The main objective of the position is to ensure high quality data collection in Dirasa schools. The Information Management Assistant (IMA) will be responsible for collecting the relevant information from the IM focal points in the schools and ensure daily coordination on data collection and its accuracy. In addition, he or she will be supporting in data cleaning and data analysis for UNICEF. The IM assistant will be based in akkar office, with daily visits to respective schools under the Dirasa project.
Major Responsibilities:
Under the direct supervision of the M&E officer, the IM assistant will:
- Conduct daily visits to the Education schools’ activities to provide continuous support and oversight on data management.
- Ensure regular attendance is entered on CLM daily.
- Follow up on schools’ IM focal points to ensure data validity and accuracy.
- Conduct CLM training and refresher when needed to IM focal points in schools.
- Provide school Focal Points (FPs) with a weekly extraction for the attendance to follow up on the attendance, absence, dropouts etc.
- Ensure referrals are filled in the platform and follow up with school FPs on their statuses.
- Ensure Observation tools provided by World Learning (WL) performed by the classroom observers or School FPs are conducted on a weekly, bi-weekly, monthly and upon need.
- Ensure Club initiatives, meetings with parents, health/doctor visits to the school and all the related info are filled in the CLM accurately.
- Data entry related to students’ attendance, referrals and parents meeting information.
- Supervise the data flow between multiple stakeholders involved in the UNICEF project.
- Supervise the data entry and collection process along education activities.
- Conduct data reporting and analysis for donors and focal points across multiple education activities.
- Conduct data migration of recorded education activities onto different Information Management platforms.
- Perform Data Quality Assessments for education activities through engaging partners and stakeholders.
- Assist the IRC’s partner organizations and field teams in verifying the accuracy of data collected at all stages of the program - in particular at the beneficiary identification phase, the efficiency and accountability of the implementation and the results of the intervention.
- Provide input and feedback to improve programmatic implementation or M&E activities.
- Identify and implement improvements to Information Management process.
- Ensure data confidentiality and protection according to any restrictions identified by the program.
- Other duties as assigned.
Key Working Relationships:
- Position Reports to: M&E officer.
- Other Internal and/or external contacts:
- Internal: Other MEAL staff, and education staff
- External: Partner staff