Information Management Officer (Education), NOB - Fixed Term Appointmen

For every child,

Syria’s conflict has generated a crisis not only inside the country but throughout the region. Now in its fifth year, this crisis has resulted in the displacement of over one million people into Lebanon alone. This crisis has now become a national Lebanese crisis creating an incredible burden on the Government, UN, humanitarian agencies and host communities. The crisis is becoming increasingly challenging and is having a serious impact on the country and its populations. Today, Lebanon is hosting about 1.5 million persons displaced from Syria, additionally poor Lebanese are also affected by this crisis as well as Palestinian refugees. This means that over 1 million children are affected by this crisis in Lebanon alone.

Information management has become one of the greatest challenges. There is a need to strengthen the education information management system for better coordination, response and planning. 

How can you make a difference?

Purpose for the job:

A national Information Management (IM) working group is operational in Beirut, Lebanon for coordination and collaboration of IM needs. In addition to this, each sector has an IM focal point supporting both national and field level coordination. In this context, due the large intervention of UNICEF with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, a dedicated information management officer will support the Education section in data management, data collection, and result monitoring, including:

Support the Education Section and Planning and Monitoring Unit in the collation and organisation of education-related data; stemming from UNICEF Education planning documents (AWP, HRRP, donor log frames, RACE)

Support data collection for all education activities implemented by UNICEF and its implementing partners (whether governmental or non-governmental)

Support UNICEF project officers in the collection and analysis of data related to specific projects (ALP, HS, etc.) or studies/surveys/evaluations as per needs of the Education Section.  

Identify secondary data and information resources that are useful for education analysis

Regularly review effectiveness of information sharing systems in the Education Section; and support in the role out of improved methods

Support the SPPM&E Section with preparing thematic, operational, planning mapping, needs, gaps per location

Promote and support training of partners, government and humanitarian personnel and capacity building of partners. 

Provide data support to the Education Section’s assessments, studies, and evaluations (OOSC, EHA evaluation)

Support Education Field Officers with their data needs if required (travel to the field may be needed)

Monitoring and compilation of education results, data, and data reports

Training to stakeholders (UNICEF staff, implementing partners)

Production of mapping products 

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

Working under the guidance and direction of the Education Specialist, IMO liaises and communicates with many different types of people. S/he presents information in a way that is easily understood by the sector members, government agencies and management.

General

Provide IM services to the Education Team for key decision making.  These services will include data collection, collation, analysis, dissemination processes relevant to the needs of the sector, including data collection and map production.  This may require building additional and appropriate capacity through the training of staff members of the sector partners.

Maintain and update contact directories of education section partners

Data Gathering, Tools and Process

Support data collection on a project basis for education activities implemented by the Education team and where UN agencies and NGOs have a supporting role, such as Accelerated Learning Programmes (ALP) Outreach

Identify secondary data and information resources that are useful for education analysis

Monitoring

Support indicators-tracking by developing analysis products based on information reported

Indicators-tracking database and derivative products, such as maps

Needs and gap identification for the sector;

Inventory of relevant common data sets, including population data disaggregated by age and sex;

Dissemination and Access to Information for Stakeholders

Develop a monthly education data sheet that will show most recent validated information, in collaboration with UN, NGOs and government stakeholders

Ensure that relevant information is shared to field level through the education partners groups, attend field meetings to provide regular briefings on the data available and results

Regularly review effectiveness of methods to share information in an appropriate way (ie not all stakeholders have access to the same type of information systems) using internet, field facilitators, hard copies, verbal feedback at coordination meetings