DFID 7732 Teacher Payroll Cleaning and Status Verification Task In Sierra Leone - Contract

The scope and focus of the assignment is to provide technical, strategic and implementation support for 1) conducting a bottoms-up verification of existing teacher payrolls and 2) delivering a clean payroll to MEST and the TSC to manage which is accepted by all key stakeholders.

The task will include the following:

"Bottom-up" cleaning the payroll: Process focused on detailed, school-by-school verification of all educators to ensure 1) "false data records" are removed from wage vouchers, 2) all teacher qualifications are updated to ensure fair pay and administrative understanding of qualified teacher gaps in the future. Based on best practices and past experiences from Sierra Leone, there is a need to urgently develop a holistic strategy and plan for how this "bottom up" cleaning process will happen.

Scope will include:

Collaborating with MEST, TSC, and PDT governance teams to develop a methodology and detailed processes for cleaning payroll based on experiences from other countries as well as past experiences in Sierra Leone.

Collaborating with MEST, TSC, and PDT governance teams to develop and roll out a stakeholder management and communications strategy. This will include sharing objectives, goals, and timelines for the payroll cleaning verification with the Conference of Principals, the Head Teachers' Council, and Sierra Leone Teachers' Union.

Involving donor partners for input on the outlined strategy, process, approach, risk mitigation plan, and responsibilities for execution.

Performing "bottom up" payroll cleaning process, and verifying teachers against teachers listed on wage vouchers.

Developing and managing a process to verify legitimate teachers who have been mistakenly removed from the payroll and reinstate them.

Verifying and updating records of all teacher qualifications and the position held by a teacher in a specific school to ensure fair pay and administrative understanding of qualified teacher gaps in the future.