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Ukraine Response Programme Management Unit
In March 2022, Oxfam launched its response to the influx of refugees and other people forced to flee from Ukraine in Romania, Moldova and Poland. A Programme Management Unit (PMU) has been established to provide leadership, oversee, support and provide technical assistance to the response in the affected countries.
The PMU will be led by an Operational Lead and includes dedicated advocacy and influencing capacity; business support functions, and a programme quality team with technical support on gender in emergencies, protection, cash and voucher programming, monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL), and safeguarding.
Poland / Romania / Moldova Programmes.
Oxfam is supporting a partner-led humanitarian response for the assistance and protection of refugees and other vulnerable people from Ukraine and the communities, organisations and authorities that are hosting and supporting them in neighbouring countries. The response is strongly driven by the protection needs of refugees and the need for national organisations and authorities to be supporting in scaling up for the refugee response, delivering quality protection support, as well as advocacy for the rights and protection of all refugees and people on the move needing protection.
Job Purpose
The Information and Data Management Coordinator is responsible for managing the varying information flow for the Ukraine Crisis Response as to provide effective, efficient and timely reporting support to the response programme. S/he shall be working closely with MEAL Advisor and liaise with the various programme teams, providing invaluable link between the four (4) country programmes of Poland, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine and the PMU office.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
- In-charge of development of an Information Management System (IMS) for soliciting, maintaining and managing information flows and products (e.g. case-studies, assessment reports, field reports, sitreps, monthly project progress reports, etc);
- Centralize key documents (case studies, field reports, assessment reports, sitreps, donor reports, partner progress reports, among others) in Box, and district shared folder, archive it in a standardized way and make it accessible through promoting use of the sharing platform mentioned above.
- Develop and maintain database/s, as may be required, for storing different types of information while also ensuring data protection (e.g. target reach database, summary of monthly progress reports per country programme and thematic reach).
- Manage the digital feedback mechanisms, incl. development of new channels or mechanisms for countries and partners, maintenance of existing ones and their further betterment.
- Ensure archiving and management of partner program documents.
- Consolidates all MEAL data which includes monthly project activity tracking, project indicator tacking matrix, monthly accountability reports; and produce coherent, monthly summaries (e.g. monthly infographics of overall and thematic reach and other visual representation of outputs like maps of interventions, highlighting partner activities and accomplishments. Provide IM support to countries and partners, and support partners’ capacity building for data collection, management and reporting (hand over data collection template and processes and support for its use and update).
- Develop, implement and sustain data management programme flowchart/processes (includes systematic induction to new staff on data management).
- Regular quality assessment of partners’ data.
- Provide specialist advice to team or programme units with regards to documentation/database management and graphical presentation.
- Assist Programme Teams in updating OPAL with detailed outputs per sector and support on GOR.
- Act as a surge capacity to support all country programmes, incl. capacity support in emergencies.
- Perform other duties in agreement with the line manager.
Experience, Knowledge & Competencies
- Bachelor’s degree in computing & Informatics, Business Analytics, Data Management or Information Systems, Software or another relevant field.
- At least 2 years of relevant experience in data and/or information management in the humanitarian field.
- Good knowledge of database and info graphics.
- Advanced computer literacy with good spreadsheet processing skills.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills; ability to get a message across to others in an appropriate way.
- Strong presentation skills, including the ability to present complex issues clearly in numerical ways and concisely to a broad range of audiences.
- Confident in interactions with other members of the team.
- Ability to pay attention to detail and work under pressure.
- Good time-management and organisational skills, structured approach to issues.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of Polish, Ukrainian or Russian languages would be an advantage.
- Proficiency in Survey CTO, Power Bi and similar platforms is an advantage.
- Completed Information Management courses and certificates (incl. PIM) would be an advantage.
Essential
- Self-awareness
- Decisiveness
- Relationship building
- Agility and complexity
- Mutual accountability