Country: Turkey
Closing date: 13 Dec 2015
General Description of the Programme:
GOAL has been working in Syria since 2012, responding to the acute needs of conflict affected communities. GOAL is working directly in Idlib Governate, and Latakia, Aleppo and Hama in conjunction with its partners, delivering food, non-food, WASH, shelter and Livelihoods services to highly vulnerable affected populations.
Humanitarian needs in Syria have increased twelve-fold over the crisis, with 12.2 million in need of humanitarian assistance, including 7.6 million displaced people and more than 5.6 million children in need of assistance. An estimated 4.8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in hard to reach areas. Partly as a result of a prolonged drought from 2007-2010, pre-conflict Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rates were already concerning, with a national average of 9.3% and north eastern Governorates approaching emergency levels . Meanwhile stunting was recorded as 23% and micronutrient deficiencies were common with anaemia prevalence among 0-59 month old children 29.2% and iodine deficiency prevalence 12.9% , presenting a risk for sub-optimal growth among children.
General Description of the Role:
The Information Management Officer (IMO) is a core Cluster Coordination team member. The purpose of this post is to manage the collection, analysis and sharing of information that is important for the Cluster participants to make informed (evidence based) strategic decisions.
The Information Management Officer (IMO) will work with the Nutrition Cluster Coordinator and partners to ensure cluster performs its core functions as described in the IASC Cluster Coordination Reference Module, IASC, July 2015.
- Supporting service delivery
- Informing strategic decision-making of the HC/HCT for the humanitarian response
- Prioritization, grounded in response analysis
- Advocacy
- Monitoring and reporting the implementation of the cluster strategy and results; recommending corrective action where necessary
- Contingency planning/preparedness for recurrent disasters whenever feasible and relevant.
- Accountability to affected population.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The Nutrition Cluster IMO duties and responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Provide support to the Nutrition Cluster in Turkey for cross border activities in Syria.
- The incumbent will collect and organize data on nutrition sector coverage and programming results and then produce and share information on response results, gaps and trends with cluster partners and the Cluster Lead Agency to facilitate a timely and effective nutrition response and demonstrate that results and impact are achieved.
- Network with cluster partners as well as cross clusters, in collaboration with OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), to encourage information sharing, sharing of assessment and survey results.
- Engage with the Damascus based Nutrition sector and whole of Syria coordination structure to support effective communication, reporting, engagement and coordination of information management tasks between all levels.
- Facilitate information flow between the cluster and programs through data analysis, particularly in relation to identification of gaps geographically and pro-grammatically.
- Manage an inventory and database of relevant documents on the humanitarian situation (multisectoral assessments, nutrition surveys, SMART surveys, etc).
- Together with the cluster coordinator/co-coordinator estimate both geographic and programmatic coverage of programmes and produce coverage maps. Update inputs for mapping formats as needed for the nutrition evaluation and support of cluster activities.
- Undertake regular monitoring visits/responses/quality controls of partners reporting.
- In consultation with partners develop/adapt and roll out monitoring and reporting system for the nutrition cluster in line with the Cluster Response Plan, review the system each time when Cluster Response Plan is modified to ensure that it is able to capture all identified indicators.
- Other tasks as identified by the supervisor.
Essential Requirements:
- Completed Master's degree from an accredited academic institution preferably in Computer Science, Media or Social Sciences or any discipline related to Information Management or equal experience.
- Fluency in English is essential.
- Minimum of five (for P-3) and seven (for P-4) years professional experience in Information Management, including minimum two to three years of experience in the emergency humanitarian operations.
- Knowledge of cluster approach, UN System, and NGO humanitarian community.
- Understands key technical issues for the cluster sufficiently well enough to be able to engage with cluster participants and understand their cluster-specific information management needs.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Excel, MS Access or other databases (e.g. pivot tables and functions).
- Proven technical expertise for managing data capture and storage, analysing diverse datasets, and presenting information in understandable tables, charts, graphs and reports.
- Knowledge of establishing and managing basic websites (e.g. UNOCHA’s Humanitarian Response platform).
- Proven skills in using GIS and map-making packages such as ArcGIS, Mapinfo, QGIS, Adobe creative suite for mapping.
Desirable:
- Knowledge and skills in software development are an asset.
- Fluency in Arabic is an advantage.
Core Competencies:
- Understands the rationale behind Humanitarian Reform, its main components and recent developments including the Transformative Agenda.
- Understands, uses and adapts the tools, mechanisms and processes developed as part of Humanitarian Reform.
- Demonstrates commitment to Humanitarian Principles - https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/Documents/OOM-humanitarianprinciples_eng_June12.pdf
- Demonstrates commitment to Principles of Partnership - http://www.globalhumanitarianplatform.org/doc00003804.doc
- Communicates, works and networks effectively with a wide range of people to reach broad consensus on a well-coordinated response, and demonstrates leadership where required.
- Thinks and acts strategically and ensures that cluster activities are prioritised and aligned within an agreed strategy.
- Demonstrates commitment to the cluster and independence from employing organisation.
- Builds, motivates and leads information management team.
- Delivers optimal within defined resource parameters, correctly applies knowledge of specialized disciplines, anticipates and prepares response to changing needs of the relevant organizational unit, delivers on set objectives in hardship situations.
- Effectively coordinates actions with other implementing partners, works effectively with local authorities, stakeholders, beneficiaries and the broader community to advance country or regional objectives.
Core Competencies (Required for UNICEF recruitment):
- Commitment
- Drive for Result
- Embracing Diversity
- Integrity
- Team Work
- Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation
Job location: The incumbent will be based in the Nutrition Cluster Coordination Unit in GOAL, Antakya, Turkey with visits to Gaziantep and other hub locations if/as required.
Reporting to: Nutrition Cluster Coordinator / Co-coordinator
Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.
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