Volunteer Opportunity in South Sudan: Associate Operations Data Management Officer
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Applicant criteria
NationalityNo specific nationality required
SpecialityComputer and Information Sciences, Psychology and Sociology, Information Technology
Skills• Highly organized and good planner., مهارات التخطيط والتنظيم, مهارات العمل الجماعي, teamwork skills, مهارات حل المشكلات, Excellent problem-solving skills, Good problem solving skills, مهارات التواصل الجيدة تحدثا وكتابة, Adaptability and Flexibility, القدرة على التكيف والمرونه, اجادة اللغتين العربية والانجليزية, proficiency in English and Arabic
Age
- 27 - 60
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity FieldLaw, Human Rights and Gender
Job locationSouth Sudan, Sudan
Deadline2023-06-26
Opportunity description
UNV offers a volunteer opportunity in South Sudan, it announces its need for a strong, stable, mature, and flexible character to work as an associate operations data management officer starting from 01/08/2023. The position holder will support UNHCR agency operations in South Sudan for a period of 12 months with the possibility of extension.
Duties & responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
- Respond and manage user access permissions for UNHCR staff, local government, and NGO partners to global applications in accordance with the policies and standards.
- Assist in designing and developing standard reports, templates, and forms, while ensuring consistency with global guidance and policies, and in consultation with relevant stakeholders.
- Identify, diagnose, and escalate for the resolution of technical user errors, bugs and queries related to UNHCR core applications on persons of concern data and other operational data systems, in consultation Associate ODM Officer, external developers and support teams.
- Contribute to the capacity building and guidance of technical users, training to all enumerators on RMS Survey tools, methodology.
- Monitor user management and conduct regular clean-up of user accounts on KOBO/database and access permissions.
- Analyze and respond to user requests and queries, including compilation and assessment of applications enhancements and change requests.
- Assist with data quality assessment, data clean-up and data mapping from legacy or external database systems to the applications, as required.
- Conduct data collection audits as required.
- Conduct field testing of new functionalities within respective applications, as required.
- Support the design and strengthening of operational reports and statistics, including provision of training and user guidance.
- Keep apprised of evolving technology and new business needs to support operational data management systems.
- Provide business analysis for operational needs.
- Conduct mission/travel in the field to support field teams on data collection or for other troubleshooting.
- Project site monitoring in an MFT (RMS).
- Perform other related duties as and when required.
Eligibility criteria
You must have:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Statistics, demography or Social Sciences or other related field.
- 3 years of experience in MS Excel, SQL, Databases, R-scripting, Power-BI, Adobe Illustrator or other relevant programs.
- Experience with emergency preparedness, crisis/emergency relief management, humanitarian/development environment, and field coordination.
- Excellent oral and written skills.
- Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners.
- Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment.
- Solid overall computer literacy, including proficiency in various MS Office applications (Excel, Word, etc.) and email/internet; familiarity with database management; and office technology equipment.
- Self-motivated - ability to work with minimum supervision.
- Fluent in English and Arabic language.
- Planning and organizing skills.
- Effective problem-solving skills.
- Teamwork and respect for diversity.
- Good spoken and written communication skills.
Please note: Candidate must be a national of a country other than the country of assignment and aged 27 - 80.
About the United Nations Volunteers(UNV):
The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program is the UN organization that promotes volunteerism to support peace and development worldwide. Volunteerism can transform the pace and nature of development and it benefits both society at large and the individual volunteer. UNV contributes to peace and development by advocating for volunteerism globally, encouraging partners to integrate volunteerism into development programming, and mobilizing volunteers.
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