Information Management Specialist

As a member of the coordination team, contribute to the effective roll out and monitoring of the core cluster functions (as outlined by the IASC Reference Module) and to the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HNO, HRP and CCPM),

Represent the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group IM function at all levels and coordinate with others within the function to ensure effective communication, reporting and engagement,

Supervise an IM staff member if appropriate, • Actively engage with other IMs through relevant IMWGs, including leading or participating in the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group IMWG and representing the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group on the inter-cluster IMWG,

Promote harmonized and coordinated approaches to IM across partners, AoRs/ Clusters/ Sectors/ Working Groups and OCHA.

Information Management function management:

• Create and implement an IM strategy, a data collection and an analysis plan that consider the information needs of stakeholders and are compliant with standards and protocols for ethical data and information management,
• Implement regular secondary data reviews and primary data collection including designing questionnaires using appropriate tools,
• Conduct data processing including organizing, cleaning, triangulating, evaluating, and validating the data,
• Analyze data to meet identified information needs of AoR/ Sector/ Working Group members and other stakeholders,
• Create accurate, quality, and timely information products that are in line with agreed style guides,
• Disseminate information and information products through appropriate channels,
• Maintain and ensure the accessibility of a common and shared secure storage system,
• Gather feedback on IM products and use to make improvements.
• Needs assessment and analysis.
• Working collaboratively with other members of the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group, contribute to the planning and implementation of needs assessment and analysis, including joint assessments and analysis, at national and subnational levels,
• Collect information on economic needs, markets, and price monitoring to support the equal consideration and use of all programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher, and services),
• Work with AoR/ Sector/ Working Group participants to identify information gaps at national and sub-national levels, agree and implement ways to bridge those gaps by providing technical advice and support to partners,
• Analyze needs assessment data to provide required information for the HNO including estimating People in Need (PIN),
• Compare and align joint needs analysis findings with other AoRs/ Clusters/ Sectors/ Working Groups and participate in developing reports.
• Strategic response planning
• Design and implement partner presence mapping,
• Contribute to strategic planning, response prioritization and the development of the HRP or other response plans as relevant, including the formulation of objectives, indicators and targets, prioritizing response modalities and activities, identifying and quantifying inputs and the curation of data. Resource mobilization
• Monitor and analyse the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group’s financial situation and support financial tracking,
• Support and advocate with AoR/ Sector/ Working Group partners for financial reporting on the Financial Tracking Service (FTS),
• Support evidence-based advocacy and resource mobilization by providing accurate, relevant, and timely data, information and information products. Implementation and monitoring
• Develop, implement, and maintain a AoR/ Sector/ Working Group monitoring plan and associated databases, including a response monitoring (3/4/5Ws) database,
• Ensure the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group monitoring plan, and 3/4/5Ws include programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher, and services), • Support AoR/ Sector/ Working Group members to contribute timely and quality periodic monitoring reports on AoR/ Sector/ Working Group and OCHA platforms,
• Support monitoring in the areas of information flows, dissemination, processing, analysis, and dissemination,
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative gap and coverage analysis to identify spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group humanitarian response,
• Monitor adherence to relevant sector quality standards, regulations, and codes.
• Operational peer review and evaluation
• Lead the annual cluster coordination performance monitoring (CCPM) exercise and annual review,
• Contribute to sectoral and broader humanitarian evaluations. Accountability to affected people.
• Be accountable to affected populations by ensuring the meaningful participation of affected people, maintaining an effective feedback mechanism and handling complaints appropriately, by ensuring data about the most vulnerable is systematically collected and analyzed, and by encouraging partners to work accountably,
• Ensure the inclusion of cross cutting issues (age, disability, gender, gender-based violence (GBV) mitigation and response and HIV & AIDS) in AoR/ Sector/ Working Group data collection, analysis, and dissemination,
• Adhere to child safeguarding and PSEA policies including procedures for challenging and reporting incidents and ensure other members of the IM team comply.
• Take steps to strengthen local and national leadership and capacity by encouraging participation of local and national actors in the IM activities of the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group and providing support to partners to overcome technical and operational challenges in participating in IM activities,
• Design and implement an IM capacity assessment and capacity development plan for AoR/ Sector/ Working Group partners.

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Minimum requirements:

Education:

• Advanced university degree in Information Management or Information Systems, GIS Information Technologies, Computer Science, Statistics, Social Sciences, or another subject area relevant to Information Management or to the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group is required.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in information management, data management, geographical information systems, assessments, situation analysis and/or PM&E with the UN and/or NGO is required.First university degree in computer science, GIS, Engineering, Statics or Social Sciences, combined with 2 additional years of professional experience in IM field may be accepted in lieu of an advanced University Degree. Formal training in AoR/ Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group Information Management is an advantage.
• Experience in a humanitarian contextn and coordination system is an asset.
• Experience outside the humanitarian sector which is relevant to this post may be considered in lieu of humanitarian experience.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and Arabic are required.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/574921