Closing date: Sunday, 25 January 2015

UNFPA BIH NATIONAL CONSULTANT TO TRANSFORM THE COMPENDIUM OF ACTORS, AVAILABLE SERVICES, AND APPLIED STANDARDS AND PRACTICE IN THE AREA OF CONFLICT RELATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE INTO AN INTERACTIVE DATABASE/WEBPAGE

Location : Sarajevo, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Application Deadline : 25-Jan-15

Type of Contract : Individual Contract

Post Level : National Consultant

Languages Required : Expected Duration of Assignment : 20.5 working days over the course of 2 months

Background

UNFPA is looking to contribute to Joint UN multi-sectorial response to CRSV and support CRSV survivors by developing a compilation of relevant, aggregated data into a compendium of actors, available services, and applied standards and practice in the area of Conflict Related Sexual Violence in BiH.

Compendium represents one of the key elements in researching available services, standards, practice and actors providing support to CRSV survivors and setting up system wide baselines for CRSV evidence based policy making and service delivery. Compendium will be presented as a final product in the form of an interactive database that can be subsequently used by a wider public and expanded on per-need basis.

The project envisions hiring two consultants in this process: one consultant to develop a compilation of relevant, aggregated data into a compendium of actors, available services, and applied standards and practice in the area of Conflict Related Sexual Violence and one consultant to design software solution for interactive compendium.

The contract terms will include the following:

• The contractor must observe UN Minimum Operational Security Standards (MOSS) as communicated by the United Nations for the location(s) visited;
• Be willing to travel around Bosnia and Herzegovina;
• All rights acquired by UNFPA for all the documents produced;
• Where the contractor fails to deliver the required quality of products, the rate payable will be reduced. UNFPA reserves the right to assess the quality of products. Contractor has obligation to finalise products/documents to the full UNFPA satisfaction;
• Payment for contractor will not exceed average UNFPA rates for national consultants.

General UNFPA information

www.unfpa.org - Global website

www.unfpa.ba - BiH website

Applications to be submitted to bosnia-herzegovina.office@unfpa.org.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the UNFPA SGBV Project Officer the consultant will be responsible for transforming the compendium of actors, available services, and applied standards and practice in the area of Conflict Related Sexual Violence into an interactive data base and development of a web page.

1. Development of interactive compendium

Visualize the compendium - based on the product received from UNFPA the consultant will transform the product/compendium into an interactive database and develop a web page. Information presented will be user-friendly, clean and easy to read. Namely, all the information that will be accessible through the visualized database/webpage will offer disaggregation through a number of factors, such as geographical location, types of services provided, contact details, area of responsibility/coverage etc. Additionally, visualization will offer to user the ability to search for a particular reference point, service provider or type of information collected.

• Initial meeting with UNFPA team (Working language English for meetings with UN agencies, BHS for deliverables - January 30th)
• Meeting on presentation of methodology with the survey consultant and UNFPA (February 9th) 1 day in total: 0.5 working days for each meeting (January 30th and February 9th respectively)
• Development of a mock-up database to showcase the concept; coordination with the survey consultant to ensure compatibility of the database with datapoints to be collected (Working language BHS 4 working days)
• Transformation of the product/compendium into fully interactive data base (Working language BHS 6 days from February 25th to March 10th)
• Developing the website based on the data base (Working language BHS 8 days until March 10th)
• Presentation of the database/website and approval by UNFPA (0.5 days until March 11th)
• Final de-briefing with UNFPA staff followed by a presentation to UN CRSV Joint Project (0.5 days on February 24th; 0.5 days on March 12th)

Competencies

Competencies:

• Builds strong relationships;
• Focuses on impact and results and responds positively to feedback;
• Approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude.

Values:

• Demonstrates integrity and fairness by modelling UN values and ethical standards;
• Demonstrates professional competence and is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results;
• Displays cultural, gender, nationality, religion and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• University degree in information technology, computer science or other relevant field;
• Any Microsoft certifications in Access and/or SQL Server would be preferred;

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in ICT and software development;
• Proven record of theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the area of database-system application design and development, database management and data analysis;
• Experience in programming Microsoft Access database, SQL and VBA;
• Experience in developing products for data visualization and data aggregation;
• Electronic communications expertise and experience;
• Extensive content management expertise and experience;
• Knowledge of relevant applications and hardware solutions

Language requirements:

• Fluency in official languages in BiH; knowledge of English is desired but not required.

Applications to be submitted to bosnia-herzegovina.office<στο>unfpa.org