Information Management Officer at UNICEF

Job Number: 533750
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Work Type: Temporary Appointment

Purpose of the Assignment

• A well-run cluster with Information Management is a formal deliverable of the Cluster Lead Agency and forms a part of the agency’s work.
• The Information Management Officer is a core Cluster Coordination team member. The purpose of this post is to manage the collection, analysis and sharing of information that is important for the Cluster participants to make informed, evidence-based, strategic decisions.

Major Responsibilities

• Respond to the Cluster participants’ needs for information
• Adapt existing in-country information management approaches for collecting, analysing and reporting Cluster activities and resources, and identifying information gaps
• Establish and maintain information databases that consolidate, analyse and report / disseminate information critical to decision making
• Maintain monthly reporting from Cluster participants, including 5Ws (‘Who does What, Where, When and for Whom?’ databases)
• Support the estimation of spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of Cluster activities and projects.
• Work with Cluster / participants to identify information gaps at national and sub-national levels and propose ways to bridge those gaps
• Work with the OCHA Information Management Specialist to develop appropriate supportive strategies
• Use GIS for map production and geographic data management
• Adopt and promote the use of global standards for information management for inter-operability
• Manage flows of information and dissemination in an appropriate way, including website management
• Manage an inventory of relevant documents on the humanitarian situation
• Support the development and analysis of needs assessment and monitoring programmes
• Provide information management leadership in assessments and monitoring, including joint assessments and training
• Lead on the preparation of SitRep inputs with emphasis on Cluster plans, targets and achievements
• Develop and strengthen information management capacity through the training of Cluster members
• Contribute to the core cluster functions
• Ensure that there is effective communication, reporting, engagement and coordination between the national and sub-national clusters

Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Required
Education:

• University degree in a subject area relevant to Information Management is required.
• Extensive work experience relevant to the post with a university degree in any other discipline may be considered as a replacement for a university degree in information management.
• Formal training in cluster information management is an advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of professional work experience in information management preferably with NGOs / INGOs and / or the UN is required. Experience in major emergency response relevant to the cluster is highly desirable.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English required. Working knowledge of the local language at the duty station is a strong asset.

Core Values:

• Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability

Skills and Competencies:

• Understands key technical issues for the cluster sufficiently well enough to be able to: engage with cluster participants; understand their cluster-specific information management needs
• Excellent knowledge of MS Excel or 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
• Knowledge of establishing and managing basic websites (e.g. UNOCHA’s Humanitarian Response platform)
• Proven skills in GIS and in using map-making packages
• Skills in web design and software development are an asset
• Understands the rationale behind Humanitarian Reform, its main components and recent developments including the Transformative Agenda
• Understands uses and adapts the tools, mechanisms and processes developed as part of Humanitarian Reform
• Demonstrates commitment to Humanitarian Principles
• Demonstrates commitment to Principles of Partnership
• Communicates works and networks effectively with a wide range of people to reach broad consensus on a well-coordinated response, and demonstrates leadership where required
• Thinks and acts strategically and ensures that cluster activities are prioritized and aligned within an agreed strategy
• Demonstrates commitment to the cluster and independence from employing organisation

View our competency framework at: http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/UNICEF_Competencies.pdf