SCI employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

SCI NWS is seeking a Senior Information Management Officer (IMO) to join the Humanitarian Program Cycle team to the Southern Turkey Education Cluster (EC). This position supports the response in Northwest Syria (NWS). The senior IMO will be responsible for improving the timeliness and comprehensiveness of 4Ws reporting, representing the EC in the Syria/Turkey Information Management and Assessment (STIMA)working group, providing IM-related input for the Syria Cross Border Humanitarian Fund (SCHF) and Humanitarian Program Cycle (HPC), and suggesting and executing measures to improve the collection, analysis, dissemination, and management of other information relevant to the EC.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

On behalf of Save the Children, the purpose of this post is to manage the collection, analysis and sharing of information that allows cluster Lead Agency, Partners and the WOS  Coordinators to make informed, evidence-based, strategic decisions; and to enable the EC to perform its core functions.

Reports to: Education cluster Coordinator

Staff reporting to this post: N/A

Budget Responsibilities: None

Role Dimensions

Role requires contacts with multiple partners and stakeholders, from NGOs and local CSOs to gather, validate and analyse data.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:  

Information Management to support EC Coordination Functions (based on Humanitarian Programme Cycle and cluster core functions supporting service delivery, contributing to HC/HCT strategic decision-making, developing EC strategies, monitoring and evaluating performance, advocacy, build national capacity in preparedness and response).

Support service delivery, and monitor and evaluate performance:

• The senior IMO will facilitate the submission of timely, accurate, and comprehensive data by EC partners. This will include training sessions for partners as well as ad hoc support to individual partners. The senior IMO will be responsible for receiving monthly submissions, cleaning submissions, and following up with partners when necessary. The senior IMO will share 4Ws with relevant stakeholders (OCHA, WoS, EC members) and represent the EC in relevant working groups (particularly the STIMA group), clusters, or at other meetings.
• Train partners, to enhance their information management and reporting capacity, collecting their inputs, consolidating and cleaning data.
• Engage in the regular coordination meetings at the sub-national level and national level to keep abreast of the changing situations on the ground and build a relationship with partners
• Support with translation as may be required.

Reporting and Outputs:

• The senior IMO will be responsible for preparing and submitting relevant reports, particularly monthly 4W reports. This will include building upon and updating the 4Ws dashboard/bulletin.
• The senior IMO will also review reporting templates, assessment questionnaires, and other information collection or management tools.
• The senior IMO will suggest and implement relevant improvements, in coordination with data collection partners, to increase the EC’s understanding of the location and severity of education needs as well as gaps in education programming

Support EC Participation in HPC

• The senior IMO will support the EC’s participation in the SCHF and HPC. This will include support for the Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO), which might involve input on indicators for the Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA), relevant support on the sectoral calculation of People in Need (PiN) and sub-district severity scores, etc., and curation of data required for the HNO and/or the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP).

Inform strategic decision making, and plan and implement an EiE Sector strategy

• Working with the EC Coordinator and the Strategic Advisory Group, develop and implement a strategy to keep abreast of Education cluster needs with a specific focus on the needs of marginalized children, including those with disabilities, those hard to reach and those discriminated by gender or other issues;
• Maintain an up-to-date secondary data tracker by collecting and analysing reports, articles, and other education-related data;
• Coordinate primary data collections/ needs assessments to inform sector response planning;
• Lead the revision and use of the contextualized Joint Education Needs Assessment (JENA);
• Provide training to partners on using the JENA as needed;
• Lead the EC assessment and learning WG

Build national capacity in preparedness and contingency planning

• Develop and implement tools to assess partners ‘preparedness and response capacity

Support robust advocacy

• Support the Cluster advocacy efforts by contributing to the creation of visuals, graphs, dashboards, and reports that highlight Education in Emergencies needs of children, including the most marginalized and hard-to-reach ones.

Other

Conduct any other duties assigned by the supervisors

General:

• Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Display neutrality and act as the representative of all Education cluster members.
• Develop and maintain a strong and positive relationship with the Strategic Advisory Committee (SAG).
• Develop and maintain a strong and positive relationship with EC partners in the country and colleagues at regional and global levels.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential:

Experience:

• At least five (5) years of experience in data collection and conducting data analysis, either as part of designing and implementing monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) or data management systems, preferably in an INGO.
• Strong preference for previous experience in education and/or humanitarian programs
• Computer literacy and competency in use: Microsoft Office software, including some advanced skill with Microsoft Excel and other contemparay statistica managnement softwares.
• Experience with PowerBi or other data visualization tools preferred
• Experience applying relevant interagency humanitarian frameworks and standards in Education in Emergencies (for example INEE Minimum Standards)

Skills:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills and demonstrable ability to work across different stakeholders taking part in the Education cluster.
• Good organizational and planning skills, including ability to manage a number of urgent priorities which arise in humanitarian coordination.
• Ability to independently and proactively work as a team member with minimum day-to-day oversight
• A high level of written and spoken English and Arabic
• Able to work and travel to cluster meetings within Turkey.

Knowledge:

• Ability to develop and utilize appropriate methods and tools to support high quality data collection and analysis.
• Proven skills in transforming data to information which is impactful and accessible to different audiences, and communicates to all stakeholders the intended purpose of the data collection.
• Capacity to communicate this information across a number of different channels and media.

Other:

• Demonstrated commitment to Humanitarian Principles and the Principles of Partnership
• Commitment to uphold an inclusive approach to the work of the EiE Sector; further, an understanding of the four humanitarian principles as well as conflict sensitivity and “do no harm” approaches.
• The capacity and willingness to be extremely flexible and accommodating in difficult and sometimes insecure working circumstances.

Desirable:

• Previous experience with the humanitarian program cycle and/or within humanitarian coordination structures.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Benefits Package provided to National Staff:

• Salary commensurate with the pay-grade of the position.
• Transportation allowance
• 20 days annual leave

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.