Humanitarian Database Development National Consultant at United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Job Purpose 

• To develop a comprehensive and secure online humanitarian database, with a corresponding dashboard that is interoperable with other existing databases and is readily available to organizations involved in disaster management at both levels of government and partners in Kenya.
• The consultants will work closely with the UNFPA and NCPD technical team  under the direct supervision of Population Data Specialist UNFPA.

Scope of Work

The consultant is expected to:

• Design a central database with a data functionality system that ensures seamless integration of new database to the existing data.
• Work with humanitarian and government data contributors and data consumers to identify areas of opportunities for data integration. 
• Familiarize with existing databases and systems; Check that data and metadata produced and provided by different agencies meet accuracy, consistency, and comparability requirements.
• The consultant/firm shall make timely presentations of the database to the technical working group during the development process so that the final product is acceptable to technical working group
• The consultant shall install the database and provide training with demonstration on the functionality of the database to the technical working group for final approval.
• Consultancy duration : The consultant will work  for 20 days

Consultancy expected deliverables:

• Inception report.
• Draft database
• Final database 
• An interactive user-friendly online database The database should have the following capabilities:
• A secure humanitarian database system with access level controls
• Reporting and  analysis modules with manipulation and retrieval capabilities
• User friendly navigation 
• Data integration with other databases / Interoperable database
• A manual  for the operationalization of the online database in humanitarian setting (hardcopy and digital formats)
• Train administrators on database utilization and management.

 Academic Qualifications  and experience 

• Masters in either Computer Science or Information Technology or GIS or Software Engineering from a recognized institution. 
• At least 10 years’ experience in undertaking a similar assignment in database development or web applications
• Experience in working with population data systems.
• Experience in database management platforms and programming languages including Hadoop and MapReduce (or other similar systems), HTML and Java among others.
• Experience working with a multidisciplinary team of experts.