UNICEF WASH Officer (Information Management Officer) Jobs in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is situated in the Horn of Africa and is the second most populous country on the continent with an estimated population of 115 million. It borders six African countries: Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan, and covers 1,104,300 square kilometers. Approximately 85 percent of the population lives in rural areas. Ethiopia represents a melting pot of ancient cultures with Middle Eastern and African cultures evident in the religious, ethnic, and language composition of its people.
Over the past two years, children and their families across Ethiopia faced multiple and complex emergencies, such as the conflict in the northern Ethiopia and the drought, which resulted in millions of people in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. UNICEF has programmes in Child Protection, WASH, Health, Nutrition, Social Policy, and Education and serves over 15 million children in Ethiopia. Join UNICEF Ethiopia to contribute to improving the lives of children and women.
How can you make a difference?
The post holder is responsible for the collection, compilation, analysis of information related to emergency WASH response activities within their respective region and will:
Provide Regular updates on humanitarian WASH needs, gaps and partners’ activities
Compile of monthly 4W for the region.
Ensure consistent and quality monitoring and reporting of activities (Sit Rep, 4W, water supply, sanitation and hygiene works status update; etc)
Ensure regular WASH updates such as water point functionality; water coverage, water quality, water trucking needs assessment, drought status, rainfall, flood and disease outbreak, etc
Participate in regional WASH and/or multisector assessments
Respond to the regional Cluster participants’ needs for information.
Maintain information databases that consolidate, analyze and report/disseminate information critical to decision making.
Support the estimation of spatial and temporal gaps, overlaps and coverage of partners’ activities and projects.
Work with Cluster/participants to identify information gaps and propose ways to bridge those gaps
Use GIS mapping for map production and geographic data management
Manage an inventory of relevant documents on the WASH situation.
Support the development and analysis of needs assessment and monitoring programmes
To provide information management leadership in assessments and monitoring, including joint assessments and training.
Develop and strengthen information management capacity through the training of regional cluster partners.
Update the humanitarian info site for the WASH cluster in Oromia region
Build zonal cluster capacities in partnership with delegated zonal cluster co-leader organizations and zonal government offices
Support regional water bureau and zonal water offices in tracking nonfunctional schemes and update the lists of schemes rehabilitated and maintained.
Support regional WASH sectors in conducting and reviewing the regional WASH inventory
Support to Regional Water Bureau
Regularly connect with the regional water bureau and regional health bureau to collect WASH related data
Organize technical IM trainings for regional water and health bureau teams
Support RWB in strengthening the zonal WASH cluster systems
Support to regional cluster coordination
Organize regular WASH cluster meetings
Prepare WASH cluster meeting presentations and prepare meeting notes
Cover the regional cluster coordination role when the cluster coordinator is away
Represent regional WASH cluster in regional ICCG, national WASH cluster meetings and regional DRM technical working group meetings
Support to national WASH cluster
Provide technical and analytical inputs to Humanitarian Program Cycle (HPC) activities including Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO), Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP), and Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) for UNICEF
In collaboration with the national WASH IMO, lead on one national level IM project
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
A first University Degree in a subject area relevant to information management and / or WASH disciplines.
At least 2 (two) years progressively responsible humanitarian work experience with UN and/or NGO, including information management and WASH.
Fluency in English is mandatory.
Knowledge of Oromifa language (oral, writing and reading) is an advantage.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; UNICEF WASH Officer (Information Management Officer) Jobs in Ethiopia
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