UNV Information Management Officer

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Mission and objectives

UNICEF is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential.
UNICEF is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and strives to establish children’s rights as enduring ethical principles and international standards of behaviour towards children.
UNICEF insists that the survival, protection and development of children are universal development imperatives that are integral to human progress.
UNICEF mobilizes political will and material resources to help countries, particularly developing countries, ensure a “first call for children” and to build their capacity to form appropriate policies and deliver services for children and their families.
UNICEF is committed to ensuring special protection for the most disadvantaged children – victims of war, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of violence and exploitation, and those with disabilities.
UNICEF responds in emergencies to protect the rights of children. In coordination with United Nations partners and humanitarian agencies, UNICEF makes its unique facilities for rapid response available to its partners to relieve the suffering of children and those who provide their care.
UNICEF is non-partisan and its cooperation is free of discrimination. In everything it does, the most disadvantaged children and the countries in greatest need have priority.
UNICEF aims, through its country programmes, to promote the equal rights of women and girls and to support their full participation in the political, social and economic development of their communities.
UNICEF works with all its partners towards the attainment of the sustainable human development goals adopted by the world community and the realization of the vision of peace and social progress enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations.

Context

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children.
Across more than 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, to build a better world for everyone. For more information about UNICEF in Bangladesh, please visit https://www.unicef.org/bangladesh.
The Volunteer will work to ensure the collection, analysis, management and visualization of spatial data of UNICEF Cox’s Bazar programmes in timely manner which will be available for programme reports, planning and evaluation purposes, supporting all teams from within the Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Unit of Cox’s Bazar.

Task description

Under the direct supervision of Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, PMR Section, UNICEF Bangladesh the National UNV Information Management Officer will undertake the following tasks:
– Support data collection and information needed for UNICEF’s programme, monitoring and reporting purposes, ensuring compliance and full engagement of all UNICEF partners in the re-porting platform (InForm).
– Develop an indicator-wise master database to ensure regularly required information is readily available
– Work closely with UNICEF programmes and their information management officers (WASH, Health, Nutrition, Child Protection, Education, and SBC) on data from the field, such as HPM indicators, 4W information, sector data collection, and any other data source, as relevant, to ensuring quality and consistency in data collection
– Support gap analyses at the field level for the programme and emergency preparedness upon agreed data sources, including through verification and support for information disaggregated by age and sex, disability, and vulnerable groups
– Maintain a database of relevant and up-to-date information e.g., population movement, trend, needs assessment, etc. from internal or external sources such as the Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), or any other agency that would be useful for UNICEF’s programme Data Visualization & Dissemination
– Develop and/or update a regular package of humanitarian response data visualization prod-ucts (including maps, dashboards, infographics and financial/ resource analyses) that presents information in a way that is easily understood by various decision-makers, individuals and groups. Products will be based on routine data that is available at Cox’s Bazar level.
– Update regular/monthly data visual platform used by UNICEF Cox’s Bazar Field Office like PowerBI
– Support the utilization of effective methods and platforms to standardize and share humanitarian response information (e.g. website, mailing lists, SharePoint, hard copies, etc.) — this will also be ensured to strengthen the knowledge transfer function.
– Liaised with UNICEF sections, implementing partners, ISCG and sector information management focal points in Cox’s Bazar for data matching, verification and coordination as necessary..
– Perform such other duties as may be required and assigned.
Results/Expected Outputs: –
• As an active UNICEF team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNICEF and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including:
• Improved data collection processes to ensure the availability of quality data for program and decision-making purposes.
• Data collection template based on information needed for UNICEF’s programme, monitoring and reporting purposes, ensuring compliance and full engagement of all UNICEF partners in the reporting platform.
• Humanitarian Performance Monitoring (HPM) and other relevant indicator-wise master data-base to ensure regularly required information is readily available
• Regularly available appropriate and verified information for prgramme monitoring, reporting, gap analysis, information products based on available and agreed datasets. Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment
• A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed.