Information Officer

The Norwegian Refugee Council is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced persons. We advocate for their rights and assist with shelter, education, food security, and information counselling & legal assistance. All employees of the Norwegian Refugee Council must be able to adhere to our Codes of Conduct and the four organizational values: Dedicated, innovative, inclusive and accountable.

Overall responsibility:
Under the supervision of the Area Manager, the position holder will be responsible for NRC programme Information Management, with a special focus on the Unified Shelter Sector Database and www.sheltergaza.org.

Qualifications and Experience
All applicants must have excellent English language skills and extensive proven experience of information management

Main Duties:
Responsibilities

-Overall administration of all NRC databases, including development and maintenance, all data inputting and managing security and control measures;
-Coordinate and facilitate the collection of data from relevant sources as required;
-Create a system for producing regular reports/fact sheets reflecting the data entered in databases, and produce weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports as required;
-Provide ad-hoc reports and data summaries as requested;
-Deliver database training to system users (including external to NRC staff);
-Represent NRC at cluster/sector coordination meetings when required;
-Liaise with Shelter Sector partners and to act as focal point for all information management, including follow-up and collection of data with various agencies;
-Facilitate Shelter Sector training events;
-Support and facilitate short term consultants relating to the Shelter Sector activities;
-At all time exercise due care in all matters of data confidentiality, and not divulge any information or data that has not been approved for release;
-Maintain a user and structure manual for all databases;
-Advice and support NRC management on all technical related issues as requested;
-Performs other related duties as may be assigned by management.

MINIMUM SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

-Qualified holder of a relevant  higher level relevant certification, ideally in Computer Science/Engineering or Information Technology  with a minimum of 3 years work experience in a similar position,
-Experience with JSP, ASP .NET, and SQL is required
-Experience working for an international organisation;
-Ability to work under pressure, independently, with limited supervision and extra hours;
-Able to work well in a team;
-Excellent command of English and Arabic both written and orally.

Start date:ASAP
Contract period:5 months with possible extension with possible extension
Salary/benefits:According to NRC’s general directions pay commessurate with  experience and  benefits provided.

How to Apply
Interested candidates should send a cover letter and CV in English by email to 
 

Persons selected for interview are requested to provide two professional references at the interview.

IMPORTANT: Please state Information Officer Vacancy in the subject line of the email
Closing date: 17th- July 2011.

Only applicants available to start within one weeks’ notice are asked to apply

Due to the large number of applications expected only short listed candidates will be contacted for written test and interview.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has 2000 committed and competent employees involved in projects on four continents, to give refugees and internally displaced persons a better life and future. In addition we have one of the world’s largest standby forces with 600 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when crisis occur.