Information Manager

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Gruppo di Volontariato Civile - GVC
Location: Ramallah with travels to Hebron and Tulkarem
Job Title: Information Manager (IM)
Application deadline: 22nd of July, 2015
Starting Date: As soon as possible
Languages required: Arabic and English

Main tasks and Responsibilities
The IM main functions are related to: support the work of the GVC through the management and facilitation of information collection and sharing and the management and maintenance of GVC communication tools

Specific responsibilities:
Under direct supervision of the Country Representative, performs a variety of functions and tasks in close collaboration with the Emergency and Development (Sector) Coordinators and HQ Communication office:

Strategic:
-Elaborate, supervise and implement a Work Plan, in collaboration with the Quality Control Officer, related to the development of tools, standards and procedures for the general management of GVC in the oPt
-Lead and supervise the systematization of all available data on communities produced by GVC at least during the last 4 years, and assure a final output database accessible and usable.
-Develop the internal database structure, along with the proper accessing and data filling tools for all staff, within the scope of the year.
IT management and development:
-Overall in charge of GVC IT systems;
-Assesses and approves of any procurement of IT related equipment including providing technical specifications and making recommendations to the Admin & Logistics team for purchases;
-Conducts research in variety of IT topics, as needed, and develops related summaries and reference materials;
-Ensures the availability of services & servers in the network including domain controller, applications server and Internet as a resource
-Ensures that the IT equipment are functioning properly and conducts pre-and post-tests of IT-equipment that are out-sourced for maintenance;
-Conduct IT induction to all new staff including visiting staff, others.
-Makes backups and tests the backups for the available servers in the organization;
-Prepares monthly IT reports to management;
-Executing issues as escalated by the IT assistant and making determination for next cause of action
-Representing IT in program meetings and attending related workshops that add value to the organization
-Manages and in collaboration with Admin department, updates IT equipment register
-Manage and supervise the use and allocation of any IT hardware, including the tablets for data collection in the field.
-Performs other related tasks as required.
Technical Development:
-Collect Software Requirements from stakeholders
-Design and Implement surveys using Open Data Kit (ODK)
-Integrate Open Data Kit (ODK) with the local hosted database. This requires stream management, JSON parsing and server acknowledgment management
-Compose and consume secured REST and SOAP web-services
-Maintain the availability of the composed web-services
-Develop reusable software components using GRAILS, JQuery, Ajax and Postgre-SQL
-Backup daily application databases
-Deploy a load balancer instance to decide the destination of received requests (Primary or Secondary server instance)
-Design and implement interactive web maps using Google and Open Street Maps. This includes showing information on the maps based on consumed web services from distributed systems
-Design and develop graphs and reports. Preferred technologies include HighCharts and Jasper reporting tool
-Ensures the availability of services & servers in the network including domain controller, applications server and Internet as a resource
-Manages and in collaboration with Admin department, updates IT equipment register
Data Collection and Systematization:
-Development, Management and update of GVC database, and assurance of the proper use of the database and procedures by all staff;
-Elaborate proper procedures and tools, along with the specific coaching of appointed staff, to assure the consistency between the data collection methods and the final analysis objectives of GVC and projects implemented
-Systematize and elaborate synergies between the data collection methodologies and the GVC database.
-Management of GVC GIS support, georeferencing of information and thematic maps production, in coordination with the Technical and GIS Coordinator;
-Supervise the proper, concurrent and constant update of the information and data of all targeted communities on weekly basis.
-Support with required updated data, the Communication and Advocacy Officer, the Country Director, the Sector Coordinators and any other relevant staff in the preparation of external reports or outreach products
-Management of barcodes support information and equipment;
-Management and update of GVC Palestine online material;
-Conduct systematic coaching for the staff to improve collection, management and systematization of data.
-Performs other related tasks as required.

Interested and qualified applicants are requested to their CVs to