Information Management Pool

GRC’s Information Management Pool consists of specialists who have the skills and expertise to be deployed as delegates in an emergency response anywhere in the world for up to three months. GRC is expanding its surge capacity and welcomes qualified information management (IM) generalists to join the surge pool.

GRC’s IM surge professionals are typically deployed to support GRC bilaterally together with its sister National Societies overseas or are seconded to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) or the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

GRC actively engages with the Surge Information Management Support (SIMS) project - a network of trained specialists who develop, coordinate, and implement information management systems for global Red Cross and Red Crescent disaster response operations. Support to SIMS can also be remote.

Reliable data is of key importance in humanitarian settings to better understand the situation, context, and response options, and therefore effectively support people affected by disasters or crises: That includes scope and scale of crisis, most affected geographical areas, most affected population groups, most affected sectors, priority needs, drivers and root causes of challenges, response and capacities, vulnerabilities and risks, operational constraints and any other information that is needed to take an effective, informed decision.

Information Management surge professionals provide specialised services on planning, collecting, processing, analysing, summarising, visualising, protecting, sharing, and disseminating data and information in partnership with the respective National Red Cross or Red Crescent Society. Based on their work, the management of an operation can make better decisions to assist people affected by crises.

This recruitment round targets IM generalists who can perform one or several of the following roles within the catalogue of surge services for Information Management: IM Coordinator / Humanitarian Information Analysis Officer / Primary Data Collection Officer / Mapping and Visualisation Officer. You can access the full generic job profiles here.

• You are available for a surge deployment of six weeks to three months in the coming two years (or you can support remotely for at least 6 weeks).
• Data responsibility as well as data protection are important to you.
• You have international experience* and have collaborated with international partners preferably in emergency or crisis situations.
• You have supported needs assessments and used visualisation to tell a story with data that facilitates decision-making.
• You have experience in data collection and management.
• You have an information analysis background (incl. joint and coordinated processes).
• You enjoy working with other people and are a team player.
• You proactively approach people and follow a service-oriented approach to work.
• You place great emphasis on detail and communicate clearly and logically.
• You are an expert in Excel, and you are experienced in the use of Adobe Illustrator and/or Adobe InDesign, ArcGIS and/or QGIS, as well as PowerBI and/or Tableau.
• You can train others in the deployment of mobile data collection tools such as ODK and/or Kobo.
• You have basic skills of MS Access and/or MySQL, and in R and/or Python.
• Your English level is C1 or higher. Further languages are an asset.
• You have preferably worked within the Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement before.

*International experience can be gained through assignments, internships, and volunteer work overseas.