Information Management & Knowledge Manager at Oxfam Nigeria

Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations (affiliates) committed to creating a just world without poverty. In Nigeria Oxfam works in the areas of Economic Justice/Sustainable Livelihoods, Humanitarian Programming to save lives, Advancing Gender Justice and Good Governance, adopting a right based approach.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Information Management & Knowledge Manager

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Band: C2 National
Duration: Three (3) months contract with possibility of extension
Department: Humanitarian
Job Family: Programme
Post holder reports to: Deputy Programme Coordinator
Staff reporting to this post: Data Entry Assistant

Oxfam Purpose

• To work with others to overcome poverty and suffering

Team Purpose

• To ensure Oxfam has the management, technical, and logistical capacity to respond rapidly to major humanitarian emergencies anywhere in the world

Job Purpose

• To improve the quality of programme learning through the use of creative products, accessible processes, and effective systems. Ensure learning is not lost and is used to adapt programmes

Key Responsibilities
Information and Knowledge Management:

• Present, develop, and implement the strategic plan for humanitarian information management within the NE Nigeria Humanitarian Response
• Develop goals and objectives for technology and information activities for the response based on organizational need
• Set up and maintain processes for capturing realistic beneficiary numbers against the commitments outlined in the donor indicators
• Coordinate the monthly collation and dissemination programme achievements to external stakeholders like the sectors working group, INGO forum etc
• Collect information and testimonies from beneficiaries, staff, and partners and put them together with programme narrative to create a suite of materials that supports a variety of purposes (e.g. comms, funding, MAC)
• Develop and facilitate processes and tools that will aid knowledge retention and sharing, as well as improve collaboration within and between teams

Communication/Visibility:

• Creating regular sit reps based on the work in each of the Programme Sites in NE Nigeria
• Develop and ensure programme visibility is included in proposal development
• Manage branding and visibility products including sign off, and ensure project/programme visibility products consistency, quality and availability
• Manage the development of quarterly snapshot for the humanitarian response

Coordination and Management Support:

• Provide advice and counsel concerning IM issues and industry trends to the Humanitarian Programme Manager
• Work with all technical and support teams, being a focal point for advice and practical support regarding information management

Information Systems:

• Research, develop, and implement new services that can improve efficiency of the response through the use of information systems

Capacity Building:

• Train staff to use information management tools
• Facilitate staff's ability to use existing and emerging processes and technologies to achieve organization's objectives with regards to IM
• Train and support field staff in collecting case studies, success stories that can be used for reporting and visibility purposes

Requirements
Essential:

• Degree in Data Management, Information Technology, Statistics, or any other relevant field.
• Minimum 2-3 years humanitarian experience
• Experience in data collection/ entry software (Survey CTO, Mobenzi, Kobo, Excel, Access,).
• Proficiency with MS Office suite
• Excellent influencing and confident networking skills
• Demonstrated knowledge of project monitoring principles and tools
• Excellent organizational and administrative skills; ability to prioritize workload and multi-task.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and under pressure.
• Good oral and written communications skills.
• Accuracy and strong attention to detail
• Team Player; eager to take on challenges and work as part of a team.
• Familiarity with performance-based MEAL
• Sensitivity to cultural differences, and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts.
• Excellent written and spoken English is essential
• Sympathy with the aims and objectives of Oxfam.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles and action.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s equal opportunity and gender policies proven communication skills - verbal, written, visual of highest quality - suitable for range of internal and external audiences, including influencing senior managers
• proven ability to convey complex information in a straightforward, motivating way
• Demonstrate accountability to partners and disaster & conflict-affected people and communities
• Experience providing training/ workshops to both national and expatriate staff

Desirable:

• Excellent understanding of Oxfam’s programme work areas and best practice in WASH, EFSL, Protection, and Gender

Application Closing Date
21st October, 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their application letter and Curriculum vitae as one attachment in English to: [email protected] with the position title and location as the subject of your email.

Note

• Prospective candidate must be available and willing to commence work immediately.
• Applications sent in the required format will be considered and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.