Call for Applications - Data Management Officer

Eligibility criteria

Minimum age: 22 years old. Applicants must be nationals of or legal residents in the country of assignment.

Description of task

• Manage the incident databases (cases and contacts) including content, structure, file location, backup system;
• Collect collate, manage and analyses data from all partners; aggregate the relevant health related information such as mortality and morbidity, location of hospitals, primary health care units, other health care facilities, etc. and transform it into narrative text, maps and graphics to enable strategic planning and decision-making;
• Aggregate and maintain information from technical teams, field offices and partners including contact lists, event specific information (what, where, who, how many, how quickly, current status), health indicator data, health situation data, health response data, etc;
• Develop tools to harmonize data collection and processes across WCO and field offices to facilitate consolidation of information. Respond to specific information requests from the technical teams and partners, ensure dissemination of information and knowledge sharing with all partners;
• Provide country-specific and aggregate intercountry information to the relevant WCO websites, manage email boxes and share points, as required;
• Provide technical expertise during interagency initiatives, related to information and data management, seeking to improve information sharing between institutions, to strengthen access to information from other organizations and clusters, and to contribute to intersectoral dashboards and reports;
• Verify data quality (completeness, timeliness), identify gaps in health information management, recommend corrective actions and prepare relevant documents to include in project proposals, internal and external situation reports (SitReps), bulletins, health risk assessments, health needs overviews (HNO), and strategic response plans (SRP), etc;
• Participate in any other activity that may be required in connection with the incident data management and perform any other incident-specific related duties, as required by the functional supervisor.

Qualifications/Requirements Required degree level: Bachelor degree or equivalent Education - Additional Comments:

First level university degree in information or data management, computer sciences, statistics, applied math or public health, complemented by training in databases development and/or management from an accredited and recognized academic institution, is required;

Post-graduate degree in public health, qualitative surveillance or statistics, is desirable;

Required experience: 60 Months Experience remark:

The incumbent must be a dynamic, multifunctional individual, who supports the Host Agency with professionalism, dedication and client orientation, and who must be willing to work on both programmatic/substantive aspects, and to provide operational/logistical services. The following qualifications are required:​

• At least five (5) years of relevant professional work experience, at the national and international level, in data and/or information management, including experience in emergency operations or humanitarian context, is required;
• Prior emergency disaster and health outbreak response or humanitarian work experience at the field level, with WHO/UN system, health cluster partners, relevant nongovernmental or humanitarian organizations, is desirable;
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office applications;
• Working knowledge of online data collection applications, statistical analysis packages (Stata, SPSS, etc);
• Good knowledge of database and GIS programmes (e.g. ArcView).

Functional Knowledge and Skills:

• Demonstrated knowledge of information management and monitoring systems as related to emergency response and relief operations;
• Proven skills in the field of statistical data collection, assessment, analysis and monitoring in a public health context;
• Advance ability to design, manage, analyses and coordinate complex information system projects, computer-based applications and databases, web-based tools.

Language skills:

• English(Mandatory), Level - Fluent
• Arabic(Mandatory), Level - Fluent

Area of expertise: Database design, administration and maintenance Driving license: No Competencies values:

Accountability, Adaptability and Flexibility, Building Trust, Client Orientation, Commitment and Motivation, Commitment to Continuous Learning, Communication, Ethics and Values, Integrity, Planning and Organizing, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity, Self-Management, Technological Awareness, Vision, Working in Teams

Application procedure:

* Not yet registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

Please first register your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/signup. Important: After creating your account, complete all sections of your profile and submit it. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink. Lastly, select the special call to which you would like to apply.

* Already registered in the UNV Talent Pool?

Please first update your profile at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/profile. Then go to ‘My Page’ at https://vmam.unv.org/candidate/mypage and click on the ‘Special Calls’ hyperlink to select the special call to which you would like to apply.

This is a national UN Volunteer assignment, therefore only nationals of Jordan and legal residents in Jordan with the status of refugee or with the status of being stateless are eligible to apply.

Application deadline: 23-March-2020