INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OFFICER

Eligibility criteria

Minimum age: 25 years old. Nationals of the country of assignment are not eligible, except the assignments in Headquarters duty stations.

Description of task

Under the direct supervision of Child protection Specialist in Bangui, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

1. Information management system and tools development and maintenance.

• In collaboration with emergency focal points of different partners (Child protection sub cluster), programme staff in zonal offices and the UNICEF M&E Officer design processes and flows for the collection, compilation, analysis of humanitarian data, the definition and harmonization of smart humanitarian and development indicators and targets.
• Actively participate in the relevant meetings to collect/update child protection related information and information management.
• Strengthening interagency child protection information management capacity at the global level
• Improving quality of child protection coordination, specifically on Information management, at field level
• Assist the Child Protection Section in the documentation and dissemination of case studies/good practices in the field. This may also include the drafting of human-interest stories in collaboration with external communications colleagues.
• In collaboration with other child protection colleagues, develop a simple tool for collection of programme related information based on the indicators and level of disaggregation agreed in various programme planning processes such as the Humanitarian Action for Children, the corporate Strategic Monitoring Questions and the Country Office Annual Work Plan.
• Analyse and produce regular statistical data for advocacy, fundraising and programme design and implementation purposes.

2. Decision making support with timely information and accurate analysis products.

• Support strategic and operational decision making by processing and producing evidence-based analysis, and presentation of results in the most appropriate format (e.g. reports, maps, presentations).

3. Capacity building of staff and partners

• Support internal coordination mechanisms to ensure consistency between humanitarian data and indicators with regular programmes data and indicators
• Contribute to build capacities of emergency focal points, UNICEF zonal office’s relevant staff

4. Contribute to donor relations and fund mobilization with contribution to project proposals, donor reports.

• Support child protection and related staff to make sure the project proposals and donor reports are submitted in timely manner.
• Support child protection and related staff to communicate donors, if applicable.

Qualifications/Requirements Required degree level: Master degree or equivalent Education - Additional Comments:

Master’s degree in social sciences, development planning, evaluation, survey implementation, advanced statistical research.

Required experience: 24 Months Experience remark:

Two Professional work experience in programme development and implementation including information management and monitoring and evaluation activities as follows:

• Two years of relevant professional work experience in developing country

• At least one year of exposure to emergency programming, including preparedness planning. Active involvement in a humanitarian crisis response programme preferred

Language skills:

• French(Mandatory), Level - Fluent
• English(Mandatory), Level - Working Knowledge

Area of expertise: Special needs education and literacy, Education policy and planning, curriculum development and teacher training Area of expertise details:

• Support strategic and operational decision making by processing and producing evidence-based analysis, and presentation of results in the most appropriate format (e.g. reports, maps, presentations).

• Support internal coordination mechanisms to ensure consistency between humanitarian data and indicators with regular programmes data and indicators
• Contribute to build capacities of emergency focal points, UNICEF zonal office’s relevant staff

Driving license: No Competencies values:

Accountability, Commitment to Continuous Learning, Communication, Planning and Organizing, Respect for Diversity, 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’ at 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 for to which you would like to apply.

Application deadline: 3rd March 2020