Career Opportunities at Save the Children

Purpose and Objectives of the Consultancy

• Establish an IT tool that will enable for computation and continued analysis of government resource allocations to child focused sectors.

• The IT tool should further provide a platform for analysis of resource flows for child focused sectors and comparisons between regions, sub-national levels, countries, sectors and sub-sectors

Scope of the Consultancy

• The IT tool should allow for easy computation, analysis and comparison between the different countries so that investments in child focused sectors can be compared between countries.

Tasks

The tool should be designed to capture the following outputs;

• Overview of the national budget over the computed years.

• Revenue and expenditure as a % of GDP

• Comparison between recurrent and capital budget and actual expenditure across sectors.

• Social sectors and child focused sectors as a percentage of total expenditure

• Social sectors and child focused sectors as a percentage of GDP

• Compare resources allocated at sub-sector level

• Identify the sectors being prioritized by government

• Comparing resources available at national and sub-national levels respectively

• Compare resources available, need and social sector performance at sub-national level

• Collection of gender and age disaggregated data where such data is available

• Computation of service delivery demands and outturns

Key Deliverables

• The IT tool should enable continued analysis and comparison of child focused sectors.

• The database should be built in MS Excel as a common and generally well known IT system

• The IT tool should be tested and validated by SCI

Duration of the Consultancy

Save the Children envisages the consultancy will take 8 working days from the time the contract is signed. The consultant should develop a feasible work plan covering the maximum 10 days and submit as an integral part of the proposal for this consultancy. The successful bidder must commit to accomplish and deliver the consultancy services and deliverables before or on 21^st of June 2017

Activity

Timeline (day)

Responsible Person

Submission of Inception Report

1

Consultant

Inception Meeting

1

Save the Children (3) & Consultant (1)

Document Review/Desktop Research

2

Consultant (1)

Development of IT Tool

2

Consultant (1)

Review Meeting

1

Save the Children (3) & Consultant (1)

Finalization and Submission of IT Tool after Review Meeting

1

Consultant (1)

Total Person Days

8 days

Expected Profile of the Consultant

For this consultancy, Save the Children is expecting to contract 1 lead consultant dedicated to

achieving the key deliverables.

The consultant should have the following:

• MSc/MA in information technology or Computer Science preferred

• Good understanding of the politico-economic and cultural contexts of countries within East and Southern Africa is desirable

• Proven experience in developing end user friendly IT tools

• Demonstrated experience in carrying out research projects

• Good interpersonal skills and understanding of different perspectives

• Strong analytical and report writing skills

• Demonstrable capacity to deliver high quality outputs within a proposed timeframe.

• Experience in economic justice or budget advocacy work an added advantage

Submitting expressions of interest (maximum 5 pages)

Interested individuals must submit a technical and financial proposal of a maximum of five (5) pages

including:

• A cover letter introducing the consultant and how the skills and competencies above are

met, with concrete examples as appropriate.

• An expression of interest including proposed methodology, time schedule and work plan for carrying out the consultancy.

• A CV detailing relevant skills and experience, including 3 contactable referees

• Reasonable budget breakdown and cost consideration