Remote International EMIS & ToR Development Specialist

UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund; United States; Remote; USD 56,000 - 84,000; Part time

Job summary

UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund in Kosovo invites applications for an International EMIS and ToR Development Specialist to lead the preparation of a procurement-ready ToR for Kosovo’s Education Management Information System.

The assignment focuses on requirements definition, benchmarking, stakeholder consultations and translation of needs into technical and data requirements, with no software development.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in EMIS modernization projects.
• Experience leading national EMIS modernization, replacement, or design projects.
• Digital transformation in the public sector or education systems.
• System architecture design and business process analysis.
• Data governance, data quality, and interoperability frameworks.
• Development of functional requirements for information systems.
• Experience working with governments, international organizations, or large donor-funded education reform projects.
• Knowledge of interoperability frameworks between government databases.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical preparation of procurement-ready ToR for Kosovo’s EMIS.
• Review existing EMIS documentation and benchmark international good practices.
• Translate identified needs into functional, technical, data, interoperability, security and implementation requirements.
• Lead the development of requirements architecture, prioritisation and traceability matrix.
• Prepare the final stakeholder-validated, procurement-ready ToR package.
• Coordinate with the National EMIS Specialist and stakeholders.

Skills

EMIS architecture

Data governance

Interoperability

Requirements analysis

Stakeholder facilitation

Education

Education Information Systems / Information Technology

Data Science / Statistics

Public Policy / Public Administration

Job description

UNICEF - United Nations Children’s Fund in Kosovo invites applications for an International EMIS and ToR Development Specialist to lead the preparation of a procurement-ready ToR for Kosovo’s Education Management Information System.

The assignment focuses on requirements definition, benchmarking, stakeholder consultations and translation of needs into technical and data requirements, with no software development.