International- Consultancy Information Management Specialist (IMS) UNICEF Juba South Sudan

This post will provide information management (IM) capacity for improved risk informed response to enhance programmatic and operational decision making across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus and expand climate-resilient action for children. South Sudan faces multiple hazards and shocks including, persistent Sub-National conflict, widespread flooding and climatic shocks, and economic instability.

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Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
This post will provide information management (IM) capacity for improved risk informed response to enhance programmatic and operational decision making across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus and expand climate-resilient action for children. South Sudan faces multiple hazards and shocks including, persistent Sub-National conflict, widespread flooding and climatic shocks, and economic instability. 2 million people are internally displaced, and 9.4 million are in need of assistance. Disease outbreaks are common, and preventable diseases widespread, food insecurity and malnutrition have some of the highest rates in the world, and women and girls face extreme levels of gender-based violence.
Integrated scaled humanitarian actions are essential while ensuring the underlying determinants are addressed. Based on the scale and multi-layered dimension of the humanitarian situation there is a need for solid evidence base, localized risk data and quality systems for analysing information, and monitoring response to inform and coordinate action and decisions. A local, contextualized understanding of risks facing children provides a common analytical evidence base to inform humanitarian, preparedness, resilience and development action. Platforms for data analysis and reporting, as well as visualization are essential, both for internal monitoring and planning, and external visibility and reporting.
A dedicated (IM) expertise will lead on the child related Sub-National risk data and analysis, response monitoring, and mapping. The IMS will build on the IM framework for field operations, aligning core indicators, tools, templates, and data management systems. The post will lead on the Child Climate Risk Index Model and Risk informed response portal for South Sudan, mapping of UNICEF supported infrastructure working across section and external partners and actors. The post will ensure capacity building and support to sections to enable use of platforms and tools, monitoring and reporting, as well as quality control. The IM will provide timely analysis and reporting as per humanitarian performance monitoring requirements, working across the UNICEF programs, operations, cross-sectoral areas and field offices.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:
The post holder is responsible for Information Management, including data management, analysis, mapping and reporting under field operations. The IM will ensure efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNICEF and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including:
• Lead on establishing the Child Climate Risk Index (CCRI) and integrating within the UNICEF South Sudan ‘Risk Informed Response’ (RiR) Portal (Geogsight) working collaboratively with UNDRR, UNICEF sections and external partners to establish, strengthen and maintain a subnational compositive risk index for child related risks in South Sudan.
• Work with program sections and across agencies to ensure required data is embedded and consolidated to analyse trends, and report/disseminate information to inform critical decision making, i.e. disease trends, displacement, floods.
• Update and manage database and mapping of UNICEF supported facilities; – including health, nutrition and education - to map coverage and reach, program impact and risks, overlaying critical datasets, including disease prevalence.
• Provide analytics and maps to inform decision making, including, for example impact of floods or conflict on health trends and facilities based on program need to support advocacy and timely action and decision making.
• Review existing tools for collecting, analyzing and reporting activities, and identifying information gaps.
• Support and maintain monitoring and reporting databases that consolidate, analyze and report/disseminate inter-sector / contextual information critical to decision making.
• Support monthly reporting requirements and develop visual reporting products and systems, as well as donor requirements for analysis and visualization, ensuring reporting and monitoring are aligned and at quality standards, including the monthly SitRep and Humanitarian performance monitoring dashboards.
• Work with sections to develop relevant, streamlined IM Systems, common data sets, risk analysis and standard products;
• Ensure quality inputs to ad hoc sitreps, response monitoring, mapping and monitoring on request.
• Support the estimation of spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of activities as required .
• Participate in inter-agency and cluster IM activities, and building IM networks, identifying areas for collaboration.
• Lead capacity building of field and program teams on new Information Management/ Coordination/reporting tools;
• Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities assigned

Scope of Work:
The IMS is to support UNICEF South Sudan on maintaining information databases, analyzing risks and data and disseminating relevant products and information to support evidence-based response planning, better understand program impact, drive the development of strategies, innovation and multi-sectoral programmes to improve well-being of children. The IMS is critical function that will support a Health Knowledge Management team in support of the Health Sector Transformation Project. The post will work jointly with UNDRR on developing and supporting the localized Sub-National Risk index (INFORM) and it’s integration with the CCRI (child climate risk index) / Geosight child risk data.
The successful candidate will be predominantly located in the UNICEF Country Office based in Juba where the incumbent will be attending meetings at various UN and non-UN compounds throughout the capital city. The incumbent may be expected to travel to the field to UNICEF locations to support information management and risk analysis skills building of field teams to inform local response decision making.

Deliverables
Work Assignment Overview
Tasks/Milestone: Deliverables/Outputs: Timeline Fee as % of total cost
Produce analysis on humanitarian indicators, UNICEF facilities, programs, and hazards to improve programmatic decision making World Bank Context/ Risk Analysis products produced by 30 December ’23

Monthly (x2) UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programmingHAC SitRep for November + Oct  by 20 December 2023

Produce bi-weekly / monthly (December) Emergency Response Dashboard (According to emergency) Quality reporting products disseminated by 30 December 2023

Update and maintain UNICEF Risk Portal, collate and quality check data with key Sub-National risk data, context layers, humanitarian performance data for analysis / products. UNICEF programme Context analysis products produced by 20th Jan 2024

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming Final HAC SitRep for the year January – Dec by 20 January 2024

End Year UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programmingHAC SitRep Report for January by 20 January ‘24

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report for February by 20 February ’24

Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector programme; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP : Analysis and products  by 15 Feb ‘24

Establish / UNICEF SSCO Child Climate Risks Data Platform integrated within Geosight; Including stakeholder mapping and consultations, SOPS, Data mapping, orientations, stakeholder engagement and collaboration with UNDRR-INFORM RiR / DRIP platform completed, and staff orientations done. by 30 March ‘24
Conduct capacity building internally, including programme sections, Field offices and emergency team, on UNICEF CCRI - risk informed response platform, IM tools and products Capacity building sessions held and documented by 30 March 2024
Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector programme; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP Analysis and products by 15 March ‘24

Produce thematic analysis including, not limited to, disease, floods, access, response, through child lens Geosight and CCRI UNICEF analysis products produced by 15 March ‘24

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report for March by 20 March ‘24
Produce bi-weekly / monthly (January / February / March) Emergency Response Dashboard (According to emergency) Quality reporting products disseminated by March 31 ‘24
Conduct capacity building sessions with UNICEF counterparts, Government, CSO and NGO partners on UNICEF CCRI - risk informed response platform, IM tools and products Capacity building sessions held and documented by 30 April 2024 4,000
Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report for by April 20 April’24
Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector programme; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP Analysis and products by 30 April ‘24

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report for by May 20 May’24
Review of all Information Products; Streamline and improve products with standard templates and style guides
Templates and guide for emergency products by 31 May ‘24

Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector programme; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP Analysis and products  by 30 May ‘24

Produce thematic analysis including, but not limited to, disease prevalence, floods, access, on-going emergencies, and the impact on children using the Geosight and CCRI UNICEF programme Context analysis products produced by 15 June ’24

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report for by June 20 June ‘24

Produce bi-weekly / monthly (April / May / June) Emergency Response Dashboard (According to emergency) Quality reporting products disseminated by 30 June ‘24

Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector programme; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP Analysis and products by 30 June ‘24

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report by July 20 July ‘24

Conduct internal capacity building sessions with programmatic sections, Field offices and emergency team, on UNICEF CCRI - risk informed response platform, IM tools and products Capacity building sessions held and documented by 30 June 2024

Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector programme; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP Analysis and products by 30 July ‘24

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report for by August 20 August ‘24

Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector programme; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP Analysis and products by 30 August ‘24

Conduct capacity building sessions with UNICEF counterparts, Government, CSO and NGO partners on UNICEF CCRI - risk informed response platform, IM tools and products Capacity building sessions held and documented by 15 Sept 2024
Produce thematic child risks analysis including, but not limited to, disease prevalence, floods, access, on-going emergencies, and the impact on children using the Geosight and CCRI UNICEF programme Context analysis products produced by 15 September ’24

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report for September by 20 September ‘24
Produce bi-weekly / monthly (July / August / September) Emergency Response Dashboard (According to emergency)
Quality reporting products disseminated by 30 September ‘24

Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector programme; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP Analysis and products  by 30 Sept ‘24

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report for October by 20 October ‘24

Conduct internal capacity building with programmatic sections (3) Zonal / Field offices (3) and emergency team (3) on UNICEF CCRI - risk informed response platform, IM tools and products Capacity building sessions held and documented 30 October 2024

Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector programme; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP Analysis and products by 30 Oct ‘24

Monthly UNICEF HAC SitRep Dashboard and infographics with new data inputs on funds and programming HAC SitRep Report for November by 20 November 2024

Produce monthly analysis and products for health sector; including public sector facilities, IPs, supply, hazards to improve programmatic decision making Health CERHSSP/HSTP Analysis and products by 30 Nov ‘24

Participate in 60 bi-weekly internal meetings including but not limited to Chief of Field Office, EOT, outbreak taskforce and inter-agency IM meetings and cluster meetings (bi-weekly) Notes shared and required quality inputs to meeting provided Throughout, 2023

Participate in 40 Weekly meeting with Emergency Team Notes shared and quality inputs to meeting Throughout, 2023

Minimum Qualifications required:
Advanced University Degree (masters) in a subject area relevant to information management, GIS, data management and at least 5 years’ work experience relevant to this post. Formal training in data / information management and GIS an advantage
Experience working on integration of contextual and programmatic data in humanitarian and development programming is an asset.
Language Requirements:
English Fluency required Other local language is an asset

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
• Excellent knowledge of MS Excel / MS Access (e.g. pivot tables and functions); proven technical expertise for managing data capture and storage, for analysing diverse datasets, and presenting information in understandable tables, charts, graphs and reports;
• Excellent knowledge and experience with software, including ArcGIS, Mapinfo, SPSS, EpiInfo6, SQL Server, and/or progress. Experience with HTML, PHP, ASP and/or Java is an asset.
• Proven skills in using GIS and map‐making packages, and in web design and software development are an asset
• Understands key technical issues for the humanitarian sector sufficiently to be able to engage with sector participants and understand sector‐specific information management needs.
• Ability to translate planning-specifications into analytical and technical briefs for data capture and analysis, and vice versa for programming and external audiences.
• Ability to compile and holistically analyze diverse datasets.
• Experience working in complex emergencies and applying analysis to problem solving in difficult humanitarian responses
• Experience in South Sudan is an asset.

ALL applications MUST be accompanied with a detailed technical and financial proposal.

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Remarks:  

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

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