Issue date: Tuesday, 11 August 2026 Proposal deadline: Monday, 17 August 2026 Expected assignment duration: 6–8 weeks
Background:
Ubongo is a Pan-African organization transforming children’s learning through localized, curriculum-aligned educational content. Using storytelling, animation, music, research, and child-centred design, we build foundational literacy, numeracy, STEM, social-emotional, and life skills.
We reach children across Africa through TV, radio, digital platforms, schools, offline technologies, and community partners, including those affected by poverty, displacement, limited connectivity, language barriers, and under-resourced education systems.
Objective:
Ubongo is repositioning its Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning system around a unified impact framework comprising three principal outcome areas:
These are supported by cross-cutting indicators on reach, exposure, engagement, caregivers, teachers, content quality, and programme delivery.
Ubongo therefore seeks a qualified consultant or firm to develop a credible, visually compelling, and practical Impact Dashboard that will provide timely evidence on product, programme, market, and investment performance to support decision-making and communicate impact clearly to the Board, funders, governments, partners, and other stakeholders. It will distinguish between different levels and types of evidence, highlight where evidence is strong, emerging, limited, or incomplete, enable appropriate comparisons across countries, products, platforms, and audience segments, maintain an accessible institutional evidence record, and identify gaps requiring further monitoring, research, or evaluation.
Purpose of the Assignment:
The purpose of the assignment is to consolidate Ubongo’s priority impact indicators and selected datasets into a clear, reliable, and scalable reporting interface. The dashboard will enable Ubongo to track reach across children, caregivers, teachers, and communities; exposure and engagement with Ubongo content; reported value and learning benefits; evidence of cognitive and social equity outcomes; performance across products, countries, platforms, and audience segments; evidence and data-quality gaps; and findings suitable for external communication with appropriate caveats and restrictions. It will also accommodate other priority metrics identified by Ubongo.
The assignment will deliver a functional dashboard alongside a sustainable process for maintaining, governing, interpreting, and communicating the underlying data. The proposed solution should be practical, scalable, and proportionate to Ubongo’s needs, existing infrastructure, and internal capacity, while avoiding unnecessary technical complexity.
Scope of Work
2. Indicator and Dataset Mapping
The consultant will map the priority indicators and datasets approved for Phase 1.
For each indicator, the consultant will document:
The final selection of indicators and datasets will be agreed during inception and should remain proportionate to the Phase 1 timeline.
3. Light Data-Quality and Evidence Review
The consultant will assess the readiness of the selected data, including:
The dashboard must not present evidence of different strengths as though it were methodologically equivalent. Sources, limitations, confidence levels, and caveats should be visible and understandable to non-technical users.
4. Information Architecture, UX and Dashboard Design
The prototype should demonstrate an intuitive, accessible, and visually coherent design that enables non-technical users to quickly understand key insights without unnecessary indicators or technical detail. Filters will be limited to disaggregation supported by the underlying data, including country, reporting period, educational product or content portfolio, distribution platform, age group, gender, and evidence source or type.
5. Dashboard Development
The consultant will also propose a clear approach for distinguishing headline findings suitable for public communication, detailed information for internal decision-making, and restricted, provisional, or insufficiently validated data.
6. Testing and Quality Assurance
All material issues identified during testing will be documented, addressed, and verified before final acceptance.
7. Sustainability, Training and Handover
The consultant will also provide all source files, data models, transformation logic, code, templates, technical documentation, administrator and user guides, and complete a formal technical and administrative handover..
Expected Deliverables:
Expected Timeline:
The assignment is expected to be completed within approximately six to eight weeks of contract signature. The proposed workplan should cover inception and consultation, indicator and dataset mapping, data-readiness assessment, wireframing and prototype approval, dashboard development, testing and revisions, staff training, and final handover. Bidders should also identify key dependencies, review points, and the inputs required from Ubongo to ensure timely delivery.
Required Expertise:
The consultant or firm should demonstrate substantial experience in developing executive, Board, donor, partner, or public-facing impact dashboards, with advanced expertise in Power BI, Tableau, advanced Excel, or other suitable business-intelligence platforms.
They should have experience integrating monitoring, evaluation, research, operational, and audience data of varying methodological strengths, alongside strong information design, data visualization, and dashboard UX/UI capabilities. The team should be able to translate complex evidence into clear insights for non-technical audiences, preferably with experience in education, media, edtech, social impact, international development, or MEL systems.
They should also demonstrate knowledge of indicator governance, evidence classification, responsible external communication, maintainable system design, user training, data protection, information security, access controls, and strong documentation, communication, and project-management skills.
Experience working with organizations operating across multiple African countries and languages will be considered an advantage.
Management and Reporting:
The consultant will report to Ubongo’s MEL Manager and collaborate with designated representatives from Product, Development and Fundraising, Technology and Data, and other relevant teams.
Ubongo will provide:
Data Security, Confidentiality and Ownership:
All data and outputs must be handled confidentially and securely, with data used only for the contracted work and any temporary copies outside Ubongo systems approved in advance and deleted after handover. All dashboard files, datasets, models, calculations, code, credentials, documentation, templates, and other deliverables will be exclusively owned by Ubongo and stored within Ubongo-controlled infrastructure. The solution must enable full Ubongo ownership and independent maintenance, without permanent consultant hosting, restrictive proprietary dependencies, or limitations on Ubongo’s administrative control.
Proposal Requirements
Interested consultants or firms should submit:
Selection Considerations
Proposals will be assessed based on the bidder’s understanding of the assignment and Ubongo’s needs, the quality and practicality of the proposed approach, relevant experience in dashboard development, data visualization, and evidence management, and the quality of previous work. Assessment will also consider sustainability, security, ownership and handover arrangements, team qualifications and availability, the realism of the proposed workplan, and overall value for money.
Ubongo reserves the right to seek clarification, request a presentation or demonstration, contact references, negotiate the final scope and budget, or decline any or all proposals.
Submit to: [email protected] and copy [email protected]
Deadline: Monday 17 August 2026.
Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.
Open job postingAbout the company
Ubongo is a non-profit social enterprise that creates fun, free, localized educational media for children in Africa. They produce animated shows, games, and other content designed to inspire learning and critical thinking.