Senior Information Management Officer- Nutrition Cluster

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: 

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g., once a week or more) or intensively (e.g., four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

• ROLE PURPOSE: 
• The Senior Information Management Officer (IMO) will be responsible for improving the timeliness and comprehensiveness of 4Ws reporting, representing the Northwest Syria (NWS) Nutrition Cluster in relevant working groups, providing IM-related input for the Syria Cross Border Humanitarian Fund (SCHF) and Humanitarian Program Cycle (HPC), and suggesting and executing measures to improve the collection, analysis, dissemination, and management of other information relevant to the Nutrition Cluster. The Senior IMO will also coordinate and supervise all IM work and contributions from Nutrition Cluster partners.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Nutrition Cluster Co-Coordinator

Staff reporting to this post: None 

Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions: Role requires contacts with multiple partners and stakeholders, from I/NGOs and local CSOs to gather, validate and analyse data. The role is responsible to supervise and coordinate IM work and contributions from Nutrition Cluster’s partners

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY : 

Information Management to support Nutrition Cluster Coordination Functions (based on Humanitarian Programme Cycle and cluster core functions supporting service delivery, contributing to HC/HCT strategic decision-making, developing Nutrition Cluster strategies, monitoring and evaluating performance, advocacy, build national capacity in preparedness and response).

Support service delivery, and monitor and evaluate performance:

• The senior IMO will facilitate the submission of timely, accurate, and comprehensive data by Nutrition Cluster partners. This will include training sessions for partners as well as ad hoc support to individual partners. The senior IMO will be responsible for receiving monthly submissions, cleaning submissions, and following up with partners when necessary. The senior IMO will share 4Ws with relevant stakeholders (OCHA, WoS, Nutrition Cluster members) and represent the Nutrition Cluster in relevant working groups, clusters, or at other meetings.
• Train partners, to enhance their information management and reporting capacity, collecting their inputs, consolidating and cleaning data.
• Engage in the regular coordination meetings at the sub-national level and national level to keep abreast of the changing situations on the ground and build a relationship with partners
• Support with translation as may be required.

Reporting and Outputs:

• The senior IMO will be responsible for preparing and submitting relevant reports, particularly monthly 4W reports. This will include building upon and updating the 4Ws dashboard/bulletin.
• The senior IMO will also review reporting templates, assessment questionnaires, and other information collection or management tools.
• The senior IMO will suggest and implement relevant improvements, in coordination with data collection partners, to increase the EC’s understanding of the location and severity of nutrition needs as well as gaps in nutrition programming

Support Nutrition Cluster Participation in HPC

• The senior IMO will support the Nutrition Cluster’s participation in the SCHF and HPC among others. This will include support for the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO), which might involve input on indicators for the Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA), relevant support on the sectoral calculation of People in Need (PiN) and sub-district severity scores, etc., and curation of data required for the HNO and/or the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP).
• Support the Cluster advocacy efforts by contributing to the creation of visuals, graphs, dashboards, and reports that highlight nutrition needs of children, including the most marginalized and hard-to-reach

Other

Conduct any other duties assigned by the supervisors

General:

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Display neutrality and act as the representative of all nutrition cluster members.
• Develop and maintain a strong and positive relationship with the Strategic Advisory Committee (SAG).
• Develop and maintain a strong and positive relationship with nutrition cluster partners in the country and colleagues at regional and global levels.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential:

Experience:

• At least five (5) years of experience in data collection and conducting data analysis, either as part of designing and implementing monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) or data management systems, preferably in an INGO.
• Strong preference for previous experience in nutrition and/or humanitarian programs
• Computer literacy and competency in use: Microsoft Office software, including some advanced skill with Microsoft Excel and other contemporary statistical management software.
• Experience with PowerBi or other data visualization tools preferred

Skills:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrable ability to work across different stakeholders taking part in the nutrition cluster.
• Good organizational and planning skills, including ability to manage a number of urgent priorities which arise in humanitarian coordination.
• Ability to independently and proactively work as a team member with minimum day-to-day oversight
• A high level of written and spoken English and Arabic

Knowledge:

• Ability to develop and utilize appropriate methods and tools to support high quality data collection and analysis.
• Proven skills in transforming data to information, which is impactful and accessible to different audiences, and communicates to all stakeholders the intended purpose of the data collection.
• Capacity to communicate this information across a number of different channels and media.

Other:

• Demonstrated commitment to Humanitarian Principles and the Principles of Partnership
• Commitment to uphold an inclusive approach to the work of the nutrition Sector; further, an understanding of the four humanitarian principles as well as conflict sensitivity and “do no harm” approaches.
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.

Desirable:

• Previous experience with the humanitarian program cycle and/or within humanitarian coordination structures.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities 

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.