They are responsible for ensuring IM processes effectively contribute to a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the Section and the AoR that is accountable to those who are affected by the emergency. In their effort to enable an efficient and effective response to the humanitarian crisis, the IM Officer is responsible for managing the collection, analysis and sharing of information that is essential for the Section/CPAoR to make informed, evidence-based, strategic decisions and for ensuring they are adequately coordinating with the national level.
Responsibilities:
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).
Support the Child Protection AoR (CPAoR) IM function and ensure effective communication, reporting and engagement.
Represent CPAoR in IM Working Groups at national and sub-national levels, including inter-cluster forums.
Promote harmonized approaches to information management across partners, clusters, and OCHA.
Develop and implement IM strategies and data collection and analysis plan for CPAoR and UNICEF CP Section that consider the information needs of stakeholders and that are compliant with standards and protocols for ethical data and information management and that is aligned with the national level IM strategy and plans.
Conduct secondary data reviews and design primary data collection tools including designing questionnaires using appropriate tools.
Process, validate, and analyse data to ensure quality and reliability.
Produce and disseminate timely, accurate, and accessible information products.
Maintain secure, shared data storage systems and improve IM products based on feedback.
Implement partner presence mapping at national and sub-national level for the CPAoR and UNICEF CP Section.
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.
Monitor and analyse the national and sub-national Cluster financial situation and support financial tracking,
Support and advocate with Cluster 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.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Information Management or Information Systems, GIS Information Technologies, Computer Science, Statistics, Social Sciences or another subject area relevant to Information Management.
A minimum of 3 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.
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.
