Information Management and Analytics Senior Analyst

The Information Management and Analytics Senior Analyst will serve as the Head of the Information Management Unit for UNMAS Syria, acting as the lead technical IM counterpart for national authorities, the Mine Action Area of Responsibility, and partners. The role involves managing information management processes, quality control, data migration, and coordination with stakeholders to support humanitarian mine action efforts in Syria.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the upscaling or downscaling of the IM Unit structure in accordance with the development of UNMAS Syria.
• Help identify and report gaps, challenges, risks and opportunities.
• Ensure that documentation and improvement of IM processes are recorded.
• Assist in the development of IM SOPs aligned with relevant IMAS and NMAS.
• Contribute to the development of the internal IM workplan and to the monitoring of its implementation.
• Participate in the development, maintenance and review of the Unit workflows, processes and standard operating procedures.
• Prioritise requests in close coordination with the Head of Operations.
• Provide technical guidance to the IM Unit personnel in a multicultural team, ensuring a professional, ethical and well-managed IM team.
• Foster and role-model a safe, inclusive, and enabling work environment that upholds dignity and respect for all personnel.
• Deliver relevant mine action information to stakeholders in a timely and easy-to-access manner in compliance with information-sharing and security policies and protocols.
• Facilitate coordination with the Mine Action Area of Responsibility and other stakeholders including United Nations entities and implementing partners.
• Facilitate coordination with the Syrian National Mine Action Centre (SNMAC) focusing on mine action oversight and transfer of functions from UNMAS Syria to SNMAC.
• Oversee UNMAS data migration to IMSMA Core.
• Quality assure and control the accuracy and timeliness of all information products such as dashboards, operational snapshots, factsheets, donor reporting, MA AoR products, maps and ad hoc provision of information.
• Support the development of standards for data quality in the database.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of IM training management packages.
• Support the delivery of IM training courses to stakeholders including implementing partners.
• Ensure that the database structure is properly maintained, reviewed and improved.
• Ensure that the database is properly administered and quality managed.
• Support the definition of data requirements.
• Ensure the proper implementation of data validation, cleaning, compliance, imports, backups and routine quality checks.

Requirements

• Advanced University Degree (Masters Degree or equivalent) preferably in the field of Information Technology, Information Management, Computer Sciences or related field is required with 2 years of relevant experience; OR First level University degree (Bachelors Degree or equivalent) preferably in the field of Information Technology, Information Management, Computer Sciences or related field with 4 years of relevant experience is required.
• Relevant experience is defined as experience in information management support.
• Experience working with database systems.
• Experience in data quality management.
• Experience chairing or facilitating technical working groups or multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms.
• Desired experience includes management of teams.
• Experience working with national authorities, UN entities, and implementing partners.
• Experience in coordination and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in data governance.
• Experience supporting Information Management in mine action.
• Experience designing or overseeing technical training programmes.
• Experience producing or quality-assuring dashboards, maps and donor/reporting products.
• Experience working with IMSMA, SQL or Postgres.
• Experience working with GIS tools.
• Experience working with governmental institutions, UN, NGOs.
• Experience working for a mine action organisation.

Skills

• Information Management
• Data Quality Processes
• Database Systems
• Working Group Facilitation
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Team Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Data Governance
• Information Management in Mine Action
• Technical Training Design
• Dashboard Production
• Map Production
• Donor Reporting
• IMSMA
• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• GIS Tools
• Coordination with national authorities
• Coordination with UN Agencies
• Coordination with Partners

Languages

English, Arabic