired competencies, technical background and experience:

Education: An advanced university degree in Social Sciences with a major focus on statistics or economics, or equivalent. A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree
Advanced expertise in Microsoft Excel and VBA programming required; previous experience developing automated monitoring tools for Data Must Speak or a related education initiative is highly preferred
A minimum of three to five years of relevant professional experience in fields relevant to education economics, data systems, research, and/or monitoring and evaluation
Familiarity and experience working with education indicators and Education Management Information Systems is highly preferred

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/570057

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