Information Management Specialist (IMS)-International Consultancy (For Non South Sudanese

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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

This post will provide support to UNICEF South Sudan in information management for improved risk informed response to enable enhanced programmatic and operational decision making, and emergency preparedness and response to ensure effective service delivery. South Sudan faces multiple hazards and shocks including, persistent Sub-National conflict, severe flooding, and limited economic stability. 2 million people are internally displaced, and 8.9million are in need of assistance. Disease outbreaks are common, and preventable diseases widespread, food insecurity and malnutrition have worsened, and women and girls face extreme levels of gender-based violence. Much of the limited essential service infrastructure (health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education) has been further damaged, destroyed or closed due to conflicts or floods.

Integrated interventions are essential while ensuring the underlying determinants, such as access to un-disrupted essential health services are addressed. Based on the scale and multi-layered dimension of interventions, and the humanitarian context, there is a need for solid risk and impact analysis, mapping, monitoring, through improved systems to analyse, inform and coordinate action. As well as regular reporting requirements, understanding progress and impact of UNICEF Support services is essential to ensure an accountable, timely, and relevant response and monitoring that informs evidence-based decision making. Streamlined systems for data analysis and reporting, as well as visualization are essential, both for internal monitoring and planning, and external visibility and reporting.

It is essential to have dedicated information management to develop and lead response monitoring, impact monitoring and inter-sector analysis and mapping. The IMS will build on the IM framework for field operations, including aligning core indicators, tools, triggers, templates, and data management systems. The position will provide capacity building and support to sections to enable use of platforms and tools, monitoring and reporting, as well as quality control. The post will lead on mapping of key UNICEF supported infrastructure and the risk informed response platform to enable programmatic analysis and evidence to inform actions. This position will work closely with UNICEF programs, operations, cross-sectoral areas and field offices to support comprehensive decision making and analysis.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

The post holder is responsible for Information Management, including data management, analysis, mapping and reporting under field operations. As an active UNICEF of the Emergency and Access Unit the Information management specialist will ensure efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNICEF and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including:

• Lead on maintaining UNICEF ArcGIS platform for ‘Risk Informed Response’ (RiR). Work with program sections and across agencies to ensure required data is embedded and consolidated to analyse trends, and report/disseminate information to inform critical to decision making; i.e. disease trends, displacement, floods.
• Update and manage data bases of UNICEF supported facilities to map coverage and reach, as well as program impact by overlaying critical datasets, including disease prevalence.
• Provide analytics and static maps to inform program decision making in accordance with needs. Including, impact of floods, conflict, etc, based on program need to support advaocy and timely action and decision making.
• Review existing tools for collecting, analysing and reporting activities, and identifying information gaps.
• Support and maintain monitoring and reporting databases that consolidate, analyse and report/disseminate inter-sector / contextual information critical to decision making.
• Support monthly reporting requirements and develop visual reporting products and systems, as well as donor requirements for analysis and visualization, ensuring reporting and monitoring are aligned and at quality standards.
• Work with SSPME, Field Operations and Program to develop relevant, streamlined IM Systems and products;
• Ensure quality inputs to adhoc sitreps, response monitoring, mapping and monitoring on request
• Support the estimation of spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of activities .
• Participate in inter-agency and cluster IM activities, and building IM networks, identifying areas for collaboration.
• Lead capacity building of field and program teams on new Information Management/ Coordination/reporting tools;
• Prepare regular information products, such as the SitReps, presentations, Overviews, and an emergency dashboard;
• Respond to the Program and Field Office needs for support in information/data related.
• Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities assigned

Scope of Work:

The IMS is to support UNICEF South Sudan on maintaining informaiton databases, analyzing risks and data and disseminating relevant products and information to support evidence-based response planning, better understand program impact, drive the development of strategies, innovation and multi-sectoral programmes to improve well-being of children. The successful candidate will be predominantly located in the UNICEF Country Office based in Juba where the incumbent will be attending meetings at various UN and non-UN compounds throughout the capital city. The incumbent may be expected to travel to the field to UNICEF locations to support informaiton management and risk analysis skills building of field teams to inform local response decision making.

Work Assignment Overview/ Deliverables/Outputs:

Timely Maintaining and updating of UNICEF Risk Informed Response platform in collaboration with country office, regional and HQ teams

• RiR platform comprehensive and updated

Produce analysis on humanitarian indicators, UNICEF facilities, programs, and hazards to improve programmatic decision making for World Bank-funded programmes and beneficiaries

• Context, programme (RiR) analysis products disseminated

Produce analysis by State and Administrative Area on shocks, hazards, and humanitarian and program indicators. Produce thematic analysis including, but not limited to, disease prevalence, floods, on-going emergencies and the impact on children

• Context, programme (RiR) analysis products

disseminated

Produce quality inputs, including dashboard, SitReps, maps and infographics for regular and ad-hoc reporting requirements

• Quality reporting products disseminated

Lead on internal capacity building sessions with programmatic sections, field offices and emergency team on UNICEF risk informed response platform, IM tools and products

• Capacity building sessions held and documented

Participate in internal weekly meetings including but not limited to Chief of Field Office, EOT, outbreak taskforce and inter-agency IM meetings and cluster meetings (bi-weekly)

• Notes shared and required quality inputs to meeting provided

Participate in UNICEF programme and emergency meetings on request to provide specific analysis, situation updates and / or recommendations for programming

• Notes shared and required quality inputs to meeting provided

Produce ad hoc analysis / information products on defined programmes, geographic areas and / or thematic areas, as required

• Quality IM products / analysis disseminated

Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required

Advanced University Degree (masters) in a subject area relevant to information management, GIS, data management

Five years’ work experience in related area of the function of this post.

Formal training in data / information management and GIS an advantage

Experience working on integration of contextual and programmatic data in humanitarian and development programming is an asset.

Excellent knowledge of MS Excel / MS Access (e.g. pivot tables and functions); proven technical expertise for managing data capture and storage, for analysing diverse datasets, and presenting information in understandable tables, charts, graphs and reports;

Excellent knowledge and experience with software, including ArcGIS, Mapinfo, SPSS, EpiInfo6, SQL Server, and/or progress. Experience with HTML, PHP, ASP and/or Java is an asset.

Proven skills in using GIS and map‐making packages, and in web design and software development are an asset

Understands key technical issues for the humanitarian sector sufficiently to be able to engage with sector participants and understand sector‐specific information management needs

Ability to translate planning-specifications into analytical and technical briefs for data capture and analysis, and vice versa for programming and external audiences

Ability to compile and holistically analyze diverse datasets

Experience working in complex emergencies and applying analysis to problem solving in difficult humanitarian responses

Experience in South Sudan is an asset.

Language Requirements:

English Fluency required

Other local language is an asset

Payment Schedule

Payment will be done upon delivery of key task and submission of all necessary reports as stipulated in the detailed in the vacancy announcement.

https://www.unicef.org/southsudan/

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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:

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. The candidate may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).