Panama: _Blank Vacancy Announcement Template (Consultancy)

Organization: UN Children's Fund
Country: Panama
Closing date: 23 Feb 2017

If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you.

For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.

Background

The income from Private Sector Fundraising in LACRO is growing fast. Total gross income in the region is projected to reach almost US$ 114 million in 2017. It becomes important to have a Regional Dashboard to monitoring the evolution and trend for each channel and fundraising technique. This Regional Fundraising Dashboard will help to generate alerts and take decisions in real time, it will facilitate global/regional reporting requirements.

Purpose of the Assignment

The Incumbent is expected to work independently on designing and performing a system/tool for importing reports from COs, consolidate the information from fundraising channels which gives

Increased access and transparency of information

Allows instant information sharing

Provides business insights

Automates investment fund reporting and provides information in real time.

Assignment Tasks

Under the guidance of the Regional Individuals Fundraising Manager, the consultant will perform the following duties:

Complete the Regional Fundraising Dashboard to monitor Individuals KPI’s in LAC.

Complete the connection the offline databases of local nodes in a data cube and comprehensive online access of all 9 PFP countries. • Align the dashboard KPI’s to global KPI definitions

Continue to evolve the development of the database so that it includes KPI’s relevant for global/regional reporting requirements

Automate information needed for investment fund 6,12 and 36 month FDP reports • Ensure access to dynamic data tables for data mining. Exportable to popular formats (xls, csv, etc.) • Conduct training all relevant people in the use of the database • Use of open source technologies and / or productivity tools MS Office type • Information should be accessible to local network nodes (internal benchmarking) • User management and flexible, intuitive and simple permissions

The system has to provide security standards such as security certify of 128 – bit ALS

Expected Deliverables

A completed regional dashboard capturing real time donor information for regional office and country office use by March 20th.

Alignment of the Dashboard KPI’s in line with global definitions, add additional KPI’s to assist CO reporting by June 20th.

Create additional dashboard views within the regional dashboard which will provide FDP information for 6,12,36 months in real time.

Qualifications of Successful Candidate

Five years of relevant work experience in System Architecture with focus to Sales, Marketing or Fundraising, organizations.

Results oriented

Team player

Project-management Skills

Reporting Responsibilities/supervision

The Incumbent is expected to work under the supervision of the Regional Individuals Fundraising Manager.

CONSULTANTS WORK PLACE

The hired consultant will work primary in home or office base. If travel is required, travel costs will be covered by UNICEF as per travel guidance.

HONORARIA & FEES:

Applicants are requested to submit an economic proposal for the consultancy. If applying outside of Panama, kindly include in the proposal, travel expenses from recruitment place to Panama and return.

Deadline to submit your applications is 22 February 2017.

To view our competency framework, please click here.

Please indicate your ability, availability and daily/monthly rate (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference above (including travel and daily subsistence allowance, if applicable). Applications submitted without a daily/monthly rate will not be considered.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.

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