Project Officer – Information Management

About CRS 

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

CRS has been present in Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza (JWBG) since 1961. In JWBG, CRS currently supports programs in the sectors of humanitarian relief, livelihoods, civil society strengthening, and social justice promotion through its field offices in Jerusalem, Gaza, Ramallah, and Bethlehem. For further information about CRS, please visit: www.crs.org.

Job Summary:

As a member of the Resource Transfer Unit and Information Management team, you will support the monitoring and reporting on all project activities under the Gaza Emergency Response in support of Catholic Relief Services’ (CRS) work serving the poor and vulnerable. Your thorough and service-oriented approach will ensure that the RTU and Information Management team supports the program response by consistently applies best practices and constantly works towards improving the impact of its benefits to those we serve.

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Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Support the coordination and implementation of all information management activities in coordination across all Gaza Emergency Response program teams in line with CRS program quality principles and standards, donor requirements, and good practices.
• Support response teams to monitor and record emergency response activities and report any challenges and/or gaps identified in information collection or management.
• Coordinate and work with partner teams to ensure partner involvement in information management meets program standards and follows internal standard operating procedures.
• Coordinate with program teams to ensure the information collected serves programs needs for adaptive management, reporting, and record keeping.
• Daily, monitor and clean data and information collected through CRS’ online system to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and share information based on program’s requests.
• Support accountability through coordinating project evaluation activities and assisting partners in their efforts to collect and analyze project data per specified mechanisms and tools. Collaborate with local partner(s) to prepare reports per established reporting schedule.
• Collect information on staff capacity needs and technical assistance needs of partner organizations and monitor capacity building and technical support activities to ensure effective impact.
• Complete project documentation for assigned activities. Assist with identifying information for case studies and reports on promising practices.

Basic Qualifications

• High School diploma required. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of work experience in project support. Experience in the field of information management and/or monitoring and evaluation and for an NGO would be a plus.
• Additional experience may substitute for some education.

Required Languages – Fluency in Arabic; high professional proficiency in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience in information and data management systems such as PHP, SQL, CommCare, KOBO, or other similar systems.
• Experience in participatory action planning and community engagement.
• Experience monitoring projects and collecting relevant data preferred.
• Experience using MS Windows and MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

APPLICATION INSTUCTIONS:

Interested candidates with relevant education and work experience are invited to complete an application which addresses the positions requirements. In order to be considered for the position, candidates must submit both a CV and a cover letter, in English. Applications must be submitted online at jobs.crsjwbg.org and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Submission by May 15, 2024 is advised.