Organization: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Costa Rica
Closing date: 03 Aug 2017
Senior Information Management Officer
Location: San Jose, Costa Rica
Closing date: 3 August 2017
UNHCR encourages qualified women to apply.
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
In close coordination and consultation with Headquarters (FICSS, Bureau) the Senior Information Management Officer will assist in defining and implementing an Information Management strategy and ensure coherence among IM approaches and products in the country.
The incumbent will be supervised by the Representative while functional supervision will be exercised by Field Information and Coordination Support Section (FICSS), Geneva.
S/he will ensure that IM requirements in the country will be adequately addressed, including data collection, storage, analysis, dissemination tools and procedures.
ESSENTIAL MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Advanced University degree in information technology, demography, statistics, social sciences or any related area.
- At least 10 years of relevant work experience including at least 5 years of combined field and/or headquarters experience in international organizations (e.g. UN agencies, INGOs, IOs, bi-lateral cooperation agencies, etc.), gradually assuming more responsibility.
- Knowledge of the UN system and the international humanitarian community.
- Knowledge of protection-related guidelines, standards and indicators.
- Advanced Excel skills (e.g. pivot tables, functions, etc.).
- Ability to formulate IM-related technical requirements and Operating Procedures.
- Ability to translate planning-specifications into technical briefs for data capture and analysis, and vice versa.
- Ability to compile and holistically analyze diverse datasets.
- Demonstrated ability for leadership in the context of partnership building and consensual decision-making.
- Demonstrated information management skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of different data collection methodologies.
- Understanding of relational data theory.
- Excellent written and oral presentation skills.
- Excellent knowledge of English and working knowledge of another UN language.
(In offices where the working language is not English, excellent knowledge of UN working language of duty station and working knowledge of English.)
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES
- Proficiency in other official UN languages.
- Successful participation in the Operational Data Management Learning Programme is desirable.
- Experience in web design and software development and programming is an asset.
- Experience with relevant software such as ArcGIS, Mapinfo, SPSS, EpiInfo6, SQL Server, and/or proGres.
- Experience with HTML, PHP, ASP and/or Java is an asset.
How to apply:
To apply for this position, please go to our careers page at www.unhcr.org/careers.html, click on international vacancies and type in job ID 14017.
Deadline: 3 August 2017 (midnight Geneva time)
All positions are available on the UNHCR Careers Page at www.unhcr.org/careers.html.
