Senior Information Management Officer (National Position)

Background/IRC Summary:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is at work in over 40 countries and 26 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. The IRC has been operating in Thailand since 1975 and currently provides assistance to displaced person in Tak, Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi and Mae Hong Son provinces.

Job Overview/Summary:

 The IRC Protection and Empowerment program works to protect and promote the rights of displaced persons along Thailand - Myanmar border, and ensures that people are safe in their homes and communities; that they receive appropriate support after experiencing harm, and aims to enable displaced people to exercise free and informed decisions on where and how to live, including enhance employability skill to increase capacity to plan for their future. The program also promotes multi-sectoral approaches to ensure refugees receive comprehensive support on legal, medical, and psychosocial care. To integrate gender equality, diversity and inclusion into all facets of program implementation. The program commits to enhance effectively using data for decision making across program cycle management and advocacy for protection of displaced people in Thailand.

The Senior Information Management Officer will play a key role in supporting the Information Management Manager to organize the Protection and Empowerment program’s information. This position will be taken responsible for preparing program data and content for project and communication documents of protection and empowerment program, in collaboration with the M&E team.

Major Responsibilities:

The Senior Information Management Officer will be based at IRC’s office in Mae Sot, under the direct supervision of the Information Management Manager. The position will work closely with M&E (Protection and Empowerment) team on data management activities and support the Information Management Manager in data processing and information integration of the Protection and Empowerment program.

Data handling and Reporting:
• Assist the Information Management Manager to ensure quality of implementation of information management system including reliable and correctness of data collection, ensure functioning system to store and maintain data and information facilitate analysis process, and set up mechanism to disseminate and share information internally and externally.
• Responsible for data cleaning and data auditing for the protection and empowerment program database/spreadsheet.
• Review program database/information, extracting key finding and translate to data summary report to support program staff on data analysis exercise.
• Assist the Information Management Manager set up the identification coding with a relationship in each data/table/spreadsheet on the program data template to the IM product.
• Preparing and/or setting up the data structure as a database transaction on the IM system to support the visualization product and content analysis in the final data file.
• Serve as focal person to ensure quality of GIS data of the protection and empowerment program, including maintain, update information on GIS application, set up mechanism to disseminate and share information internally or externally.
• Work with M&E (Protection and Empowerment) team to determine data usage for program implementation and advocacy; transforming data to query files/dashboard development.

Communication and Data Visualization:
• Translate technical data to develop the infographic document and summarize figures with general data analysis figures and/or graphic templates.
• Responsible to develop image and graphic package/pieces of the specific report such as map/graphic/icon/figure when need to include in the report papers.
• Prepare and create the program icon/symbol file and store it in the infographic application. Include with the design the new icon when need to create the new content design.
• Develop the data visualization/Graph in the database template for key analysis/Information summary to support report writing preparation.
• Perform other data visualization tasks as needed.

Capacity Building
• Provide on the job support and mentoring to protection and empowerment staff and local partner in relevant technical and program data management competencies, such as infographic development, CommCare, and database.

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Information Management Manager
Position Directly supervises: N/A
Indirect Reporting: N/A
Other Internal and/or External Contacts:
Internal: Senior Protection and Empowerment Coordinator, Protection and Empowerment staff and camp-base assistance in all Thailand sites, M&E Coordinator, Award Management Unit staff, Operation and Finance Unit staff
External: N/A