REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

“ INTELLIGENCE (BI) CONSULTANT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PORTFOLIO SNAPSHOT TOOL”

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK Avenue Joseph Anoma, 01 B.P. 1387, Abidjan, CÔTE d'IVOIRE

Corporate IT Services Department (CHIS)

E-mail : [email protected] Telephone : (+225) 20 26 22 61/ (+225) 20 26 25 83

1. Expressions of interest are being requested for: Business Intelligence (BI) Consultant the development of the Portfolio Snapshot Tool

2. Brief description of the Assignment: Since 2017, the African Development Bank has made significant progress in developing automated business intelligence reports for institutional performance and decision making. Through a strategic between IT- BI Team and the Delivery, and Results Department, the Delivery was developed and successfully rolled out to meet core Operations performance management requirements. Currently the Delivery Dashboard is actively used across the Bank, at Headquarters, in Regional hubs and Country Offices to manage the delivery of the lending program, the performance of the active portfolio, Quality Assurance, Process Efficiency metrics, KPI, timelines, Supervision activities, Task Manager Allocation and Delivery, Regional workload . Over recent years, Management’s appetite for is continuously increasing, with greater demand for customized business intelligence tools and enhanced features to support decision making, send alerts and prompt action. Against this background, the Delivery team recently developed the Portfolio Snapshot, a strategic and operational dashboard designed to support dialogue on Bank engagement in Regional Member Countries (RMCs). The tool provides high level analytics on the Bank’s past and present interventions in a given country, its regional footprint using geocoding tools, as well as sharp performance analysis of the current portfolio. The next phase of the development of the tool, considered as critical, is to provide an overview on key strategic and operational features of Bank support to RMCs, including key elements of the Bank’s country strategies and pipeline (Indicative Operational Plan or IOP) as well as non-lending activities, notably policy reforms (Policy Reform Dialogue Matrix). Considering the importance of this program, some efforts are needed to finalize this component of the Portfolio Snapshot, which was initiated with a pilot covering 3 RMCs. The main objective of this assignment is to hire a consultant to finalize the work done on Country strategy paper (CSP) components of the Portfolio Snapshot as well as on policy reforms (Policy Reform Dialogue Matrix PRDM). The consultants should collect, process and upload all the data related to CSP components for the remaining 25 or so RMCs. He will also assist in uploading the PRDM. 3. Department issuing the request: Corporate Information Technology Services (CHIS)

4. Place of assignment: Abidjan /Cote D’Ivoire

5. Duration of the assignment: Three (03) months

6. Tentative Date of commencement: 15 July 2020.

7. Detailed Terms of reference for the assignment: The TOR are in annex 1 below

8. Deadline for applications: Tuesday 30 June 2020 at 17h00 Abidjan local time.

9. Applications to be submitted by email to: [email protected]

10. Any questions and requests for clarifications may be sent to: [email protected]

11. Establishment of the Short List A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established at the end the request of expressions of interest. The consultants on the shortlist will be judged on the following criteria on the basis of their updated resume.

General qualifications and adequacy for the assignment to be 30% undertaken

Similar experience in the area of expertise of the assignment 50%

Experience with the Bank and/or multilateral donors 10% Language proficiency 05% Knowledge of the region (assignment environment) 05%

The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s procedure for the acquisition of consulting services funded by the Administrative or Capital expenditure. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include him/her in the shortlist.

12. MODEL CURRICULUM VITAE (CV)

Please attach updated Curriculum Vitae on the basis of the template below:

Title of the Assignment: Department: Surname: First Name: Birth Date: Nationality: Address: Country: Telephone: E-mail:

Are any of your family members (spouse/partner, father/mother, Yes No Brother/sister, Son/daughter, etc.° employed in the African If « Yes », the Development Bank? following data must be provided Name Relationship Unit Place of Assignment

Language Read Written Spoken Level English Fair Fair Fair Good Good Good Excellent Excellent Excellent French Fair Fair Fair Good Good Good Excellent Excellent Excellent Other (specify) Fair Fair Fair Good Good Good Excellent Excellent Excellent

Key Qualifications:

Please provide (i) a summary of your experience and training highlighting the most relevant for the proposed assignment, and (ii) the responsibilities which you exercised. Utilize one half-page maximum.

Education (University Level and above only):

Name of University - City - Period Diploma Obtained Main Topic / Major Country From To

Professional Training:

Name of Training Type of Training Period Certificates or Diploma Institution- City - Obtained Country From From

Employment Record:

Begin with your most recent employment. For each job since your Master Degree achievement, please indicate: - Name of the Employer - Type of Activity/Business of the Employer - Title / Function - Place of Employment - Start and End date - Period - Brief Description of main accomplishments and responsibilities

Reference:

Please indicate the name and address of three persons with no family relationship with yourself, familiar with your character and titles.

I hereby certify that the responses which I provided above are all, to the best of my knowledge, true, complete and accurate. I acknowledge that an inaccurate statement or essential omission in a personal declaration or another document required by the African Development Bank might result in the rejection of my application, termination of my Contract or any other administrative sanction by the Bank. The African Development Bank may verify any statements which I made in this application.

Date: ______Signature : ANNEX 1: TERMS OF REFRENCE

RECRUITEMENT OF BI CONSULTANT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PORTFOLIO SNAPSHOT TOOL

1. BACKGROUND

Since 2017, the African Development Bank has made significant progress in developing automated business intelligence reports for institutional performance management and decision making. Through a strategic partnership between CHIS- BI Team and the Delivery, Performance Management and Results Department, the Delivery Dashboard was developed and successfully rolled out to meet core Operations performance management requirements. Currently the Delivery Dashboard is actively used across the Bank, at Headquarters, in Regional hubs and Country Offices to manage the delivery of the lending program, the performance of the active portfolio, Quality Assurance, Process Efficiency metrics, KPI, Procurement timelines, Supervision activities, Task Manager Allocation and Delivery, Regional workload analysis. Over recent years, Management’s appetite for data analytics is continuously increasing, with greater demand for customized business intelligence tools and enhanced features to support decision making, send alerts and prompt action. Against this background, the Delivery team recently developed the Portfolio Snapshot, a strategic and operational dashboard designed to support dialogue on Bank engagement in Regional Member Countries (RMCs). The tool provides high level analytics on the Bank’s past and present interventions in a given country, its regional footprint using geocoding tools, as well as sharp performance analysis of the current portfolio. The next phase of the development of the tool, considered as critical, is to provide an overview on key strategic and operational features of Bank support to RMCs, including key elements of the Bank’s country strategies and pipeline (Indicative Operational Plan or IOP) as well as non-lending activities, notably policy reforms (Policy Reform Dialogue Matrix). Considering the importance of this program, some efforts are needed to finalize this component of the Portfolio Snapshot, which was initiated with a pilot covering 3 RMCs.

2. ASSIGNEMENT PURPOSE

The main objective of this consultation is to hire a consultant to finalize the work done on CSP components of the Portfolio Snapshot as well as on policy reforms (Policy Reform Dialogue Matrix PRDM). The consultants should collect, process and upload all the data related to CSP components for the remaining 25 or so RMCs. He will also assist in uploading the PRDM.

The consultants at the end of his mandate, will complete the following tasks: Task Description Collect data and do analysis - Support meetings and exchanges with RDVP to collect data on RMCs CSP priorities (Pillars) and Indicative Operational Program and PRDM. - Provide a document analysis of the solution with the list of objects, the target data model, data mapping sources and star model, reports and graph description Process data flow - Use dedicated tools to create or update the process - Execute the data flow to upload all data for the 25 RMCs and PRDM. Develop Dashboard - Develop and enhance the Portfolio Snapshot Dashboard Validation of Results - Validate with users that the data is correct in the target system and that reports, and graphs are in line with expectations and user specifications Test the dashboard for external - Security tests users - Test with external users from selected RMCs Online user guide and technical - Create a user guide for end user documentation - Create technical document for maintenance Knowledge Sharing - Work closely with BI Team and provide necessary training or assistance

3. SCOPE OF WORK

The major tasks of the consultants are:

. To assist working sessions and demos to collect all necessary data and feedback from RMCs, Bank Staff and Management. . To fulfill all necessary works according to the plan developed with BI Team to create related objects, develop reports and dashboards. . To provide BI life cycle related documents. . To deploy solutions in the 3 landscapes (DEV, QAS and PROD). . To report periodically to the BI Team Leader and SNDR Manager. . To provide knowledge transfer, training and technical documentation to the Bank's technical staff. . To prepare the final report of his/her mission to be approved by the SNDR Manager.

4. SUPERVISION OF THE MISSION

The consultants will perform the assignment under the joined supervision of the BI Team Leader CHIS1-BSD and the Division Manager of SNDR2. Day to day supervision of the assignment will be performed by the Lead Country Program Coordinator- RDVP in charge of CSPs coordination and non-lending activities (PRDM).

5. DURATION OF THE ASSIGNMENT

The duration of the mission is expected for Three (03) months. The assignment can start as soon as possible.

6. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCES

The proposed experts by the Consulting Firm must have following competencies: . At Master’s degree in computer science, software development or related business fields and/or equivalent work experience. . Minimum of 5 years’ experience as Business Intelligence expert within an IT organization . Skills for BI Administration, ETL, Reporting and Dashboard: o Very good knowledge and experience in the Oracle APEX Tool o Very good knowledge and experience in the Oracle Administration Tool o Very good knowledge and experience in the BI development with OBIEE suite: analytics, publisher, dashboard, visual analyzer, mobile and so on o Strong understanding of BI trends and model o Very good knowledge and experience in the development of Talend o Good knowledge on Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server o Good experience on different ETL principles (SAP DS) will be a plus. . Other experiencies o Expertise in the areas of Performance, Operations, , , missions and travel, acquisition of goods and services o Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Oracle APEX development o Experience of working with development agencies. o Fluency in French or English o Expertise in using tools such as "Microsoft Desktop Productivity Suite applications" including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. o Ability to work under the dual pressures of time and the quality requirement o Ability to interact with all stakeholder levels

7. LOCALISATION

The work will be carried out at the Bank's headquarters in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire and the Regional Office in Tunisia.

8. REMUNERATION

The consultant will receive a monthly lump sum rate based on his experience. No additional benefits or per diem will be paid. The individual consultant is responsible for his/her own health and own accommodation costs.