Haiti In-Country Coordinator

Location: Haiti, Port-au-Prince

Terms of Reference for OPAL In-Country Coordinator

Background information

The Flowminder Foundation is a non-profit foundation specialising in using big data for public policy and humanitarian purposes.

The OPAL programme (for Open Algorithms), originally developed by a group of partners from the MIT Media Lab, Imperial College London, Orange Group, Telefonica Group, the World Economic Forum and Data-Pop Alliance, will be operationalised by the Flowminder Foundation. It aims to spur the use of Mobile Network Operator (MNO) data for public good purposes in a privacy-preserving manner.

The data involved is known as Call Detail Records (CDRs). These are generated by an MNO when a mobile phone user makes or receives calls/SMSs or starts a data session on their phone. Use cases for these data include supporting the allocation of resources in disaster response contexts, improving disease spread models or planning public infrastructure work.

The objective of the Flowminder Foundation with the OPAL programme is to open access to such data at an affordable cost via a privacy-secure web platform to a wide set of stakeholders from the public and private sectors while fostering the inclusion and inputs of the civil society on the kinds and uses of analyses performed on these data.

The OPAL programme will be implemented in collaboration with two MNOs, in Haiti and in a Western African country. The activities of this program will focus on developing and operationalising the technology, supporting the set-up of national committees with representatives from the civil society, developing the collaboration with the MNOs that ensure their long-term commitment, and supporting pilot use cases and capacity strengthening in both countries.

Objective

Flowminder is seeking an In-Country Coordinator who will meet regularly with relevant in-country stakeholders to provide information on OPAL, and coordinate and provide logistics for OPAL activities in Haiti. The In-Country Coordinator will support Flowminder in the delivery of the project on the ground, liaising with the Mobile Network Operator and collaborating with Flowminder as well as other in-country stakeholders from Haitian Ministries, Departments and Agencies, Multilateral Organisations, civil society, academic sector and the private sector.

Description of services required

Deliverables to be produced:

• Monthly report on activities led in-country;
• Engagement and collaboration with partner organisations, with a strong focus on the Mobile Network Operator (MNO);
• Support Flowminder in the legal, management and technical processes at the MNO by being the primary point of contact for Flowminder at the MNO;
• Support MNO staff as appropriate in the management of the collaboration with Flowminder;
• Contribute to setting-up new processes to optimise the effectiveness of the collaboration between Flowminder and the MNO;
• Support with project Monitoring & Evaluation;
• Communications and outreach with key stakeholders such as (but not limited to) government and multilateral organisations;
• Identify and help promote use cases for Flowminder;
• Coordinate and attend stakeholder meetings in Haiti and other NGOs;
• Facilitating the set-up, logistics and activities of the Councils for the Orientation of Development and Ethics;
• Logistics support for capacity strengthening activities;
• Information gathering and reporting of ongoing big data for good related activities and projects in Haiti.

Period performance

12 months between Feb 2023 and December 2023(with possibility of extension).

Qualifications and Experience

• Experience in project management within the development and humanitarian sector (essential);
• Experience in project management, preferably within the mobile phone industry (desirable)
• Experience working with national and international project stakeholders including government actors, donors, non-government organizations (NGOs) and universities (essential);
• Experience in highly technical or scientific projects and the ability to communicate technical/scientific content effectively (essential).
• Experience working with a Mobile Network Operator (desirable);
• Experience from the Data for Development sector (D4D) (desirable);
• Experience in working with/for large companies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) (desirable);
• Experience in working with regulatory authorities in LMICs (desirable);

Skills/Competencies:

• Knowledge and understanding of local and regional context (essential);
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational verbal and written communication skills and appropriate and transparent decision-making skills (essential);
• Advanced skills in logistics support and event planning (essential);
• Excellent skills in MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint; Google Drive (essential);
• Familiarity with the Telecommunication sector (essential);
• Familiarity with CDR data (desirable);
• Familiarity with geospatial data (desirable).

Languages:

• Fluency in written and spoken English and French (essential).

Additional information

Whilst the project is taking place in Haiti, Flowminder’s team is based in Southampton (United Kingdom), Geneva (Switzerland) and Stockholm (Sweden).