Information Management Officer (NOB), Kabul, Afghanistan

Contract

This is a NO-2 contract. This kind of contract is known as National Professional Officers. It is normally only for nationals. It's a staff contract. More about NO-2 contracts.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, Health!

Working for UNICEF: https://youtu.be/43aiG4w2q_M?t=2

UNICEF in Afghanistan: https://www.unicef.org/afghanistan/

How can you make a difference?

Key Responsibilities

The incumbent will work under the overall supervision of the IM Specialist (P3), in close collaboration with the M&E Manager Health Section and Programme Monitoring and Evaluation section. This position is based in the Afghanistan Country Office in Kabul, Afghanistan, with frequent travel to the field. The Information Management Officer will support UNICEF Health section in the humanitarian as well as sector programs (as defined in annual rolling work plan) and will contribute to the provision of useful, valid and reliable information.

• Support Health programmes with data QA, data compilation and analysis
  • Support the development and maintenance of UNICEF health programme’s internal Information Management tools (both MHNTs and Sehatmandi project)
  • Ensuring compliance and consistency of data reported in UNICEF platforms, by providing technical support to ensure standard performance indicators (global or regional) are well-known and used by COs with appropriate levels of disaggregations (e.g. by gender, age, disability, location etc.)
  • Maintain database of relevant and up-to-date information e.g., health facilties mapping, partners mapping, data trends analysis and triangulate data from internal or external sources that would be useful for UNICEF’s programme
  • Support health section to identify critical data gaps, and advise on design mechanisms for collecting, storing and analyzing information, including using technologies for digital data collection
  • Backstop IM Specialist on dashboards management by technically supporting issues through programming skills.
• Increasing the use of information by health section and partners, through the delivery of quality Data Visualization and reporting products
  • Contribute to the design and provide technical support to the use of data visualization products (including maps, dashboards, infographics and financial / resource analyses) that presents information in a way that is easily understood by various decision makers, individuals and zonal offices.
  • Help maintain templates for relevant information products suitable to specific purposes and audiences
  • Help respond to data visualization requests from senior management, including products to support advocacy and resource mobilization efforts
  • Consider the use of innovative tools for data visualisation including online mapping, as relevant/applicable
• Strengthening information and data dissemination
  • Support the access and the utilization of effective methods and platforms to standardize and share programme data and humanitarian response information (e.g. on the website, mailing lists, Share Point, etc.), to strengthen the knowledge transfer
  • Prepare and maintain catalogues of IM and data products for the programmes and for humanitarian response ·
• Building capacity for Information Management to UNICEF staff, implementing partners and governments
  • Contribute to the design and delivery of capacity development activities and resources for UNICEF staff, implementing partners, government and agencies with a particular focus to those engaged in humanitarian response.
  • Support the documentation of lessons learnt from UNICEF IM and monitoring activities to identify priority areas for consideration, analysis and research in emergency context.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• A university degree in information management, computer sciences, social sciences, statistics, planning development, public health, or related field.
• A minimum of two years of relevant professional experience in programme development and implementation, including monitoring and evaluation activities.
• Experience in programming languages like Python, R, SQL, is required.
• Strong excel skills, PowerBI and dashboards is required.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

Competencies

• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
• Works Collaboratively with others (1)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
• Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Female applicants are highly encouraged to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

The successful candidate for this emergency recruitment must be available to commence work within one month of receiving an offer.