Closing Date is 16th October 2023 | Assistant Information Management Officer Job Vacancy In Afghanistan | UNHCR
- Level of Difficulty (not relevant for home-based); E (most difficult)
- Family Type (not relevant for home-based businesses); not a family
- Type of Employee or Affiliate; LICA8 UNOPS
- Goal Start Date; 2023-11-01
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Conditions of Reference
- In March 2008, the UNHCR and IOM together launched the Afghanistan Emergency Shelter and NFI cluster. While ensuring adequate coordination mechanisms and response capacities at national and subnational levels, the ES/NFI cluster continues to coordinate and support access to basic life-saving assistance through the provision of emergency and transitional shelter, shelter repair, rental support, NFIs, and winterization assistance. The ES/NFI cluster has established coordination mechanisms across the eight regions with dedicated National, Subnational Cluster Coordinators and Co-chairs supported by UNHCR/IOM, while the cluster has thirty-four provincial focal points (INGOs & NGOs) at the provincial level to enable coordination functions.
- The National and Subnational Cluster Coordinators’ coordinating roles are supported by the ES/NFI Cluster Assistant Information Management Officer by:
- Act as a leader in crisis and emergency readiness, response, and recovery.
- Collaborate to avoid and lower morbidity and death associated with shelters.
- Ensure actions are founded on evidence, that gaps are filled, and that coordination is sound;
- Improve the responsiveness, predictability, and efficacy of emergency and temporary shelter actions.
TASKS
- Ensure that the ES/NFI Cluster partners deliver accurate data and information on unmet shelter needs as well as support for operational analysis and decision-making in a timely, consistent, and compatible manner
- Encourage the creation and enhancement of field information management SoPs at the national and subnational levels to give cluster partners the best usability and functionality feasible.
- Support information management requirements and strategic analyses for OCHA and other cross-Cluster initiatives.
- Ensure that information management tools that fit the needs of the ES/NFI Cluster are widely distributed and appropriately modified.
- Regularly offer sector-specific maps and visualizations that support impact analysis and forward planning.
- Encourage shelter partners and other stakeholders to use and get training for standard reporting tools.
- Encourage Cluster partners to use interoperable technology.
- Whenever possible, provide information outputs in the local tongue.
- Promote common data standards with partners and assist in their implementation, such as the IASC Common Operational Datasets.
- Compile, consolidate, and analyze the data and information components needed to create standardized information products, and put data/information collection strategies into practice for baseline and context-specific data.
- Assist the operation in performing data quality and consistency control as well as analysis of the information and data that have been processed.
- Assistance with national and local-level interagency information management activities coordination.
- Support national and regional clusters with information management for emergency response.
- Assist in the training of partner personnel engaged in information management tasks, including data entry and collecting teams.
- Encourage the usage of geographic data and make use of it when creating and utilizing maps in geographic information systems (GIS).
- Exchange ES/NFI Cluster data with collaborators and keep records up to date in accordance with predetermined intervals.
- Participate in joint/harmonized needs assessments, lead ES/NFI Rapid Assessment Mechanisms (RAM) with other partners/clusters, and provide technical Information Management support to Needs Assessment processes, specifically in data gathering, processing/collecting, and analysis.
- Perform data quality and consistency control as well as the collection, collation, and processing of information.
- Assist in creating standard reports, templates, and forms while ensuring compliance with international guidelines and working with the appropriate stakeholders.
- Exchange information with ES/NFI partners and keep cluster webpages updated at the agreed-upon intervals.
- Speak with associates and represent the ES/NFI cluster in conferences pertaining to the functions.
- Offer suggestions and counsel on the technical information management needs.
- Help with the teams’ training for data entry and data gathering.
- Carry out additional related tasks as needed. Minimum Requirements
Professional work experience and education
Years of Experience/Level of Education
- For P1/NOA, you must have one year of relevant experience and an undergraduate degree, or you must not have any graduate or doctoral-level experience.
Field(s) of Study
- university degree in the social sciences, demography, statistics, information technology, or a similar field.
Relevant Work History
Essential
- Understanding of the cluster method, humanitarian reform, and transformative agenda in the context of ongoing events within the cluster at the national, sub-national, and international levels.
- Experience working for various international organizations, such as the UN, INGOs, IOs, donors, or the IFRC or ICRC.
- The capacity to create technical specifications and operating guidelines for IM.
- Handling sensitive information with experience, as well as knowledge of various data collection techniques.
- Technical guidelines, norms, and indications regarding shelter knowledge
- Proven aptitude for statistical analysis.
- Programming, web design, and graphic design experience.
- Expertise in multi-variate mapping methods.
- The ability to do basic qualitative and quantitative research, including interviewing methods.
- The capacity to convert technical briefs for data collection and analysis into planning specifications, and vice versa.
Desirable
- It is preferable to successfully complete the Operational Data management Learning Programme.
- It would be ideal if you have experience with related programs including ArcGIS, MapInfo, SPSS, EpiInfo6, SQL Server, and Adobe.
- It’s a plus if you have experience with HTML, PHP, ASP, or Java.
- Has advanced Excel skills, such as those involving pivot tables and functions.
- The capacity to assemble and comprehensively analyze various datasets.
- Strong oral and written presentation abilities.
- Languages: English proficiency is necessary.
Adaptive Skills
- Methods of collecting DM-Data
- Data Management, or DM
- Statistic Analysis in IM
- Interoperability of DM-Data
- data science methods with DM
Language prerequisites
- If English is not the local language, proficiency in the UN working language of the duty station is required for national professional positions.
Additional Requirements
- Skills
- Education
- Certifications
- Experience at Work
Further details
- Only those who have been shortlisted will be invited to take an elimination written exam, which has a passing score of 50%.There is no need for a functional clearance for this post.
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