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For every child, a future

Purpose of the job: Under the overall direction and guidance of the Chief of Child Protection/ the Data, Planning and Information Management Officer, Child Protection will manage the IM function of the section, as well as the evidence generation and data management with the team and partners. They are responsible for ensuring IM processes effectively contribute to a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent, and effective response by the Child Protection Programme. The Data, Planning and Information Management Officer Child Protection is responsible for managing the collection, analysis and sharing of information that is essential for the child protection team and partners to make informed, evidence-based, strategic decisions and for ensuring they are adequately coordinating across pillars, using evidence, at the national level.

How can you make a difference?

Key function, accountabilities and related duties/ tasks

The post holder is responsible for supporting the information management function to enable the effective functioning of the child protection programme in both development and anticipatory actions including locations impacted by climate change.

The postholder’s main tasks and responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

Data, Planning, and Information Management function support.

• Implement an IM strategy and data collection and analysis plan that takes into account the information needs of stakeholders and that is compliant with standards and protocols for ethical data and information management, and that is aligned with the national level strategy and plan,
• Implement regular secondary data reviews and primary data collection including designing questionnaires using appropriate tools,
• Conduct data processing including organizing, cleaning, triangulating, evaluating, and validating the data,
• Analyze data to meet identified information needs of the child protection programme and other stakeholders,
• Create accurate, quality, and timely information products that are in line with agreed style guides,
• Disseminate information and information products through appropriate channels,
• Maintain and ensure the accessibility of a common and shared secure storage system,
• Gather feedback on products and use it to make improvements.

Needs assessment and analysis.

• Working collaboratively with other team members at national and sub-national level, contribute to the planning and implementation of needs assessment and analysis, including joint assessments and analysis, as requested,
• Work with team members and partners to identify information gaps, agree and implement ways to bridge those gaps by providing technical support to partners,
• Analyze needs assessment data to provide the required information for the HNO, HAC, RAM, and CSIs
• Contribute to the comparison and alignment of joint needs analysis findings with other Sectors and participate in developing reports as relevant at sub-national level.

Strategic response planning

• Implement partner presence mapping at the sub-national level.
• Contribute to strategic planning, response prioritization, and the development of the CPD or other plans as relevant, including the formulation of objectives, indicators, and targets, prioritizing response modalities and activities, identifying and quantifying inputs, and the curation of data.

Resource mobilization

• Monitor and analyze the financial situation and support financial tracking,
• Support evidence-based advocacy and resource mobilization by providing accurate, relevant, and timely data, information, and information products.

Implementation and monitoring

• Implement and maintain a monitoring plan and associated databases, including a response monitoring (3/4/5Ws) database that is in line with and contributes to national-level databases,
• Ensure the monitoring plan, and 3/4/5Ws include programme delivery modalities (in-kind, cash, voucher, and services),
• Support team and partners to contribute timely and quality periodic monitoring reports.
• Support monitoring in the areas of information flows, dissemination, processing, analysis, and dissemination,
• Contribute to quantitative and qualitative gap and coverage analysis to identify spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps, and coverage of the child protection programme
• Monitor adherence to relevant sector quality standards, regulations, and codes at sub-national level.

Strengthen national and local capacity.

• Support or implement actions to strengthen local and national leadership and capacity by encouraging participation of local and national actors in the Data, Planning, and Information Management activities and providing support to partners to overcome technical and operational challenges in participating in IM activities,
• Implement a data, Planning, and Information Management capacity assessment and capacity development plan.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Education:

A university degree in one of the following fields is required: Information Management or Information Systems, GIS Information Technologies, Computer Science, Statistics, Social Sciences or another subject area relevant to Information Management.

• Work Experience:

A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in information management, data management, geographical information systems, assessments, situation analysis and/or PM&E with the UN and/or NGO is required.

Experience in demonstrating strong information management skills in a professional context is essential for this post.

Experience in a humanitarian context is required.

Experience working in a development context using IM and data tools is required.

Working in the child protection sector or programming areas is considered an asset.

Fluency in English and the official UN language of the duty station are required. Knowledge of other official UN languages is considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels. UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity

The selected applicant will have an initial two (2) year fixed-term contract, with the possibility of extension, subject to satisfactory performance.

UNICEF’s active commitment to diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible and suitable female candidates are encouraged to apply.

Internal candidates who are legally permitted to work for UNICEF in Bangladesh, independently of UNICEF appointment, will also be considered.

Visa residence requirements: UNICEF shall not facilitate the issuance of a visa and working authorization for candidates under consideration for positions at the national officer category.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

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