Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, December 01, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Scope of work and Methodology
• The Consultant will be required to prepare a detailed methodology and work plan indicating how
• the objectives of the project will be achieved, and the support required from DRC.
• Demonstrate how members are grouped on the platform. Members should be organised in savings and lending groups for training and effective service delivery.
• Self-service on multiple touchpoints for services like mobile KYC and mobile money to lower costs and extend access in hard to reach communities
• Full transparency on the group finances, all transactions and other requests such as wallet balances, savings etc
• The solution must be integrated with most of the largest MNOs – (Mobile Network Operators) in Kenya.
• Demonstrate innovative and reliable solutions put in place to meet last mile challenges in far to reach areas and financial inclusivity.
• The vendor must demonstrate that she has handled a project with 3 organisations with the size of DRC.

Deliverables
The digital platform must meet the below technical requirements to be relevant for the project:
• Simple user friendly/customer journeys.
• Mobile first design with a progressive web application.
• Multi-language support.
• Offline mode.
• Avail services on multiple touch points such as USSD/SMS/Web
• Solution should work well on low end feature phones
• Consume minimal data.
• Enforce security through SSL Encryption, PINs etc
• Back-end real time uptime/downtime monitoring
• Have secure language agnostic APIs to connect to other banking and on-demand platforms such as analytics.
• Strict data privacy and data sharing rules.
• Ability for a variety banking products/services to be made available without sensitive data sharing.

Eligibility, qualification, and experience required
The successful candidate(s) must be able to work independently to deliver the required outputs working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders. Qualifications will include:
• Minimum 3 years of experience in financial access research with an understanding of financing structures as well as technical requirements of FINTECH.
• Relevant background in development of business digital platforms.
• Experience in East Africa with an understanding of the policy environment and challenging context.
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of displacement-affected communities and their financial needs.
• Proven track record in conducting similar studies and assessments.
• Ability to structure complex insights into written and visual products that bring out key features and enable decision making


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Bids can be submitted by email to the following dedicated, controlled, & secure email address: [ tender.ken@drc.ngo  ]
When Bids are emailed, the following conditions shall be complied with:
• The RFP number shall be inserted in the Subject Heading of the email
• Separate emails shall be used for the ‘Financial Bid’ and ‘Technical Bid’, and the Subject Heading of the email shall indicate which type the email contains
• The financial bid shall only contain the financial bid form, Annex A.2 & own format financial proposal
• The technical bid shall contain all other documents required by the tender, but excluding all pricing information
• Bid documents required, shall be included as an attachment to the email in PDF, JPEG, TIF format, or the same type of files provided as a ZIP file. Documents in MS Word or excel formats, will result in the bid being disqualified.
• Email attachments shall not exceed 4MB; otherwise, the bidder shall send his bid in multiple emails.

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