Information Management Intern at iMMAP

Reports to:

Capacity Development Team Lead – Maiduguri

Also reports to: Agency/Sector Coordinators – in deployment periods

iMMAP Nigeria – IM Support Context:

Over the last 13 years, insecurity in northeast Nigeria has led to the loss of more than 20,000 lives and the displacement of over two million people. The humanitarian needs of people in the region have increased significantly in 2021. The number of people in need of humanitarian assistance increased from 7.9 million people in 2020 to 8.7 million people at the beginning of 2021. However, the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating these needs, giving rise to an estimated 10.6 million people now in need of urgent humanitarian assistance, including specific actions within the COVID-19 response.

With support from the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, iMMAP continues to support the humanitarian sectors responding to the crisis in northeast Nigeria, by seconding and deploying standby personnel to the Sector Lead Agencies since November 2016. The support includes building the information management capacity of the partners through training.  However, starting from January 2020, the capacity building activities delivered by iMMAP were scaled up to include the internship programme under which at least 16 interns are turned out every project cycle and has so far produced 40 graduated interns. In addition to this, since March 2021, with the collaboration of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), iMMAP started the Humanitarian Information and Analysis Unit (HIAU) to support the collective initiatives and intersectoral information management demands and requests.

Purpose of the Position:

The iMMAP office in Maiduguri is conducting a series of innovative, multi-sectorial and collective analyses and information management support to different initiatives and working groups and would like to engage interns to support agencies and sectors in achieving the analyses and build a network of information management experts.

The regular activities that the interns would conduct during the internship period will not only increase their capacities and skills, but also establish a foundation to develop tools in data mining, data processing (data cleaning, consolidation, reconciliation, validation, classification), visualizations and mapping applications, to engage in data science and data analytics, and potentially to aid sectors and agencies in need of IM support.

Major duties and responsibilities:

Output 1:

Working with Capacity Development team and HIAU Information Management Officers, the interns will:

Activities:

• Identify available data at different levels, including but not limited to surveys, MSNAs, rapid assessments, secondary data reviews and other data that is collected by humanitarian actors and government MDAs in northeast Nigeria.
• Assist HIAU IMOs in information management tasks
• Assist the Capacity Development team in preparing for trainings sessions and following up on trainings assessments. 
• In collaboration with the Capacity Development team and the designated focal points from the HIAU, build a metadata catalogue in relation to activity 1.1

Output 2:

Working with the sector’s/agency’s coordinators and in coordination with HIAU /Capacity Development teams, the interns will:

Activities:

1. Perform wide-ranging and ad-hoc data and information management tasks, as necessary.

Benefit to intern:

• Gain valuable work experience: The intern will gain valuable experience in information management at a big organization
• Develop new skills and refine others: Under the guidance of iMMAP senior staff, the incumbent will set learning objectives, receive feedback, and strengthen existing and develop new skill sets for effective planning exercises, and evaluating systems change initiatives.
• Strengthen future employability: The internship will expose the incumbent to a professional work environment. This experience at iMMAP could strengthen his or her future employability.

Working conditions:

 Office-based internship. The schedule to be agreed with the supervisors.

Duration:

The internshaip will run from 21 February to 20 May 2022.

Qualifications and Competencies required

To be considered for an internship at iMMAP, applicants must meet the following requirements:

• be a graduate or post-graduate student in a field related to computer science, data engineering or data science, information management, social science, or statistics and is not running any programme (academic programme, National Youth service Corps - NYSC, ad-hoc engagements with other organizations etc) that could negatively affect his/her availability;
• be proficient in English language;
• must be an indigenes of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe state
• have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records; and
• have the support for internship by a university, related institution or government.

Additional assignment-specific qualifications:

• Basic understanding and interest in GIS, data analysis, or data for decision making within humanitarian organizations.
• Experience understanding technical requirements to accomplish goals.
• Experience working with non-computer scientists to ensure that project development meets the needs of users.

Competencies

• Analytical rigor
• Tact, diplomacy and political sensitivity.
• Maturity and ability to work and communicate effectively
• Ability to work effectively in a team
• Flexibility in work-planning based on changing needs