Management Information Systems Project Manager (Government Engagement) at World Food Programme (WFP)

Tasks and responsibilities

• Review and ensure quality and accuracy of all contracted work and related reports for the ongoing MISs development work meets established standards and expectations.
• Work closely with the contracted developers and the government’s MIS specialists and ensure that scope of work is exhaustively undertaken.
• Review and assess work-related priorities, offering expert guidance and recommendations to WFP colleagues, government counterparts, and external partners to ensure alignment with project goals.
• Lead the project management of all internal and government-facing MIS solutions, overseeing each phase from initiation through to successful completion, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to project goals.
• Identify and evaluate MIS-related areas of potential interest and opportunities for collaboration between WFP and the Government of Kenya, aligning with broader organizational objectives.
• Ensure appropriate training and documentation of lessons learned are provided to client departments as part of the handover and sustainability strategy.
• Co-lead in the scoping process and drafting of terms of reference for emerging assignments.
• Provide essential leadership for strategic roles such as the assessment of systems’ capacity to utilize sharable services across platforms.
• Works with county and national government officials as well as the contracted company in the decentralization of software systems that WFP is involved in.
• Gender and Disability data disaggregation: work together with Government and UN partners to assess the extent to which social protection delivery systems generate disaggregated data and indicators by sex, age, and disability.
• UNLIA: Contribute to the evolving role of the UN family in Kenya for the UNLIA and actively contribute strategic ideas to support the linkage between social protection databases with national systems such as the proposed Huduma number database.
• Value for Money Analysis (VFM) analysis of MIS: work closely with the value for money analysis team contracted to assess the value of data in CCTP MIS.
• Technically manage relationships and technical aspects for contracted developers’ entities e.g., Development Pathways, the consulting institution that is developing the Government Social Protection MISs on behalf of WFP.
• Perform any other tasks as advised by the supervisor.

Accountability

The consultant will report and receive technical guidance from the head of Business Transformation Unit (BTU) and further receive programmatic guidance from Social Protection team lead. He/she will be expected to work closely with other colleagues in the SO3 and BTU teams.

Qualifications and experience

• Education: A minimum of a degree in any of the following courses: Management Information Systems; Compute and Information Systems; Information Security Design and Development; Applied Informatics and Programming; Business Administration Systems; Applied Computer Science; and Information Technology Management or equivalent.
• Experience and other required attributes: At least 8 years of progressively professional experience in a related field, including systems analysis, scoping, design and testing of MISs, Software Project management. In addition, the consultant will have considerable business process modelling and contract management skills. Finally, the consultant will be an excellent writer who communicates effectively, ability to negotiate, and be visionary.