Hiring a Technical Director for MoP

Source: World Bank — Ethiopia Digital Foundations Project

Request for Expression of Interest

(Consulting Services – Individual Selection)

Consulting Service for Technical Director at Ethiopian National ID Program

Country: Ethiopia

Project: Ethiopia Digital Foundations Project

Project ID: P171034

Credit No.  IDA - 68560

Assignment Title:  Selection of Technical Director at Ethiopian National ID Program

Reference No.: ET-MINT-257279-CS-INDV

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ministry of Finance (MoF), has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Ethiopia Digital Foundations Project (“Digital Foundations”).  The Ethiopian National ID Program is one of the beneficiaries of the project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for selecting of individual consultants.

National ID Program as part of the project is looking for an Individual Consultant to provide technical assistance that supports the program.  Experienced individual consultants who have experience, passionate and innovative ideas for the position of Technical Director are invited to express their interest for the assignment.

The Technical Director expected to focus on system integration and advance the NID initiative, including its ongoing pilot and full scale-up phases

The Technical Director will lead the software development and integration teams. The Director will supervise all integration efforts to establish functional interfaces with internal subsystems as well as external systems. Accordingly, this role is expected to take the front line on all development and integration issues and challenges. A critical and timely understanding of interface specifications and implementations, biometric technology, is expected. The role requires identifying, validating, and implementing the best sustainable integration options for the core identification platform. External systems include databases such as civil registries as well as those belonging to various sectors, including health, education, financial services and tax systems.

Specific responsibilities for the Technical Director will include, but are not limited to, the following core activities:

• Define the implementation plan of the NID platform and supervise its delivery;
• Manage the development and integration team and quality assurance;
• Reporting to higher management and liaison with other relevant stakeholders;

MinT on behalf of National ID Program now invites eligible Individual Consultants to indicate their interest to provide the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services for a period of one year with possibility of extension for additional period subject to outstanding performance of the consultant and availability of budget. The shortlisting criteria include the following;

• Master’s degree in a relevant technical discipline, including Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering.
• At least 14 years of experience in systems development at different roles in including lead positions.
• Previous experience on at least one similar project in a technical capacity on systems integration and production of a working Identification ecosystem.
• Conceptual and practical experience in leading research and development activities around sustainable Identification platforms and their development approaches.
• Leading experience on the development, integration and implementation of an Identification platform based on MOSIP.
• Familiarity and working experience on Agile Project and Program Management Methodologies and experience with relevant tools such as Atlassian Jira and Confluence.
• Demonstrated knowledge on integrating a central identification platform with more than one type of Biometric Kit and multiple ABIS technologies
• Strong familiarity and experience with suppliers and vendors in the digital identification ecosystem.
• Familiarity or experience working on international and donor-funded projects is an asset.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Selection of Individual Consultant (Section V) method set out in the Procurement Regulations.

Expressions of interest (CV, Cover letter and documentary evidence for fulfilling the qualifications/Technical Proposal/ and financial proposal /expected lump-sum total offer for the assignment) must be delivered in a written form to the address below in person, or by mail on or before June 7th, 2022. Further information and the detail TOR can be obtained, by email at the below address during office hours from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM Addis Ababa time: 

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia,

Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MInT)

Ethiopia Digital Foundations Project

Attn: Focal Person, Project Implementation Unit (PIU)

Address: Arada Sub-city, off Churchill Road, behind Lycée Guebre-Mariam,

E-mail: digital.foundation@mint.gov.et or zelalem.tadesse@mint.gov.et or mesfin.belachew@mint.gov.et

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia