Information Management Officer At Grow Strong Foundation (GSF)

Grow Strong Foundation (GSF) is a child-focused women and youth-led nonprofit organization established in 2017. GSF is providinghumanitarian assistance to Children, IDPs and other highly vulnerable in collaboration with NHF-OCHA in Northeastern Nigeria. As part of our commitment to achieving the objectives of our strategic plan, GSF is seeking a qualified candidate to fill the vacant position.

Position: Information Management  Officer

Purpose: To provide support to project staff and ensure that all project activities are in line with attaining set goals and objectives of the project and build their capacity in data management, analysis, and reporting.

The overall role of the Information Management Officer (IMO) is to ensure that information required to support humanitarian operations is collected, organised and distributed to all stakeholders. IMOs can be deployed as both generalists and geographic information system (GIS) experts. Database building and maintenance are furthermore among typical IMO tasks. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Implement and regularly update the Information Management Strategy and the Dissemination Plan for all information management related products produced by the relevant sector or agency. 
• Design necessary data collection forms, ensuring that the purpose and use of data collected is clear and that questions are simple, clear and collectable. 
• Organise and manage data input from data collection forms and conduct initial analysis of the data. 
• Based on the data collected, conduct needs and gap identification for the relevant sector. 
• Proactively gather information from relevant Sector partners, UN agencies and other organisations which may be of use to the employing agency or Sector for informing decisions. 
• Develop an information-sharing platform as a web-portal. 
• Perform advisory and technical assignments in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). 
• Locate GIS datasets and/or GIS contacts from various agencies, countries, cities and explicit districts. 
• Organise and maintain GIS data in accordance with the relevant agency data management protocols. 
• Update 5Ws matrix and CPIMS database with information and data from the relevant sector. 
• Identify appropriate secondary data and information resources. 
• Provide information management services to support population data management activities including population estimation, information flows from established systems, movement tracking, standard-setting/promotion and dissemination. 
• Participate in Sector and inter-Sector meetings representing GSF and provide the necessary support in presenting the relevant data and information. 
• Provide advice concerning information management issues to Head of Office

Essential Criteria

• A university degree in international policy, social science, international development studies or other relevant degree or equivalent experience. 
• At least 2 to 3 years of progressively professional and practical experience in the field of Monitoring and Evaluation.  
• Experience in facilitation and training in data tools, data collection, compilation, analysis and management of M&E database for effective reporting. 
• Demonstrated high level of conceptual and analytical thinking skills. 
• Staff management skills and effective leadership 
• Ability to maintain expected performance in diverse contexts, potentially challenging environments and physical hardship conditions with limited resources. 
• Excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to communicate clearly and effectively and build relationships at all levels, taking into account cultural and language differences and sensitivities. 
• Excellent skills in written and spoken English and effective Report Writing skills 
• Computer literacy including Microsoft Office software, emails, internet 

Method of Application

Interested candidate should send his or her application with CV, Motivation letter to Grow Strong Foundation (GSF) email; [email protected] on or before close of Business 29- March-2024.