Associate Information Management Officer

Contract

This is a UNV International Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as International UN Volunteer. It is normally internationally recruited only. More about UNV International Specialist contracts.

Description of task

Under the direct supervision of Associate Data Management Officer with focus on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and Spoteneous Refugee Return (SRR) the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Assist in the recruitment and training ofdata collectors and data entry personnel, if requested
• Supporting data collection for spontaneous refugee return (SRR) monitoring and IDP movement through designing data collection tools, supervising data collection and performing data quality check.
• Performing data analysis/visualization for SRR and IDP and develop the needed IM products.
• Responding to report requests from UNHCR units and partners regrading SRR and IDPs.
• Participating in internal/external SRR and IDP meetings and presentations.
• Participate in IM coordination activities with partners such as cross-border and IMWG meetings.
• Acting a data/information visualization and GIS focal point and support different units with standard and ad-hoc infographics and maps in addition to building capacities in this regard.
• Design and develop questionnaire in Kobo and train data collectors on use of data collection methodologies, tools and techniques
• Provide technical support related to Spontaneous Refugee Returnees to SO, FO’s and FU’s in South Sudan.
• Conduct the verification/screening of PSNs in Collective Sites/IDP Camps in SO’s, FO’s and FU’s in South Sudan
• Support the design and deployment of CBI Post Distribution Monitoring (PDM) tool as part of support to both Livelihoods and Community Based Protection (CBP) team.
• Consolidate and analyse the Quarterly direct implementation and partners datasets including reports generation for all the field offices and country level consolidation.
• Support the verification and return/relocation of IDPs Protection of Civilian Site (POCs) to various destinations in the country
• Consolidated, designed and maintained datasets for IDP returns/relocations request from all the field offices and Juba and publish dashboard on a monthly basis.
• Developed a one pager dashboard for IDP statistics in the country on a monthly basis.
• Supported IDP unit in compilation of midyear statistics.
• Design and develop various maps/dashboard using ArcGIS, PowerBI and Advance Excel
• Participate actively in the various Solutions Working Groups meetings to discuss returns.
• Represented the IDP unit in the IDP displacement tracking led by OCHA and in Information Management Working Group.
• Generated maps and conducts frequent updates such as IDP returnee’s location, IDP statistics in the country, IDP operation presence as well as UNHCR offices including pillar IV implementing partners.
• Support partners with the installation of Kobo collect on tablets and uploaded with Protection Monitoring Tools and PSNs verification and screening tools.
• Provide support and guidance to partners on how to use the protection cluster 5Ws Kobo tool and consolidated datasets on a monthly basis.
• Assisit with drafting of country/operation-specific Information Management Strategy and define operational and funding requirements for the implementation of the strategy.
• Support the promotion of data and information sharing within the humanitarian community as well as the adoption of global data standards, and where appropriate, the establishment of country-specific common data standards.
• Identify and obtain the needed data and information elements required to produce standardized information products and design and manage respective data/information collection plans for baseline and context-specific data.
• Assist or maintain effective linkage to cluster coordination processes;
• Undertake field missions and support field offices as deemed necessary by the senior management.
• Build the Information Management Capacity of national and local government, partners and civil society to assume their responsibilities vis-à-vis all persons of concern through training on operations data management and Information Management, mainstreaming and related activities.
• In South Sudan humanitarian cluster system, contribute to protection information management through provision of disaggregated data on populations of concerns and their problems through collection and dissemination of relevant protection information and good practices to enhance protection delivery and provide technical advice where necessary.
• Other duties as required.

Educational additional comments

Information technology, demography, statistics, social sciences or any related area.

Experience remark

A minimum of 2 years of experience in the production of public information materials and working with the media.

Language skills

• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent
• Arabic(Optional), Level - Working Knowledge

Area of expertise details

Experience with relevant software such as: ArcGIS, Mapinfo, SPSS, EpiInfo6, HTML, PHP, ASP, Java, Ms Access, SQL, progress) is desirable.

Free text to add other skills/experience and qualifications.

• Knowledge of the UN system and the humanitarian community
• Knowledge of protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators

• Successful participation in the Operational Data management Learning Programme is desirable or related cources

• Proven skill to analyse statistical information

• Ability to formulate IM-related technical requirements and Operating Procedures.
• Ability to translate planning-specifications into technical briefs for data capture and analysis, and vice versa.
• Ability to compile and holistically analyse diverse datasets.
• Experience with handling confidential data.
• Demonstrated understanding of different data collection methodologies.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills.
• Successful participation in the Operational Data management Learning Programme is desirable.
• Experience in web design and software development is an asset.

Competencies values

Accountability, Adaptability and Flexibility, Commitment to Continuous Learning, Communication, Integrity, Planning and Organizing, Professionalism, Working in Teams

Application procedure

• Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool? Please first register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup. Important: After creating your account, complete all sections of your profile and submit it. Then go to ‘My Page’ https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink. Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply. * Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool? Please first update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to apply. Application deadline: 12 August 2021