Information Management Officer
Information Management Officer
Children have the right to grow up in peace, free from fear and violence. To develop their full potential and become the person they want to be. War Child makes a lasting impact. By protecting children from violence and offering psychosocial support and education. We unleash the children’s inner strength with our creative and involving approach. And inspire as many people as we can to participate in our cause. War Child is both implementing its own programmes and cooperating with a variety of partner organizations in 14 countries around the world. www.warchildholland.org
War Child is looking for an:
Information Management Officer based in Amman, Jordan
War Child Programme for Syria
War Child Holland (WCH) is an international non-governmental organization that works exclusively to improve the well-being and resilience of children and youths affected by violence and armed conflict. As a learning organisation, War Child (WCH) continuously enhances its services to children affected by war and conflict. This includes striving to become a networked expert organisation, able to mobilise and provide services and technical assistance within and outside the organisation, as well as across programme teams in its various country offices.
War Child has been responding to the needs of Syrian children. The programme is expanding and is in need of professional supervision, as well as an entrepreneurial spirit to further grow the programme.
The Challenge
The purpose of the Information Management (IM) Officer position is to actively manage all data-related activities within War Child’s Syria programme. The IM Officer is part of the MEAL team and reports directly to the Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) Manager and collaborate with the MEAL Coordinators, to establish and maintain data management platforms that enable effective and efficient reporting and visualization. The MEAL information and reports will allow project stakeholders to view and analyse project reach across sub-districts, sex, age, type of service and residency status of beneficiaries served and other real-time progress against deliverables. It will also flag shortfalls against intended outcomes, supporting the WCH team to work with partners to adapt modalities and implementation plans as needed.
Result Areas
Maintain oversight and management of data and information systems
- Ensure necessary partners’ data is uploaded in a timely manner in Arabic
and English and is cross-checked and triangulated with narrative reports.
- Conduct timely and periodic (at least monthly) quality checks on reach data reported by partners and work with project team on cross-checking data from different sources.
- Report on any identified shortfalls in reach data and follow up with partners and support them in cleaning and improving the quality of said data.
- Provide the MEAL Manager with feedback on the database and areas of improvement to facilitate partner reporting.
- Design and deploy digital data collection tools on KoBo, Survey Gizmo, CommCare or ONA to support accurate data collection. This includes (but is not limited) to form development, testing, refinement and training partner staff on application approaches.
- Focal point for Data Protection Guidelines for WCH’s Syria Programme
