Date Posted: 14/March/2014
Information Management Officer required at Child Protection – UNICEF in Islamabad
Department: UNICEF
Job Location: Islamabad
Gender: Doesn’t Matter
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Degree Title: Advanced University Degree in Information
Management/Technology, which could also include information system engineering,
process re-engineering and data analysis competencies. Knowledge of
contemporary developments and approaches with the perspective of developing
countries in general and analytical understanding od issues,
challenges and opportunities in the context of Pakistan in the field of human
rights, child rights and Child Protection will be an asset.
Career Level: NOB
Minimum Experience:
2 Years(1. Two year’s combined field
and headquarters experience in different international organizations (e.g. UN
agencies, INGO’s, IO’s, Donors, IFRC or ICRC. 2. Knowledge of Child Protection
area, technical guidelines, standards and indicators. 3. Proven statistical and
analytic skills. 4. Knowledge of database development and information system
development cycle. 5. Knowledge of designing IT project implementation plans,
showing tasks, responsibilities and timelines. 6. Ability to translate planning
specifications to technical briefs for data capture and analysis, and vice
versa)
Salary Range: PKR. 175,000 to 200,000/Month
Work Permit: Pakistan
Apply By: Mar 18, 2014
Posted On: Mar 3, 2014
Job Description
· Provides technical support to map,
design and implement Child Protection data and information management systems initiatives with Line
Ministries, departments, units, and other government and non-government
institutions at provincial/ district level which are currently involved in
Child Protection issues/ concerns, data
collection and reporting.
· Conduct stakeholder consultations,
process reviews and mapping, development of data
collection and coordination mechanisms
· To develop indicators in order to
effectively monitor and evaluate progress achieved in the implementation of the
Convention and assess the impact of policies that affect children.
· Design Data Collection/Entry
formats (manual and/or electronic) using the familiar structuresand maximizing
the use of existing data and provide clearer data definitions.
- Provide orientation and training
in how to use the new formats and support in interpreting and utilizing the
statistics/indicators, possibly including a workshop for key CP partners at the
District level.
· Supports the Child Protection and
Child’s Rights governmental bodies, at the national and provincial levels to
develop a monitoring system/ database which enables collection and monitoring
of human rights and child rights related data
systematically, review results and progress of projects collected through
reliable methods and quality criteria.
- Provides analytical and graphical
representation of data which could help program managers for steering and
learning from ongoing interventions and also highlights key information and
support decision making.
- Facilitates federal and provincial
offices to comply with the planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting requirements
of the child protection programme and strengthens the coordination and
communication between CP programme and other sectoral programmes on important
topics (MYWP and IMEP monitoring, internal MYR/AR, RAM, SItAN preparation,
Donor reporting/PBA use monitoring, Field monitoring, ME training etc) as well
as the web based monitoring and reporting system for the intersectoral
programme on Protecting Child Rights in Cotton Farming Areas of Pakistan.
· Provide technical support and
training to provincial offices and implementing partners in the area of information management and monitoring of data
and results.
- Support Child Protection program
staff for ready reference data, figures and statistics on Child protection
concerns and also conduct analysis on SPSS or other software as required.
LANGUAGES:
Fluency in written and spoken
English and Urdu, Knowledge of the local working language of the duty
station is an asset.