Apply for Information Management Specialist (Nutrition), NOC, East Jerusalem, State of Palestine, Temporary Appointment, 6 months, (post no.131466) Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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UNICEF within the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of kids to entry important providers and safety, from early childhood by means of adolescence. Our goal is to make sure that each child within the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, together with East Jerusalem, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal probability to fulfil their potential. Following the escalation of hostilities within the Gaza Strip, UNICEF is responding at scale with Education, WASH, Nutrition, Health, Child Protection and Multi-Purpose Cash, whereas getting ready for return to studying for kids throughout the State of Palestine to reply to essentially the most precent and demanding wants of kids, whereas supporting the restoration of important providers.

Under the general course and steering of the Nutrition Cluster Coordinator in SoP, the Nutrition Information Management Specialist will present management for the IM operate of the Cluster supporting the humanitarian response in Gaza and West Bank. They are accountable for guaranteeing IM processes successfully contribute to a well-coordinated, strategic, satisfactory, coherent, and efficient response by contributors within the SoP Nutrition Cluster that’s accountable to those that are affected by the emergency. In their effort to allow an environment friendly and efficient response to the humanitarian disaster, the Nutrition Information Management Specialist is accountable for main and managing the gathering, evaluation and sharing of data that’s important for the Nutrition Cluster contributors to make knowledgeable, evidence-based, strategic choices.  

The submit holder is accountable for managing and coordinating the data administration operate to allow the efficient functioning of the SoP Nutrition Cluster, and the achievement of the core cluster features, all through the Humanitarian Programme Cycle to facilitate a well timed and efficient Cluster response. 

The postholder’s predominant duties and duties will embrace however not be restricted to: 

Coordination and illustration 

• As a member of the coordination staff, contribute to the efficient roll out and monitoring of the core cluster features and to the Humanitarian Programme Cycle. 
• Represent the Cluster IM operate in any respect ranges and coordinate with others inside the operate to make sure efficient communication, reporting and engagement: actively interact with different IMs by means of related IMWGs, symbolize the Cluster on the inter-cluster IMWG. 
• Lead the Nutrition data system technical working group of the diet cluster 

IM operate administration 

• Maintain the SoP Emergency Nutrition Information Management system and all its elements together with information assortment and evaluation. 
• Implement common secondary information opinions and first information assortment together with designing questionnaires utilizing acceptable instruments. 
• Conduct information processing together with organizing, cleansing, triangulating, evaluating, and validating the info.  
• Analyze information to satisfy recognized data wants of Nutrition Cluster members and different stakeholders.  
• Create and keep correct, high quality, and well timed data merchandise which might be according to agreed pointers.   
• Disseminate data and data merchandise by means of acceptable channels. 
• Maintain and make sure the accessibility of a standard and shared safe storage system.  
• Gather suggestions on IM merchandise and use to make enhancements. 

Needs evaluation and evaluation. 

• Working collaboratively with different members of the SoP Nutrition Cluster, contribute to the planning and implementation of wants evaluation and evaluation, together with joint assessments and evaluation, at nationwide and subnational ranges. 
• Work with Cluster contributors to determine data gaps at nationwide and sub-national ranges, agree and implement methods to bridge these gaps by offering technical recommendation and assist to companions, 

Resource mobilization 

• Monitor and analyses the Cluster’s monetary scenario and assist monetary monitoring, 
• Support and advocate with Cluster companions for monetary reporting on the Financial Tracking Service. 
• Support evidence-based advocacy and useful resource mobilization by offering correct, related, and well timed information, data, and data merchandise. 

Implementation and monitoring 

• Maintain the SoP Nutrition Cluster monitoring plan and related databases, together with response monitoring (3 and 5Ws) databases. 
• Support Nutrition Cluster members to contribute well timed and high quality periodic monitoring stories on Cluster platforms.  
• Support monitoring within the areas of data flows, dissemination, processing, evaluation, and dissemination. 
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative hole and protection evaluation to determine spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and protection of the Cluster humanitarian response.  
• Monitor adherence to related sector high quality requirements, laws, and codes. 

Accountability to affected individuals. 

• Support the cluster within the systematization of a mechanism to be accountable to affected populations, based mostly on present programs and new initiatives, if wanted. Ensure the significant participation of affected individuals, sustaining an efficient suggestions mechanism and dealing with complaints appropriately, by guaranteeing information about essentially the most susceptible is systematically collected and analyzed, and by encouraging companions to work accountably, 
• Ensure the inclusion of cross slicing points in Cluster information assortment, evaluation and dissemination.  
• Adhere to child safeguarding and PSEA insurance policies together with procedures for difficult and reporting incidents and guarantee different members of the IM staff comply. 

Strengthen nationwide and native capability. 

• Design and implement an IM capability evaluation and capability improvement plan for Cluster companions. 
• Support the Ministry of Health to develop a complete diet data system tailored to emergency for the West Bank  
• Provide assist to companions to beat technical and operational challenges in taking part in IM actions. 

Minimum necessities:

Education:

An superior college diploma in a single of the next fields is required: Information Management or Information Systems, GIS Information Technologies, Computer Science, Statistics, Nutrition, Public Health, Social Sciences or one other topic space related to Information Management or to the Cluster. 

Extensive work expertise related to this submit could also be thought of as a substitute for formal {qualifications}. 

Experience:

• A minimal of 5 years of skilled expertise in data administration, information administration, geographical data programs, assessments, scenario evaluation and/or PM&E with the UN and/or NGO is required.  
• Experience of demonstrating very sturdy data administration expertise in an expert context is crucial for this submit. 
• Experience in a humanitarian context is required, with expertise of working within the humanitarian coordination system thought of an asset.   
• Extensive work expertise exterior the humanitarian sector which is related to this submit could also be thought of as a substitute for humanitarian expertise. 

Technical necessities: IM technical data and expertise  

Data planning expertise together with: 

• Developing and implementing an IM technique and information assortment and evaluation plan. 

Data assortment expertise together with: 

• Conducting SDR utilizing acceptable platforms and instruments equivalent to DEEP (the humanitarian secondary information evaluate & evaluation platform) or Excel,  
• Designing and implementing major information assortment. 

Data processing expertise together with: 

• Knowledge of information safety finest practices, requirements and protocols, laws and laws. 

Data evaluation and administration expertise together with: 

• Aggregating information from a number of sources utilizing a range of instruments equivalent to Excel, CSV, SQL, KoBo, APIs and many others. 
• Analysing information to create data helpful for strategic decision-making, 
• Creating and sustaining databases utilizing MS Excel, MS Access or different databases. 

Communication expertise together with: 

• Presenting data clearly in correct and accessible data merchandise, 
• Designing and creating static and information dynamic visualizations and dashboards utilizing MS Power BI, Tableau, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and MS Office, 
• Creating primary and superior maps utilizing GIS and map-making packages equivalent to ArcGIS, MapInfo, QGIS, and the Adbobe artistic suite, 
• Storing, publishing and disseminating merchandise by means of varied channels equivalent to Power BI’s on-line service, 
• Website administration expertise. 

Gathering and actioning suggestions on IM processes and merchandise.

Language Requirements: Fluency in English. Arabic is taken into account an asset.

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