Child Protection Information Management Officer

Guided by the 2030 Agenda principle of “leaving no one behind”, UNICEF Rwanda under the current country programme will contribute to five priorities under the social transformation pillar of the National Strategy for Transformation 2017–2024: (a) Ensuring access to quality health for all; (b) Reducing malnutrition; (c) Ensuring access to and improving the quality of education; (d) Moving towards a modern Rwandan household, and; (e) Enhancing graduation from poverty and promoting resilience.
The country programme will be implemented as part of the United Nations Development Assistance Plan 2018–2023 (UNDAP II), specifically contributing to Strategic Result Area 2: Social Transformation.

The Government of Rwanda plans to unify NCDA’s three child protection information systems under a single platform, likely DHIS2, ensuring compatibility, automation, and effective data visualization.
The national UNV, Child Protection Information Management Officer, will be seconded to the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF) and the National Child Development Agency (NCDA) to provide IT technical support for implementing the Child Protection Case Management (CPCM) Framework.
His/her role includes consolidating existing systems, piloting CPCM tools, supporting district-level rollouts, and ensuring the adoption of CPCM by child protection officers. The UNV will also explore the use of Joget, PRIMERO, and other platforms to enhance system functionality. This 6-month assignment involves close collaboration with NCDA, MIGEPROF, UNICEF, and IT teams.

Under the direct supervision of the Child Protection Specialist, the UNV will undertake the following tasks:
• Analyse the existing «Inshuti Z'Umuryango» (IZU) reporting system which is built in PHP Code Ignitor and pro-pose a new architecture replicating all implemented functionalities and based on the capabilities of the above-mentioned Open-Source Platforms. (“DHIS2” and “Joget”)
• Resolve any ongoing challenges with the current IZU platform so that it can generate data required for reporting while other processes are taking place.
• Gather and interpret needs for the improvement of IZU reporting system and propose an improved design.
• Analyse the existing database for Most Vulnerable Children system and propose an implementation to merge it with IZU system.
• Analyse the existing MIS for “children re-integrated into families” and propose an implementation to merge it with IZU system.
• Analyse the requirements of the Child Protection Case Management System and pro-pose a system design based on the capabilities of the preferred Open-Source Platforms (“DHIS2” and “Joget”) and other systems.
• Implement the Child Protection Case Management System in an agile framework starting by the deployment of basic features.
• Analyse the Integrated Child Development Dashboard and propose an architecture to read and display relevant data from all the above child protection databases.
• Develop related user manuals and training materials for the above systems.
• Undertake any other tasks within the scope of this position as requested by the super-visor