Programme Associate (Food Security Sector/Information Management)

The Information Management Associate provides core technical support to the Food Security Sector coordination team by managing data collection, analysis, and visualization to ensure data-driven, transparent, and accountable food security interventions.

Responsibilities

• Manage Food Security Sector (FSS) data collection, analysis, and reporting processes, including partner tracking matrices, monthly 5Ws data, beneficiary databases, operational datasets, and routine data quality assurance in compliance with WFP and global FSC standards.
• Maintain and update centralized sector information management systems and databases, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, accessibility, and cross-functional integration across partners and sector activities.
• Develop and produce information products and analytical outputs, including interactive dashboards, gap analyses, partner presence maps, funding analyses, situational updates, infographics, and other decision-support tools.
• Conduct geographic, demographic, and food security analyses to identify vulnerabilities, unmet needs, service coverage, gaps, overlaps, and operational priorities within the response.
• Design, develop, and maintain data visualization and geospatial products, including dashboards, maps, and spatial analyses using relevant information management and GIS platforms.
• Support sector planning and reporting exercises, including the Joint Response Plan (JRP), Online Project System (OPS), seasonal assessments, rapid monitoring activities, funding tracking, and other inter-agency information management processes.
• Compile, clean, maintain, and disseminate sector-specific datasets and report products, including Cash-for-Work (CFW), Rohingya Volunteer databases, bi-weekly updates, operational summaries, and other recurring sector outputs.
• Draft and disseminate sector reports, bulletins, updates, correspondence, and information products, including food assistance support letters, weekly and monthly reports, and ad-hoc analytical products for partners and stakeholders.
• Manage sector information-sharing platforms and communication channels, including web portals, document repositories, mailing lists, contact directories, registration systems, survey platforms, and the FSS Cox’s Bazar webpage.
• Coordinate information exchange and engagement with FSS partners, field focal points, and inter-agency stakeholders, ensuring timely dissemination of relevant information, updates, guidance, and sector products.
• Provide information management support to sector coordination mechanisms, including organizing meetings, preparing presentations, drafting and circulating meeting minutes, and supporting multi-agency discussions with analytical and visual data products.
• Provide technical support and capacity strengthening to cooperating partners and sector members, including guidance on indicators, reporting requirements, databases, mobile data collection tools, and information management processes.
• Support sector events, workshops, field visits, onboarding processes, and knowledge management initiatives, ensuring effective coordination, institutional memory retention, and continuity of information management functions.
• Undertake additional information management, reporting, coordination, and analytical tasks as required to support the objectives and priorities of the Food Security Sector and WFP operation.

Requirements

• Completion of University Degree (Bachelor or equivalent) is required.
• Education in Information Technology, Computer Science, Statistics, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Data Science or any other relevant field is preferable.
• Minimum of 6 Years of work experience in data management, statistical analysis, information management or related field.
• Fluency in spoken and written both in English and Bangla language.
• Advanced Data Processing: Mastery of advanced MS Excel tools (nested lookups, power queries, pivot charts) and relational database architectures.
• BI & GIS Platforms: Proven corporate experience developing interactive scripts/dashboards in Power BI or Tableau, alongside mapping skills in QGIS or ArcGIS.
• Mobile Data Collection: Practical capability designing data-collection instruments using Kobo Toolbox / ODK / XLS Form protocols.

Skills

• Data Management
• Statistical Analysis
• Information Management
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Relational Database Design
• Power BI
• Tableau
• QGIS
• ArcGIS
• Mobile Data Collection
• KoBo Toolbox
• ODK
• XLS Form Design

Languages

English, Bangla