Consultant (RDH Regional DTM)

Organizational Context

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a leading inter-governmental organization promoting humane and orderly migration. The Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP) in Bangkok covers 40 countries, formulating regional strategies and providing support. This consultancy role sits within ROAP, supporting the Regional Data Hub Coordinator and Global DTM team.

Job Purpose

This consultancy role supports the coordination of displacement tracking and flow monitoring initiatives within the Asia and Pacific region, particularly in response to escalating situations in the Middle East. The consultant ensures adherence to global standards, maintains the quality of country-level outputs and analysis, and follows IOM's data visualization, dissemination, and sharing procedures. A key responsibility includes developing regional data products, encompassing analysis, reporting, editing, and design, to contribute to evidence-based programming and decision-making.

Responsibilities

The consultant will coordinate and support the design, setup, and rollout of new Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) initiatives and capacity building activities, ensuring alignment with global standards and methodologies. This includes guiding Country Offices in DTM implementation, ensuring compliance with quality standards, and providing technical support for DTM Route-based Approaches. Responsibilities also involve data analysis and reporting, producing high-quality analytical reports, factsheets, and briefs, and developing compelling data visualizations. The role requires coordinating DTM communication and dissemination efforts, supporting the adoption of the DTM data toolkit for good data practice, and adhering to IOM's data protection, governance, and security standards.

Work Experience

Required experience includes emergency humanitarian operations management, coordination of information flows, and data management (collection, storage, processing, analysis). Strong knowledge of DTM methodologies and standards is essential. Experience in humanitarian and migration data report development and review is crucial. Experience in data visualization and information design, as well as handling confidential data, is considered an asset.

Skills

Proven skills in statistical information and data analysis (familiarity with software like Python, R, SPSS, STATA, Jamovi is beneficial). Ability to compile and holistically analyze diverse datasets. Strong reporting and communication skills. Proficient visualization skills for static reports, factsheets, and briefs. Demonstrated understanding of various data collection and statistical methodologies.

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