United Nations recrute 01 Individual Contractor for Information Management

Result of Service

The Emergency Response Team in the OHCHR Regional Office West Africa is effectively supported with information management and visualisation capacity thereby significantly strengthening its early-warning and human rights analysis outputs.

Work Location
Dakar, Senegal

Expected duration
6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

Organisational Setting and Reporting

The Individual Contract for Information Management works in the Emergency Response Team of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Regional Office for West Africa, located in Dakar, Senegal. The incumbent reports to the Head of the Emergency Response Team under the overall supervision of the OHCHR Regional Representative for West Africa.

Duties and Responsibilities

Data Management

Sets up and manages content on relevant platforms and tools that support data collection and analysis tools such as PowerBI;
Consolidates human rights data on a regular schedule to support analysis;

Data Analysis

• Organizes, designs and carries out the evaluation and analysis datasets through meaningful data analysis;
• Participates in the development, implementation and management of new data elements to be included in common human rights datasets;
• Supports analysis activities, including humanitarian needs overviews, common country analysis, secondary data reviews, preliminary scenario definitions and rapid assessments;

Visualization

• Produces and updates information products such as reports, charts and infographics by turning data into graphical products to convey messages and a storyline;
• Develops advocacy materials including posters, presentations and other visual materials.

Qualifications/special skills

• Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in information management, information systems, social science or related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in information management, information systems, web management, data management, geographic information systems & mapping, data visualization, or other related area is required.
• Experience of working in the field of human rights and/or knowledge of human rights is required.
• Experience in using PowerBi, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator or similar information management and visualisation systems is required.
• Relevant experience within the UN United Nations common system or an international organisation is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position advertised, fluency in English and French is required. Knowledge of Portuguese is an advantage.
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Closing date: 20 November 2023.