Drought Response Information Manager consultant vacancy-Zimbabwe
Closing date: Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Individual Consultant – Drought Response Information Management Officer
Location : Harare, ZIMBABWE
Application Deadline : 31-May-16 (Midnight New York, USA)
Type of Contract : Individual Contract
Post Level : International Consultant
Languages Required : English
Starting Date : (date when the selected candidate is expected to start) 01-Jun-2016
Duration of Initial Contract : 8 months
Expected Duration of Assignment : 8 months
Background
Early Recovery is a key component of humanitarian crisis response. Early Recovery addresses recovery needs during the humanitarian phase, using humanitarian mechanisms in accordance with development principles. It is an integrated, inclusive, and coordinated approach to gradually turn the dividends of humanitarian action into sustainable crisis recovery, resilience building and development opportunities. Emergency relief addresses peoples’ survival and basic well-being. Early Recovery restores people’s capacities and supports communities’ first steps to recover from the crisis.
The Global Cluster on Early Recovery (GCER) formerly known as CWGER advocates for humanitarian actors to integrate approaches into their humanitarian work, where possible, that will mitigate the impact of a future crisis on a community. The Early Recovery approach presents important opportunities to promote gender equality. Failure to include gender perspectives in early decision-making processes can have long-lasting impacts on women, men, boys, and girls particularly in the context of governance structures, policies and practices, which can reinforce existing socio-economic disparities between men and women.
In the absence of Humanitarian Clusters in Zimbabwe, coordination of the drought response is undertaken via the existing sectoral coordination structures, with UNRCO providing inter-sectoral coordination support. UNDP is leading the inter-agency efforts in Early Recovery, as the convener of the Early Recovery sector. Given the non-resident status of OCHA, and in the interest of maximizing available resources, the IM support will encompass the entirety of the drought response including Early Recovery-focused IM, starting with the establishment of systems and processes needed for effective IM.
Information Management Officer works directly with UNRCO as well as working with UNDP and partners, including UN agencies, NGOs, national and local authorities (in particular the Food and Nutrition Council, Office of the President and Cabinet) to gather, analyze and format information to assist informed decision-making and enhance overall coherence in this field. IMO will also work closely with the Data for Development Working Group, OCHA Regional Office, UNDP Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund, as well as others, to coordinate and collect and gather information.