Internal/External Vacancy Announcement: Information Management Officer (Education Cluster), NO-A, Fixed Term- Juba South Sudan ( Open to South Sudanese Only)

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Humanitarian motion is of elementary significance to UNICEF and encompasses interventions aimed toward saving lives, assuaging struggling, sustaining human dignity, and defending the rights of affected populations wherever there are humanitarian wants, in addition to interventions addressing underlying dangers and causes of vulnerability to disasters, fragility and battle. UNICEF’s humanitarian motion is guided by the Core Commitments for Youngsters in Humanitarian Motion (CCCs) which set organizational, programmatic and operational commitments and benchmarks in opposition to which UNICEF holds itself accountable for the protection, high quality and fairness of its humanitarian motion and advocacy and that are necessary for all UNICEF personnel.

Moreover, UNICEF is dedicated to help humanitarian coordination by means of the cluster strategy. Launched as a part of the humanitarian reform, the cluster strategy, goals at guaranteeing clear management, predictability, and accountability in worldwide responses to humanitarian emergencies by clarifying the division of labor amongst organizations and higher defining their roles and duties throughout the totally different sectors concerned within the response. As a member of the IASC, UNICEF work together with nationwide and native stakeholders (together with nationwide and native authorities, CSOs, and communities) to help humanitarian coordination and to enhance the collective impression of humanitarian response. Whether or not the cluster strategy is activated or not, UNICEF performs a key function in each international and country-level interagency coordination for its areas of programmatic accountability.  As Cluster Lead Company (CLA) for Vitamin, WASH, Schooling (co-led), and Baby Safety Space of Accountability (AoR) throughout the Safety Cluster, UNICEF is dedicated to fulfil the core features outlined by the IASC when the clusters are activated or when UNICEF is requested to help sectoral coordination.

Objective of the job:

Underneath the general path and steering of the Schooling Supervisor/ Specialist, the IM Officer (Schooling Cluster) will handle the IM operate of the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group on the nationwide and sub-national stage. They’re liable for guaranteeing IM processes successfully contribute to a well-coordinated, strategic, sufficient, coherent, and efficient response by contributors within the Cluster that’s accountable to those that are affected by the emergency. Of their effort to allow an environment friendly and efficient response to the humanitarian disaster, the IM Officer (Schooling Cluster) is liable for managing the gathering, evaluation and sharing of knowledge that’s important for the nationwide and sub-national Cluster contributors to make knowledgeable, evidence-based, strategic choices.

How will you make a distinction?

Key operate, accountabilities, and associated duties/ duties

• The publish holder is liable for supporting the knowledge administration (IM) operate to allow the efficient functioning of the Cluster at nationwide and sub-national ranges, and the achievement of the core cluster features, all through the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) to facilitate a well timed and efficient Cluster response.
• The postholder’s principal duties and duties will embrace however not be restricted to:

Coordination and illustration

• As a member of the coordination workforce, contribute to the efficient roll out and monitoring of the core cluster features (as outlined by the IASC Reference Module) and to the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HNO, HRP and CCPM),
• Assist the Cluster IM operate and coordinate with others throughout the operate to make sure efficient communication, reporting and engagement,
• Actively have interaction with different IMs by means of related IMWGs, together with taking part within the Cluster IMWG and representing the Cluster on the inter-cluster IMWG as related at Nationwide and sub-national stage teams,
• Promote harmonized and coordinated approaches to IM throughout companions, AoRs/ Clusters/ Sectors/ Working Teams and OCHA at Nationwide and sub-national stage.

IM operate help

• Implement an IM technique and knowledge assortment and evaluation plan at Nationwide and sub-national stage that take into account the knowledge wants of stakeholders and which are compliant with requirements and protocols for moral knowledge and knowledge administration and that’s aligned with the nationwide stage IM technique and plan,
• Implement common secondary knowledge opinions and first knowledge assortment together with designing questionnaires utilizing applicable instruments,
• Conduct knowledge processing together with organizing, cleansing, triangulating, evaluating, and validating the info,
• Analyse knowledge to fulfill recognized data wants of sub-national Cluster Group members and different stakeholders,
• Create correct, high quality, and well timed data merchandise which are according to agreed type guides,
• Disseminate data and knowledge merchandise by means of applicable channels,
• Keep and make sure the accessibility of a typical and shared safe storage system,
• Collect suggestions on IM merchandise and use to make enhancements.

Wants evaluation and evaluation

• Working collaboratively with different members of the Cluster at nationwide and sub-national stage, contribute to the planning and implementation of wants evaluation and evaluation, together with joint assessments and evaluation, as requested,
• Accumulate data on financial wants, markets, and worth monitoring to help the equal consideration and use of all programme supply modalities (in-kind, money, voucher and companies) as related at sub-national stage,
• Work with sub-national Cluster contributors to determine data gaps, agree and implement methods to bridge these gaps by offering technical help to companions,
• Analyse wants evaluation knowledge to offer required data for the HNO together with estimating Individuals in Want (PIN),
• Contribute to the comparability and alignment of joint wants evaluation findings with different AoRs/ Clusters/ Sectors/ Working Teams and take part in growing stories as related at sub-national stage.

Strategic response planning

• Implement companion presence mapping at nationwide and sub-national stage,
• Contribute to strategic planning, response prioritization and the event of the HRP or different response plans as related, together with the formulation of targets, indicators and targets, prioritizing response modalities and actions, figuring out and quantifying inputs and the curation of knowledge.

Useful resource mobilization

• Monitor and analyse the nationwide and sub-national Cluster monetary state of affairs and help monetary monitoring,
• Assist and advocate with Cluster companions for monetary reporting on the Monetary Monitoring Service (FTS),
• Assist evidence-based advocacy and useful resource mobilization by offering correct, related and well timed knowledge, data and knowledge merchandise.

Implementation and monitoring

• Implement and keep a Nationwide and sub-national Cluster monitoring plan and related databases, together with a response monitoring (3/4/5Ws) database that’s according to and contributes to nationwide stage databases,
• Make sure the Nationwide and sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group monitoring plan, and three/4/5Ws embrace programme supply modalities (in-kind, money, voucher and companies),
• Assist nationwide and sub-national Cluster members to contribute well timed and high quality periodic monitoring stories on Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group and OCHA platforms,
• Assist monitoring within the areas of knowledge flows, dissemination, processing, evaluation and dissemination,
• Contribute to quantitative and qualitative hole and protection evaluation to determine spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and protection of the sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group humanitarian response,
• Monitor adherence to related sector high quality requirements, rules and codes at sub-national stage.

Operational peer evaluation and analysis

• Take part within the annual cluster coordination efficiency monitoring (CCPM) train and annual evaluation,
• Contribute to sectoral and broader humanitarian evaluations.

Accountability to affected folks

• Be accountable to affected populations by encouraging the significant participation of affected folks, sustaining an efficient suggestions mechanism and dealing with complaints appropriately, by guaranteeing knowledge about probably the most susceptible is systematically collected and analysed, and by encouraging companions to work accountably,
• Make sure the inclusion of cross slicing points (age, youngster safety, incapacity, gender, gender-based violence (GBV) mitigation and response and HIV & AIDS) in Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group knowledge assortment, evaluation and dissemination,
• Adhere to youngster safeguarding and PSEA insurance policies together with procedures for difficult and reporting incidents.

Strengthen nationwide and native capability

• Assist or implement actions to strengthen native and nationwide management and capability by encouraging participation of native and nationwide actors within the IM actions of the sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group and offering help to companions to beat technical and operational challenges in taking part in IM actions,
• Implement an IM capability evaluation and capability growth plan for sub-national Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group companions.

 

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…

Recruitment {Qualifications}

Schooling:         

• A college diploma in one of many following fields is required: Info Administration or Info Methods, GIS Info Applied sciences, Pc Science, Statistics, Social Sciences, or one other topic space related to Info Administration or to the Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group.
• Formal coaching in AoR/ Cluster/ Sector/ Working Group Info Administration or a complicated college diploma are thought-about an added benefit.

Expertise:       

• A minimal of 1 12 months {of professional} expertise in data administration, knowledge administration, geographical data programs, assessments, state of affairs evaluation and/or PM&E with the UN and/or NGO is required.
• Expertise in demonstrating sturdy data administration expertise in knowledgeable context is important for this publish.
• Expertise in a humanitarian context is required.
• Expertise working within the humanitarian coordination system is taken into account an asset.
• In depth work expertise exterior the humanitarian sector which is related to this publish could also be thought-about in lieu of humanitarian expertise.

Language Necessities: Fluency in English and the official UN language of the responsibility station are required. Information of different official UN languages is taken into account an asset.

IM Competencies

• Applies Humanitarian Rules, Requirements and Tips (1)
• Applies Key EiE Ideas and Instruments (1)
• Manages Schooling Programmes (1)
• Operates Safely and Securely (1)
• Demonstrates Dedication to a Coordinated Response (1)
• Promotes Cooperation and Collaboration (1)
• Demonstrates Accountability (1)
• Promotes Inclusion (1)
• Supplies Dependable Assist to the Cluster (1)
• Collects, Collates and Analyses Related Information (1)
• Handles and Shops Information Effectively and Sensitively (1)
• Communicates and Disseminates Info (1)
• Screens the Response (1)
• Strengthens Nationwide Capability to Reply and Lead (1)

For each Baby, you show…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness(3)Drive to realize outcomes for impression(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we take a look at candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

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We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
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Remarks:

UNICEF’s energetic dedication in the direction of variety and inclusion is essential to ship the perfect outcomes for kids. For this place, eligible and appropriate FEMALE CANDIDATES are inspired to use. 

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Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.