• Country: Port Sudan, Sudan
• No of vacancies: N/A
  
• Salary: N/A 
• Organization: UNICEF
• Gender: Both
• Deadline: 2024-01-22

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

The position is based in Port Sudan with a national focus covering:

• Lead and coordinate the Sudan CO Information Management Hub covering programme sections, operations and UNICEF-lead Cluster IM functions.
• Develop and roll out of UNICEF Sudan Data for Children Strategy
• Ensure the alignment and consistency of key performance indicators across all planning and programme documents, including Interagency plans and donor proposals.
• Strengthen, adapt, and maintain monitoring systems for high-frequency partner reporting against a prioritized set of key performance indicators, in accordance with the Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) appeal and the Interagency Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). The system should meet the needs of both the Country Office and Field Offices.
• Lead harmonization of HFPP system for UNICEF and UNICEF-lead Clusters in close coordination with Cluster Leads and Cluster IMs, ensuring coherence and coordination and duplication of efforts.
• Establish and maintain a systematic approach to field monitoring across UNICEF-supported programming to ensure adequate data on the quality of programmes (use of supplies, implementation bottlenecks, equity of access, do no harm, engagement with local capacities).
• Review and maintain the program monitoring strategy and plan to ensure consistent relevance to the evolving context, in close cooperation with Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist.
• Support the Programmes to ensure the prompt use of digital monitoring systems, including eTools Field Monitoring Module (FMM), and other mobile data collection tools such as Inform/Kobo, etc.
• Conduct monitoring training and relevant capacity-building activities for UNICEF staff and implementing partners.
• Support the development of periodic reports and information products, including situation reports (SitRep), and CO annual reports.
• Support and participate in need assessments and other data collection initiatives as required.
• Ensure collaboration with other agencies, organizations, and clusters to advocate for relevant disaggregated data collection and analysis plans at the interagency level.

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Candidate Profile and Qualifications

Education:

• An advanced university degree in international development, information technology, geographic information system or another relevant technical field. (A first level university degree in combination with two years of additional qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.)

Language Requirement:

• Fluency in English is required. Good working knowledge of Arabic is a strong asset.

Experience:

• A minimum of eight years of experience in data, research, field monitoring and evaluation, statistics or related fields is required.
• Excellent writing and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of digital data management tools (Kobo, ONA or ODK), and statistical and analytical.
• Knowledge data visualization technics with PowerBI is highly desirable.
• Experience working in the context of armed conflict or complex emergency is highly desirable.

• Demonstrable understanding of international humanitarian response architecture and coordination mechanisms.
• Experience in leadership and coordination of diverse teams.
• Solid communications skills.

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