Information Management Officer (Education)

The Information Management Officer (Education Cluster) manages and supports the information management function of the Education Cluster Working Group at sub-national level in Afghanistan. The role supports data collection, analysis, management, and dissemination to enable evidence-based humanitarian planning, response coordination, monitoring, and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the effective roll out and monitoring of the core cluster functions and the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HNO, HRP and CCPM).
• Support the Cluster Working Group IM function and coordinate with others to ensure effective communication, reporting and engagement.
• Engage with other IMs through relevant IMWGs and represent the Cluster Working Group on inter-cluster IMWG at sub-national level.
• Promote harmonized and coordinated approaches to IM across partners, AoRs/Clusters Working Groups and OCHA at sub-national level.
• Implement an IM strategy and data collection and analysis plan at sub-national level aligned with national level IM strategy and plan.
• Conduct data processing including organizing, cleaning, triangulating, evaluating and validating data.
• Analyze data to meet information needs of sub-national Cluster Working Group members and stakeholders.
• Create accurate, quality and timely information products in line with agreed style guides.
• Disseminate information and information products through appropriate channels.
• Maintain and ensure accessibility of a common and shared secure storage system.
• Gather feedback on IM products and use it to make improvements.
• Contribute to planning and implementation of needs assessment and analysis including joint assessments and analysis.
• Collect information on economic needs, markets and price monitoring to support programme delivery modalities.
• Work with sub-national Cluster Working Group participants to identify information gaps and provide technical support to partners.
• Analyze needs assessment data to provide information for the HNO including estimating People in Need (PIN).
• Contribute to joint and inter-sectoral analysis processes and support alignment of needs analysis findings across clusters/sectors.
• Implement partner presence mapping at sub-national level.
• Contribute to strategic planning, response prioritization and development of humanitarian response plans and related analytical products.
• Monitor and analyze the sub-national Cluster Working Group’s financial situation and support financial tracking.
• Support financial reporting on the Financial Tracking Service (FTS).
• Support evidence-based advocacy and resource mobilization by providing accurate, relevant and timely data and information products.
• Implement and maintain a sub-national Cluster Working Group monitoring plan and associated databases including response monitoring (3/4/5Ws).
• Ensure monitoring plan includes programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher and services).
• Support Cluster Working Group members to contribute timely and quality periodic monitoring reports on Cluster Working Group and OCHA platforms.
• Support monitoring in information flows, dissemination, processing, analysis and dissemination.
• Contribute to quantitative and qualitative gaps and coverage analysis to identify spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of humanitarian response.
• Monitor adherence to relevant sector quality standards, regulations and codes at sub-national level.
• Participate in annual cluster coordination performance monitoring (CCPM) exercise and annual review.
• Contribute to sectoral and broader humanitarian evaluations.
• Be accountable to affected populations by encouraging meaningful participation, maintaining feedback mechanisms and handling complaints appropriately.
• Ensure inclusion of cross cutting issues (age, child protection, disability, gender, GBV mitigation and response and HIV & AIDS) in data collection, analysis and dissemination.
• Adhere to child safeguarding and PSEA policies including procedures for challenging and reporting incidents.
• Support or implement actions to strengthen local and national leadership and capacity by encouraging participation of local and national actors in IM activities.
• Implement an IM capacity assessment and capacity development plan for sub-national Cluster Working Group partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in Information Management, Information Systems, Info. Technology, Computer Science, Statistics, Science, information management, information systems, geographic information systems, information technology, computer science, statistics, social sciences, data science and any other related field is required.
• 2 years of relevant work experience in Information Technology, Humanitarian Assistance, Education, Emergency, Monitoring and Evaluation, Response, information management, humanitarian coordination, education in emergencies, data analysis, needs assessment, monitoring and reporting, geospatial analysis, data visualization, response planning, cluster coordination and any other related field is a requirement.
• Information Management, Data Management, Monitoring and Reporting, Needs Assessment, GIS, MS Excel
• English - Proficiency/Fluency is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Humanitarian coordination experience, cluster IM training, INEE minimum standards, Sphere standards, Core Humanitarian Standard experience will be an asset.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts will be considered an asset.

Skills

• Information Management
• Data Management
• Monitoring and Reporting
• Needs Assessment
• Geospatial Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Response Planning
• Cluster Coordination
• Humanitarian Coordination
• Education in Emergencies
• Data Analysis
• GIS
• MS Excel
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Emergency Response
• Monitoring and Evaluation

Languages

English