Apply for Information Management Officer for the National Education Cluster, NO-2, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, #00131686 (Open for Ethiopian Nationals Only) Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

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For each child, Education

Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa and is the second most populous nation on the continent with an estimated inhabitants of 115 million. It borders six African nations: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, and covers 1,104,300 sq. kilometers. Approximately 85 p.c of the inhabitants lives in rural areas. Ethiopia represents a melting pot of historic cultures with Middle Eastern and African cultures evident in the non secular, ethnic, and language composition of its folks.

Over the previous two years, kids and their households throughout Ethiopia confronted a number of and sophisticated emergencies, reminiscent of the battle in the northern Ethiopia and the drought, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of individuals in want of pressing humanitarian help. UNICEF has programmes in Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, and Education and serves over 15 million kids in Ethiopia. Join UNICEF Ethiopia to contribute to bettering the lives of kids and girls.

How are you able to make a difference? 

Under the supervision of the Education Cluster Coordinator and the UNICEF Education part in Addis Ababa, the IMO is accountable for the following key areas:

Support Service Delivery/Outputs

• Provide data administration providers to training clusters for key decision-making.
• Maintain periodic and ad-hoc reporting on Education cluster associated actions from Cluster members, together with via the exercise information.
• Build the capability of the Ministry of Education and Regional Bureau of Education and different related Education Cluster companions in the use of Education monitoring and reporting instruments and associated evaluation.
• In session with the Education Cluster companions, MoE, and sub-regional Education Coordinators/ clusters, develop key humanitarian IM merchandise and knowledge databases that consolidate, analyze, and report/disseminate data vital to decision-making.
• Support the Education Cluster Coordination workforce to conduct a mapping of all present and potential actors (together with authorities, nationwide and worldwide humanitarian organizations, in addition to nationwide establishments and the non-public sector) via the provision of standard inputs/updates on the clusters’ 5 W’s response matrix and different instruments.
• Collect, overview, compile, and analyze the 5Ws month-to-month from cluster companions, and regional IMOS, produce dashboards, common visualization, infographics, snapshots, and accomplice operational presence maps. Also, convert 5Ws to 4Ws on the given template share with OCHA, and add the similar on the RRM on-line template.
• Work with Education Cluster members to conduct wants assessments and establish data gaps at nationwide and sub-national ranges and suggest methods to bridge these gaps.
• Support prioritization of areas based on Education Cluster programme indicators, as laid out in the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), based mostly on evaluation of information together with from exercise information and Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), and inform on the key gaps in wants and response.
• Facilitate data sharing between the Education Cluster members and UNICEF implementing companions by documenting greatest practices and sharing response knowledge between the nationwide and sub-national cluster(s) and OCHA.
• Provide IM updates and reporting (together with monetary monitoring/Periodic Monitoring Report) to the OCHA Information Management Unit, NDRMC, and UNICEF’s Emergency and Program Monitoring Unit, as required.
• Provide data administration management in assessments and monitoring for the training programme, together with joint assessments, and main the preparation of research for donor conferences/ inputs with emphasis on cluster plans, targets, and achievement.
• Contribute to training cluster conferences, highlighting the evolution of wants, capacities, gaps, and challenges.
• Keep the contact listing up to date of Education  members and nationwide and sub-national co-leads.

 Web Maintenance and data administration

• Maintain and replace data on the web site together with data/state of affairs updates on the Humanitarian Response in session with the MoE and Cluster Coordinators.
• Create visuals/ dashboards, info-graphs, accomplice presences, and maps from 5W evaluation and add them to the training humanitarian web site. 
• Convert 5Ws to 4Ws and replace achievements on the on-line RRM platform supplied by OCAH.
• Support training cluster members to add studies and documentation into on-line OCHA/humanitarian reporting programs. Liaise with OCHA on technical points associated to web site upkeep or updates.

 Informing Strategic Decision-making of the HC/HCT for the Humanitarian Response

• Manage a database that comprises related EiE Response and Cluster data together with an up-to-date cluster contact listing, bi-weekly studies, multi-sectoral assessments and surveys, requirements, and pointers from MoE, and many others.)
• Provide data administration help in calculating the caseload, severity mapping and figuring out folks in want and important goal populations for Education interventions.
• Work with the OCHA Information Management Specialist to develop applicable supportive IM methods for inter-cluster collaboration. Ensure well timed submission of required studies to the OCHA IM Specialist on a weekly, bi-weekly, and month-to-month foundation.
• Collect common studies from cluster companions and areas on month-to-month foundation (faculties’ closures/ IDPs/ OOSC/ faculty harm and many others.)
• Support the Education cluster with prioritization train(s), grounded in response evaluation, and Core Education Cluster features.
• Use GIS for map manufacturing (the place attainable) and geographic knowledge to supply maps in a well timed method as wanted.
• Support cluster on growth of Humanitarian Needs Overview via knowledge evaluation, triangulation of information from completely different sources, and help cluster on the right track calculations as nicely.
• Participate in the Inter-cluster IMWG and characterize pursuits of the Education Cluster in working teams.

Monitoring and Reporting

• Support the Education Cluster to develop a monitoring and analysis framework for the cluster response plan and help the growth of indicators that the cluster wants to watch, linked to the response plan.
• Ensure the cluster response plan is up to date, with new indicators reviewed on a quarterly foundation (or as required based mostly on cluster response plan revisions).
• Maintain/streamline month-to-month & weekly assortment of studies from companions/sub-regional clusters (together with indicators); work with companions/sub-regional clusters to establish points on the subject of reporting, and gaps in service supply, and devise methods to unravel them along with the Education Cluster companions.
• Ensure gender, age, displacement standing, and incapacity disaggregated knowledge is on the market from companions/sub-regional clusters.
• Develop monitoring mechanisms for periodic inside and exterior studies on cluster response updates in opposition to HRP targets and deliberate indicators and supply evaluation of information for monitoring and reporting, making certain knowledge consistency, alignment of targets and indicators, and with a give attention to outcomes for kids.
• Support MoE to determine digital-based EiE knowledge monitoring system.

Build National Capacity Building for Preparedness and Contingency Planning

• Promote and supply coaching and capacity-building actions of the Education Cluster companions/sub-regional cluster IMOs on reporting, knowledge evaluation, excel and the use of the IM outputs, and many others.
• Support the Education Cluster coordination, and companions on preparedness and contingency planning, Anticipatory Actions (AA), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR): consolidation of inputs by companions for the ERP, upkeep/replace of the Education database to make sure fast entry to knowledge for evaluation, and different IM instruments, and many others.

Accountability to Affected Population

• Support the Education Cluster coordination groups and cluster companions in organising and sustaining a cluster criticism and suggestions mechanism based mostly on the inputs/steering/suggestions supplied recurrently to the cluster companions.
• Prepare advocacy supplies and knowledge supplies for sharing with exterior audiences not the state of affairs of training throughout Ethiopia, and the wants of beneficiaries.

 General process

• Any different IM-related duties as could also be required or assigned by the supervisor.
• Support MoE on cluster-related knowledge points/ construct their capacities on knowledge administration, evaluation, help on IMO-related GPE duties, and taking minutes on ETWG/ cluster conferences based mostly on the requirement.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…

Minimum necessities:

Education: 

• A college diploma in one in all the following fields: Statistics, Information administration and communication, or different associated disciplines.    

Work Experience: 

• Minimum of two years’ expertise in humanitarian Education with UN and/or NGO, together with data administration in the first section of a significant emergency response related to the Education cluster is required.
• Experience working with Excel, Power B I, QGIS, Activity information & Rapid Pro platforms, EMIS, People in Need, and Target Calculations utilizing JIAF methodology and the assortment of information for 5W evaluation important.

Technical Requirements:

• Proven technical experience managing knowledge and knowledge cycle: from knowledge assortment (e.g. ‘Who does What, Where, When and for Whom?’), Analysis based mostly on the exercise Info, storage, and evaluation for numerous datasets (e.g. datasets on wants, state of affairs, response, coordination, funding, and many others.), in addition to presenting data in comprehensible, efficient and visually interesting tables, charts, graphs, maps, visuals and studies (reminiscent of snapshots, dashboards, W evaluation, hole evaluation, and many others.)
• Advanced data of the knowledge cycle (knowledge assortment, knowledge evaluation, knowledge interpretation and knowledge visualization) particularly for evaluation and for output monitoring functions
• Ability to actively help evaluation processes, Rapid want evaluation, growth of instruments and contextualized.
• High proficiency in MS phrase, particularly formatting paperwork, formatting shapes and textual content packing containers, formatting graphs, and many others. to create high-quality visuals for cluster members, donors, and different humanitarian actors.
• Knowledge of Adobe Suite (particularly Illustrator and In Design) Power BI and Tableau
• Proven expertise in utilizing GIS and map-making packages, and in net design and software program growth.
• High proficiency in GIS and map-making packages (reminiscent of Quantum GIS, Arc GIS, and many others.)
• Understanding of handle web sites (e.g., UNOCHA’s Humanitarian Response platform) and content material administration programs.
• Proven technical data in growing dashboards, infographics, numerous data merchandise, visuals, and others.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and the native language of the obligation station are required.
• Knowledge of one other official UN language (French, Spanish, Arabic, or Russian) is an asset.

Desirables:

• Experience and/or coaching in cluster data administration is fascinating.
• Knowledge of training background, and interventions is fascinating.
• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency. 

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