TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR A 7-DAY INTEGRATED TRAINING ON SURVEY SAMPLING AND APPLIED SURVEY DATA ANALYSIS USING R, WITH THREE MONTHS OF POST-TRAINING MENTORSHIP

Title of Consultancy

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR A 7-DAY INTEGRATED TRAINING ON SURVEY SAMPLING AND APPLIED SURVEY DATA ANALYSIS USING R, WITH THREE MONTHS OF POST-TRAINING MENTORSHIP

SCI Contracting Office

Save the Children Somalia/land Country Office

Period of Consultancy

The assignment will run for approximately 4 months: preparation of training materials, 7 training days (56 hours), and 3 months of post-training mentorship (monthly clinics and review of work products).

Consultant type required

Individual consultant (Somaliland-based)

Responsibility for Logistics arrangements and Costs

Save the Children will pay the consultant fee in a lump sum against agreed deliverables and will not reimburse any other costs incurred during the assignment. The consultant will cover their own logistical arrangements, including local transport, accommodation, communication and preparation of training materials. SCI will provide the training venue, participants, approved datasets and refreshments.

Taxation Provisions

The Consultant shall be responsible for all taxes arising from the consultancy in line with the local Tax regulations applicable at the SCI contracting office.

Travel requirements

The training will take place in Somaliland (venue to be confirmed by SCI). The consultant will cover all own local travel costs.

Security requirements

The consultant will comply with Save the Children security procedures, including completion of the SCI online security training before the start of the assignment.

Professional quality and Expertise

The following are the minimum requirements for the individual consultant to be considered for carrying out the assignment. All are mandatory.

·         PhD in Statistics or Data Science, with an educational background in research methods and applied statistics.

·         Minimum of 5 years of experience teaching at universities in Somaliland.

·         Expert in survey designs: sampling design, sample size and power, multistage/cluster designs, survey weighting and complex survey analysis.

·         Developed R packages (published on CRAN or a public code repository such as GitHub).

·         Developed R Shiny applications.

·         Published a minimum of 100 papers in Scopus and Web of Science indexed journals.

·         Supervised 20+ postgraduate students (Master’s and PhD).

·         Conducted and facilitated similar training (survey sampling, survey data analysis and/or R programming) previously.

KEY PROFESSIONAL STAFF REQUIREMENT

Description

Minimum Qualification and professional experience

Lead Trainer / Facilitator – Survey Sampling and Applied Survey Data Analysis using R

·         PhD in Statistics or Data Science.

·         Minimum of 5 years teaching at Somaliland universities, with 20+ Master’s/PhD students supervised.

·         Recognised expert in survey design, weighting and complex survey analysis.

·         Author of R packages and R Shiny applications.

·         Minimum of 100 Scopus/Web of Science indexed publications.

·         Demonstrated experience facilitating similar trainings for professional audiences.

·         Excellent communication skills in Somali and English, including explaining technical concepts to non-specialist audiences.

Application Procedure

·         Interested consultant (s) who meet the consultancy requirements are requested to submit their bid and each application package should include the above required minimum requirements.

Applications can be submitted by:

Protected Email box below

·         Email should be addressed to [email protected]

·         Should you need any clarifications please direct your queries to [email protected] and expect responses within maximum of two working days.

·         Note – this is a sealed tender box which will not be opened until the tender has closed. Therefore, do not send tender related questions to this email address as they will not be answered.

·         The subject of the email should be TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR A 7-DAY INTEGRATED TRAINING ON SURVEY SAMPLING AND APPLIED SURVEY DATA ANALYSIS USING R, WITH THREE MONTHS OF POST-TRAINING MENTORSHIP

·         All attached documents should be clearly labelled so it is clear to understand what each file relates to.

·         Emails should not exceed 15mb – if the file sizes are large, please split the submission into two emails. 

·         Do not copy other SCI email addresses into the email when you submit it as this will invalidate your bid.

All applications MUST be submitted on or before the closing date below to be considered for the assignment. Only shortlisted Candidates will be contacted.

Closing date for Applications

Interested consultants shall submit their applications through the above procedures on or before