Technology Governance Consultant – UNODC (Kenya)

About the role

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) seeks a National Consultant to lead the development of a standardized Criminal Case Taxonomy and associated governance framework for Kenya's justice sector. The consultant will work remotely with travel to focal counties, delivering a suite of technical artefacts to enable interoperable case information exchange.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and deliver an agreed workplan and methodology, including an Inception Report.
• Produce a Baseline System Landscape and Data Inconsistency Report with a field‑by‑field discrepancy matrix.
• Create a Master Classification Registry (MCR) in JSON, XML and CSV, accompanied by a human‑readable PDF reference.
• Design a Unified Data Dictionary and Metadata Schema (JSON Schema/XSD) with supporting technical documentation and legal mapping.
• Draft a Case Information Exchange API Contract (OpenAPI 3.0 YAML) and conduct a validation workshop.
• Prepare a Legacy System Migration and Crosswalk Playbook, providing SQL and Python scripts and an implementation guide.
• Provide a Validation Toolkit including a Python validator, a Postman collection, and pilot findings.
• Develop an Operational Governance Charter, a draft legal notice for gazettement, and a Semantic Versioning protocol for future updates.
• Deliver a final consultancy report in the prescribed template, annexing all deliverables.

Required skills

• JSON
• XML
• CSV
• OpenAPI 3.0 (YAML)
• SQL
• Python
• Postman
• JSON Schema / XSD