Request for expressions of interest for a junior consultant for statistical reports and data cleanup

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

FOR A JUNIOR CONSULTANT

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

Headquarters-Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)

SNDI/Office of the Senior Vice President Department

Avenue Joseph Anoma ; 01 BP. 1387, Abidjan 01

Cote d’Ivoire

Title of the assignment: JUNIOR CONSULTANT FOR STATISTICAL REPORTS AND DATA CLEANNUP

 

Brief description of the Assignment: Support in organizing the process to provide consistent and reliable statistics on corporate consultants

Department : SNDI/Office of the Senior Vice President Department

Place of assignment: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Duration of the assignment: 6 months

Tentative Date of commencement: 27 September 2018

Deadline for applications: 12 September 2018 at 17:00 local time, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Applications to be submitted to: A.NDOUNGA@AFDB.ORG) and A.Z.FOFANA@AFDB.ORG

Any questions and requests for clarifications may be sent to the above email addresses.

 

TERMS OF REFERENCE

 

1. BACKGROUND

Established in 1964, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is the premier pan-African development institution, the leading financial institution on the continent and Africa’s voice on global economic, financial, and development issues. The Bank’s mission is to contribute to the economic development and social progress of its regional member countries, mobilize resources to finance development projects, and promote economic integration on the continent. The Bank comprises of 54 African member countries and 26 non-regional member countries.

In order to scale up the delivery and developmental impacts of the Bank’s Ten year Strategy (TYS), efforts are now focused on five priority objectives known as the “High 5s”-namely, Light up and Power Africa; Feed Africa; Industrialize Africa; Integrate Africa; and Improve the quality of life for Africans.

 

2. THE COMPLEX:

The Senior Vice-Presidency (SNVP) is responsible for supporting the President in the day-to-day management of the Bank Group to achieve its strategic objective and drive a performance culture that aligns with all processes and systems to deliver high impact results. The SNVP leads senior management discussions, decision-making processes and provides support to the President to ensure effective and efficient implementation of key decisions, ensuring sustained focus on Bank-wide priorities as well as coherence and coordination across Complexes.

The Complex is also responsible for coordinating the allocation of resources, management and execution of the budget and coordinating the monitoring of institutional performance.

 

3. CONTEXT OF THE ASSIGNMENT

AfDB has an application named DACON through which consultants apply to consultancy services or save their CV’s and record theirs details. The process of hiring a consultant starts in DACON and ends in SAP where a selected consultant’s details and additional information on contracts and payments are recorded.

In order to provide reliable statistics and justification for the budget provisions in terms of consultancy service’s needs, the budget department has engaged in a periodical reporting to the Board. This report nevertheless show some discrepancies or missing information that would be critical to a reliable reporting.

 

4. SCOPE OF SERVICES

Under the supervision of Director SNDI and Budget, the Junior Consultant will provide support in organizing the process to provide consistent statistics and to avoid lack of information.

Specifically, the Consultant shall carry out the following tasks:

• Monitoring the consultancy data and take clean-up action;

• Examining the process and advising on changes that can contribute to consistent and complete data;

• Producing standard reports, ad hoc analysis and design tools for a smooth monitoring of consultancy reporting;

• Proposing various new reports to help in decision making and showing the evolution and efficiency in the consultancy services utilization in the Bank;

• Assisting in data analysis and data needs during budget preparation process;
• Following up with cost centres the update of missing information in the database; and

• Advising on ways to strengthen controls in the processes, in order to eliminate further discrepancies or missing information.

5. KEY DELIVERABLES

The Consultant will submit a monthly progress report to the Bank, which shall highlight the following (as may be applicable at each stage of the assignment):

1. Reports and analysis of consultancy services progress in the Bank; focusing on cost efficiency;
2. Reporting on consultancy services utilization analysis;
3. Procedures of document strengthening processes;
4. Transactional data corrections;
5. Exceptions reports related to the existing issues with consultancy data;
6. Verbal consultations and advices; and
7. Any other action or task that can contribute to the scope of services.

The payment of fees in the 1^st five months shall be tied to monthly progress reports acceptable to the Bank.

The Consultant shall produce a close-out report, which shall be tied to the last payment.

 

6. QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

The Junior Consultant shall have less than 32 years, hold at least a Master Degree or equivalent IT qualifications with a minimum of 2-4 years’ work experience.

The expert shall have excellent analytical skills, excellent knowledge in tools like Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; and excellent interpersonal skills. A technical and functional implementation experience in business analysis and other IT domains out of which SAP is a requirement.

 

7. LANGUAGES OF WORK

The proposed Consultants should have the ability to work either in French or English (excellent written and oral communication) with working knowledge of the second language.

 

8. DURATION OF THE CONTRACT AND LOCATION

The Consultant will be based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and the period of the assignment will be six (6) months renewable depending on the performance of the consultant, availability of budget and prevailing organizational needs and satisfactory evaluation of the Consultant’s performance.

 

9. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE BANK The Bank will provide:
   

1. shared office space;
2. documents on the existing DACON/SAP application: users requirements, user manual and training material; and
3. document on budget reforms and Programming Budget Document.

 

10. REMUNERATION FOR THE CONSULTING SERVICES

The remuneration will be an all-inclusive monthly fee to be negotiated, and in compliance with the Bank’s established remuneration scale considering requisite qualifications and experience.

 

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