INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT ONLY - GEM Report – Data consultant (10 months)

The GMR Report is looking for a Data Specialist.

The purpose of the Work is to apply the principle of the Adjusted-Bayesian-Completion Rate (ABC) model methodology to the integration of administrative and household survey data on children in and out of school for monitoring SDG 4.1.4, while also ensuring that completion and out-of-school rate estimates are coherent with each other.

Under the supervision of the GEM Report’s Research Officer, the consultant shall carry out a series of activities to:

- Identify and resolve methodological issues arising from the combination of administrative and household survey data in a single model.

- Identify and resolve methodological issues arising from the limited ability to reconstruct school attendance status at earlier times from cross-sectional attendance data.
- Develop and implement a methodology for disaggregation of completion and out-of-school estimates by equity dimensions.
- Develop an out-of-school addition to the existing ABC model website combining background information, documents, and results with an embedded interactive visual dashboard that allows :
o efficient visual identification of problematic input data and estimation outliers for internal quality control and continuous model improvement, and
o exploration of results by the public (e.g. comparison with raw survey estimates, exploration of parameters, country trends, survey bias).
- Contribute to the drafting of a results-focused document accessible to non-technical audiences.

Please refer to attached Procurement Notice.