Hardship Level (not applicable for home-based)H (no hardship)
Family Type (not applicable for home-based)
Family
Staff Member / Affiliate TypeUNOPS IICA2
Target Start Date2025-09-01
Deadline for ApplicationsAugust 12, 2025
Terms of ReferenceCoordinate data and information management activities at the Global, Regional level
- Participate in the relevant data and information management team and activities within DIP and with GDS, and DIMAs.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of data strategies and systems for mixed and onward movement.
- Assist the asylum and migration team, and others communicate the status, value, and importance of data on Route Based Approach and mixed and onward movement.
- Coordinate forecast exercise on onwards movements.
- Lead and support the collection, storage, management and protection of data on mixed and onward movement for the relevant region and respective country operations.
- Lead and support consolidation of data systems, including the interoperability of operational data and systems.
- Ensure consistency of data and for country, global and regional analysis, including maritime movement data, land movement data, data on protection incidents and abuses, and other relevant data for mixed and onward movement analysis.
- Identify risks and opportunities based on insights derived from data.
- Support coordination with HQ, external, and internal partners on data and information management efforts and mechanisms, including IOM, UNICEF, regional economic commissions, and other institutions with statistical or data interests.
- Lead or take part in the relevant IM networks (internal and external) on refugee, IDP, stateless, migrants, and related issues.
- Improve data quality in the region/county or globally through field support, capacity building, monitoring, and feedback.
- Support data security, data protection, and responsible data-sharing.
Support offices with data and information management support
- Provide technical guidance on methodologies, and support for data management activities such as surveys, secondary data reviews, targeting and vulnerability assessments, indicator definition, population estimation, profiling, statistical analysis, predictive analytics, big data, international recommendations, GIS, data visualisation, maps, official statistics and other data and information management activities.
- Support the analysis of primary and secondary data to facilitate interpretation and evidence-informed decision-making.
- Support the monitoring of data and information management activities in the relevant offices for integrity, veracity, reliability and credibility, and compliance with policies.
- Document needs and capacities for data management activities.
- Provide technical and training support to operations.
- Support assessments and situational analysis process with analytical frameworks, data collection, and analysis (standards, methodologies).
- Support planning process (standards, methodologies), quality assurance, and technical advice on Theories of Change and indicators, as well as with data and statistical analysis
- Support monitoring by providing quality assurance and technical advice to the monitoring methodologies, data collection, and analysis.
- Review and assess HQ or region-specific data systems and needs; provide recommendations for solutions.
- Undertake data and information management activities for all mixed movement (refugees and migrants) and onward movement:
- Lead and undertake data management activities (definition of needs, data collection, analysis, storage and dissemination)
- Lead and undertake geospatial analysis, statistical analysis, targeting, surveys, indicator definition, and other data management activities.
- Consolidate data and information for analysis for all mixed movement (refugees and migrants) and onward movement.
- Support analysis for comparative country, regional and global analysis, including political and socio-economic trends.
- Take part in planning processes regional migration response plans, onward movement analysis, protection and recognition rates.
- Support cross-regional assessment and situational analysis, such as route-based reporting and situation awareness.
- Undertake the analysis of trends concerning changes at the outcome and impact levels.
- Develop information management products such as indicators, templates, maps, factsheets and interactive dashboards.
- Help ensure data is curated and stored in data registries and libraries in accordance with standards.
- Provide population movement tracking systems and other population data systems for all mixed movement (refugees and migrants) and onward movement.
- Support solutions for meeting ‘communication with communities’ information and data needs.
Work in close collaboration with
- Asylum and Migration Section, and DIP staff to further data literacy and assist in interpreting the data.
- Registration staff regarding the use of individual and personally identifiable data collected or managed by UNHCR.
- Programme staff on the data and information aspects of assessment, targeting and monitoring (three most data driven aspects of the OMC).
- Inter-agency staff on the development, coordination, and monitoring of responses plans.
- Protection staff on the design, implementation and analysis of protection and case monitoring systems.
- Operations coordinators and reporting officers on the design and delivery of data and information management products for internal and external consumption.
- Sectors technical experts on the methodologies, formats, storage and dissemination of sectoral data and information, including cross sector analysis.
- Senior management to understand and serve their information and knowledge needs.
- Perform other related duties as required.
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Other informationHome basedThis position doesn't require a functional clearance
RemoteYes