IFES шукає Consultant on electoral process digitalization

The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), a non-profit international organization, supports citizens’ right to participate in free and fair elections. Our independent expertise strengthens electoral systems and builds local capacity to deliver sustainable solutions. As the global leader in democracy promotion, we advance good governance and democratic rights by providing technical assistance to election officials, and by empowering the underrepresented to participate in the political process. Since 1987, IFES has worked in over 145 countries – from developing democracies, to mature democracies.

Cybersecurity remains a critical and pressing issue in Ukraine. Successful cyber-attacks could have an irreparable impact to electoral integrity, damaging the foundation of trust in the electoral process and tampering with citizen’s democratic rights. IFES has worked diligently with a range of security and electoral actors to ensure that electoral cyber infrastructure is updated and protected, that civil society have the tools they need to protect themselves, and that Ukraine is constantly learning, adapting and being vigilant to increasingly sophisticated attacks by malevolent actors.

IFES is seeking qualified Consultant on electoral process digitalization to develop electoral dataflow business model for parliamentary and presidential elections based on UDEMS concept, adopted by the CEC decision #447 from Oct 29, 2021 and to provide analysis of existing catalogues, digital libraries and datasets to be processed by the UDEMS according to the concept, adopted by the CEC decision #447 from Oct 29, 2021.

Period of performance: March 4, 2024 – March 4, 2025

Number of working days: 45

Scope of Work:

• Development of business model for constant electoral dataflow creation, processing, maintenance, storage, and publishing through the whole electoral period of parliamentary and presidential elections;
• Develop datasets (parliamentary and presidential elections) for every election contestants’ role: candidate, election commission members, candidates’ trustees, candidates’ representatives etc. Study possibilities and provide conclusions to verify datasets by automatic accessing to public registers;
• Develop election data catalogues by types of information required under the legislation of Ukraine;
• Review legislative requirements to election protocols (polling station, precinct election commission), forms and samples of different level’s election commission decisions for development automated templates (web-forms);
• Analysis of existing in the CEC and State Voters Registry catalogues, digital libraries and datasets to be processed by the UDEMS and develop proposals for datasets and catalogues updating, actualizing and publishing in the form of open data;
• Develop proposals on the datasets from public registers to be integrated with UDEMS under the concept, adopted by the CEC decision #447 from Oct 29, 2021.

Deliverables:

• Electoral dataflow business model for parliamentary and presidential elections is developed (narrative report in MS Word and Power Point presentation);
• description of datasets for election contestants’ roles is developed accompanied with proposals on legislative problems if any (narrative report in MS Word and Power Point presentation);
• election data catalogues by types of information required under the legislation accompanied with proposals on legislative problems if any (narrative report in MS Word and Power Point presentation);
• samples of web-forms for the whole electoral period of parliamentary and presidential elections are drawn (Power Point presentation);
• proposals on the datasets from public registers to be integrated with UDEMS containing integration approach are developed (narrative report in MS Word format).

 PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree or equivalent is required in mathematics, computer science, electoral technology, law or public administration.
• At least 5 years of experience in leadership with successfully completed projects in the field of election digital transformation in Ukraine;
• Demonstrated technical experience in leading election projects, including on ICT solutions for election commissions at different levels, digital transformation, e-services, electronic participation and democracy;
• Professional experience of working with the international organizations would be an asset;
• Demonstrated expertise in new technologies and digital transformation processes.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Knowledge of the English language would be an advantage.

TRAVEL: Travel may be required.

Interested candidates are invited to submit their CV and letter of interest, with “Consultant on electoral process digitalization” in the subject line, to Kateryna Polishchuk at [email protected] and Diana Koval at [email protected] by no later than February 26, 2024, 18:00 Kyiv time. 

All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment/promotions and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, race, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. IFES encourages people with disabilities and from other diverse backgrounds to apply.