Information Management Specialist (Child Protection), P-3, Port-au-Prince, Haiti #124856 (6 months)

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 121,529 USD and 159,132 USD.

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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,

In recent years, the impact of migration and forced displacement on children has increased both in scale and complexity, with protracted displacement lasting, on average, an entire childhood. In the challenging context of Haiti, children and adolescents on the move lack access to basic services and protection, which adversely affect their short-term safety and wellbeing and long-term development and quality of life. The Information Management Specialist (Child Protection) main objective is to support UNICEF’s Child Protection Section to be able to deliver on its commitments to children, in line with the Convention of the Rights of the Child, UNICEF Core Commitments for Children and UNICEF Strategic Plan.

How can you make a difference?

Under the overall direction and guidance of the Child Protection Cluster Coordinator, the Information Management Specialist (Child Protection) will provide leadership for the IM function of the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group. They are responsible for ensuring IM processes effectively contribute to a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by participants in the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group 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 Information Management Specialist (Child Protection) is responsible for leading and managing the collection, analysis and sharing of information that is essential for the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group participants to make informed, evidence-based, strategic decisions.

The incumbent is responsible for managing and coordinating the information management function to enable the effective functioning of the AoR/ Sector/ Working Group, and the achievement of the core cluster functions, throughout the Humanitarian Programme Cycle in order to facilitate a timely and effective AoR/ Sector/ Working Group response.

She/He main tasks and responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

Coordination and representation

• 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.

IM function management

• Create and implement of an IM strategy and data collection and analysis plan that take into account the information needs of stakeholders and that 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,
• Analyse 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,
• Analyse 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 analysed, 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.

Strengthen national and local capacity

• 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.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s 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 AoR/ Sector/ Working Group.

  Formal training in AoR/ Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group Information Management is considered an advantage.

  *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.

• 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.

  Experience of demonstrating very strong information management skills in a professional context is essential for this post.

  Experience in a humanitarian context is required, with experience of working in the humanitarian coordination system considered an asset.

• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in French and English are required. Knowledge of another UN official language is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness(3)Drive to achieve results for impact(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others. (8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements. 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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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:

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also 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 a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

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

HAITI IS A NON-FAMILY DUTY STATION WITH A REST & RECUPERATION CYCLE OF SIX WEEKS.