Consultant - Reviewing / Improving NIF Online Platforms at Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Webcruiter ID: 4208204731
Location: Borno
Full-time / part-time: Full-time
Employment type: Contract
Percentage of full-time: 100

Specific Objectives
Objective 1:

• Ensure the secure hosting of all NIF online platforms and successful migration of relevant platforms from current accounts to NIF owned accounts.
• Review the current hosting plan for the NIF website to ensure it meets a guaranteed minimum uptime of 99.99%, adequate web space for storing resources like reports, assessments, photos, etc. and efficient bandwidth that will ensure a loading time of at most 8.7 seconds.
• Based on the outcome of the review, recommend appropriate and adequate hosting plans for the current domain (and possibly an additional domain) and subscribe for 1 year, with genuine dedicated Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates inclusive.
• Use the Office 365 Business Premium plan to set up NIF Business Email on Office 365 from the current email client. This will include:
• Migration of all existing email contents to the new Office 365 email platform
• Migration of all NIF contents from the current Cloud Storage to OneDrive
• Review the current NIF account on Adobe Creative Cloud and isolate it from its current host by creating a new account.

Objective 2:

• Review and improve the features and functionality of the NIF website.
• Improve and infuse the website interface and navigations with a modern HTML5 responsive template and a simple technology such as Jekyll.
• Ensure all webpages are properly named and coded to meet minimum SEO requirements, as well as easily accessible and compatible with all PCs, tablets and mobile phones.
• Review all contents on the website and ensure they are properly placed and aligned on each web page. Also, ensure all internal and external links on each website menu and within the pages are correctly addressed.
• Create an additional interactive chart section on the NIF website using technology like Data-Driven Documents, FusionCharts or equivalents.
• This section will have a subsection for INGO staffing information
• Data will be represented with responsive and interactive maps and charts (e.g. bar chart, pie chart, ranking chart, etc.)
• Create a simple membership payment portal that processes and tracts member payments as well as sends alert on expiration and invoices
• Update the template on the NIF Survey platform to align with other parts of the NIF website including colours, fonts, and width.

Objective 3:

• Design and develop an online learning and resource portal to support NIF PLRCAP initiative
• The portal will be placed under a sub-directory of the main INGOFORUM.NG domain and or under a separate domain as determined by NIF and linked to NIF main website via the localization page.
• The portal will be designed to have a member-only section and public section. The member section includes participating in national/local CSOs and mentor/twinning partners. Also, a profile page will be created for each member.
• A user-friendly resource library, an improvement over the current Document Bank, will be developed.

Qualifications
Basic Information of the Applicant:

• Details of Full-Time Key personnel
• Details of conducting similar works/with INGOs  
• Details of past and present work are done by the Applicant
• CAC registration
• Details of Physical Resources (Office Accommodation with branch offices if any, Transport if any) of the Applicant
• The financial status of the Applicant
• Tax Clearance.

Consultant Deliverables:

• Planning and delivering results
• NIF business email server on Office 365 platform
• An improved NIF website hosted on a Secured Sockets Layer (SSL) platform with accurate contents and all links properly addressed
• A fully developed and functional online portal for PLRCAP initiative
• NIF-owned domain servers (INGOFORUM.NG and possibly new domain for hosting resources), web host and Adobe Cloud accounts
• A handover notes of the completed project.