This position is in the Pooled Fund Management Branch (PFMB) of the
Office for C...
This position is in the Pooled Fund Management Branch (PFMB) of the
Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in New York. OCHA is the
part of the United Nations Secretariat responsible for bringing together
humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies. OCHA's
mission is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian
action in partnership with national and international actors to alleviate human
suffering in disasters and emergencies; advocate the rights of people in need;
promote preparedness and prevention and facilitate sustainable solutions.
Under the guidance of the Head of the Policy and Reporting Unit of the
Guidance Learning and Reporting Section (GLRS), the incumbent will be part of
the GLRS data and reporting team. Upcoming priorities for GLRS
include development of increasingly more streamlined and
coherent OCHA Pooled Fund data management and analysis structures to
enable more succinct and joined-up pooled fund reporting and
visualization. Closely related hereto, GLRS is leading
the development of the joint Grant Management System (OneGMS)
for the Central Emergency Response Fund and OCHA’s Country-Based Pooled Funds
(CBPF), and continued improvements of the funds’ joint datahubs and
BI Modules. The OneGMS, datahubs and BI Modules are all dependent on
high-quality data input. Another related priority workstream for GLRS
is the update and maintenance of the CERF and CBPF websites to ensure their
continued relevance as key transparency tools for the funds.
Beyond the importance of successfully
executing these essential
data-focused workstreams, it is imperative that the CERF
secretariat during their execution also remains able
to ensure the development of grant-related data required for the preparation
of mandatory internal and external accountability products, as well as
donor advocacy publications and daily requests for talking points and thematic
reports. These data-dependent products include, but are not limited
to, the UK/FCDO business case, CERF’s Grand Bargain
reporting, CERF Advisory Group papers, the CERF
Secretary-General Report, annual flagship publications, donor attribution
sheets and other advocacy products.
Since GLRS in
2022 assumed the responsibility of preparing PFMB’s annual reports (the CERF
Annual Report, the CERF Secretary-General Report and the CBPF Synthesis
Report), an increasingly demanding data task is the annual consolidation,
review and analysis of data for these flagship publications. Following GLRS’
first year of leadership on these key milestones, a significant set of lessons
learned have been documented, including the need for severe improvements to
CERF and CBPF data clean-ups, streamlining and standardization of data
processes across CERF and CBPF, as well as further strengthening of the
analyses of OneGMS data.
Considering the
importance of these developments, the engagement of an Information Manager (Data Coordinator) to deliver data-related project management and
coordinating data-focused analyses is vital. The role of the incumbent will
be to support and improve ongoing data-management processes, spearhead upcoming
data-related reporting efforts, function as the focal point for all CERF and
CBPF data clean up and retrieval and lead the update/maintenance of the CERF
website.