Associate Data Management Officer

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is a UN agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

As part of its new Global Results Framework and in connection with the Global Compact of Refugees (GCR) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UNHCR is progressively implementing the Results Monitoring Survey (RMS) across the operations, to monitor changes in the lives of persons of concerns (impacts) and in UNHCR’s Key areas of engagement (outcomes).
RMS are quantitative household level data collection for relevant impact and outcome indicators to ensure evidenced-based reporting against multi-year country strategies, The RMS targets persons of concern (PoC) directly or indirectly assisted by UNHCR, including refugees and asylum seekers, internally displaced persons, returnees, stateless and others of concern. The data produced by RMS serve for various internal and external planning, coordination, programming, advocacy and reporting need at country, regional and global level.

Tanzania has been selected as a pilot country to participate in the RMS guided scale up phase which begun in early 2022. This country hosted 246,494 registered and assisted refugees, asylum-seekers, and other person of concern to UNHCR as of 31st December 2021. Burundians were the largest group with 166,232 individuals (67.44%) followed by DRC Congo 79,817 individuals (32.38 %) and 445 individuals (0.18%) from other nationalities. More than 83% are camp-based living in Nduta and Nyarugusu refugee camps located in Kigoma region (Northwestern part of Tanzania). 196 were urban refugees and asylum seekers living in Dar es Salam while the rest are 1972’ refugees living in scattered area including Kigoma village (Tabora region), old settlement and Somalis in Chogo (Tanga region).

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of Snr Protection Officer-Kigoma or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer Associate Data Management Officer-RMS will:

•Support the roll out of a household survey in second half of 2022 to collect new COMPASS Impact and Outcome indicators that are mandatory as well as those required for the Refugee Response Plan (RRP)
•Conduct a comprehensive review of the operation current monitoring and evaluation systems and tools. Including but not limited to, UNHCR use of ProGres4; Activity Info, RRP, COMPASS indicators, surveys conducted by the different sectors including PDM etc). Compile recommendations and suggestions on how to improve and streamline UNHCR Tanzania’s approach to M&E and related reporting

•In consultation with relevant sectors develop a clear roadmap of M&E objectives and related activities to be integrated into the operations planning and budgeting cycles

•Guide and support teams in data collection methodologies, data sources, management and analysis, including qualitative and quantitative data, in close collaboration with evaluation and IM staff.

•Support result managers on selecting and monitoring key indicators to track

•Keep track of management decisions and follow-up actions on monitoring and RMS and communicate information and findings to key stakeholders.

•Ensure overall coordination and streamlining of M&E activities in the operation and harmonization of indicators

•Drafting TORs and methodologies for monitoring activities

•Produce relevant M&E related reports

•Train UNHCR staff and partners on Result Monitoring Survey