Le Programme ‘Connecting Research to Development’ recherche un Consultant en numérisation à Dubaï, Emirates Arabes Unis.

Le Programme ‘Connecting Research to Development’ recherche un Consultant en numérisation à Dubaï, Emirates Arabes Unis.

I. Background

Connecting Research to Development (CRD) is a think tank that operates in the support, generation, and dissemination of evidence-based research from combined perspectives of public health and social science in the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. CRD was officially established in 2014. In close cooperation with its partners, the specific goal is to apply scientific innovative know-how and to transform evidence-based data into programmatic actions. International donors, UN agencies, INGOs, universities, local organizations, and government ministries rely thereby on CRD’s expertise and deep understanding of the research environment.

CRD is functional in Dubai through its sister agencies, CRD-DUBAI, Smart Development (SD), and Smart Negotiations (SN), that provide smart hubs, consultancies, advanced data management, data visualization and a commercial resources generation.

CRD has been in the process of organizational and financial transformation to meet the strategic commitments made by its Advisory Board: to enhance CRD effectiveness, increase its efficiency and strengthen ownership of the management along the International Society Agenda.

II. Objective of the assignment

The main objective of this assignment is to develop a digitalization policy for CRD in line with its decision to uplift and rationalize its organization model into a more efficient model of project and human management while ensuring data protection and compliance with international guidelines.

CRD is seeking a motivated digitalization consultant to lead the conversion of the decision-making process into a more data-driven one with real-time monitoring for project management.

The consultancy aims at improving internal collaboration and external co-operation with partners, stakeholders and other organizations while reducing costs for human resource management by identifying tasks and activities that could be automated and optimized.

III. Description of tasks and deliverables

The consultant is to undertake the following tasks:

• review existing structures, guidelines, operating procedures, and tools utilized by CRD’s technical and administrative teams during the different phases of project implementation.
• Identify main gaps in the process, structure and resources and recommend possible digitalized solutions.
• Identify possible tasks/activities that can be carried out by artificial intelligence (AI) and suggest a way forward.
• Identify priority areas for main urgent intervention based on observations and interviews with relevant personnel.
• Draw, discuss, and finalize digitalization policy with a relevant action plan including necessary resources.

IV.Main Deliverables:

• Digitalization strategy developed, discussed, and revised.
• Relevant resource system identified, discussed, and revised.
• Action plan in place and actioned.

V. Working relationship and contractual arrangements

• The consultant will be working in close coordination with the CEO and CEO Deputies.
• CRD is responsible for contractual arrangements.
• The consultant is under the obligation of confidentiality: Information, data, database, knowledge resources in the forms of briefings, reports, proceedings, articles, essays, etc. issued by and for CRD will be CRD’s property and require permission for use and/or disclosure.