Nigeria: Statistical Institutional and Organisational Expert

Tender - Technical Assistance for Implementation of EU Support to Federal Governance Reform Programme in Five Federal Agencies, Abuja, Nigeria

GRM is looking for a Key-Expert - Statistical Institutional and Organisational Expert (660 working days in Nigeria) GRM is a leading professional services company specialising in the provision of project design, management expertise and technical assistance to development projects for bilateral and multilateral funding agencies and governments. We have over 43 years of development experience, managing in excess of 700 projects in more than 120 countries for private, government, bilateral and multilateral clients.

BACKGROUND

The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), in 2008, adopted a National Strategy for Public Service Reform (NSPRP) for implementing Vision 20-2020. This Strategy identifies four core reform challenges, which must be addressed in three phases between 2008 and 2020 in order to achieve the results envisaged in Vision 20-2020. The overall objective of the EU Support to Federal Governance Reform Project (SUFEGOR), which this contract is a part, is to support the implementation of the second phase of NSPRP planned for 2011 – 2015. Specifically, SUFEGOR will support the aspects of the core challenges that concern coordination of the reform process, policy development and civil service administration reform. While there have been notably successes in the past two years in the implementation of this strategy, the Federal Government of Nigeria still faces several challenges in the implementation of its second phase. This project will complement similar programmes planned by other donors in a division of labour approach, towards assisting government in the implementation of the second phase of the NSPSR.

DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

2.1 Global objective

The overall objective of the project of which this contract will be a part is to contribute to poverty reduction in Nigeria through promotion of public sector policy and efficiency in public service administration in order to enhance service delivery.

2.2 Specific objectives

The purpose of this contract is to strengthen the capacity of five federal agencies in the areas of policy coordination, planning and development, revenue administration, record management, financial management, reporting, performance monitoring and development of statistics.

EXPERT PROFILE

Key expert 3: Statistical Institutional and Organisational Expert

He/she will coordinate and implement the project component for the enhancement of statistical production and coordination at MDA level including enhancing the capacity of the agencies in survey research, administrative data harmonisation and dissemination.

The Expert must have the following qualifications, professional experience and skills:

Qualifications and skills • Advanced University Degree (MSc) in Statistics or related discipline. First university degree with at least 12 years of experience in relevant statistics management programmes may be considered in lieu of the advanced degree; • Excellent fluency in both written and spoken English; • Proficiency/certificate in basic computer programmes (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint Internet • browsing) and SPSS as well as other statistical software;

General professional experience • Minimum 7 years of relevant professional experience, with a demonstrated in-depth experience, in development and implementation of Statistics Master Plan and Development Strategy; • Minimum 3 years working experience in a developing country outside the country of origin;

Specific professional experience • Minimum 4 years relevant working experience in the field of survey design, data analysis, processing and dissemination; • Minimum 3 years relevant professional experience in statistical service organizational set-up including networking systems for seamless flow of data; • Relevant working experience in the setting up of ITC networks and website design; • Minimum 3 years training experience on statistical planning and generation; and in institutional ICT capacity assessment; • Experience in revision and upgrade of the compendium Statistical term, concepts, definition and methodology for data harmonization activities

LOCATION AND DURATION

The expert will be located at the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in Nigeria and the overall duration of the assignment is 660 working days in Nigeria.