USAID Host and Impacted Community Resilience Activity (HICRA)

Position : Manager – Management Information System (MIS) and Geographic Information System (GIS)
PROGRAMME:
Host and Impacted Communities Resilience
Activities (HICRA)		 LOCATION: Dhaka
  Contract Length: Two Year (Till September 2026)
GRADE: II POST TYPE: Regular

INTRODUCTION:

Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachari districts are among the lowest ranked in Bangladesh for education, skills training, food security, poverty and agricultural productivity. The situation has worsened since 2017, with the Rohingya refugee influx, which has put enormous pressure on the local economies, resulting in loss of livelihoods, depressed local wages, and distorted local markets. Moreover, these districts are prone to chronic and rapid onset disasters.

In response, the USAID Host and Impacted Communities Resilience Activity (HICRA) led by Friends In Village Development Bangladesh (FIVDB) is taking an integrated approach to improve the overall well-being and resilience of people residing in the communities hosting or impacted by the Rohingya refugee crisis.  This includes implementing livelihoods; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); natural resource management (NRM); and disaster risk reduction (DRR) interventions with an estimated 114,000 households across the four prioritized districts.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Manager – MIS & GIS will lead development and operationalization of the MIS (web and android based application) and GIS across HICRA for monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) data management, analysis, reporting, and spatial presentation. Major responsibilities will encompass strategic support to the MEL plan, implementation of the GIS plan, precision in MIS, GIS-based data collection and analysis, streamline reporting processes, institutionalize community feedback & response mechanism, support collaborating, learning and adapting (CLA), and promote adaptive management to drive evidence-based strategic program decisions. S/he should be highly conversant in integrating information requirements with validation rules in the MIS & GIS for data quality assurance. S/he should also be conversant to integrate GIS in MIS to assist in spatial analysis and produce GIS outputs (maps etc.). S/he will continuously support back-end scripting in SQL, android, web applications to facilitate reporting for the HICRA team. As the technical lead on GIS, s/he will be responsible for the application of GIS in HICRA, ensuring spatial data quality, geo-spatial analysis, drafting of maps, and production of web maps in alignment with the program MIS. S/he will work closely with the HICRA MEL team and take lead in developing strategies/guidelines for introducing MIS and GIS at the technical and implementing partners. S/he will design capacity development plans for technical and implementing partners in operationalization of MIS & GIS, and function as a help desk to assist technical and implementing partners as per need. S/he will continuously check the performance of the system and recommend necessary modifications to the MIS development and GIS. S/he will closely coordinate and mentor regional MEL professionals, and district and upazila-based implementing partner’s MEL staff at HICRA program area (Cox’s Bazar and the CHT districts).

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Application Procedure

Application Deadline: November 10, 2024