imagine1day international Organization was founded in 2007 by Canadian philanthropists Summer and Chip Wilson with the goal of ensuring that all Ethiopian children have access to quality education, free of foreign aid, by 2030. Working under Ethiopia’s public education system and in partnership with the country’s federal, regional and district government education offices, women, children and youth offices, in Particular and other social services Providing Government Structures in general. We have been implementing programs that mainly focuses on the education and children protection in emergency, leadership developments WASH activities in Schools and community development and emergency responses Program in Ethiopia region. Accordingly, we are looking to fill the vacant positions of education and child protection zonal Program Coordinators in Oromia region for Education and child Protection program we are implementing with UNICEF and other Partners in Oromia regional States.

Responsibilities

Monitoring and Information Management

• Directly oversee all Child Protection (CP) and Education in Emergency (EiE) data collection and management with the support and supervision of the Oromia Regional Director, CP and EiE Manager, and MEAL Coordinators.
• Ensure data received from the field teams is correctly entered into the program trackers on a weekly regular basis – gather, consolidate, clarify errors and clear the program data.
• Ensure accurate and regular data entry and review, including robust analysis and identification of trends, following the CP information management protocols and standards set out by the donors.
• Maintain the CP and EiE information management system and ensure safe and accurate documentation, filing, storing and usage of information.
• Share weekly the updated Program Data and Indicator tracker with the Oromia Regional Director, CP and EiE Manager and MEAL Coordinator.
• Ensure all hard copy of case management and CP activities files are securely stored (i.e. in strong lockable file cabinets where appropriate);
• Contribute to project monitoring and evaluation, including leading on or supporting the team with focus group discussions, community consultations, and carrying out feedback surveys with children, adolescent boys and caregivers.
• Analyze and share results of focus groups and community consultations, including identifying trends and context changes.
• Participate in the design and implementation of the M&E plans for the emergency program.
• Support the team on the emergency assessments in case of new displacement.
• Regularly visit program activities to ensure that all data is correctly collected and stored and shared in a timely manner.
• Use project indicator data to monitor achievement towards objectives; report any projected shortcomings or gaps to the supervisor.
• Develop online database forms and other tools to facilitate the collection of data from field-based staff.
• Support proposal development as necessary.
• Participate to the inter-agency CPIMS+ CP/GBV AOR meetings.
• Other duties as assigned like IT related support for staffs.

Reporting

• Submit Weekly and monthly program data, 5W, and indicator tracking reports and analysis to Oromia Regional Director, CP and EiE Manager and MEAL Coordinator.
• Compile, edit, and write monthly and quarterly CP quantitative program reports using assigned 5W template, including collating reports from field staff and producing final information products.

Training and Supervision

• Train and offer needed support to CP and EiE staff to correctly and effectively use CPIMS+ tools, CP case trackers and other program activity and indicator trackers.
• Train CP and EiE program staff in data collection and reporting tools and requirements as needed;
• Train CP and EiE program staff on protection and Education monitoring

Reports to: Zonal Program Coordinator

Duty station: Metakel, Gelel Belese

Employee condition– Contract for 6 months with possibility for extension

Job Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS : Bachelor Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any other related fields

EXPEREINCE:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working in NGO’s in developmental or in humanitarian programs working for an international agency on management information systems development. Experience in Child Protection Information management system will be an added advantage.
• Proven experience of undertaking analysis of both qualitative and quantitative research using relevant software such as STATA or SPSS, or any other is an advantageous

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY

• Good communication skills in English and local language additional advantage and interpersonal skills, with experience working in multicultural, multi – location, values driven teams.
• Proven skills and experience in system development, repair and maintenance.
• Full understanding of Excel and report creation.
• High-level technical understanding of the deployment infrastructure (i.e. servers, ip addresses, databases, local and cloud deployments).
• Preferably basic knowledge on case management and child protection programming
• Strong information management and telecommunication skills and proficiency in IT/computer skills (including sound MS Excel, Ms PowerPoint and Ms Word proficiency).
• Problem analysis, judgement, handling ambiguity and decision making based on fact and figures
• Technical expertise in various data analysis software and proven experience using mobile technology for data collection with experience of electronic data collection using tablets or other devices.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills and experience with statistical/graphical software or geo-spatial software.
• Proven experience with current technologies, such as web-based data management and analysis tools, digital data collection, mapping, Google applications, data visualization, interactive dashboards, etc.
• Experience with ICT hardware, mobile phones and web-based technologies, particularly designing or deploying tools appropriate to limited-bandwidth or sub-standard infrastructure environments.
• Good analysis and report writing skills
• Experience in open source, mobile and emerging technology is extremely desirable.
• Highly developed cultural awareness and ability to work well in an international environment with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
• Experience in producing clear and simple reports, including charts & graphs, for end-users
• Experience of training and capacity building
  Some experience of representation and ability to represent the CPIMS users effectively in external forums.