Dashboard Development Consultant – Remote Monitoring of Urban WASH projects

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For every child, the right to WASH 

UNICEF’s WASH section in Sudan currently implementing Urban WASH projects in various towns in Sudan funded by key infrastructure donors including KfW Development Bank, World Bank and other donors. Given the scale of investments and ongoing security and access challenges, UNICEF Sudan aims to strengthen oversight by complementing physical monitoring missions with robust remote-monitoring capabilities.

How can you make a difference?  To safeguard donor confidence and ensure resources reach the most vulnerable populations, UNICEF seeks to deploy a geospatially enabled, external-facing monitoring system. This system will track urban WASH infrastructure progress while visualizing priority target areas and vulnerable population groups. The database will be accessible to major urban WASH donors. Current mechanisms are insufficient for real-time verification or for pinpointing areas where needs are most acute. This assignment will design and operationalize a secure, interactive live dashboard that integrates ongoing major urban WASH works with key targeting layers, including potentially the below, subject to further consultation: • Population vulnerability indicators (IDP density, informal settlements, displacement trends) • Education-related vulnerability layers (schools, out-of-school children, overlap of WASH gaps with education deprivation) • Health and protection risk factors (disease outbreaks, cholera hotspots, public health alerts) • Climate and environmental risk layers (flood-prone zones, water scarcity, and seasonal access constraints) • Service-delivery prioritization markers (locations with chronic WASH gaps, underserved urban neighborhoods, areas recurrently inaccessible to humanitarian missions).   By combining infrastructure progress with these targeting layers, the dashboard will enable UNICEF and donors to visually identify high-priority zones, monitor whether investments are reaching the populations with greatest needs, and rapidly detect geographical or programmatic gaps. Ultimately, the assignment will establish the foundational architecture needed to scale up real-time WASH monitoring across the expanding Sudan portfolio — sharpening targeting, reducing verification blind spots, and reinforcing transparent, evidence-driven decision-making, starting first with the largest investments/most significant cost-drivers in the current WASH portfolio.   MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES A. Requirements Gathering & System Design • Stakeholder consultations (including with key donors if possible) • Analysis of monitoring gaps • Metadata and indicator standardization • Identification of required integrations   B. Data Architecture & Backend Configuration • Unified data model • Pipeline configuration • GIS layer integration • Validation rules   C. Dashboard Development • Urban WASH Works Progress Tracker • Donor views • GIS contextual overlays • Automated summaries • Secure user access layers   D. Data Migration & Partner Integration • Cleaning, harmonizing, and geocoding legacy data • Migration of historical records • Partner reporting workflows • GPS/photo verification training   EXPECTED OUTPUTS 1. Fully operational real-time WASH dashboard including, where possible:

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

Minimum requirements: Education: Advanced degree in GIS, Data Science, CS, or related fields. Experience: Geospatial dashboard development, Power BI/ArcGIS/QGIS, API integration, WASH/humanitarian monitoring, partner capacity building.

Deliverables:

Work Assignments Overview

Deliverables/Outputs

Delivery deadline

Inception report, system architecture

Inception report, system architecture

Weeks 1–2

Data model + backend pipelines

Data model + backend pipelines

Weeks 3–4

Internal dashboard prototype

Internal dashboard prototype

Weeks 5–6

External donor dashboard (beta)

External donor dashboard (beta)

Weeks 7–8

Partner workflows + automated feeds

Partner workflows + automated feeds

Weeks 9–10

Training + SOPs

Training + SOPs

Week 11

Final dashboards + handover

Final dashboards + handover

Week 12

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

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