Information Management Officer (Child Protection AoR), #128144, NO-2, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (For Ethiopian Nationals Only)

UNICEF Ethiopia is seeking a professional IM Officer to help ensure alignment between emergency and non-emergency reporting to track sector-wide progress towards results for children. The Information Management Officer will also support to a number of cluster core functions.

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For every child, protection

Ethiopia is situated in the Horn of Africa and is the second most populous country on the continent with an estimated population of 115 million. It borders six African countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, and covers 1,104,300 square kilometers. Approximately 85 percent of the population lives in rural areas. Ethiopia represents a melting pot of ancient cultures with Middle Eastern and African cultures evident in the religious, ethnic, and language composition of its people.

Over the past two years, children and their families across Ethiopia faced multiple and complex emergencies, such as the conflict in northern Ethiopia and the drought, which resulted in millions of people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. UNICEF has programs in Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, and Education and serves over 15 million children in Ethiopia. Join UNICEF Ethiopia to contribute to improving the lives of children and women.

How can you make a difference?

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Coordination and representation
   • As a member of the coordination team, contribute to the effective roll out and monitoring of the core cluster functions (as outlined by the IASC Reference Module) and to the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HNO, HRP and CCPM).
   • Support the AoR Working Group IM function and coordinate with others within the function to ensure effective communication, reporting and engagement.
   • Actively engage with other IMs through relevant IMWGs, including participating in the AoR Working Group IMWG and representing the AoR Working Group on the inter-cluster IMWG as relevant at sub-national level.
   • Promote harmonized and coordinated approaches to IM across partners, AoRs/ Clusters Working Groups and OCHA at sub-national level.
2. IM function support
   • Implement an IM strategy and data collection and analysis plan at sub-national level that consider the information needs of stakeholders and that are compliant with standards and protocols for ethical data and information management and that is aligned with the national level strategy and plan.
   • Implement regular secondary data reviews and primary data collection including designing questionnaires using appropriate tools.
   • Conduct data processing including organizing, cleaning, triangulating, evaluating and validating the data.
   • Analyse data to meet identified information needs of sub-national AoR Working Group members and other stakeholders.
   • Create accurate, quality, and timely information products that are in line with agreed style guides.
   • Disseminate information and information products through appropriate channels.
   • Maintain and ensure the accessibility of a common and shared secure storage system.
   • Gather feedback on IM products and use to make improvements.
3. Needs assessment and analysis.
   • Working collaboratively with other members of the AoR Working Group at national and sub-national level, contribute to the planning and implementation of needs assessment and analysis, including joint assessments and analysis, as requested.
   • Collect information on economic needs, markets, and price monitoring to support the equal consideration and use of all programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher and services) as relevant at sub-national level,
   • Work with sub-national AoR Working Group participants to identify information gaps, agree and implement ways to bridge those gaps by providing technical support to partners.
   • Analyse needs assessment data to provide required information for the HNO including estimating People in Need (PIN).
   • Contribute to the comparison and alignment of joint needs analysis findings with other AoRs/ Clusters Working Groups and participate in developing reports as relevant at sub-national level.
4. Strategic response planning
   • Implement partner presence mapping at sub-national level.
   • Contribute to strategic planning, response prioritization and the development of the HRP or other response plans as relevant, including the formulation of objectives, indicators and targets, prioritizing response modalities and activities, identifying and quantifying inputs and the curation of data.
5. Resource mobilization
   • Monitor and analyse the sub-national AoR Working Groups’ financial situation and support financial tracking, · Support and advocate with AoR Working Group partners for financial reporting on the Financial Tracking Service (FTS).
   • Support evidence-based advocacy and resource mobilization by providing accurate, relevant, and timely data, information, and information products.
6. Implementation and monitoring
   • Implement and maintain a sub-national AoR Working Group monitoring plan and associated databases, including a response monitoring (3/4/5Ws) database that is in line with and contributes to national level databases.
   • Ensure the sub-national AoR Working Group monitoring plan, and 3/4/5Ws include programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher, and services).
   • Support sub-national AoR Working Group members to contribute timely and quality periodic monitoring reports on AoR Working Group and OCHA platforms.
   • Support monitoring in the areas of information flows, dissemination, processing, analysis, and dissemination,
   • Contribute to quantitative and qualitative gap and coverage analysis to identify spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of the sub-national AoR Working Group humanitarian response.
   • Monitor adherence to relevant sector quality standards, regulations, and codes at sub-national level.
7. Operational peer review and evaluation
   • Participate in the annual cluster coordination performance monitoring (CCPM) exercise and annual review,
   • Contribute to sectoral and broader humanitarian evaluations.
8. Accountability to affected people.
   • Be accountable to affected populations by encouraging the meaningful participation of affected people, maintaining an effective feedback mechanism and handling complaints appropriately, by ensuring data about the most vulnerable is systematically collected and analysed, and by encouraging partners to work accountably.
   • Ensure the inclusion of cross cutting issues (age, disability, gender, gender-based violence (GBV) mitigation and response and HIV & AIDS) in AoR Working Group data collection, analysis, and dissemination.
   • Adhere to child safeguarding and PSEA policies including procedures for challenging and reporting incidents.
9. Strengthen national and local capacity.
   • Support or implement actions to strengthen local and national leadership and capacity by encouraging participation of local and national actors in the IM activities of the sub-national AoR Working Group and providing support to partners to overcome technical and operational challenges in participating in IM activities.
   • Implement an IM capacity assessment and capacity development plan for sub-national AoR Working Group partners.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

The following minimum requirements:

• Education:

• A university degree in one of the following fields is required: Information Management or Information Systems, GIS Information Technologies, Computer Science, Statistics, Social Sciences, or another subject area relevant to Information Management or to the AoR Working Group.
• Formal training in AoR/ Cluster Working Group Information Management or an advanced university degree are considered an added advantage.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

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Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s active commitment to diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates and persons with disability are encouraged to apply.

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