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Job Title: International Information Management Officer (IMO)

Project: Strengthening capacities in Information Management for Humanitarian Actors

Location: Based in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

Expected Start Date of Assignment: 1st April 2020

Duration: Three months

Reports to: iMMAP Senior IMO in consultation with Protection Sector lead

Organization:

iMMAP is an international not-for-profit organization that provides information management services to humanitarian and development organizations, enabling partners to make informed decisions that ultimately provide high-quality targeted assistance to the world’s most vulnerable populations. iMMAP supports humanitarian and development actors to solve operational and strategic challenges. Our pioneering approach facilitates informed and effective emergency preparedness, humanitarian response, and development aid activities by enabling evidence-based decision- making for UN agencies, humanitarian cluster/sector leads, NGOs, and government operations.

Background:

The humanitarian crisis in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in Nigeria’s north-east, that has spilled over into the Lake Chad region, is among the most severe humanitarian crises in the world today. 7.1 million people in Nigeria are in need of urgent, life-saving humanitarian assistance in 2019 and 6.2 million are targeted to receive aid.

Since the start of the conflict in 2009, more than 27,000 people have been killed and thousands of women and girls abducted. 17. Violence against women, girls and children, including sexual violence, exposure to trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence, is all too common yet underreported. Women are often forced into survival sex in exchange for food, movement and items to meet their basic needs, while some vulnerable households have resorted to early marriage and child labour. Thousands of children swell in the ranks of armed actors and predominantly women and children are compelled by non-state armed groups to carry person-borne improvised explosive devices.

Now in its tenth year, the conflict continues to uproot the lives of tens of thousands of children, women and men. As of 2019, 1.8 million Nigerians have fled from their homes and are internally displaced, the majority in Borno State – the epicentre of the crisis. 80 per cent of internally displaced people are women and children, and one in four are under the age of five.

Insecurity due to ongoing hostilities and military operations have led to waves of mass displacement and continue to impact humanitarian operations.

iMMAP, through funding from the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund (NHF), is planning to develop the capacity of protection sector national Non-Governmental Organisations (NNGOs) in Borno state.

Project objectives:

The overall purpose of the project is to enhance humanitarian response and coordination by improving protection sector partners’ information management capacity. The project aims to provide training to actors in best practices for collection, analysis and dissemination of information related to the protection sector, and to provide ongoing and surge support to national NGOs in protection sector working in MMC and Jiri Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Borno State, where gaps in technical expertise have been identified, in order to support humanitarian aid operations programme planning and operations.

This will be achieved through the following:

  • Assess the Information Management capacity of protection sector partners in Borno state
  • Identify priority partners who require additional IM training (in consultation with protection sector and UN OCHA and iMMAP capacity building network)
  • Conduct six rounds of specialized IM training sessions on core information management pertaining to the humanitarian context to the identified protection sector partners.
  • Evaluate impact on data collection & data analysis through the protection sector.

The training will be conducted in Maiduguri, and National NGOs can invite their staff from all LGAs using UNHAS services to attend the training at Maiduguri.

Job Description

Under the direct supervision of iMMAP senior Information Management Officer and in close consultation with north-east Nigeria Protection Sector, the incumbent will provide Capacity Development services that includes the following:

  • Design a questionnaire for the protection sector partners, in consultation with the Protection sector coordination team (sub-sector), to understand the capacity development needs of sector partners;
  • Carry out a mapping exercise of national NGOs working on protection in north-east Nigeria, with the support of the national IMO, to involve in the capacity needs assessment;
  • Review findings with Protection sector partners and coordination team and identify priority partners who require IM training (in consultation with protection sector and UN OCHA and iMMAP capacity building network)
  • Design two training package on the Information Management in Humanitarian Assistance with focus on Protection sector specific needs, tools. This includes but not limited to compiling a list of IM tools used across the Protection sector and sub-sectors, indicators guidelines, 5Ws use and analysis, etc… The training curriculum to be divided in two levels (A and B) each one five days.
  • Conduct six rounds (3 level A and 3 level B) of specialized IM training sessions, with the support of the national IMO and protection sector coordinator/ IM, on core information management pertaining to the humanitarian context to the identified protection sector partners.
  • Establish a mechanism for the bilateral technical support post the training to participating organizations. The national IMO to follow on the out-reach technical support whenever time allows.
  • Provide a final report including evaluation of the training impact and compile all materials used for the training for future trainings.

Professional Competencies

A- Professional Qualifications and Experience:

  • Minimum of 7 years’ experience in information management/ M&E related field preferably in protection sector/ humanitarian context;
  • University degree in information management, GIS, computer science, statistics or related field;
  • Willingness and ability to work in difficult environments, in often stressful situations;
  • Fluent English;

B- Essential Technical Skills

  • Knowledge of adult learning, and developing training modules;
  • Ability to present information in understandable tables, charts and graphs;
  • Knowledge of Illustrator or other graphics design/ visualization software;
  • Knowledge of ArcGIS or other mapping software;
  • Data storage and file management knowledge and expertise;
  • Assessment, survey, monitoring, evaluation and IM systems expertise;
  • Communications and technical writing using both graphic and narrative presentations;

C- Behavioral Competencies

  • Ability to understand and adapt to complex and dynamic situations;
  • Ability to work under pressure;
  • Takes initiatives, manages own use of time and is self-motivating;
  • Proven ability to work in teams;
  • Cultural and Gender awareness and sensitivity.

Personnel is expected to conduct itself in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and iMMAP’s policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all Countries.

iMMAP has zero-tolerance for sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, human trafficking, child abuse and exploitation.

Any violations of these principles and policies will be treated as serious misconduct.

iMMAP is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of background.

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iMMAP is an international not-for-profit 501(c)3 non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides targeted information management support to partners responding to complex humanitarian and development challenges. For more than 15 years, we have promoted measurable change in people’s lives through our core philosophy: better data leads to better decisions and, ultimately, better outcomes. Our expertise in data collection, analysis and presentation has revolutionized the decision making process for our diverse, multi-sectoral partners who seek enhanced coordination and sustainable solutions through information management. We are a robust and dynamic team of recognized experts in social science, software development, statistics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), performance monitoring and evaluation, technical assistance and capacity development.

At iMMAP, our partners and those in need are front and center in all of our efforts. Our mission is to empower the world’s most vulnerable through the enhanced use of data to inform decision making. We envision a world where no one suffers due to lack of access to timely, relevant, and reliable information that has the power to transform lives.

What We Do

Emergency responders, development practitioners, governments and funders often have to make serious and timely decisions under fast paced and chaotic circumstances. When facing complex development challenges, natural disasters and emergencies, it’s critical to make sound choices rooted in real-time knowledge of who is doing what, where they are doing it, and what needs to be done. Access to this critical information positions you to avoid costly or duplicative efforts and, ultimately, to effectively direct support to the people who need it the most.

We are passionate about unleashing the power of data to transform the way our partners respond to real development and humanitarian challenges. We combine our demonstrated expertise in data analytics, customized assessment and monitoring and evaluation methodologies, field based research, and our suite of in-house developed open-sourced software solutions to help you reach a common operating picture and set measurable objectives and priorities. We directly develop or support your organization to transform the data into usable and discernible tools and products such as maps, remote sensing and imagery data, innovative mobile data collection tools, and performance monitoring and security solutions to use in the context of humanitarian access and risk management and beyond.

We apply our core competencies to empower our partners to build a common operating picture across three key sectors:

  • Disaster Risk Management:support to manage and minimize vulnerabilities, stabilize crises, coordinate across sectors and build local capacity to deliver services;
  • Emergency Response:support coordination and build local capacity to better respond to emergencies and humanitarian crises, including natural and man-made disasters, and;
  • Development:apply our multi-sectoral development expertise and build appropriate information management systems to support every stage of a project’s life cycle.

We offer strategic and operational decision support to meet your toughest challenges. We facilitate collaboration in gatheringsharing and  analyzing data and information. We have robust, multi-sectoral expertise in emergency and humanitarian response, logistics,  humanitarian access and risk mitigation, mine action, health, agriculture and food security, animal and environmental conservation, democracy and human rights, water and sanitation,  and shelter, refugee and internally displaced peoples (IDPs)management. We deploy a full range of technical personnel, services and tools to assist our partners to optimally get the job done.

Our History

Founded in the rich tradition of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, we are the legacy of the Survey Action Center (SAC) and the Global Landmine Survey (GLS) initiative. The iMMAP team formed in 1998, leading the first internationally-coordinated effort to combine information management, sociology and GIS technology to define the scourge of landmines and explosive remnants of war and change the way their impact on society is measured. Our work championing information management and GIS technology has expanded beyond humanitarian mine action to the broader relief and international development arena. We have two headquarters offices in Washington, DC and Lyon, France.

Our Finances

We believe that sound financial stewardship is essential and strive to be efficient and transparent to ensure the greatest quality of assistance. iMMAP is a  publicly funded not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization, legally registered in the United States and France.

iMMAP audited financial statements and audit reports are available upon request

iMMAP 990s are available via GuideStar

Below are our key financial highlights from 2011-2015.

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Job Title: International Information Management Officer (IMO)

Project: Strengthening capacities in Information Management for Humanitarian Actors

Location: Based in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

Expected Start Date of Assignment: 1st April 2020

Duration: Three months

Reports to: iMMAP Senior IMO in consultation with Protection Sector lead

Organization:

iMMAP is an international not-for-profit organization that provides information management services to humanitarian and development organizations, enabling partners to make informed decisions that ultimately provide high-quality targeted assistance to the world’s most vulnerable populations. iMMAP supports humanitarian and development actors to solve operational and strategic challenges. Our pioneering approach facilitates informed and effective emergency preparedness, humanitarian response, and development aid activities by enabling evidence-based decision- making for UN agencies, humanitarian cluster/sector leads, NGOs, and government operations.

Background:

The humanitarian crisis in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in Nigeria’s north-east, that has spilled over into the Lake Chad region, is among the most severe humanitarian crises in the world today. 7.1 million people in Nigeria are in need of urgent, life-saving humanitarian assistance in 2019 and 6.2 million are targeted to receive aid.

Since the start of the conflict in 2009, more than 27,000 people have been killed and thousands of women and girls abducted. 17. Violence against women, girls and children, including sexual violence, exposure to trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence, is all too common yet underreported. Women are often forced into survival sex in exchange for food, movement and items to meet their basic needs, while some vulnerable households have resorted to early marriage and child labour. Thousands of children swell in the ranks of armed actors and predominantly women and children are compelled by non-state armed groups to carry person-borne improvised explosive devices.

Now in its tenth year, the conflict continues to uproot the lives of tens of thousands of children, women and men. As of 2019, 1.8 million Nigerians have fled from their homes and are internally displaced, the majority in Borno State – the epicentre of the crisis. 80 per cent of internally displaced people are women and children, and one in four are under the age of five.

Insecurity due to ongoing hostilities and military operations have led to waves of mass displacement and continue to impact humanitarian operations.

iMMAP, through funding from the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund (NHF), is planning to develop the capacity of protection sector national Non-Governmental Organisations (NNGOs) in Borno state.

Project objectives:

The overall purpose of the project is to enhance humanitarian response and coordination by improving protection sector partners’ information management capacity. The project aims to provide training to actors in best practices for collection, analysis and dissemination of information related to the protection sector, and to provide ongoing and surge support to national NGOs in protection sector working in MMC and Jiri Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Borno State, where gaps in technical expertise have been identified, in order to support humanitarian aid operations programme planning and operations.

This will be achieved through the following:

  • Assess the Information Management capacity of protection sector partners in Borno state
  • Identify priority partners who require additional IM training (in consultation with protection sector and UN OCHA and iMMAP capacity building network)
  • Conduct six rounds of specialized IM training sessions on core information management pertaining to the humanitarian context to the identified protection sector partners.
  • Evaluate impact on data collection & data analysis through the protection sector.

The training will be conducted in Maiduguri, and National NGOs can invite their staff from all LGAs using UNHAS services to attend the training at Maiduguri.

Job Description

Under the direct supervision of iMMAP senior Information Management Officer and in close consultation with north-east Nigeria Protection Sector, the incumbent will provide Capacity Development services that includes the following:

  • Design a questionnaire for the protection sector partners, in consultation with the Protection sector coordination team (sub-sector), to understand the capacity development needs of sector partners;
  • Carry out a mapping exercise of national NGOs working on protection in north-east Nigeria, with the support of the national IMO, to involve in the capacity needs assessment;
  • Review findings with Protection sector partners and coordination team and identify priority partners who require IM training (in consultation with protection sector and UN OCHA and iMMAP capacity building network)
  • Design two training package on the Information Management in Humanitarian Assistance with focus on Protection sector specific needs, tools. This includes but not limited to compiling a list of IM tools used across the Protection sector and sub-sectors, indicators guidelines, 5Ws use and analysis, etc… The training curriculum to be divided in two levels (A and B) each one five days.
  • Conduct six rounds (3 level A and 3 level B) of specialized IM training sessions, with the support of the national IMO and protection sector coordinator/ IM, on core information management pertaining to the humanitarian context to the identified protection sector partners.
  • Establish a mechanism for the bilateral technical support post the training to participating organizations. The national IMO to follow on the out-reach technical support whenever time allows.
  • Provide a final report including evaluation of the training impact and compile all materials used for the training for future trainings.

Professional Competencies

A- Professional Qualifications and Experience:

  • Minimum of 7 years’ experience in information management/ M&E related field preferably in protection sector/ humanitarian context;
  • University degree in information management, GIS, computer science, statistics or related field;
  • Willingness and ability to work in difficult environments, in often stressful situations;
  • Fluent English;

B- Essential Technical Skills

  • Knowledge of adult learning, and developing training modules;
  • Ability to present information in understandable tables, charts and graphs;
  • Knowledge of Illustrator or other graphics design/ visualization software;
  • Knowledge of ArcGIS or other mapping software;
  • Data storage and file management knowledge and expertise;
  • Assessment, survey, monitoring, evaluation and IM systems expertise;
  • Communications and technical writing using both graphic and narrative presentations;

C- Behavioral Competencies

  • Ability to understand and adapt to complex and dynamic situations;
  • Ability to work under pressure;
  • Takes initiatives, manages own use of time and is self-motivating;
  • Proven ability to work in teams;
  • Cultural and Gender awareness and sensitivity.

Personnel is expected to conduct itself in a professional manner and respect local laws, customs and iMMAP’s policies, procedures, and values at all times and in all Countries.

iMMAP has zero-tolerance for sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, human trafficking, child abuse and exploitation.

Any violations of these principles and policies will be treated as serious misconduct.

iMMAP is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of background.

2020-03-12

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