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Information Management Specialist (Food Security Cluster)

Job Posting: 11/Dec/2024

Closure Date: 25/Dec/2024, 10:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit : FRSOM

Job Type: Non-staff alternatives

Type of Requisition : NPP (National Project Personnel)

Grade Level : N/A

Primary Location: Somalia-Mogadiscio

Duration : Up to six months (Renewable topic to efficiency and availability of funds)

Post Number : N/A

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Organizational Setting

The key mission of the FAO Representation in Somalia, which is led by FAO Representative (FAOR), is to help and assist the nationwide authorities to develop insurance policies, methods and programme aimed toward accelerating the Implementation and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in FAO’s world mandate and Strategic Objectives. More particularly, FAO’s response goals to handle nationwide wants and priorities in attaining meals safety, lowering starvation and malnutrition, growing agricultural, fishery and forestry sectors, and guaranteeing the sustainable use of environmental and pure sources and reply to recurrent emergencies. The present portfolio of actions of the FAO Representation in Somalia features a vast scope of technical assist interventions starting from coverage assist via livestock and crop manufacturing, to pure useful resource administration, Nutrition, worth chain, meals safety evaluation and water and land info administration. FAO can be implementing a number of emergency, resilience-building and improvement interventions, with the assist of its 5 discipline workplaces and near 400 employees in partnership with the Federal and State line ministries.

The grade of the place is SC 10.

Reporting Lines

The place is below the general supervision of the FAO Representative in Somalia and the direct supervision of the Food Security Cluster Coordinator.

Technical Focus

The incumbent will probably be accountable for the general information assortment, information evaluation, and knowledge sharing inside the Food Security Cluster (FSC) which is essential for the cluster stakeholders to make knowledgeable, proof primarily based and strategic choices on: 1. Food safety wants and geographic areas of affected populations. 2. Prioritization of geographic areas in keeping with Food Security indicators and wishes. 3. Location and exercise of Food Security actors. 4. Key gaps in wants, exercise/program protection and response overlaps. 5. Existing capability (human, materials, monetary) to be utilized in assist of the recognized response wants. 6. Monitoring of the response towards the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) and different appeals resembling drought, floods, battle and so on.

Tasks and tasks

• Respond to the Food Security Cluster (FSC) companions wants for info.
• Provide IM companies (information assortment, cleansing, collation, evaluation, and dissemination) to the cluster and its companions for key choice making.
• Create and preserve IM SOPs, contact directories and mailing lists of Food Security and Livelihoods humanitarian companions.
• Support the event of the FSC response plans, technique, targets, log body and monetary necessities; and supply meals safety contributions for intersectoral evaluation
• Support in month-to-month monitoring of the meals safety and livelihoods response towards the FSC response plans, technique and log body.
• Develop and preserve a database of FSC companions’ actions (each ongoing and deliberate).
• Provide dependable info and evaluation for decision-making by conducting district stage hole analyses towards HNRP targets and PIN, analyzing collected information to establish main gaps in geographic areas, inhabitants teams, ranges of help, or every other needed information evaluation.
• Develop and/ or alter the present FSC Information Management (IM) instruments as wanted e.g. 5W, quarterly plan device, Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) instruments, infographics, dashboards, maps and so on.
• Ensure that common info merchandise and packages are updated and distributed to the sub nationwide focal factors at state and regional ranges.
• Ensure that the data and analyses are visualized and shared via applicable IM / communication instruments
• Maintain and lead the evaluation registry and monitoring system for all deliberate and ongoing meals safety and livelihoods assessments.
• Keep the FSC Somalia webpages updated with related supplies and handle the FSC Somalia SharePoint area and Somalia information e-mail.
• Assist in organizing FSC nationwide and subnational month-to-month conferences by offering shows PowerPoints, hole evaluation, and different assist as required.
• Provide evaluation and knowledge administration assist on the subnational stage when wanted.
• Capacity strengthening of FSC companions on related IM matters via managing, organizing, and conducting trainings.
• In shut session with the FSC Cluster Coordinators and the Capacity constructing Officer, assist gFSC initiatives, e.g. CCPM (Cluster Coordination Performance Monitoring), quarterly reviews, world cluster annual overview, world dashboards, and so on.
• Liaise with OCHA and IM Focal Points in different clusters – share info as applicable and establish and collect info from different clusters which might inform Food Security and Livelihoods response and preparedness choices.
• Support FSC Cluster Coordinators in an built-in response framework to handle each the instant and underlying causes of meals insecurity
• Represent the FSC within the IM Working Group (IMWG) conferences or different related IM WG conferences.
• Put in place a funding monitoring system inside the FSC, to have up-to-date and dependable info on funding of meals safety actions (FTS not being very dependable)
• Any different duties which may be required (inside purpose) to attain the target of this task.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s diploma in Statistics, Economics, Geographic sciences, humanitarian affairs, Information Technology, Information Systems, Data Management, GIS. Communications or different related self-discipline from a good Institution.
• A minimal of three years of related expertise in info/information administration and visualization.
• Working data (stage C) of English and Somali.

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• Formal coaching in Cluster IMO / earlier Cluster expertise or multi-stakeholder coordination expertise (e.g. consortium) is fascinating.
• National of Somalia.

FAO Core Competencies

• Results Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Building Effective Relationships
• Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong data of and expertise in utilizing superior Excel and information evaluation software program, together with proficiency with information bases.
• Strong and superior data of Excel Power Query and expertise in sustaining a dynamic consulting techniques.
• Ability to gather and arrange information/info to supply high quality maps.
• Knowledge of information visualization and mapping (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, or every other mapping instruments, PowerBi, Tableau, and so on.).
• Ability to current info in comprehensible tables, charts and graphs.
• Ability to keep up and handle web site content material for the cluster.
• Data storage and file administration experience.

Other Skills which can be thought-about fascinating:

• Data evaluation utilizing statistical software program (e.g. SPSS, and so on.)
• Assessment, Survey, and Monitoring and Evaluation experience.
• Networking abilities.
• Information Technology for web site administration.
• Communications and technical writing utilizing each graphic and narrative shows.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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