Information Management Officer (NO-1), Caracas, Venezuela #129680 #129681 [2 positions Temp Appointment]

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, protection

Humanitarian action is of fundamental importance to UNICEF. It encompasses interventions aimed at saving lives, alleviating suffering, maintaining human dignity, and protecting the rights of affected populations wherever there are humanitarian needs, as well as interventions addressing underlying risks and causes of vulnerability to disasters, fragility, and conflict. UNICEF’s humanitarian action is guided by the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action (CCCs), which set organizational, programmatic, and operational commitments and benchmarks against which UNICEF holds itself accountable for the coverage, quality, and equity of its humanitarian action and advocacy and which are mandatory for all UNICEF personnel.

Furthermore, UNICEF is committed to supporting humanitarian coordination through the cluster approach. Introduced as part of the humanitarian reform, the cluster approach aims at ensuring clear leadership, predictability, and accountability in international responses to humanitarian emergencies by clarifying the division of labor among organizations and better defining their roles and responsibilities within the different sectors involved in the response. As a member of the IASC, UNICEF works with national and local stakeholders (including national and local authorities, CSOs, and communities) to support humanitarian coordination and improve the collective impact of humanitarian response. Whether the cluster approach is activated or not, UNICEF plays a crucial role in global and country-level interagency coordination for its areas of programmatic responsibility. As Cluster Lead Agency (CLA) for Nutrition, WASH, Education (co-led), and Child Protection Area of Responsibility (AoR) within the Protection Cluster, UNICEF is committed to fulfill the core functions defined by the IASC when the clusters are activated or when UNICEF is asked to support sectoral coordination.

A well-run AoR/ Cluster/Sector coordination team, including Information Management (IM), is a formal deliverable of the Cluster Lead Agency and is part of the agency’s work. The IM Officer (supporting CP AoR and Education Clusters) is a core member of both coordination teams.

How can you make a difference?

Data Collection and Maintenance:

• Acquire and clean data from primary or secondary sources and maintain databases/data systems.
• Provide technical advice on how data can be utilized to improve decision making within the knowledge domain.
• Research approaches and explore methods that will lead to innovative data products.
• Track and report on progress regarding department specific data initiative
• Assist in the exploration, identification, and acquisition of data sources to determine their suitability for use in decision making and advancing the goals of the organization.
• Enable broader use of data sources by applying quality methods to structure, clean, format, parse, and standardize for analytical use.

Information Management & Analytics:

• Develop process improvement mechanisms for data analytics for DRR and Emergency Preparedness and response.
• Document requirements, background information and methodology used for data analysis.
• Develop reports, dashboards, or other tools to effectively summarize findings and convey information to management.
• Assists in promoting the use of data science solutions through capacity building and the
development of products, tools and processes to extend the capabilities Emergency and DRR section and Field focal points.
• Contributes to the design and develops customized visualization and presentation products to reveal the findings of analysis the section, suitable for all forms of production to include briefings, reports, documentation to oversight bodies, interactive interfaces, and publication quality outputs.
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns, using statistical methods to identify relevant features and variables in structured sources of information and data.
• Work in close coordination with the PME team to ensure emergency and non-emergency information management and analytics processes are coherent and complementary.

Innovation, Knowledge Management & Capacity Building:

• Establishes a close working relationship with key internal stakeholders to leverage the use of data science methods to support their programmatic areas with solutions that assist them in accomplishing CCC mandate.
• Assist in the development, implementation, monitoring, and documentation of Emergency Preparedness Response and DRR action research and innovation (technical or systems).
• Assist in the preparation of learning/knowledge products, covering innovative approaches and good practices, to support overall knowledge management development.
• Assist in creating and delivering learning opportunities for UNICEF Emergency staff, to ensure Sections and Field teams remain up to date with latest developments.
• Participate as a resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the emergency information competencies of internal stakeholders and key government, academia, and CSO partners.

Information reports and dissemination:

• Support the formulation of Emergency Situation Reports ensuring adequate integration of relevant data and information in a timely and effective manner.
• Work in close coordination with the PME.

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

• University degree in computer science, data science, analytics, statistics, information management, systems engineering, public administration, management, or related field.
• A minimum One year of relevant professional work experience in information management, applied analytics, business intelligence, statistics, project management, progamme planning or management.
• Experience in using data to advance strategies and decision-making is required.
• Experience with self-service analytics and data visualization applications (MS PowerBI, Qlik, Tableau or similar), or business intelligence tools (SAP Business Objects, etc.) is required.
• Experience in Advanced Excel and Powerpoint is required.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills.
• Specialized training/experience in emergency response management highly desirable.
• Experience in a UN organization, Humanitarian organizations or similar is an asset.
• Fluency in Spanish an working knowledge of English is required… Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French or Russian) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and 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.

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. All selected candidates will, therefore, 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.

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 only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/”

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions 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. 

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.

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