Within delegated authority, the Information Management Officer will be responsible for the following duties: General ? Provides advisory services on organization and maintenance of UN information assets; Maintains a repository of spatial data; supports analysis activities, secondary data reviews, preliminary scenario definitions and rapid assessments, with an emphasis on technological applications. ? Coordinates and maintains information flows to facilitate protection and human rights information exchange and the promotion of data and information standards in the field presence; supports humanitarian counterparts to ensure that information activities are coordinated and consistent with human rights standards and practices; provides support on the use and development of information management tools and platforms to OHCHR staff members and partners ? Researches, analyses and evaluates new applications of information technology to archives and records management and makes recommendations for their deployment. ? Participates in record-keeping improvement projects, contributing to feasibility studies, systems analysis, design, development and implementation and in the evaluation and testing of record-keeping application improvements and new systems; provides user support. ? Develops detailed system and other functional specifications and standards from the recordkeeping perspective and user documentation for new systems. ? Understands, keeps current with and applies preservation techniques and strategies for records in all media. Ensures that the Section’s storage facilities meet environmental standards. ? Manages archival processing activities by overseeing adherence to preservation, international bibliographic, description and database standards; produces descriptive inventories; prepares mark-up of descriptive inventories for electronic dissemination; and makes recommendations regarding the planning and prioritisation of preservation and description programme requirements. ? Performs and supervises reference functions by advising internal and external users about records holdings and accessibility; maintaining communications with other information management networks and records and archives specialists; supervising retrieval and reproduction activities of General Service staff. ? Evaluates adequacy of existing records management and reference tools. Implements new technologies in information management to ensure that tools developed for efficient access to information are accessible to staff throughout the Organization. ? Participates in developing client outreach strategies and in their implementation. Conducts programmes of outreach and user education to improve client use of desktop information resources; uses judgement of relevant institutional needs to develop presentations appropriate to client audience; develops publicity materials to facilitate outreach. ? Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. ? Performs other related duties, as required.

Requirements:

Education

Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in archival, information science, information systems, social science or related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Job – Specific Qualification

Not available.

Work Experience

A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in modern archives management, record keeping, library, information management or related area is required. Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable. Experience managing protection information related to human rights is desirable. Experience working in data management in humanitarian settings is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the post advertised, fluency in oral and written English is required.