Organization: 3iSolution (legally IMMAP France).
Country / Region: Necoclí, Colombia.
Draft: Harnessing Innovative Realtime Geodata to Enhance Collaborative Responses to Migration Crises in Latin America. -Queens University at Kingston
Vacancies : Four (4)
Organization
3iSolution is an international non-profit organization whose role is to provide information management services to humanitarian and development organizations, allowing partners to make informed decisions that, Ultimately, they provide high-quality specific assistance to the world’s most vulnerable populations. 3iSolution converts data into information and creates knowledge for decision makers operating in conflict, disasters, post-disaster and recovery environments, as well as other complex emergency situations and development contexts.
For this project 3iSolutions works in alliance with Queen’s University, for the implementation, collection, processing, analysis and visualization of the data and information obtained.
Context
Venezuela has experienced a serious socioeconomic crisis for several years, aggravated by political turmoil and the COVID pandemic19. With 7.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in Venezuela and another 5.6 million in other countries, the situation in Venezuela corresponds to the second largest external displacement crisis in the world after from Syria. Migration through the Darien Forest (a 96-kilometer stretch of dangerous jungle with no roads connecting Panama and Colombia, partially controlled by armed guerrillas and human and drug traffickers) has multiplied by 10. More than 70,000 registered immigrants have crossed the jungle route in an attempt to reach the United States.
Refugee / migrant women and girls face gender vulnerabilities, such as sexual harassment and assault, early unions, as well as sexual exploitation in this context of migration crisis. Lack of knowledge about how and where to seek specific gender-focused assistance, coupled with insufficient humanitarian services to meet high demand, it can impede survivors’ recovery and compromise sexual and reproductive health. Furthermore, during COVID19, rates of gender-based violence increased while services decreased due to the overburdened health sector and social distancing policies.
Thus, the lack of up-to-date and reliable data to inform decision-making on care prioritization and service delivery negatively impacts the humanitarian response in many ways, including misallocation of resources, dispatch of medical supplies and equipment to where they are no longer needed, or dispatch of inadequate supplies or personnel for the situation.
In these situations, Rapid Field Assessments (RFA) are often the most widely used alternative to collecting data that improves decision-making. However, traditional RFA data is often supplemented by sporadic information provided by field staff, so the one-way flow may be late, It may be inaccurate and is often less specific in terms of locations, particularly when it comes to large geographic territories, as is the case with the Venezuelan crisis. The quality, accuracy, and timeliness of these data can have a detrimental impact on the health and outcomes of refugees / migrants. Further,unidirectional information may detract from power and the affected population may perceive that the information gathering is “ extractive ”.
In order to overcome the use of traditional data sources – such as Rapid Field Evaluations, surveys or administrative records – that have important methodological limitations (both frequency and coverage) to capture information about the migrant population, especially with refugee / migrant girls and women, the use of mixed methods will be used, which have been increasingly promoted for the investigation of migratory flows and their characteristics, using geo-messages for humanitarian data collection with bi-directional exchange in real time.
This requires a continuous development of the technology implemented in the project and the optimization of its use; in this way the data collection, its treatment, Systematization and connection with data visualization platforms will be more efficient.
Activities and Required Qualifications
- Complete the training cycle as a requirement to apply surveys or focus groups for migrant populations in transit; as well as carry out all the update trainings required during the project development period.
- Carry out surveys to assist the migrant population using different technological tools.
- Manage, develop and document focus groups with a migrant population within the framework of the project.
- Have complete knowledge and command of the forms and tools to apply for the surveys; as well as the concepts, rules and procedures that are used during the collection of information.
- Socialize the exercise with a migrant population and organizations in all the cases that are required.
- Follow the methodological guidelines and procedures of the statistical operation.
- Cover in a balanced way the population profiles found in the data collection areas, avoiding preference or concentration in any for conducting the surveys.
- Produce the reports and reports of monitoring, control and results of the field operation that are requested, in accordance with the operational guidelines.
- Inform the field coordinator of any situation that affects the development of the data collection exercise, in order to adjust in a timely manner and continue the field operation normally.
- Guarantee the delivery of the validated information in accordance with the established schedule.
- Prepare weekly progress reports.
- Any other related tasks that may be required or assigned by the field and / or project coordinator.
Required profile:
Skills
- Ability to approach people and start a survey.
- Knowledge of the local context.
- Microsoft office package management.
- Asertive communication.
- Knowledge of gender and differential approach applied to the migratory context.
- Ability to develop and work in multicultural environments.
- Excellent interpersonal relationships and propensity for collaborative and team work.
- Skills for time management and meeting delivery times.
- Ability to work based on objectives and compliance with standards using management indicators.
Minimum qualifications:
Experience
To be eligible, the natural person to offer these services must have at least 2 years of experience developing activities similar to those indicated in these terms.
Education
Vocational, technical, or technological training degree from all areas of knowledge.
Languages
A fluent command of Spanish is required (speaking and writing it), intermediate knowledge of the English language (desirable).
Guiding Principles
The contractor is expected to behave professionally and respect 3iSolutions local laws, customs and policies, procedures and values at all times and in all countries.
3iSolutions has zero tolerance for sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, human trafficking, abuse and exploitation of children. Any violation of these principles and policies will be treated as serious misconduct.
3iSolutions offers equal opportunities regardless of your background.
How to apply
Please submit your CV throughout the following link :
Or send it to recruitment-colombia@immapfr.org
BEFORE 01/16/2024 EOD