ICT Specialist (Information Management Officer)

Job Description

Dutystation: Nairobi, Kenya

Functional responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Head of Project Unit, the ICT Specialist (Information Management Officer) will be responsible for achieving the following:

A. Team Management

• Facilitate the engagement and provision of high quality results and services of the Information Management team supervised through effective work planning, performance management, coaching, and promotion of learning and development;

• Support the oversight, ensuring compliance by team members with existing policies and best practices.

• Ensure maintenance of the programme Mine Action activities and GIS database and archives;

• Ensure all operational data are technically correct and fully distributed to implementers and partners;

• Maintain standard working procedures for IT and information management to include the development of processes, guidelines and manuals;

• Support the Sudan Mine Action Authorities to maintain and develop their IM capacities, procedures by identifying and assessing requirements for capacity enhancement;

• Review, cleanup and migrate legacy and NG IMSMA into IMSMA Core.

• Maintain capacity building of programme IM personnel and identify requirements for further capacity building;

• Provide technical input to information exchange methodology;

• Ensure timely and accurate support to Programme, stakeholders and implementing partners using IM assets available.

• The IMO, under supervision of the Technical Support Team Lead, will have the following responsibilities:

B. Coordination

• Act as the IM lead for the programme and engage with heads of sections, projects and external stakeholders to implement the organizations IM strategic needs;

• Communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders for assigned activities, ensuring that all stakeholders are kept abreast of activity status and that feedback is taken into account as appropriate;

• Support the management and maintenance of UNMAS Sudan systems and information architecture using platforms including Google Cloud Platform, ArcGIS Enterprise, Google G-Suite, among others to facilitate sustainable information management and analytics solutions;

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of technical documentation, guidance, templates and training materials;

C. Information management and reporting

• Manage and maintain IMSMA systems and information architecture using platforms including Google Cloud Platform, ArcGIS Enterprise, Google G-Suite, among others to facilitate sustainable information management and analytics solutions.

• Translate business requirements into functional and technical requirements, working with stakeholders to achieve consensus when needed;

• Provide implementation support for assigned programmes and activities, focused on system design, planning, and delivery of the UNMAS programmes global IMS, which is based on ArcGIS Enterprise and GeoCortex, to facilitate digitized processes supporting the collection, verification, storage and analysis of data;

• Conduct training and other capacity building activities for UNMAS Sudan personnel, implementing partners and relevant stakeholders on the use of information management, knowledge management and analytics tools.

D. Other

• Support in maintaining and updating the country-IM strategy, in consultation with the stakeholders concerned. The strategy must include the internal management of information within UNMAS and the application of the Data Governance standards;

• Support in setting standards for UNMAS data to be used throughout the country and by HQ, maintain and distribute standards to IM team and others working with operational data, including partner data;

• Demonstrated ability for leadership in the context of partnership building and consensual decision making;

• Support in the development, management, and implementation of data access procedures and licenses distributions;

Education/Experience/Language requirements

Education and Minimum Years of Experience:

• Advanced university degree (master or equivalent) with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience, OR
• First level university degree (bachelor or equivalent) with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience.

Experience

• Relevant experience is defined as experience in Geographic Information Management and Systems, or any other relevant field with national or international, public or corporate organizations.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in the use of Google Cloud Platforms, and PostgresSQL is required.

Language:

• Fluency in English (reading, writing, speaking) is required

• Fluency in another UN official language is desired

About the Organization

TOGETHER, WE BUILD THE FUTURE

UNOPS – an operational arm of the United Nations – supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by successfully implementing its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world.

Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development.

We are proud of our people and embrace diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunities. Our workforce brings together approximately 160 nationalities, represented by over 5,000 UNOPS personnel as well as some 7,800 personnel recruited on behalf of our partners. Spread across 80 countries from a range of backgrounds, and languages and have different gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities.

We encourage women and candidates from underrepresented groups in UNOPS to apply. These include candidates from racialized and/or indigenous groups, members of minority gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities.