Information Management and Analytics Senior Analyst

About the role

UNMAS Syria, based in Damascus and coordinating humanitarian mine action across Syria, is recruiting an Information Management and Analytics Senior Analyst. The post holder will act as Head of the Information Management Unit and as the lead technical IM contact for UNMAS Syria, national authorities, the Mine Action Area of Responsibility and partners. The role reports to the Head of Operations and may combine with other IM responsibilities depending on the incumbent's skills.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to scaling up or down the IM Unit structure in line with UNMAS Syria's development
• Identify and report gaps, challenges, risks and opportunities, and record improvements to IM processes
• Develop and maintain IM SOPs aligned with IMAS and NMAS, and contribute to the unit workplan and its monitoring
• Prioritise requests with the Head of Operations and give technical guidance to IM Unit staff
• Deliver mine action information to stakeholders in a timely way, in line with information-sharing and security policies
• Coordinate with the Mine Action Area of Responsibility, UN entities, implementing partners and the Syrian National Mine Action Centre, including the transfer of functions to the latter
• Oversee data migration to IMSMA Core and quality assure dashboards, operational snapshots, factsheets, donor reports, maps and other products
• Support data quality standards, database administration, data validation, cleaning, imports, backups and routine quality checks
• Develop and deliver IM training, and help design training packages

Required profile

• Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) in Information Technology, Information Management, Computer Science or a related field, with 2 years of relevant experience; or
• First-level university degree (Bachelor's or equivalent) in a related field, with 4 years of relevant experience
• Relevant experience in information management support, database systems and data quality management
• Experience chairing or facilitating technical working groups or multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms

Required skills

• IMSMA, SQL or Postgres
• GIS tools
• Preferred: working with national authorities, UN entities and implementing partners, data governance, designing technical training programmes, producing dashboards and maps, and working in a mine action organisation