Assistant Information Management Officer Job Vacancy In Afghanistan | UNHCR

October 10, 2023

  • 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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