Generic Vacancy Announcement: Information Management Officer, NOA, Gaza, State of Palestine

UNICEF State of Palestine is looking for a committed Information Managment Officer for its Office in Gaza. This vacancy announcement will establish a roster of candidates for fast-track recruitment against upcoming vacancies.

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, hope

UNICEF in the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of children to access services and protection, from early childhood through to adolescence. Our objective is to ensure that every child in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal chance to fulfil their potential.

In the past years, UNICEF in the State of Palestine has achieved a high reach and engagement through its communication channels. UNICEF-SoP would like to build on this and continue engaging with our audience, who are not only seek information but are willing to have important conversations on crucial issues concerning children’s wellbeing and rights. 

How can you make a difference?

UNICEF work along with national and local stakeholders (including national and local authorities, CSOs, and communities) to improve the collective impact of humanitarian response.  Effective Information Management (IM) is critical to understanding evolving needs, the response of UNICEF and its partners, informing corrective action and meeting reporting accountabilities to donor and to affected people.

The IMO position reports to the IM Specialist, Programme Manager or Programme Specialist for general guidance and direction. Additional technical support may be provided by the Chief of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation.

III. Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

• The post holder is responsible for managing and coordinating the information management function to enable the effective UNICEF programming.

   

  The postholder’s main tasks and responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

   

  IM function management

  • Implements data collection and an analysis that consider the information needs of stakeholders and is compliant with standards and protocols for ethical data and information management,
  • 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 stakeholders
  • Support evidence-based advocacy and resource mobilization by providing accurate, relevant and timely data, information and information products.
  • Gather feedback on IM products and use to make improvements.

   

  Support across the programme cycle

  • Contribute to the effective roll out and monitoring of UNICEF and interagency processes including Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM) (partner reporting, field monitoring and operations monitoring) and the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HNO, HRP and CCPM).
  • Support the development, implementation and use of needs assessments with a focus on interagency processes
  • Support accurate and timely reporting of programme results by partners to meet UNICEF and cluster reporting obligations (e.g. 3/4/5 Ws and SitRep reporting).
  • Support collection, analysis and use of programme monitoring and community feedback data to support continuous programme improvement.
  • Participate in and support learning exercises (e.g. after action reviews) and evaluations with relevant analysis.

IV. Impact of Results

The efficient and effective technical, and operational support provided to the effective information management and reporting and the achievement of sustainable results, contributes to achievement of goals and objectives to create a protective environment for children and thus ensure their survival, development and well-being in society.

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

• 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.

• One year of professional experience in information management, data management, geographical information systems, assessments, situation analysis and/or PM&E with the UN and/or NGO is required.

• Experience in development of GIS cartography of intervention and other related areas at the international and/or in a developing and humanitarian country is an asset.

• Fluency in English.  Knowledge of Arabic is an asset. 

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness(3)Drive to achieve results for impact(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others.

IM Competencies

• Applies Humanitarian Principles, Standards and Guidelines (2)
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts [2]
• Planning and Organizing [1]
• Learning and Researching [1]
• Relating and Networking [1]
• Applying Technical Expertise [2]
• Analyzing [2]

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

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 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 promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. 

Remarks:

This position is not considered an elevated risk role. However, UNICEF reserves the right to conduct further vetting/assessment within the scope of child safeguarding as appropriate. 

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

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be cancelled.

Special Remarks:

• In the current evolving emergency context, this position will be based in Gaza where medical facilities have been negatively affected and individual chronic and/or serious medical conditions cannot be adequately addressed.
• This position is located in Gaza and any offer of appointment is subject to the candidate’s ability to take up the position at the duty station within a reasonable period.

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.

Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.