Information Management Officer – Danish Refugee Council (DRC) عودة إلى الفرص

• Application due: 27-01-2021
• Workplace: Medenine
• Department/Country: Tunisia
• Contract type: National contract

Overall purpose of the role:

Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is an international non-governmental organization, which promotes and supports durable solutions to the problems faced by vulnerable people affected by conflict and instability all over the world. DRC is specialized, within other key sectors of intervention, on community safety programming. DRC strives to identify safety and security needs from the perspective of those living in conflict areas and to help them find non-violent solutions. These go beyond traditional mine action activities to include violence reduction, programming that specifically seeks to engage communities in addressing root causes of conflict and local safety and security challenges.

DRC has been working in the region in Libya and Tunisia since 2011. DRC has been present in Tunisia since 2014 working on enhancing community security and resilience in the border towns of Dehiba and Ben Guerdane. In 2016, DRC built on this engagement to develop a cross-border program between southern Tunisia and border towns in western Libya (Zuwara, Wazin, and Nalut).  The aim is to continue working on community safety and resilience by implementing community dialogue, conflict prevention, and management activities as well with the aim of building relations and cross-border initiatives.

The Information Management Officer, in coordination and cooperation with project staff, and supervised by the Project Manager, is expected:

• To be responsible for the management, analysis, and sharing of data related to program activities as well as DRC’s population of concern, with the aim to provide reliable, quality and comprehensive information that supports the development of an evidence-based humanitarian response.
• To have a country focus and ensures compliance with DRC procedures and guidelines within the country. The role contributes to the development of country strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks. The role provides support and/or technical guidance to country operations while overseeing country activities

Responsibilities:

• Strategic and Program Development
  • Assist regular analysis of political and security developments and themes in southeast Tunisia, collecting and sharing relevant information, nationally and locally
  • Assist the development and implementation of DRC’s South Tunisia program strategy
  • Contribute to internal discussions and information-sharing sessions on thematic issues related to violence prevention, conflict management, community security, and border management
  • Contribute to creating and developing inter-agency coordination mechanisms to collect/verify/disseminate information focused on border dynamics but also with a broader country level perspective
• Information management strategy and standards
  • Support effective use of project management tools and development of new tools and procedures as needed
  • Assist administrative tasks related to financial, logistics, and human resources management
  • Assist in grants management tasks such as ensuring that the ERP system is regularly updated.
• Data management and analysis
  • Ensure effective data management by developing data collection tools and methodologies, designing and managing database systems for data management and analysis purposes.
  • Ensure availability of updated and quality information for informed decision-making by DRC’s program team by identifying pertinent variables, including analyzing and interpreting multiples datasets, identifying trends and patterns in protection issues and humanitarian needs affecting DRC’s populations of concerns.
• Knowledge Management and Learning
  • Monitor forthcoming research, media, and events related to community security, conflict management, and integrated border management in Tunisia
  • Support the capacities of relevant local staff in reporting and information management
  • Maintain an organized filing system to manage and preserve all project documentation in a safe and accessible way
  • Promote a culture of learning by actively identifying challenges supporting the identification of lessons learned
  • Information dissemination
  • Drafts information products such as reports, charts, and infographics by turning data into graphic products to facilitate the dissemination of information to external stakeholders for the purpose of reporting, information sharing and advocacy.
  • Designs the layouts of reporting and presentation templates using graphic design programs ensuring the attractiveness and clarity of the information products
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of a dissemination plan for all information products, including the definition of standard operating procedures for clearing information products for release.
  • Adopt a conflict sensitivity approach in all tasks performed individually and by the team.

DRC as an employer

By working in DRC, you will be joining a global workforce of around 8000 employees in 40 countries. We pride ourselves on our:

• Professionalism, impact & expertise
• Humanitarian approach & the work we do
• Purpose, meaningfulness & own contribution
• Culture, values & strong leadership
• Fair compensation & continuous development

DRC’s capacity to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, IDP’s and other persons of concern depends on the ability of our staff to uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment. DRC conducts thorough and comprehensive background checks as part of the recruitment process.

ABOUT DDG/DRC

Danish Demining Group (DDG) is widely recognised as provider of efficient and community-oriented solutions to human security problems caused by landmines and other explosive remnants of war as well as small arms and light weapons.

DDG is part of DRC (Danish Refugee Council), founded in Denmark in 1956, and which is Denmark’s largest and the world’s leading non-profit, independent, rights-based refugee organization.

Our vision is to assist refugees, internally displaced people and their host communities to a dignified life. We protect lives and human rights and empower beneficiaries throughout conflict displacement by providing shelter, food, and hope in terms of work, education and integration towards a sustainable future.