Consultancy to Support and Strengthening Lao Education and Sports Management Information... Tender

Procurement Summary

Country : Lao PDR

Summary : Consultancy to Support and Strengthening Lao Education and Sports Management Information System

Deadline : 08 Feb 2019

Other Information

Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 30316024

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Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND
P.O. Box 1080, Km 3 Thadeua Road, Vientiane Capital Telephone: +856-21 315 200 Facsimile: +856-21 314 852
Lao PDR
Email :vientiane@unicef.org
URL :http://www.unicef.org/

Tender Details

Tenders are invited for Consultancy to Support and Strengthening Lao Education and Sports Management Information System.

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.

And we never give up.

The United Nations Children-s Fund (UNICEF) in Vientiane, Lao PDR is looking for a qualified International Individual Consultancy to support and strengthening Lao Education and Sports Management Information System (LESMIS).

The assignment should be completed within 2 months between the period of March to April 2019.

This will be an offsite (distance support) consultancy focused to improve/revise the LESMIS data collection tools (questionnaire) for the Education and Sports Statistics Centre (ESSC) of Minister of Education and Sports (MoES). The revised questionnaires will help to improve the desegregated information regarding the selected “core education indicators”.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Scope of work for this consultancy includes the following:

-Review and provide feedback for finalization the draft ECE/Pre-Primary, Primary, Secondary, TVET, Teacher Education (TE) and University questionnaires for the LESMIS. The review should ensure that the tools capture information in ways that allow for equity analyses, such as enrolment/attendance of children with disabilities, children from ethnic communities and children from poor households etc. Likewise, it should also examine how the EMIS addresses issues around out of school children (including children at risk of dropping out).

-Examine how the EMIS tools operate with various system and functions, e.g. student tracking (students- movement, transition, transfer etc) real time monitoring (attendance, academic progress etc), early warning (drop; out prevention, learning improvement etc) automated reporting with data visualization, feedback loop (e.g. school report card).

-Examine what some key requirements and issues are to consider ensuring better collection, analysis and utilization, and

-Develop user friendly guidelines for quality assurance for the revised LESMIS data collection.

Qualifications and Experiences:

The expert should have the following qualifications and experience:

-Advanced University degree (Masters) in a relevant field such as education planning, management, statistics or IT.

-At least ten years of experiences on Education Statistics and Indicators Analysis, and Education Management Information System Establishment. High competency in using Web-based Technology and Statistical Software Packages

-Relevant experience of national, sub-national, and school-level education sector issues, preferably in Lao PDR or the region.

-Experience in producing user-friendly guideline, which is relevant to local context (cultural, economic, political and social)

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF-s core values of Commitment, Diversity and Integrity and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

Please find attached full detailsof the Terms of Reference (ToR)for thisconsultancy: ToR_EMIS International Consultancy.pdf

View our competency framework at:

http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

HOW TO APPLY:

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=519619

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