National Consultant – Digital Learning Junior Consultants, Port Sudan, Sudan – Office Based (for Sudanese nationals) – 12 months

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Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

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For every child, chance 

Given the emerging efforts to develop eLearning within Sudan and to work towards a coherent approach, UNICEF has generated and developed digital content on various electronic platforms for different educational groups. The content will now be used in the emergency setup in country to ensure children continue learning in different modalities including in child-friendly safe-learning spaces in safer states of the country. Moreover, the “Learning Passport” is available for children to access wherever they are and is the only mean of learning in hot spot areas.

To support this work, UNICEF will recruit 3 digital learning junior consultants, whom will be responsible for preparing 10,000 tablets to be distributed for schools and e-learning centers in various states, in addition to maintaining some tablets that need to be fixed.

Under the guidance and general supervision E-learning officer, 3 digital learning consultants will install software, prepare tablets with, load tablets with SD cards, and pack them to send them out to states.

In addition to that, the interns will have access to the learning passport, to upload material for 1st – 3rd year of high school, with a total of 2500 files to be reviewed and uploaded, and generating html5 content to be used in the learning passport by children and users.

Moreover, the consultants will review content for TV/Radio, LP, Let Us learn from vendors including videos and games

Supporting deployment in the field and expansion with stakeholders including implementing partners

Scope of Work:

1. Digitization of education material. Generating html5 content for the learning passport.

2. Mapping content of available material online, and at ministry.

3. Installing software into tablets

4. Preparing tablets by installing SD cards and placing them in chargebuses

5. Loading content into SD cards

6. Packing tablets to be sent out to states.

7. Maintaining tablets

8. Reviewing content received from video/audio vendor.

9. Supporting deployment in the field and expansion with stakeholders including implementing partners

Work Assignments Overview

Deliverables/Outputs

Delivery deadline

Digitization of education material. Generating html5 content for the learning passport.

Installing software into tablets

Preparing tablets by installing SD cards and placing them in chargebuses

Loading content into SD cards

Packing tablets to be sent out to states.

Reviewing content received from video/audio vendor.

100 html5 files uploaded on LP.

Installing and preparing 960 tablets, with accessories (SD cards) to be sent to the field with asset management sheet.

Reviewing content as delivered by vendors including videos/games/offline LP software

31 Dec 2024

Supporting deployment in the field and expansion with stakeholders including implementing partners.

Ensure data validity and generation for research purposes

Support opening of 20 new SLSs with stakeholders, and operation of centres in multiple states.

M&E children progress, generate reports accordingly, and provide support for needed interventions.

Ensure clean data in all forms for research.

31 January 2025

Mapping content of available material online, and at ministry. Work with the ministry to validate all content and build capacity of stakeholders.

Installing software into tablets

Preparing tablets by installing SD cards and placing them in chargebuses

Loading content into SD cards

Packing tablets to be sent out to states

Report with online content and downloaded content that can be used in let us learn or learning passport.

Report on workshops conducted and training manuals generated.

Installing and preparing 480 tablets, with accessories (SD cards) to be sent to the field with asset management sheet

28 Feb 2025

Automation of asset management

Installing software into tablets

Preparing tablets by installing SD cards and placing them in chargebuses

Loading content into SD cards

Packing tablets to be sent out to states.

Reviewing content received from video/audio vendor.

Contribute to building automated system for asset management for the project.

Installing and preparing 480 tablets, with accessories (SD cards) to be sent to the field with asset management sheet

31 Mar 2025

Update content for LP, including Reviewing content received from video/audio vendor.

Delivery of offline learning passport, testing and piloting.

Review content as being delivered from vendors, and get validation as required from stakeholders.

Offline LP to be fully tested, and work with vendor to further develop it.

30 Apr 2025

Digitization of education material. Generating html5 content for the learning passport.

Installing software into tablets

Preparing tablets by installing SD cards and placing them in chargebuses

Loading content into SD cards

Packing tablets to be sent out to states

Reviewing content received from video/audio vendor.

Installing and preparing 960 tablets, with accessories (SD cards) to be sent to the field with asset management sheet.

Reviewing content as delivered by vendors including videos/games/offline LP software

31 May 2025

Digitization of education material. Generating html5 content for the learning passport.

Installing software into tablets

Preparing tablets by installing SD cards and placing them in chargebuses

Loading content into SD cards

Packing tablets to be sent out to states

Installing and preparing 960 tablets, with accessories (SD cards) to be sent to the field with asset management sheet.

Reviewing content received from video/audio vendor.

30 June 2025

Supporting deployment in the field and expansion with stakeholders including implementing partners

Support opening of 20 new SLSs with stakeholders.

M&E children progress, generate reports accordingly, and provide support for needed interventions.

31 July 2025

Supporting deployment in the field and expansion with stakeholders including implementing partners

Support opening of 20 new SLSs with stakeholders, and operation of centres in multiple states.

M&E children progress, generate reports accordingly, and provide support for needed interventions.

31 Aug 2025

Supporting deployment in the field and expansion with stakeholders including implementing partners

Support opening of 20 new SLSs with stakeholders, and operation of centres in multiple states.

M&E children progress, generate reports accordingly, and provide support for needed interventions.

30 Sep 2025

Supporting deployment in the field and expansion with stakeholders including implementing partners

Support opening of 20 new SLSs with stakeholders, and operation of centres in multiple states.

M&E children progress, generate reports accordingly, and provide support for needed interventions.

31 Oct 2025

Supporting deployment in the field and expansion with stakeholders including implementing partners

Support opening of 20 new SLSs with stakeholders, and operation of centres in multiple states.

M&E children progress, generate reports accordingly, and provide support for needed interventions.

30 Nov 2025

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have… 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional certificate in Information technology, computer science, electrical/electronic engineering.
• Fluency in Arabic and English
• Knowledge in building content through html5 and java script, and web development
• At least 6 months of experience in one of the needed skills in digital learning, M&E, or development.

Travel Plan: Travels to support implementation in states where DL is implemented 

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

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

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Remarks: 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. 

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws. 

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts. 

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