International Consultant (Development of Grievance Redress Mechanism App), Freetown, Sierra Leone, 50 days over 3 months

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How are you going to make a distinction? 

The Authorities of Sierra Leone (GoSL) is at the moment implementing a number of social safety (SP) programmes. The World Financial institution-financed Social Security Internet Mission (SSNP) supplies help to the GoSL in its efforts to construct a Social Safety system and to offer well timed revenue help to an elevated variety of poor households through a consolidated strategy. The Mission additionally funds measures to stop corruption and to ascertain an impartial grievance redress mechanism (GRM) as a channel for beneficiaries and different stakeholders to lift grievances, complaints, or corruption experiences concerning the challenge. This consultancy is aimed to develop a cell app to interface with the web-based grievance redress system to handle the grievance decision workflow.

 

Aims and Objective of the Consultancy

• Develop a cross-platform Home windows, iOS and Android cell utility to facilitate grievance submission, monitoring, and backbone.
• Present customers with an intuitive interface for submitting grievances, attaching related paperwork or media if essential.
• Allow real-time monitoring of grievance standing and progress.
• Implement mechanisms for directors to handle grievances, assign duties, and talk with stakeholders.
• Guarantee knowledge safety and privateness in accordance with related laws.
• Launch utility within the App Shops

 

Scope of Work:

The consultancy covers the next areas of accountability:

• Conduct necessities gathering and evaluation to know stakeholder wants and preferences.
• Design person interfaces (UI) and person expertise (UX) prototypes for the cell utility.
• Develop the cell utility, together with front-end and back-end elements.
• Implement options for person authentication, role-based entry management, and knowledge encryption.
• Combine notification programs to maintain customers knowledgeable concerning the standing of their grievances.
• Conduct testing and debugging to make sure the app features easily throughout totally different gadgets and working programs.
• Present documentation and coaching supplies for end-users and directors.

To qualify as an advocate for each little one you should have… 

• A complicated college diploma (Grasp’s or larger) in pc sciences, software program engineering or associated discipline with eight years of related skilled expertise in software program growth.
• Expertise and experience in growing cell purposes, notably within the space of grievance administration.
• Understanding of the challenge necessities and talent to fulfill them inside the specified timeline.
• Direct involvement or important expertise in growing the present web-based grievance redress system or comparable programs within the discipline of social safety or governance.
• High quality of proposed resolution, together with UI/UX design, safety measures, and scalability.
• Possesses expertise collaborating with growth companions, worldwide organizations, or authorities companies concerned in social safety packages or comparable initiatives.
• Prior expertise working in Least Developed International locations (LDCs) or comparable contexts, with a confirmed monitor document of efficiently implementing tasks in resource-constrained environments.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or an area language is an asset.

 

Please entry the complete TOR right here:  VA TOR – Grievances Reporting Mechanism App Consultant.pdf

For each Little one, you exhibit… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

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Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

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