DTM Operations Consultant

Organizational Context

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a UN-related organization established in 1951, promotes humane and orderly migration. IOM Papua New Guinea (PNG) focuses on humanitarian-development-peace nexus programming, including disaster preparedness, displacement tracking, climate adaptation, and peacebuilding. This role contributes to the Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) within the humanitarian coordination and support work.

Job Purpose

This consultancy supports the implementation of IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) in Papua New Guinea, contributing to evidence-based humanitarian action and disaster response planning. The role is crucial for monitoring displacement, tracking emergencies, conducting rapid assessments, and managing information to inform humanitarian coordination and resilience programming. By providing timely data and analysis on population movements and humanitarian needs, the consultant will help strengthen disaster management capacities at national and sub-national levels, supporting peacebuilding and transition initiatives. The position aims to enhance the effectiveness of IOM's response and resilience efforts in a complex operational environment.

Responsibilities

The consultant will coordinate and supervise DTM operational activities, including data collection, validation, displacement monitoring, Emergency Event Tracking (EET), and rapid assessments. This involves leading implementation, providing technical guidance to field teams and enumerators, and ensuring timely delivery of program objectives. The role includes supporting the development of DTM tools, methodologies, and reporting systems to enhance data quality and operational efficiency. The consultant will contribute to preparing operational reports, situation updates, and analytical products for decision-making. Participation in humanitarian coordination meetings and inter-agency forums is expected. Ensuring compliance with safety, security, accountability to affected populations (AAP), protection, gender, and inclusion principles is vital. The role also involves delivering DTM-related trainings and capacity-building activities for counterparts and partners.

Work Experience

Requires relevant experience in community engagement, humanitarian response, disaster management, peacebuilding, or development programming in complex environments. Experience with mobile data collection software (KOBO Collect/ODK), integrating gender and protection principles, and liaising with government authorities and humanitarian partners is essential. Experience in programme monitoring, evaluation, and data analysis is also needed.

Skills

Data collection and validation, Displacement monitoring, Emergency Event Tracking (EET), Rapid assessments, Information management, Operational coordination, Reporting, Mobile data collection software (KOBO Collect/ODK), Capacity building, Interpersonal skills, Cross-cultural communication, Diplomatic skills, Teamwork, Delivering results, Knowledge management, Accountability, Communication.

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