Country: Switzerland
Closing date: 21 Nov 2017
Background
Violence against health care in armed conflict or other emergencies continues to be a serious humanitarian concern with devastating short and long-term consequences for the wounded and sick, affected communities, health care facilities and transports, and for the thousands of health care personnel who seek to provide assistance precisely when it is needed most.
Since the 31st International Conference in 2011, States, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement the health-care community and civil society have mobilised around the Health Care in Danger (HCiD) initiative to take steps to address this issue, including through changing the practice of militaries and armed groups, strengthening data collection mechanisms, and adapting national and local policy and legal frameworks to better protect health care.
Purpose of the post
In 2017, the ICRC Directorate adopted the HCiD strategy 2017-2019, reinforcing HCiD as an Institutional Priority of the ICRC and setting specific goals relating to maintaining global awareness of violence against health care, and doing more to implement concrete evidence-based solutions. A key demand from the ICRC Directorate was that ICRC remain the “reference organization” for HCiD data, both relating to the trends and patterns of violence against health care, and the impact of such incidents.
Under the supervision of the Head of HCiD initiative at OP_DIR, and working closely with concerned departments (CIM, Protection, Health and others) the HCiD Data Analyst in the “Health Care in Danger” team will work on and be responsible for compiling, processing and analyzing information/data gathered by delegations and other reliable external sources on incidents affecting health care. S/he will actively contribute to the ICRC’s data management model by mapping ICRC best practices in using existing tools to exploit HCiD data as well as improving data collection and analysis methodologies and promote them internally and externally. The HCiD Data analyst will also lead ICRC’s efforts to better understand, document and communicate on the impact of violence against health care; s/he will explore, in dialogue with key units in ICRC, the possibility of building strategic academic partnerships on the subject.
The HCiD Data Analyst will also be the focal point for the monitoring of achievements of the project through capturing the results of key activities of delegations, partners and the project team.
Main duties and responsibilities
- Centralize data and analyze the information gathered on a regular basis by delegations and external sources on incidents affecting health care in operational contexts to serve ICRC’s and other partners of the HCiD initiative operational, diplomatic and mobilization efforts;
- Interact with delegations on data collection and protection, health and other HCiD-related issues;
- Act as the focal point for research partnerships on violence against healthcare with the support of other relevant people and promote complementarity of various research and data collection approaches internally;
- Ensure data quality assurance and tackle challenges to reliability and validity of data in difficult humanitarian contexts;
- Analyze and circulate information and reports produced by external partners on issues related to HCiD data collection and analysis;
- Create clear reports, dashboards and other types of visualizations to describe patterns and trends of violence against health-care in specific contexts to help guide the institution towards the implementation of informed context-adapted PoAs and strategies; present those to internal and external audiences;
- Construct realistic and measurable HCiD data-related indicators of success in relation with the stated objectives of the project expressed in the HCiD main orientations for 2017-2019 and in the ICRC pledge presented at the 2015 International Conference;
- Actively promote towards delegations and relevant departments in Geneva existing and innovative approaches for capturing data on violence against healthcare in the contexts of concern to the ICRC, including through field visits;
- Advise ICRC delegations on promotion of national and local data collection mechanisms on attacks against healthcare;
- Organize and/or participate in meetings between concerned ICRC departments (HCiD/OP_DIR, CIM, Prot, Health, FORUM) in Geneva and the field, and participate in relevant work streams with external partners (including MSF, WHO, Movement partners, academia and others) on the methodologies and ongoing initiatives relating to documenting, and researching violence against health care and its impact.
Education and experience required
- A Master’s degree in a relevant field (international relations, peace research, political science, data science, social science, sociology, public health, statistics);
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in a relevant and related position;
- ICRC field experience, an NGO or a Red Cross or Red Crescent Society a strong asset;
- Solid experience working with both quantitative and qualitative very high flux of data;
- Experience with automated collection and storage of data (very good command of Excel and other relevant programs);
- An excellent command of English and good command of French. Additional languages (e.g. Arabic, Spanish) are an asset.
Desired profile and skills
- A manifest interest for humanitarian action and the ICRC work;
- Experience using a web APIs is an asset. Fluency in Python, R or other relevant scripting and programming languages is an asset;
- Previous experience in data analysis and statistical methods applied to humanitarian settings, assessments methodologies and conflict analysis is an asset. Experience working with HCiD data analysis or similar is a clear advantage;
- Well-organized, meticulous, creative and open-minded with a scientific approach to solving problems. Ability to tell the story behind the numbers;
- Good command of IT programmes (Microsoft Office, Lotus Notes, Internet research tools, Prot 6 lot 2);
- Team player with strong communication and intercultural skills. Interest and facility to establish and maintain contacts with internal and external interlocutors;
- Ability to adapt to varying workloads and to work under pressure with very short deadlines in a constrained technological environment;
- Flexibility to travel on short missions to ICRC Delegations or elsewhere for events and meetings.
Additional information
Type of contract: Maximum-term contract
Length of assignment: 2 years until 31.12.2019
Working rate: 100%
Starting date: ASAP
Aplication deadline: Tuesday, 21st November 2017
How to apply:
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