Protection Information Management and Analysis Consultant
Organizational Context
The UN Secretariat, specifically UNRWA's Programme Protection & Neutrality unit at Headquarters Amman, seeks a consultant to enhance its protection information management system. This role is crucial for strengthening data quality, verification, and analysis across UNRWA's five fields of operation, contributing to more effective protection strategies and interventions.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this consultancy is to develop, test, and improve an Agency-wide protection information management system. This involves creating standardized monitoring tools, analytical products, and technical guidance to strengthen data quality, verification, and analysis. The role will integrate quantitative and qualitative methodologies, ensuring adherence to protection principles. It also aims to build field capacities in protection monitoring, analysis, and reporting, ultimately supporting the effective use of protection data for internal and external reporting, advocacy, and operational decision-making across UNRWA's areas of operation.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include supporting the development and enhancement of an Agency-wide protection information management system, encompassing methodologies, classifications, indicators, and data quality protocols. The consultant will integrate quantitative and qualitative data, including sex-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data, and ensure analytical outputs adhere to protection principles. This involves administering and maintaining information management systems, databases, and collection tools, troubleshooting issues, and testing new functionalities. The role also entails developing operational information management and analytical products like dashboards and reports, providing technical guidance to field offices, conducting data quality assurance, and supporting coordination with relevant departments for system improvements and user support.
Work Experience
A minimum of seven years of progressive experience in protection monitoring and analysis, protection information management, humanitarian research, human rights, or refugee protection is required. This includes demonstrated experience managing and analyzing quantitative and qualitative protection data, developing analytical methodologies, and producing analytical reports. At least two years of international experience outside the candidate's home country is also necessary.
Skills
Protection monitoring and analysis, protection information management, data management and analysis (quantitative and qualitative), development of analytical methodologies and tools, reporting, technical guidance, system administration and maintenance, data quality assurance, coordination, and excellent English communication skills.