Nutrition Cluster Information Management Officer, NOB, Fixed Term, Port Sudan, Sudan. #128650

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Humanitarian action is of fundamental importance to UNICEF and encompasses interventions aimed at saving lives, alleviating suffering, maintaining human dignity, and protecting the rights of affected populations wherever there are humanitarian needs, as well as interventions addressing underlying risks and causes of vulnerability to disasters, fragility, and conflict. UNICEF’s humanitarian action is guided by the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs) which set organizational, programmatic, and operational commitments and benchmarks against which UNICEF holds itself accountable for the coverage, quality, and equity of its humanitarian action and advocacy and which are mandatory for all UNICEF personnel.

UNICEF is committed to supporting humanitarian coordination through the cluster approach. Introduced as part of the humanitarian reform, the cluster approach aims at ensuring clear leadership, predictability, and accountability in international responses to humanitarian emergencies by clarifying the division of labor among organizations and better defining their roles and responsibilities within the different sectors involved in the response. As Cluster Lead Agency (CLA) for Nutrition, UNICEF is committed to fulfilling the core functions defined by the IASC when the clusters are activated as in the case of Sudan. A well-run Cluster coordination team is a formal deliverable of the Cluster Lead Agency and forms a part of the agency’s work.

Following the conflict that erupted in mid-April 2023 in Sudan, the need for timely collection, analysis and sharing of reports and other updates with partners and strategic stakeholders has increased significantly, with the reporting schedule shifted from monthly to fortnightly. Addressing these rapidly evolving needs calls for a strong technical capacity on nutrition Information management that can meet and cope with the ever-growing information needs and timely reporting. UNICEF as the cluster/sector lead agency is committed to ensuring that the nutrition cluster is staffed with a dedicated technical capacity to facilitate effective and efficient implementation of the core nutrition cluster functions.

Job organizational context: The Information Management Officer (IMO) will execute the Information Management (IM) functions for Sudan Nutrition cluster/Sector initially for a duration of one year with a possibility of extension depending on performance. The IMO will report to the Nutrition cluster coordinator. The IMO will collaborate with the country office emergency team and nutrition information management staff as well as partners nutrition management focal points within UNICEF and across other clusters as needed.

How can you make a difference?

Purpose of the job: The Information Management Officer is a core Cluster/Sector Coordination team member. The purpose of this position is to implement, manage and provide technical capacity support and information management systems for the Nutrition Cluster in Sudan. This include managing the collection, analysis, storage and sharing of important information with nutrition cluster participants and stakeholder to make informed (evidence-based) strategic decisions. This will be done through the synthesis of nutrition information and preparation of reports, creation/updating of national and subnational level dashboards, early warning and early action analysis at various levels, preparing updates for regular and strategic sector meetings at national and sub national levels.

Key function, accountabilities, and related duties/tasks:

The key function of the IMO is to implement and reinforce and the information management systems at the national and sub-national level in Sudan,

The responsibilities of the IMO include:

• In collaboration with the nutrition sector/cluster partners, review the nutrition sector/cluster information management systems and support cluster/sector coordination team and partners to address identified gaps.
• Use GIS and other tools to prepare accurate, quality, and timely IM products such as maps, interactive dashboards, infographics etc at National and State levels and geographic data management for country and sub national level outlook.
• Adopt and promote the use of global standards on information management for comparability.
• Conduct data collection, processing including cleaning, validating, analysis of nutrition data and information important to the nutrition sector/cluster
• Disseminate information and information products that has been cleared through appropriate channel to nutrition sector partners and stakeholders.
• Gather feedback on IM products and use to make improvements.
• Support in updating Nutrition Cluster/Sector partners capacity mapping, 4Ws, partners funding status and any other IM products.
• Prepare admissions trends to guide in identifying and flagging sites where nutrition situation is rapidly evolving for timely actions
• Conduct triangulation analysis and convergency of responses based on data and information from other sectors/clusters such as Health, WASH, Food Security and Livelihood etc,
• Support in preparing and conducting monitoring of the malnutrition risk factors based on framework that will be agreed by nutrition sector partners, map how they are evolving and impacting nutrition
• Actively participate in the development of the nutrition sector/cluster HNRP as well as the nutrition sector annual work plan as it might arise.
• Prepare deliverables and inputs/products and submit to OCHA as part of the nutrition sector/cluster obligations to the HPC reporting cycle and tools.
• In collaboration with partners conduct nutrition data quality analysis at both national and sub national level and prepare plan to address data quality gaps identified.
• Contribute to and support consolidation of sector quarterly bulletins, sitreps and regular information updates, including nutrition assessments related updates
• Support evidence-based advocacy and resource mobilization by providing accurate, relevant, and timely data, information, and information products.
• Develop and maintain catalogs of IM and data products, including maps and assessments.
• Promote and provide training and capacity building activities to the Nutrition Cluster/sector partners on existing and new tools, reporting, use of the IM outputs, etc.
• Support sub national coordinators and IMOs in conducting monthly analysis and interpretation of nutrition data and other contextual information that might be collected in the hub/states
• updating the nutrition sector webpage on the humanitarian relief web managed by OCHA regularly
• Represent the nutrition Sector/cluster in the Information Working Group coordinated by OCHA
• Prepare ad hoc data collection tools, analyse, and respond timely to partners and stakeholders’ data and information requests as needed
• Participate and support the implementation of annual cluster coordination performance monitoring (CCPM) exercise and annual review and work plan
• Follow up nutrition sector partners reporting on AAP, analyses the implementation based on agreed tools and indicators and update partners through nutrition sector/cluster forum.
• Adhere to child safeguarding and PSEA policies including procedures for challenging and reporting incidents and ensure other members of the IM team comply.
• Support other IM needs that align with CLARE II recommendations
• Perform any other IM related activity as might arise.

Impact of Results:

The IMO provides IM support to Sudan Nutrition cluster partners and reinforces the capacity of and collaborates other clusters IMOs in UNICEF, the FMOH and /or States and/or NGO partners, OCHA. This contributes to the predictability and accountability of humanitarian action, in line with the aims of the cluster approach and IASC principles, and ensures that the humanitarian response is well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, effective and builds the resilience of the affected population.

It is also envisaged that, the nutrition cluster IMO will contribute to improve timely availability of nutrition data and information and therefore guide sector strategic decision making, planning and advocacy based on well-generated evidence. It also contributes to maintaining and enhancing the credibility and ability of UNICEF to fulfil its commitments as Cluster Lead Agency, in line with the CCCs.

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Minimum requirements:

• Education: A university degree in one of the following fields is required: Information Management or Information Systems, GIS Information Technologies, Computer Science, Statistics, Social Sciences or another subject area relevant to Information Management or to the Cluster Working Group. Formal training in Cluster Working Group Information Management or an advanced university degree are considered an added advantage.
• Work Experience: A minimum of 2 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. Experience in demonstrating strong information management skills in a professional context is essential for this post.
• Skills:

The post holder must demonstrate excellent knowledge and skills in the following areas:

• Humanitarian architecture, cluster approach and core functions
• Humanitarian principles, standards and guidelines
• Nutrition in Emergencies principles, standards, concepts, tools and resources
• IM technical knowledge and skills
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English and Arabic language is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Desirables:

• Experience in demonstrating strong information management skills in a professional context is essential for this post.
• Experience in a humanitarian context is an asset.
• Experience working in the humanitarian coordination system is considered an asset.
• Extensive work experience outside the humanitarian sector which is relevant to this post may be considered in lieu of humanitarian experience. Such experience should elicit demonstrated ability to adapt to change, working under pressure & unusual circumstances such as missing data/gaps.

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The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

Core Competencies for Staff without Supervisory Responsibilities

1. Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
2. Works Collaboratively with Others (1)
3. Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
4. Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
5. Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
6. Drives to Achieve Impactful Results (1)
7. Manages Ambiguity and Complexity (1)

IM Competencies

• Applies Humanitarian Principles, Standards and Guidelines (1)
• Applies Key NiE Concepts and Tools (1)
• Operates Safely and Securely (1)
• Demonstrates Commitment to a Coordinated Response (1)
• Promotes Cooperation and Collaboration (1)
• Demonstrates Accountability (1)
• Promotes Inclusion (1)
• Provides Reliable Support to the Cluster (1)
• Collects Relevant Data (1)
• Handles and Stores Data Efficiently and Sensitively (1)
• Communicates and Disseminates Information (1)
• Monitors the Response (1)
• Strengthens National Capacity to Respond and Lead (1)

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Remarks:

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