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Job Title:   WASH Information Systems Consultant, Kampala, CSD, 12 Months

Organisation: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

 

About US:

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is mandated by the UN general assembly to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere.

 

Job Summary:   The consultant will provide technical assistance to MoH, MoWE and MoES to ensure timely operationalization of the WASH-MIS. Particularly, the consultant will complete the development of the system, support its integration and interface with other systems and applications, carry out regular refresher trainings for system administrators and managers and provide support during the initial training of district local government as part of the operationalization of the WASH-MIS.

 

Objective of the assignment: The strategic objective of this consultant is to provide technical assistance in the operationalization of monitoring framework for SDG indicators related to SDG 6.

 

Under the supervision of the Senior Environmental Officer (MoH) and working closely with the Senior Education Officer MoES and Assistant Commissioner MoWE with the oversight of the WASH Officer, UNICEF, the consultant will provide day to day support/guidance to MoH, MoWE and MoES in the operationalisation of the monitoring framework for SDG indicators related to SDG 6. The detailed scope of work and deliverables are provided below:

 

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Prototype Review:

• Review prototype to assess performance, data visualization, and identify gaps/opportunities for action/intervention.

MIS Hosting:

• Liaise with the Ministry of Health and NITA-U to provision infrastructure necessary for scale-up of WASH-MIS to National Level.

System changes:

• Implement approved minor configuration changes and Change Requests that fall within a level of effort of 72hrs.
• Develop customized reporting module for MIS to generate

System Integration:

• Integrate the WASH MIS with the Electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS) and the Education MIS (DEMIS).

Support and Maintenance:

• Carry out Software, System updates and incident resolution as and when required.
• Maintain the MIS in optimum operational condition.

Helpdesk Support:

• Provide timely and reliable support to the users and assess the system, including identifying and addressing bottlenecks and teething problems in the use of the system and providing recommendations for its better functioning.

WASH MIS Scale-up:

• Provide technical and user support at various levels (national and select district) for the uptake of the WASH MIS

Capacity Building:

• Carry out regular refresher trainings and on the job mentoring for system administrators and managers

Sustainability of the WASH MIS:

• Train and Build capacity of the Ministry technical and IT Teams to maintain and administer the MIS infrastructure in working condition.

Documentation and Reporting:

• Update system administration documents and user guides and publish them on a selected location provided by the supervisor.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant for the UNICEF WASH Information Systems Consultant job must hold a university degree in Information Technology or related field, preferably related to computer programming.
• Five years of experience in developing web-based Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems, especially for water supply, sanitation and/or hygiene behavior change programming
• GIS skills
• Linux skills
• Software skills – Java, Postgre SQL, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Tomcat, GlassFish
• Familiarity or prior work experience for Government of Uganda, UN, or international development organizations.
• M&E expertise
• Language: English
• UNICEF’s Values: Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

 

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

 

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested applicants who wish to join United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) should apply online at the link below

 

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Deadline: 24^th January 2024

 

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