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For every child, the right to Water

UNICEF Lebanon supports the Government of Lebanon and partners to ensure that vulnerable populations, particularly children, have equitable access to essential services and protection. Within the current humanitarian, recovery, and development context, UNICEF's priorities include strengthening service delivery systems, supporting emergency preparedness and response, promoting resilience, and generating evidence to inform effective programming and resource allocation.

Within UNICEF, the WASH Programme and WASH Sector Coordination Team support the delivery and coordination of water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions across Lebanon. Information management is a critical enabling function that supports evidence-based decision-making, operational coordination, emergency response, partner accountability, monitoring, reporting, and resource mobilization. The Information Management Assistant contributes to these objectives by managing sector information systems, ensuring the quality and timeliness of partner reporting, producing analytical products and visualizations, supporting mapping and data analysis, and strengthening information management processes that enable UNICEF, government counterparts, donors, and sector partners to identify needs, monitor progress, and prioritize interventions effectively.

The Information Management Assistant supports the WASH Programme and WASH Sector Coordination Team by ensuring the timely collection, management, analysis, visualization, and dissemination of high-quality information to support evidence-based decision-making, coordination, planning, monitoring, reporting, and resource mobilization. The position serves as a key focal point for information management systems and processes, enabling UNICEF, government counterparts, donors, and sector partners to effectively monitor needs, track responses, identify gaps, and prioritize interventions.

The position is accountable for maintaining information management systems and databases, ensuring the quality and integrity of sector data, supporting partner reporting processes, producing analytical products and dashboards, conducting data and GIS analysis, and developing information products that support operational and strategic decision-making. The role also contributes to strengthening information management capacity, improving data quality and reporting compliance, and supporting the WASH Sector's transition and localization objectives through knowledge management and sustainable information management practices.

How can you make a difference?

Information Management Systems and Data Quality
Data Analysis, Monitoring and Reporting
Information Products, Visualization and GIS
Partner Engagement and Capacity Strengthening
Knowledge Management, Innovation and Localization

To view the full Job Description, open the attached JD file: Download File 2026, WASH, UNOPS, IM Assistant, ToR.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

A university degree (Bachelor's) in Information Management, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Public Health, Social Sciences, International Development, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), or another relevant field is required.
A minimum of three years of relevant professional experience in information management, data analysis, monitoring and evaluation, GIS, statistics, database management, reporting, programme support, or a related field is required.
Experience working with data collection, data cleaning, data visualization, dashboards, reporting systems, or geographic information systems is desirable.
Experience using Microsoft Excel and other data management or visualization tools is required.
Experience in the humanitarian, development, WASH, or United Nations sector is considered an asset.
Recent graduates with relevant academic backgrounds and demonstrated analytical skills are encouraged to apply.
Fluency in English and Arabic is required, including strong written and verbal communication skills. Knowledge of French is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is either a role with direct contact with children, a role that works directly with identifiable children’s data, a safeguarding response role, or an assessed risk role. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) apply.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments are conditional on the selected candidates’ willingness to comply with current or future vaccination requirements, should UNICEF mandate it for personnel.
Failure to comply with such requirements, where applicable and without a duly approved medical exemption from the relevant UN authority, will result in the cancellation of the selection or may lead to other administrative measures, including separation from service

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.

UNICEF does not charge any fee during any stage of the recruitment process.

Information Management Assistant - WASH Section (UNOPS Local Individual Contractor Agreement - Level 3), Beirut, Lebanon - Till June 2027 (extendable)